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One of the most controversial changes to Doctor Who lore was when then-showrunner Chris Chibnall introduced the Timeless Child arc where the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) discovers her true origin – she was an adoptee that the Gallifreyans exploited for her regeneration energy to power what became Time Lord society and she had countless lifetimes and[...]

Earlier this week, we passed along a look at how Paramount+'s Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck-starring Star Trek: Strange New Worlds dropped a ten-ton tease that the universes of "Star Trek" and BBC's Doctor Who are much more connected than folks might think In an exclusive clip for S03E10: "New Life and New Civilizations"[...]

Davies' Doctor Who, we've been getting some interesting insights on that game-changing season finale, "The Reality War." Between the return of Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor and the Ncuti Gatwa-to-Billie Piper regeneration (???), along with the show seemingly on pause for now, has led to lots and lots of speculation online Previously, David Tennant shared that[...]

Who says we're not getting a Doctor Who Christmas Special this year? Guess what? We totally are! It's the Thirteenth Doctor's next Big Finish audio adventure! Who says we can't have nice things? Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill, as The Doctor and Yaz, head off to Henry II's court in The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Lionesses[...]

As far as franchises go, they don't get much bigger than "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who." When you've been around for so long, it's only a matter of time before you start acknowledging one another We've seen each drop easter eggs here and there over the years, with "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who" coming together[...]

The second Big Finish audio drama featuring Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill in their proper season of Doctor Who is now up for pre-order This one is a proper "land on an alien planet, hilarity ensues" adventure, though it tackles one long-running question: "Does the hero always leave things better after they save the day,[...]

Everyone just can't stop talking about Doctor Who, including us And the Radio Times, which seems to have become the Samizdat for Doctor Who information (look up what "Samizdat" is if you're curious), and they know the most fun people to ask for any comments about the show Top of that list? Former showrunner Steven[...]

Former Doctor Who script editor Christopher H Bidmead passed away on August 6th at age 84 As script editor in his one season on the show, he was head writer and responsible for commissioning scripts from writers since showrunners were not a concept in the  British television industry Running a show in those days was[...]

It's been how many months now, and fans are still debating and speculating about whether Billie Piper is the new Doctor Who It's the stuff of clickbait and endless discussion, endless engagement onlin,e which is probably good for the show and its prospects for coming back, whenever that's going to be And it's time for[...]

One of the most interesting branches of Big Finish's Doctor Who productions is making audio drama versions of scripts originally commissioned or developed for TV but were never made They've had some success with previously unproduced stories from the Philip Hinchcliffe era of the Fourth Doctor years, which were amongst the most successful of the[...]

While Doctor Who is on hiatus before another series is greenlit, the show is in limbo, but fans clamouring for more stories that they don't have complain about can always go to Big Finish That's the production company that's been producing original audio drama stories featuring past Doctors since 1999 These aren't audiobooks but full-cast[...]

Big Finish audio dramas are going to be the only source of new and proper Doctor Who stories for a while, and they're finally going to produce a fully-voiced Twelfth Doctor story, only Peter Capaldi won't be back It's comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw who will voice the irascible Twelfth incarnation in Doctor Who –[...]

In defense of everyone who covers Doctor Who on a regular basis, there are only so many "nostalgia" pieces you can write before you find yourself dialing up your radar for anything and everything having to do with the show's future David Tennant offered us some interesting intel this week while checking in with BBC[...]

When is the next season of Doctor Who coming? Nobody knows Is Billie Piper the new Doctor? It's too soon to tell since there's no new season commissioned yet However, the BBC finally said something that made it official At the annual Edinburgh Television Festival this week The BBC's Director of Drama, Lindsay Salt, shared,[...]

Earlier this month, Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies made it clear that the show's future was up to the BBC and Disney (more on that below) During the Edinburgh TV Festival earlier today, the BBC reassured "The Whoniverse" that the series will live on – even if Disney and the BBC decide to part ways[...]

