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NEW YORK CITY TOUR 2015 The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular will be staged for the first time in the U.S. at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday October 7, 2015. The two performances, one at 3pm and another at 7.30pm, will be hosted by Michelle Gomez who portrays Missy, the latest incarnation of the Doctor’s arch-nemesis the Master. Michelle Gomez comments; “I was a big fan of Doctor Who before I joined the cast, and I love…
David Schofield has been signed up to appear in the next series of Doctor Who. Schofield is best known for playing King Alined in the BBC fantasy drama series Merlin. Other TV appearances include roles inFootballers’ Wives, Holby City, Jekyll & Hyde and, most recently, as Police Sergeant Foley in Hugo Blick’s The Shadow Line for BBC Two. Big Screen appearances include roles in An American Werewolf In London, The Last of the Mohicans, Anna Karenina and Gladiator as well as playing as Mr. Mercer in the Pirates of the…
DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 486 RUSSELL T DAVIES TALKS SEX & DRUGS & ROCK ‘N’ ROLL The man who brought Doctor Who back to TV in 2005 returns with an audio adaptation of his very first Doctor Who adventure, the 1996 novel Damaged Goods! Russell tells DWM how the story influenced his reinvention of the TV series… “It kind of shows the promise that I didn’t know was there with Doctor Who,” Russell says of his two-decade-old novel. “Because Doctor Who – the ‘classic’ Doctor Who that I grew up loving…
Deal marks largest volume sale of the iconic BBC series in the country Viewers in India are set to get initiated into the world of Doctor Who when all eight series of the iconic British show blaze onto their screens starting 15th May 2015. Doctor Who will air on FX, a channel owned by Star India Private Limited. Doctor Who will broadcast into a million homes in India. Doctor Who is the longest running sci-fi TV show in the world and is…
As revealed in this month’s edition of Doctor Who Magazine, there’s more news about the next run of Sixth Doctor stories in Big Finish’s main Doctor Who range… This month’s edition of Doctor Who Magazine has a cover feature about Big Finish’s recently released adaptation of Russell T Davies’ Doctor Who – Damaged Goods, including comprehensive cast interviews and pictures. Elsewhere, there’s news of The Sixth Doctor returning for…
Take a look at this gorgeous, brand new bus, which has been seen today in Brighton. A very ordinary sort of bus you might say, until you look closely at the front, which adorns a very familiar name. John Nathan-Turner. Doctor Who producer throughout the 1980’s has been dedicated with a bus in his honour, as a mark of respect for all the work he achieved as…
The first hardcover collection of the Twelfth Doctor series! On the terraformed ice planet of Isen IV, the Doctor and Clara discover a monstrous Hyperion has been awakened at the planet’s core. Can they halt the rampage of a living star, in the middle of the celebrity wedding of the century, before it escapes to conquer the galaxy? And when Clara and the Doctor…
From left to right: Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison and David Tennant Peter Davison, who played the fifth Time Lord, is about to visit Cardiff as part of the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular. Former Doctor Who actor Peter Davison has revealed that his all-time favourite Time Lord is Patrick Troughton – despite the fact that his son-in-law David Tennant famously played the role. And he says that all the subsequent Doctors, like himself, have Troughton to thank for paving the way…
The Gallifreyan Newsroom would like to pass on our sincere congratulations to the Doctor Who production team, who have triumphed at tonight’s BAFTA Television Craft Awards. The series won in the category: “Special, Visual & Graphic Effects in 2015”. Series eight of the BBC1 sci-fi show picked up the Bafta for Special, Visual and Graphic Effects at the 2015 Bafta Craft Awards on Sunday night, with effects companies Milk VFX and Real SFX taking home their second in a row for Doctor…