Broadchurch creator and Torchwood showrunner Chris Chibnall is taking over as head writer of Doctor Who from Steven Moffat. Moffat will oversee the 2016 Christmas Special and Series 10 which is being broadcast in Spring 2017. Chibnall’s first season will appear in 2018. This means that new broadcast Who seems likely to consist solely of the BBC3 spinoff Class and […]
Emma Reeves’ Control Alter Delete – the final episode of Eve’s first series – won the prestigious Writers Guild of Great Britain Best Children’s TV Episode at the ceremony held […]
Robert Banks Stewart, creator of the Zygons and the Krynoids for Doctor Who, has died at the age of 84. A prolific writer, he worked on Danger Man, Adam Adamant Lives! and The Avengers in the 1960s alongside episodes of Undermind, as well as many spy and detective series in later years including Jason King, The Protectors, Callan and The Sweeney. He was the creator […]
Two incarnations of the Master will be teaming up to battle three different versions of the Doctor in a new trilogy coming from Big Finish later this year. Geoffrey Beevers […]
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Steven Moffat is moving away from the Christmas-themed titles for his latest Doctor Who Christmas Special. 2015’s story is entitled The Husbands of River Song. According to the official description, […]
Anthony Read, whose genre credits include The Omega Factor and all three series of ITV’s Chocky tales as well as Doctor Who, has died aged 80. Read was script editor […]
Multiple stories have been going the rounds over the years about the reasons for John Hurt joining the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, and showrunner Steven Moffat has finally gone on record with his account of the turbulent preparation of The Day of the Doctor. Talking to Radio Times, Moffat explains how the show morphed from the three 21st Century Doctors […]
The Doctor Who Festival kicked off in style at the Excel Centre in London on November 13th, and Sci-Fi Bulletin was there in force. Click here to read Nick Joy’s review of the first day seen from the point of view of one of the paying public, and come back to this page over the coming days for links to […]
The new Christmas Special, featuring Peter Capaldi and the return of Alex Kingston as River Song to the TV series, will be showing in North American cinemas on 28 and […]
Big Finish are adding a second Doctor from the new series to their roster. As well as the series of War Doctor stories featuring John Hurt, Big Finish today announced […]
The Doctor’s metal mutt is heading for the big screen – where he will encounter a key figure from Time Lord history – according to a report at Doctor Who […]
Derek Ware, the stuntman who worked on multiple Doctor Who stories during the 1960s and 1970s, has died aged 77. His first story was the show’s premiere, An Unearthly Child, in […]
John Hurt is returning to the role of the War Doctor, in 12 full cast Doctor Who audio plays from Big Finish. The War Doctor was introduced for Doctor Who’s […]
The first new Doctor Who spin-off since The Sarah Jane Adventures is heading to BBC Three next year – and according to its creator, to BBC One as well. BBC […]
If you were one of the many who weren’t able to get the day off work to go to the first day of the Radio Times Festival, then you’ll have missed the Doctor Who strand – featuring Russell T Davies, Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula, and Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat, Brian Minchin and Frank Skinner… …but we were there […]
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