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine featured a report where Sylvester McCoy, who played the Seventh Doctor from 1987 to 1989, traveled to Ukraine to comfort fans from the ongoing conflict with Russia He was accompanied by Cyberman and Dalek performer Mickey Lewis, who wrote up their trip as they went to FanCon in[...]

The BBC is about to bring out the first major Doctor Who artbook for decades – step into the fantastical worlds of Doctor Who with a newly released collection of classic artwork with The Art of Time Travel This is the first book of the last twenty years' worth of concept art from the series[...]

Doctor Who returns to Titan Comics in their November 2025 solicits and solicitations And it's being written by Bleeding Cool favourite Dan Watters again, this time joined by indie artist Sami Kivelä, with The Prison Paradox bringing back The Slitheen, currently enjoying their twentieth anniversary of first appearing in Doctor Who: World War III[...]

Think we're heading for a Doctor Who drought and things will be quiet for a while? Well, think again!  The BBC has launched The Whoniverse Show, a brand-new digital magazine-style series produced by BBC Studios Digital Brands, premieres today exclusively on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel, hosted by fans and podcasters Tyrell Charles, Christel[...]

One of the biggest obsessions that Doctor Who fans fixated on when the series returned on Disney+ last year was the Fifteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver First, they complained about its shape: it didn't look like a screwdriver It looked like a computer mouse Showrunner Russell T Davies had requested a new shape for the new[...]

For those of you looking for an update on how things are looking over in "The Whoniverse," Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies has some good news and some not-so-great news to share Checking in with the Pilot TV podcast heading into the weekend, Davies has some very promising things to share about the spinoff[...]

Doctor Who and ER star Alex Kingston has been announced as the second celebrity taking part in the new series of Strictly Come Dancing The multi-award-winning entertainment show, produced by BBC Studios, will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer for its latest series this September For those of you outside the UK, you might be interested to know that[...]

As the waiting game rolls along, the future of the BBC's Doctor Who took an interesting turn at the end of last month when the 2005-2022 seasons (Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, and Jodie Whittaker) of the long-running series (along with other titles, such as Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures) left HBO[...]

The original duo that revived Doctor Who in 2005 are back: Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper have reunited to play The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler in a new series of audio dramas for Big Finish that take place during Eccleston's one season Eccleston has been playing the Doctor in Big Finish dramas set before[...]

Panini UK is releasing a special limited-edition version of their latest Doctor Who comic book collection, The Monster Makers, but doing their best to make it look like the classic Target Books line The cover is by David Roach, with colours by Emily Roach, and is strictly limited to 350 copies… with stories written by[...]

Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo has embraced every opportunity that has come their way since bursting into the scene in 2020 in live-action and voiceover roles, starting with the Hulu live-action miniseries Devs, Riot Games' Legends of Runeterra, and one of their favorites in Doctor Who for its podcast series, starting with Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures[...]

It's August 2, 2025, and the future of the BBC's Doctor Who just got a whole lot more interesting A little less than a month ago, we spotlighted how July 31st was a date that fans should have on their radar That's when the 2005-2022 seasons (Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, and[...]

How long ago was it already that season 2 of the Disney+ era of Doctor Who ended? May 31st? That's a whole three months now, and fans are still wringing their hands over Ncuti Gatwa regenerating into Billie Piper Is she really the new Doctor? Is it a total fake-out with some ridiculously convoluted technobabble[...]

When we last checked in with Ncuti Gatwa, he was out promoting his West End run in Born With Teeth – and had some interesting things to say about never having taken on the Daleks or Cybermen during his run as the Fifteenth Doctor on BBC's Doctor Who (more on that below) As the dumpster[...]

Whatever the future of the BBC's Doctor Who turns out to be, I think we can all agree that we were robbed when it comes to Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor because two seasons weren't nearly enough, leaving all of us with a whole lot of "What If…?" scenarios to ponder. Gatwa never made it a secret[...]