To celebrate the birthday of original Doctor Who star William Hartnell, current lead actor Peter Capaldi has paid tribute to the First Doctor. Today marks 108 years since Hartnell was born. Capaldi recalls “a sense of the fairytale” in Hartnell’s performance: “[He] was a spiky sort of figure on paper, but there was something about … >
Catch up on the latest season of Doctor Who with two new releases from BBC Worldwide this month. > Buy Season 9 Part 2 on Amazon. > Buy ‘The Husbands of River Song’ on Amazon. To celebrate the release of Season 9 Part 2 and Christmas special ‘The Husbands of River Song’ on DVD and … >
Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi has hinted that the next season could be his final run of episodes as the Doctor. The actor joined the show in 2013 as the Twelfth Doctor, with a brief cameo in ‘The Day of the Doctor’ before making his first proper appearance in ‘The Time of the Doctor’. Capaldi … >
2015 is clutching its chest, leaning on the TARDIS console and starting to glow at its fingertips. Any minute now, 2016’s a-comin’. Or, if you’re reading this a few days in the future, it’s already here, shiny and vaguely bewildered and not quite fitting into its clothes. Just like most of us post-Christmas, then. Either … >
With 2015’s Christmas special done and dusted, the rumour wheel can start turning in earnest on the next season of Doctor Who. Confirmed to be continuing in his showrunner role, Steven Moffat has been teasing Season 10’s writing line-up with a promise of excitement, revealing: “…we’ve had meetings today with two writers who’ve never written … >
Gallifrey may be back, but the last thing The Doctor would want is to be at home for the holidays. So where is he? The planet is Mendorax Dellora. The year is 5343. The Christmas ad on TV is probably an elderly Ice Warrior sitting on the moon of Phobos as a younger member of … >
Hands up who else fully expected that ‘Last Christmas’ was at some point going to feature a certain Wham song? Instead, the Twelfth Doctor’s first seasonal outing reunites him with Clara (in Jenna Coleman’s third consecutive appearance in a Christmas special) as the pair work to extricate themselves from dreams within dreams, and save an … >
Alex Kingston returns to Doctor Who as River Song in this year’s Christmas special. It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into … >
If there’s one thing sassmaster archaeologist River Song likes, it’s being married, apparently. This isn’t a spoiler, because this year’s charming Doctor Who Christmas caper is titled ‘The Husbands of River Song’. You can extrapolate from this that at least one will be present or alluded to in the episode: the Doctor is one, obviously, … >
BBC Worldwide has revealed details of the upcoming complete box set for the latest season of Doctor Who . The complete ninth season will be released on Monday 7 March next year on DVD and Blu-ray. > Pre-order the box set on DVD on Amazon. > Pre-order the box set on Blu-ray on Amazon. The … >