Simon Pegg reminisced about his time filming Doctor Who while at the Fan Expo Boston convention I attended on 9 August 2025. Pegg played The Editor, a sinister figure in the 2005 Doctor Who episode The Long Game, which aired during the first season of the revived series. He was asked about his experiences working … >
Pull To Open: 1962–1963: The Inside Story of how the BBC created and launched Doctor Who is out now. Writer and broadcaster Paul Hayes is no stranger to the arcane world of television show development. In 2021, his excellent book The Long Game painstakingly pieced together Doctor Who‘s complicated journey back to our screens in … >
Paul Hayes, writer of The Long Game, has returned to the birth of Doctor Who Back in October 2021, Ten Acre Films released a remarkable book about Doctor Who‘s triumphant 2005 revival. In The Long Game, writer Paul Hayes spoke to the people who restored the show’s place as a national institution. His fascinating interviews, … >
Chronicling 1996 to 2003, Paul Hayes explores the path from the TV Movie to Russell T Davies’ reinvention. When Doctor Who returned to Saturday night BBC One in 2005, it had been on a long journey. That journey began some some nine years earlier, in the wake of the troubled American co-produced TV Movie of … >