Doctor Who is back! Peter Capaldi returns as the Doctor for 12 new episodes, joined in the TARDIS by Pearl Mackie as Bill and Matt Lucas as Nardole. Pre-order the new season on DVD on Amazon here. Pre-order the new season on Blu-ray on Amazon here. Episode 1: ‘The Pilot’ Saturday 15 April 2017, 7.20pm Watch a clip … >
Season 10, so far, has been a bit of a Doctor Who selection box. It’s aimed to include all the classic story formats, so far – a modern day opener, a futuristic alien planet and a period romp, and while this classical approach has come at the expense of narrative originality, it’s also allowed the … >
Doctor Who returns to BBC One this weekend with an episode from Doctor Foster writer Mike Bartlett. Bill is moving in with some friends and they’ve found the perfect house – so what if it’s strangely cheap to rent, and the landlord is a little creepy? The wind blows, the floorboards creak, and the Doctor thinks something … >
Knock knock Who’s there? Doctor. Doctor who? Doctor Who’s been good so far, hasn’t it? Ha-ha-haaaa. That was the laughter of relief that so far there hasn’t been a dud episode in Peter Capaldi’s swansong season. Good thing too – the man deserves a strong send-off. There’s been nothing mind-blowing, but at this rate, you … >
Doctor Who is a show that has always been flanked by controversy of one kind or another. It’s that typical divisiveness, the utter separation between views of what the show should be, that’s come to be a fact of the discourse around it in recent years. That makes Season 10 all the more of an anomaly … >
The second episode is often the hardest. Many seasons of Doctor Who have come racing out of the blocks with a strong opening episode that have emphatically put forward a change in approach, before a second instalment that slipped back into the familiar formula for very standard results. Look at ‘The Eleventh Hour’ into ‘The … >
Doctor Who returns to BBC One this weekend – and in the far future, at the edge of the galaxy, there is a gleaming, perfect city. This brand new human settlement is said to hold the secret of human happiness – but the only smiles the Doctor and Bill can find are on a pile of … >
An Emoji-themed episode of Doctor Who. That’s a gamble. Why write 500 words of review when you could just use a poop with eyes and call it an early night? Hell, let the rest of Twitter do all the work for you. Fortunately there should be no turds in sight from the critics after ‘Smile’ … >
This news summary on the tenth 21st Century season of Doctor Who will be updated regularly as more details are revealed. Pre-order the new season on DVD on Amazon here. Pre-order the new season on Blu-ray on Amazon here. Buy ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’ on DVD on Amazon here. Watch the trailers… Who is the … >
The past year or two has seen some pretty major examples of mainstream media producers publicly patting themselves on the back for being diversity champions. Meanwhile, their actual idea of LGBT representation reads onscreen a lot more like throwing breadcrumbs at best, and quite possibly being bizarrely surprised that we’re not lapping them up as … >