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Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary special title confirmed

Just over two months before its premiere, the BBC has confirmed that the 50th anniversary story, to be broadcast on November 23rd, will be entitled The Day of the Doctor. The “film length” episode will in fact run for 75 minutes (the same length as David Tennant’s last episode as the Doctor, The End of Time part 2) and will […]

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Doctor Who honoured at TV Choice Awards

At the TV Choice Awards held on September 9th at the Dorchester Hotel in London, Doctor Who was honoured in two categories. The show won both the Best Drama Award, and the Outstanding Contribution to Television at the 17th Awards, presented this year in association with Daz. The awards are voted for by members of the public via the magazine’s website. […]

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Dhawan, Castle, Jameson and Stubbs headline Gatiss’ MR James adaptation

The History Boys’ Sacha Dhawan and I Claudius’ John Castle will star alongside Doctor Who’s Louise Jameson and Sherlock’s Una Stubbs in Mark Gatiss’ adaptation of The Tractate Middoth for BBC Two this Christmas. The half-hour drama based on the story by MR James will also feature David Ryall, Eleanor Bron, Nick Burns and Roy Barraclough. According to the BBC press release, […]

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Paul Cornell: Why I’m Not Writing TV Doctor Who—The Truth!

Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night (25 August 2013), screenwriter and author Paul Cornell finally honestly answered a long-asked question—why is he not writing any more for Doctor Who on TV? “It’s upsetting,” he admitted. “I get asked this regularly,” he said. “Sometimes several times a day on Twitter. You know what? I’m gonna do something I don’t normally […]

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Luther’s Neil Cross to write for Capaldi on Doctor Who!

Writer Neil Cross, who is based in Wellington, New Zealand, has confirmed to Fairfax News that he is set to write an episode for new Doctor Peter Capaldi in the next series of Doctor Who. Cross, best known for Luther starring Idris Elba, wrote two episodes for Matt Smith’s final full series, The Rings of Akhaten and Hide. “I am […]

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Radio Times claims classic Doctor in 50th anniversary special

In the new issue of Radio Times, out in the UK today, a brief comment in the Grapevine column suggests strongly that one of the living classic Doctors will be in the anniversary special. ‘We hear from a reliable source,’ the magazine claims, clarifying that ‘we’re pretty sure that Colin Baker, Paul McGann, Tom Baker, Sylvester McCoy or Peter Davison will […]

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Moffat confirms Smith only agreed to do “three series” of Who

Despite various discussions online regarding the number of episodes that we may have lost as a result of the split seasons of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat has confirmed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that Matt Smith’s “Plan A” was “we would do three series and then he would do the 50th and then he’d do Christmas.” This would seem […]

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New Private Eye Doctor Who ‘cock-up’ claims!

In this week’s Private Eye magazine (14-27 June 2013), the scheduling of the announcement of Matt Smith’s departure from Doctor Who is blamed on an internal BBC email ‘cock-up’ that was then leaked to fans on the internet. The magazine says: ‘The manner of the 11th Doctor’s leaving was entirely characteristic of the way the show is currently being managed […]

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