There’s still a long wait to go before season ten of Doctor Who returns to our screens but here’s some good news for fans – Michelle Gomez has reportedly confirmed that she will be returning as Missy.
Speaking at MegaCon this past weekend, Michelle – who has played Missy, a Time Lady from Gallifrey who was the Doctor’s former nemesis the Master, since 2014- revealed that she would be back.

The last time we saw Missy was in season nine episode, The Witch’s Familiar, surrounded by Daleks and remarking that she had suddenly had ‘a very clever idea’.
Could this ‘clever idea’ be connected to the events of the recent minisode that introduced the Doc’s new companion, Bill?

It’s no surprise to fans of the show though that Missy will return.
Michelle was nominated at the 2016 British Academy Television Awards, making her the first ever Doctor Who star to be nominated at the annual awards.

He’s getting an honorary doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland.

Doctor Who’s showrunner Steven Moffat is to become a real Doctor – sort of.
The Scottish writer and producer is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland tomorrow (July 5) at its graduation ceremony, taking place at Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church, Paisley (via The Gazette).

“It’s always a joy to go home – but to go back to Paisley to receive a doctorate feels like I finally made it,” he explained. “I feel very honoured and more importantly very happy.”

Professor Craig Mahoney, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of Scotland, added: “Steven is a great role model for anyone, not just our students, and demonstrates that your path in life will be determined by your own passion for the things you believe in.”

Moffat was born and bred in Paisley and he was awarded an OBE in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to television.
Earlier this year, it was announced that the forthcoming tenth series of Doctor Who will not air until 2017 and will mark the last as showrunner for Moffat.

He will hand over duties to Broadchurch’s Chris Chibnall after his final 12 episodes air next spring. A Christmas special will air this year before Moffat’s final series.

The legendary Time Lord has slammed OAPs and politicians in a rant against the outcome of the EU referendum.

Doctor Who legend Tom Baker has angrily hit out at “old people” and politicians after the Brexit vote.
The 82-year-old actor – who played the fourth incarnation of the Time Lord in the long-running BBC sci fi classic – has slammed the result of the EU referendum and had a bleak outlook on whether the elderly should be allowed to have their say.

“I’m amazing, actually, that they allow old people a vote. It should be for the future generations to decide. I no longer care,” he admitted to the Daily Star

“I am old so it’s not my problem. I’ll be dead. I’m resigned to that. I could weep when I read terrible, crushing headlines about the mountain of grief in the world – but what can I do for them?”
Baker played the Doctor between 1974 and 1981, and branded MPs as “mostly w*****s” as he sounded off about the general “contempt and mistrust”.

He said: “They’re mostly w*****s. I don’t think they have any ideas. Never have we all felt such utter contempt and mistrust of our governing class.

“People say, ‘There’s an MP at the door? Well, kick is b*****s in!’ We’re living in tumultuous times.”

“I didn’t enjoy my third year as much”, says Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat on the topic of series 7…

Doctor Who Magazine has found showrunner Steven Moffat in a reflective mood of late. Yesterday we shared the story that Moffat thinks he “fumbled” the series 9 opener, and now we’ve got another nugget of The Moff’s self-criticism to share.

DWM asked Mr Moffat about series 7, which you’ll remember as the one with a “movie of the week” theme, a big gap in the middle and the companion handover between the Ponds and Clara Oswald.

“I didn’t enjoy my third year as much. It was a bit miserable,” a very candid Moff revealed. “The workload was just insane. I wasn’t coping as well. No-one else’s fault, all mine. The 50th was looming, and I didn’t know if we could make it work. It was a tough, tough time. My darkest hour on Who was that.”

Moffat continued: “Matt [Smith], who was a friend and ally, was leaving – I couldn’t get him to stay. It felt like everything was blowing up around me. I was staggering into the 50th, with no Doctors contracted to appear in it, battered with endless hate mail about how I hadn’t got William Hartnell back and Sherlock Series Three at the same time.”
“I was pretty miserable by the end of it, and I coudn’t bear to let that be the end”, he added, explaining why he stayed on after this tough series when the option to walk away was very much on the table.

Beth Willis – who worked with Wenger on Who – will replace him at Channel 4.

Piers Wenger has been appointed the new Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning.
His new job marks a return to the Beeb for Piers, who previously served as an executive producer on Doctor Who from 2010-11.

Since 2012, he’s served as Head of Drama at Channel 4 commissioning shows like Humans, the broadcaster’s biggest drama hit for 20 years.
“I have had an unforgettable and brilliant time at Channel 4 and it is with real sadness that I am saying goodbye,” Wenger said.

“But the scope and scale of BBC Drama make this an irresistible challenge and I could not be more excited about joining the talented team there and for the new relationships and creative adventures which lie ahead of me at the BBC.”Wenger replaces Polly Hill, who departs the post to become head of drama for rival broadcaster ITV.

His replacement at Channel 4 will be Beth Willis, who’s worked with Piers as Deputy Head of Drama since 2012.
She’s another Doctor Who veteran, having also served as executive producer from 2010-11 alongside Wenger and Steven Moffat.

“I’m honoured and excited to be given this opportunity to usher in the next wave of ambitious, distinctive and entertaining dramas to the channel,” Willis said.
“I’m passionate about finding brilliant writers and producers – and encouraging them to do what they do best.”

Wenger and Willis will both take up their new roles in the autumn.

It’s the stuff of every Doctor Who fan’s dreams – a visit to the TARDIS.

And even though Russell T Davies was in charge of the hit BBC1 drama for five years, he admits that he still gets a proper “fanboy thrill” when he stands before the Doctor’s controls and plays the Time Lord.
This exclusive clip from an upcoming South Bank Show profile of the writer shows him visiting the modern set.
But listen carefully – is he about to say that his Tardis was “better” than the current one before correcting himself about 25 seconds in?

We distinctly heard him say: “It isn’t my Tardis, I had a be… I had a different Tardis, it was absolutely gorgeous, This is Peter Capaldi’s and it’s stunning.”
Was the word he was about to use actually “better”? Did he think *ahem* better of it?
The upcoming South Bank Show profile sees Davies look back over his career talking about how he broke through, why he has written the shows he did and what he is working on now (a drama about the 1980s Aids crisis called The Boys).

The film also sees presenter Melvyn Bragg travel with him to Manchester’s Canal Street – the locale of Davies’ hit 1999 Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk.
We also meet Davies’ old drama teacher who cast the young Russ as Bottom in a school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – the Shakespeare play he himself adapted recently for BBC1.