‘Hell Bent’ is shaping up to be quite an episode. The ninth series finale of Doctor Who will be more than an hour long. ‘Hell Bent’, airing Saturday, December 5 , has been confirmed to last 65 minutes. The previous episode ‘Heaven Sent’ is also extended, at 55 minutes. The extra length is just as well, given how epic the plot summary for the finale sounds. If you didn’t know – SPOILERS – the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) will be returning…
Gatiss reveals the surprising origins of one of his episodes, and why he has mixed feelings about ‘Vincent and the Doctor’. Mark Gatiss is a busy man. In his day job, you might find him cursing Sherlock’s name as Mycroft Holmes, running the Iron Bank of Braavos, or wearing grotesque prosthetics as one of the League Of Gentlemen. But by night? He’s become one of the most reliable writers of Doctor Who since the TARDIS rematerialised on our screens ten…
Jenna Coleman has spoken about her decision to quit Doctor Who after 3 years – and the circumstances of Clara’s surprising exit. At the weekend’s official Doctor Who Festival, the BAFTA-nominated actress revealed why now was the right time to depart the TARDIS. Coleman also reflected on her time working with two different Doctors – or should that be 13? – and whether she would consider a return to the sci-fi series.Speculation over who will be the next Doctor Who…
Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion had an official consolidated rating of 6.03 million viewers. The rating issued by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board, or BARB, includes all those who watched the programme within one week of transmission. It does not include those watching online via iPlayer Doctor Who was the 9th most watched programme on BBC Television, and third overall on Saturday. The episode finished at 24th in the chart. The final episode of the ITV drama Downton Abbey topped…
The Gallifreyan Newsroom has just returned home after an extraordinary weekend at The Doctor Who festival in London’s Excel centre. We arrived on a very rainy Saturday morning and immediately did what us Brits do best, join a queue, it was massive too, made up from people of all ages and levels of fandom and indeed countries, I chatted with a young lady who had come over from Germany for this festival. Some were dressed in everyday clothes, (including me…
“We wanted to say thank you for being Clara. But more important than anything else, for being Jenna.” The Doctor Who Festival ended on an emotional note today, with Peter Capaldi bidding his co-star Jenna Coleman farewell with a huge bouquet of flowers. As the last panel finished, Capaldi stood to give a heart-felt speech to the actress, who is soon to depart her role as companion Clara Oswald. “We just want to say good luck to you in the…
The showrunner explains why the controversial villains seem to have disappeared. It was one of the most controversial moments in recent Doctor Who history. In Victory of the Daleks, Matt Smith’s third episode, the copper coloured Daleks that had been a fixture of the show since its reboot in 2005 were replaced by brightly coloured models, dubbed the ‘New Paradigm’. It’s fair to say that they never really caught on with fans – some dismissing them as ‘Teletubbies’ or ‘Power…
Something wicked this way comes, but is it coming for Ms Oswald? Doctor Who goes to Diagon Alley as 12 and Clara rush to the aid of their old pal Rigsy but will the companion be the one to Face the Raven? The ominous bird, who we’re guessing is the one we spotted chasing a man in the next time trailer, hovers above Jenna Coleman’s head in the first official picture. And the second trailer, released by Doctor Who’s official…
The Twelfth Doctor tells RadioTimes.com that the next companion “has to be somebody I’m happy with,” while also offering his thoughts on the subject of male companions… Jenna Coleman’s Clara is yet to officially leave Doctor Who, but that hasn’t stopped fans speculating on what they want from the next companion. And that includes the biggest fan of them all – the Twelfth Doctor himself, Peter Capaldi. “I think it’s nice to have someone who’s light-hearted, and fun,” he told…
Synopsis The Brigadier, mourning the loss of his wife Doris, is called to help find a nuclear weapon that’s gone missing over the Wiltshire Downs. The Doctor is on his way there too, to pick up his companion Compassion, after her holiday on Earth. But when the Doctor’s TARDIS explodes, he, the Brigadier, Compassion and Fitz are thrown into the other-dimensional world of Avalon. Magic faces down science, dragons duel with jet fighters. Originally published in 2000. Now available as…