After “Planet of the Dead”, the next ‘special’ for the Doctor won’t be until Christmas but at least the first one is on track for Easter.In the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, series writer Gareth Roberts has confirmed that the second Doctor Who “special” will be broadcast at Christmas. During an interview with the [...]

A neighbourly Aussie and a model join the Time Lord for the Doctor Who specials. We also find out what planet the finale is set on. Published on Mar 4, 2009 Two more names have been added to the cast of the upcoming Doctor Who specials; model Gemma Chan and former Neighbours actor Peter O’Brien. [...]

A pond-clearance team from the New Forest had the shock of their lives when a Doctor Who dalek head popped up from the murky depths. Team members were using rakes to bring up debris from the pond, near Beaulieu. Marc Oakland, clad in waders, had already fished out an old table-football game, dozens of lager [...]

David Tennant says he held off the advice when talking to his Doctor Who successor, Matt Smith, but could tell he had the ‘right idea’ about playing the iconic TV character. David told What’s On TV magazine about his recent conversation with Matt. “We chatted on the phone not long ago and we did exchange [...]

JOHN BARROWMAN feels like he’s cheated on David Tennant after meeting the new Doctor Who, Matt Smith. Glaswegian-born John, 41, who plays Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, has become friends with fellow Scot David, who is quitting as the 10th Doctor at the end of the year. But John, who is gay, [...]

Sixth Doctor Colin Baker made a joke in his column for This Is Local London about how young new Doctor Matt Smith is, saying: “As if David Tennant hadn’t already proved the visibly beneficial power of time travel on the genes, the imminent new one, Matt Smith, we are told, is so young that he [...]

Doctor Who has been successful in the latest the Visual Effects Society ceremony for the matte paintings in Steven Moffat’s Silence In The Library and Forest of the Dead from last year. The stunning work from Simon Wickers, Charlie Bennett, Tim Barter and Arianna Lago was nominated last month for most Outstanding Matte Paintings in [...]

Robert Mugabe is reported to own long-lost episodes of Doctor Who. The President of Zimbabwe apparently possesses tapes of some early episodes of the science fiction series that could be thirty or forty years old, according to The Sun. Some Doctor Who programmes were deleted by the BBC in the late sixties and seventies to [...]

Work continues on the audio-resurrection of Doctor Who’s ‘lost’ season… Following up Stephen Bray’s great coverage of the audio resurrection of Doctor Who’s ‘lost’ season 23, we were happy to be passed this pic of the ‘Mission To Magnus’ cast. Stephen wrote of this particular section of the cancelled 23rd season: “The next story that Big Finish [...]

Details and the cover for March’s Classic Doctor Who DVD from Entertain, the Colin Baker adventure Attack of the Cybermen have now been revealed. The story, the first of the twenty-second season, sees the Doctor and companion Peri (Nicola Bryant) battling to stop the silver menaces from invading Earth on the back of Halley’s Comet. [...]