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Month: October 2016

Doctor Who’s new companion Pearl Mackie: ‘I have no time-travelling experience!’

Doctor Who’s new companion Pearl Mackie: ‘I have no time-travelling experience!’

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A few hours after Pearl Mackie was unveiled as Doctor Who’s new companion, a fan posted a selfie on Facebook dressed as her character. Given that all he’d had to go on was a brief trailer of Mackie and the Doctor cowering from Dalek unpleasantness, you had to admire his handiwork. “I couldn’t believe he’d managed to look like me so quickly,” says Mackie. “Purple jacket, big afro – he nailed it, man.” It was the 29-year-old Londoner’s first brush…

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Twelve Doctors of Christmas

Twelve Doctors of Christmas

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Hitting stores next month, and just in time for the festive season, is a wonderful new collection of illustrated Christmas adventures, starring twelve incarnations of the Doctor plus many of his friends and enemies. Pre-order Doctor Who – Twelve Doctors of Christmas here As a special treat for Who fans, we have an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from the book, a story which revisits the Ninth Doctor trying to get Rose a red bicycle for Christmas… (as mentioned at the end of…

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Katherine Kelly interview

Katherine Kelly interview

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The former Coronation Street star on what to expect from her new Doctor Who spin-off Class Any actress aspiring to join Sarah Lancashire and Suranne Jones as queens of popular British TV drama should seriously consider applying to work in a certain fictional northern pub. For a stint behind the bar of the Rovers Return in Coronation Street – if the success rate of former employees is anything to go by – is an almost a guarantor of future glory. Lancashire,…

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Does this new Class clip contain a secret call-back to Doctor Who?

Does this new Class clip contain a secret call-back to Doctor Who?

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A few weeks ago the first picture was released for new Doctor Who spin-off Class, and we were intrigued – could a mysterious light behind the characters be in some way related to the “cracks” in time and space sometimes seen in parent series Doctor Who during Matt Smith’s era? After all, the new BBC3 series is apparently based around alien nasties tearing through time and space to get to the kids at Coal Hill Academy, a place where time and…

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Keep Control Of Timey Wimey With The Doctor Who Time Vortex Watch

Keep Control Of Timey Wimey With The Doctor Who Time Vortex Watch

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The Bradford Exchange have announced details of a stylish, highly-collectable timepiece for Doctor Who fans – the Doctor Who Time Vortex Mechanical Watch This officially licensed exclusive has a gold-plated time spiral that pays homage to the opening title sequence of the Doctor’s current adventures: the Time Vortex. The Doctor Who Time Vortex Mechanical Watch has a miniature TARDIS swirling along it, blending classical and high-tech with Roman numerals on the clock face that tantalisingly reveal the visible inner workings…

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Doctor Who Legacy – Update

Doctor Who Legacy – Update

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October 4, 2016 We now have a backup cloud save that we run but players must be signed in to Game Center (iOS devices), Google Play or Amazon whisper games services in order to use it. Players can confirm that they are signed in because they will usually see a welcome banner. Also, they will see a long string of characters on the option screen where they save to cloud. It should say SOCIAL HASH. October 3, 2016 Weekly patch…

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Listeners Title: Doctor Who – Other Lives

Listeners Title: Doctor Who – Other Lives

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Listeners Title: Doctor Who – Other Lives 1 October 2016 Categories: Doctor Who – Main Range, Doctor Who – The Collected 8th Doctor, General Big Finish News It’s a new month, and we have a new Big Finish Listeners title – this time from the Doctor Who stables… To mark the recent release of Doctor Who – Doom Coalition Series 3, we travel back through the Eighth Doctor’s timestream to 2005, and the main range story Doctor Who: Other Lives,…

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Doctor Who – A Full Life

Doctor Who – A Full Life

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Adric narrates a story about his time with the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9 in a new Doctor Who Short Trip released today… Matthew Waterhouse gets behind the mic for a brand new story from Joseph Lidster as we look at some momentous Season 18 events through Adric ‘s perspective in Doctor Who – Short Trips: A Full Life: Adric’s life is full of death. His parents died when he was a child. His brother died a few months ago. Now,…

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Torchwood 10th Anniversary Feature-Length Audio Story

Torchwood 10th Anniversary Feature-Length Audio Story

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To celebrate ten years of the Doctor Who spin-off show, Big Finish are releasing a special feature-length adventure with the Torchwood team. The Torchwood Archive will be available exclusively from Big Finish later this month – order here. In October 2006, Russell T Davies created a spin-off centering around Captain Jack Harkness, first seen in the Doctor Who episodes, The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances, and his Torchwood team in Cardiff. To date, there have been four series of…

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The BBC series is looking for a new script editor – are you the perfect candidate?

The BBC series is looking for a new script editor – are you the perfect candidate?

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What do you need to get a job on Doctor Who? Sonic screwdriver proficiency? Ability to work individually or with an unidentified race of killer aliens? TARDIS licence (full, clean)? None of the above are apparently necessary, according to the latest Doctor Who job you can apply for via the BBC’s careers service. However, you will need a keen interest in writing if you want to become the show’s new script editor. That’s right, the BBC1 sci-fi series is looking…

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