After a couple of days of rumours, it has now been confirmed that award winning children’s author Frank Cottrell Boyce – whose work also includes 24 Hour Party People – will be writing an episode of Doctor Who’s eighth series. Cottrell Boyce’s episode will feature a cast of child actors including Harley Bird, the voice of household favourite Peppa Pig, […]
Green Wing and Bad Education’s Michelle Gomez is joining the eighth series of Doctor Who playing a character called the Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere. Little is known about the character […]
At long last, details are emerging about Sense8, the world-spanning 10-episode science fiction series from the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski. According to the report at Deadline, Darryl Hannah, Lost‘s […]
Doctor Who stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman will be going on a world tour this August to promote the start of the 12th Doctor’s travels on TV. Running from […]
According to the Sixth Doctor himself, Colin Baker, the 50th anniversary Doctor Who special, The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, which featured the classic series incarnations of the Time Lord will be coming to DVD (and presumably Blu-ray) later this year. Speaking at the Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s Myth Makers event on 1 June, Baker confirmed that the special, written and directed by Peter […]
In what may be seen by some as stunt casting, British singer-songwriter Foxes has signed up to appear in the next series of Doctor Who, which begins in August. The Grammy […]
The Doctor Who 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor has won the Radio Times Audience Award at this year’s BAFTAs. The special episode, which saw 13 Doctors appear at various points, beat off competition from Broadchurch, Breaking Bad, Gogglebox, Educating Yorkshire and The Great British Bake Off. The award was accepted by the producers and director Nick Hurran. Watch […]
In the cover feature of the new Radio Times, out today in the UK, Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has given some insight into the way Peter Capaldi will be […]
The latest series of Doctor Who will see the Time Lord depart these shores for the first time in some years, as the production team heads to Lanzarote for Peter […]
Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith has signed up for a “major role” in the new Terminator trilogy, which is currently in production from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions, according to a report at Deadline. Smith will appear in Terminator: Genesis, directed by Alan Taylor, and his part will be more important in the second and third films. He will […]
Primeval and Death in Paradise star Ben Miller is to appear opposite Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman in the new series of Doctor Who, set for transmission this autumn. Miller noted that “as a committed Whovian, I cannot believe my luck in joining the 12th Doctor for one of his inaugural adventures,” adding that his only worry was that “they’ll […]
Kate O’Mara, who memorably portrayed the villainous Rani in the latter years of the classic series of Doctor Who, has died aged 74. O’Mara, best known for her role in […]
Derek Martinus, who oversaw the first regeneration from William Hartnell into Patrick Troughton, as well as the first colour story for the classic series of Doctor Who, has died aged 82. As well as The Tenth Planet and Spearhead from Space, Martinus directed Galaxy 4, The Evil of the Daleks and The Ice Warriors for Doctor Who, and two episodes […]
Line of Duty and Ashes to Ashes star Keeley Hawes will be appearing as a villainous banker opposite Peter Capaldi’s Doctor this autumn. Hawes will play Ms Delphox, a powerful […]
The History Boys, Gavin and Stacey and Emmerdale’s Samuel Anderson has been cast as Danny Pink, a teacher at Coal Hill School, for the new series of Doctor Who, currently […]
Christopher Barry, who directed Doctor Who stories for the first four incarnations of the Time Lord, has died aged 88, following a fall at home last week. Barry’s first story […]
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