Doctor Who

By Joe An hour with Jon Pertwee BBC Radio 7 has a repeat of An Hour With...Tennant in the Sarah Jane Adventures Den of Geek notes that the latest Doctor Who Magazine...Graphic novel of Barry Nugent’s Fallen Heroes coming Geek Syndicate’s Barry Nugent is all excited at the news... Related posts brought to y...

By Joe Blue Peter is running a competition for kids to submit their ideas for a re-design of the TARDIS console for the new Doctor Who; the competition will be split into three age ranges from 6 through to 12, with the winner of each age group getting the chance to go on a set visit and meet the new Doc,...

By Joe As you can see these are entries in the growing classic Doctor Who range, which is something many fans have been clamouring for (last year’s first wave of classic small action figures such as the Tom Baker and Peter Davison ones were hugely popular, I have some on my own desk in fact and dammi...

By Joe Former Bionic Woman and Eastenders star Michelle Ryan will be one of the actors in the Doctor Who Easter special, playing the role of Lady Christina de Souza in the episode with the cheery title of Planet of the Dead. Ryan was also in mini-series Jekyll, a modern day take on Stevenson’s class...

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By Richard Previously playing Roderick in the “Doctor Who” episodes “Bad Wolf”/”Parting Of Ways,” Joseph is known for fine upstanding and terribly-well-spoken-dontcha-know roles as Johnson in “Peep Show,” the Marquis De Carabas in “Neverwhere,” Space Marshall Clarke in “Hyperdrive,” Lynd...

By Richard Another best of 2008 feature, this time from friend to the blog; Paul Cornell. Paul, if you don’t already know is a multi-talented writer of prose, comics and has a string of television writing credits to his name including some great work on Doctor Who. He’s responsible for the excellent tw...

By Joe John has been involved in comics and science fiction for more years than he would probably care for me to mention here, from The Really Heavy Greatcoat (with Nick Miller) to editing Doctor Who Magazine at a crucial moment in its history and countless other publications, right up to the lat...

By Joe “Well I’ve always been a big supporter of Wee Jimmy Krankie. So the campaign starts here to get Wee Jimmy Krankie in the Tardis and big Ian Krankie as the companion. I think that works,” David Tennant shares his thoughts on who should follow him in the lead role of Doctor Who. Bagpuss, 20-1

By Joe Russell T Davies has commented that he thinks Russell Tovey would be terrific in the lead role of Doctor Who if and when David Tennant decides to leave. Tovey had a small part in last year’s Christmas special as a midshipman on the doomed spaceship Titanic and a much larger role in The History...

By Joe The latter seems slightly odd given that the rest of the villains in the first wave are all Tom Baker era characters but the Sea Devil was a Jon Pertwee foe, although of course they returned to face Peter Davison’s incarnation a decade later, but let’s not talk about that because it was a bloo...

By Joe The best Dramatic Presentation Long Form went to the movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess’ Stardust, which may not be the most original fantasy tale but it was one of the more delightful ones. Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form went to Blighty’s own Doctor Who for the brilli...

By Joe The BBC website reports on a talk incoming Doctor Who big cheese Steven Moffat gave at last weekend’s Comic-Con in San Diego, where he affirmed that there would be more new monsters when he takes over and that there wouldn’t be so many appearances from old characters: “We’re not in the busi...

By Joe It looks as if the show is riding the ‘Doctor Who effect’ which has seen production companies realise that there is still a large demand for early evening, all-ages friendly science fiction and fantasy, with Merlin looking set to air in a similar early Saturday evening slot to Doctor Who. T...

By Joe The 2008 Constellation Awards have been given out in Canada for science fiction and fantasy series and movies. The mighty Doctor Who (a Canadian/BBC co-production) was a major winner, scooping three gongs, including Best Science Fiction Television Series of 2007 and and award for Davi...

By Joe Sky News has an article reporting that a couple of thousand Doctor Who fans tried to dial the mobile phone number flashed on the screen during the show as a prompt to try and signal the Doctor (do you think the Doc is on a monthly plan or pay-as-you-go? Hate to think of the overseas roaming char...

By Joe The BBC has a video interview with Doctor Who supremo Russell T Davies discussing the difficulties of trying to keep some plot points secret ahead of a show’s transmission in the modern, multi-media digital age. (POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNER - if you haven’t seen the penultimate episode from...

By Glenn Thunderbirds. Stingray. The Avengers. Doctor Who. Apart from being all top notch TV programs what else do these icons of the 60s and 70s have in common? Simple - they all appeared in comic strips of one description or another. Of course, there are many more out there.

By Richard This stole away an hour of my night last night so it’s time to share. Richard Morris has spent 15 months to give us 102 pages of Dr Who comics. (And he’s not done yet!) This is just the ultimate fan’s idea of “how can I get everyone into one Doctor Who comic?” and features all 10 doctors, plus compan...

By Joe Alex Fitch talks to Joe Lidster, writer of half a dozen Big Finish Doctor Who audio plays starring the cast of the classic TV series such as Sylvester McCoy and Geoffrey Beevers in Master / Paul McGann and Terry Molloy (Davros) in Terror Firma. Joe also wrote one of the best episodes of Torchw...