Speaking to the Daily Beast, Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat has made it clear that there has been no reduction in the number of episodes in the next season of Doctor Who and that fans may be seeing more, rather than less, of the programme as it approaches its 50th anniversary. On the same day that the Radio Times […]
Steven Moffat’s two-part finale for Matt Smith’s first season as the Doctor has won the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, at the Awards ceremony held at the World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, Nevada, on August 20th. The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang won the show’s fifth Hugo Award in the category, making Doctor Who, as writer Paul Cornell […]
The BBC Press Office has released a new press pack for the second half of Doctor Who‘s sixth season, confirming that the show returns to British screens on August 27, as a new prequel has appeared online. Executive producer Steven Moffat introduces the six episodes: “The wait is almost over. The second part of the thrilling new series of Doctor […]
The BBC has released a new trailer for the second half of this year’s Doctor Who adventures, which promises that many of the questions left outstanding from the first half will be answered… Check it out below:
Producer Steven Moffat has made it clear that plans for Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary in 2013 extend far beyond a single celebratory story. Speaking to TV Line, Moffat said that “I’ve got various plans, but all I can say emphatically is it will be huge.” Explaining that at present “it’s only a set of notions,” Moffat suggested that there would […]
Speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour yesterday (July 28), Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat has said that it is unlikely that the series will follow in spin-off Torchwood‘s footsteps and become an American production. “It’s entirely about story,” Moffat pointed out. “I don’t think in order to make Doctor Who successful in America you have to make stories set […]
Dreamworks have released a trailer for their updated remake of the 1996 horror comedy Fright Night, starring former Doctor Who David Tennant alongside Colin Farrell and Star Trek/Terminator Salvation‘s Anton Yelchin. […]
It’s been confirmed this evening at the Comic-Con panel in San Diego that Doctor Who will be returning to our screens this August. Episode 8, Let’s Kill Hitler, will air on August 27 State-side, which would mean that it’s likely to be broadcast the same day in the UK, the Saturday of the Bank Holiday weekend. This would fit with […]
According to a posting at the Bad Wilf podcast site, Christopher Eccleston, who played the Ninth Doctor when Doctor Who returned to BBC One in 2005, has given the reasons […]
Following Private Eye‘s reporting that behind-the-scenes Doctor Who was in “chaos”, Executive Producer Beth Willis has quit the show today (7 July), following her producing partner Piers Wenger. He quit […]
Private Eye followed up their claims of “chaos” behind the scenes of Doctor Who with a new claim this week that the 2012 run of the show may consist of […]
Filming on Impossible Pictures’ latest project Sinbad is now underway in Malta. The epic retelling of the story of the iconic mythological character will star newcomer Elliot Knight alongside Lost’s […]
Actor and singer Roy Skelton has died in his Brighton home, aged 79. Skelton was best known to 1970s children as the voices of bickering duo Zippy and George in […]
The new edition of Private Eye this week claims there is “chaos” at the BBC surrounding Doctor Who and suggests that the 2012 run of the series may consist of […]
Both Torchwood and parent series Doctor Who are receiving the animated treatment over the coming months. 2 Entertain have announced that audio producers Big Finish and animation company Theta Sigma […]
MGM, Warner Bros. and New Line have announced the release dates for their two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit. The Hobbit: An […]
