The third season of Grantchester will begin filming shortly in Grantchester, Cambridge and London. James Norton and Robson Green will return as crime-fighting clergyman Sidney Chambers and Detective Inspector Geordie Keating in six new episodes and a Christmas special of the 1950s-set drama. The show’s first ever festive episode will see pregnant Amanda adjusting to life having left … >
Big Finish finally releases one of the most anticipated titles from its extended Doctor Who licence this month: Classic Doctors, New Monsters – Volume 1. The concept is simple; four single-disc stories, each with a classic Doctor and a monster from the post-2005 TV series. All you need to know is the idea works very well on … >
Peter Davison, Jenna Coleman and Billie Piper have recorded a lovely video message for a Doctor Who fan battling terminal cancer. Upon discovering that his cancer was both advanced and terminal last month, London-born sci-fi fan Mark “Houndy” Gunther put together a very brief bucket list. Houndy wants to meet as many Doctor Who actors as … >
If your answer to the question ‘Do you like Toast of London?‘ is a resounding ‘YES!’ (in an attempted fruity baritone) then you’ll be delighted to hear that the third season of Channel 4’s Rose d’Or winning cult comedy is now out on DVD, won’t you? ‘YES!’ And while much of the lure of the … >
It’s not just the Doctor’s face that changes; the Time Lord has also embarked on a number of disguises and costume changes over the years, with varying degrees of success. The First Doctor as a Dalek in ‘The Space Museum’ The Third Doctor as a milkman in ‘The Green Death’ The Eleventh … >
The final chapter of this second E-Space trilogy begins not by resolving the cliff-hanger from ‘Equilibrium’, but rather with the TARDIS returned to our universe and the Doctor keeping an appointment. He comes as the bearer of bad news and begins to tell his tale; the TARDIS was in pursuit of Tegan, who had been … >
Since Doctor Who’s return to our televisions in 2005, composer Murray Gold has brought a whole universe of new music to each season. Next weekend the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular – a live performance of music from the show – begins touring the UK, featuring over 100 performers including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales … >
Doctor Who actor Peter Davison, who played the Fifth Doctor, has given an update on the status of a possible sequel to The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. Written and directed by Davison, the half-hour spoof film debuted on the BBC Red Button service and iPlayer in November 2013 to celebrate Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary, starring Davison … >
Picking up directly from the cliffhanger ending of ‘Mistfall’, the opening part of this return to E-Space Trilogy, we find the Fifth Doctor and friends in pursuit of a vital TARDIS component which will allow them to return to their native universe. Crash landing in an icy medieval realm, they abandon the TARDIS moments before … >
In a sequel to his 1980 television tale, writer Andrew Smith has delivered the TARDIS back into the pocket universe of E-Space. Returning to Alzarius, home of his tragic boy companion Adric, the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough promptly find themselves immersed in the unusual ecology of the planet when they encounter a mission … >