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With the return of Doctor Who to our screens on Christmas Day, December has become undeniably one of the favourite months within the ‘Who’ calendar year. Here at the Doctor Who Experience we’re welcoming the month in with our very own ‘Who guide’ to Christmas gifts this year – check out our favourite gifts below. Plus, find out what we have in store over the festive period and watch our very own take on the popular mannequin challenge…just don’t blink! The…

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“Some people do get very excited when they meet you and I feel vaguely confused by that because I don’t think I’m very exciting – I get into a panic because I think I mustn’t disappoint them,” admits Peter, 58. “Doctor Who is exciting, but I’m not. I don’t know what to do. I can’t be myself because that will disappoint them. “Often people ask for hugs and I can feel them shaking. Sometimes people can’t speak. I just hope…

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That John Barrowman is one hell of a tease, isn’t he? Not many people could get us so excited about run-of-the-mill actor meetings at the BBC. Then again, not many people would announce said meetings by posing in front of the Tardis… The Doctor Who and Torchwood actor shared a picture of himself with his agent Gavin Barker, telling his followers that he was “going in for meetings at the BBC”. “Fingers crossed :)” he added cryptically. Crossed for what?…

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Steven Moffat is definitely leaving his role as Doctor Who showrunner after series 10, but his Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi, says he’s trying to avoid making a decision about whether he’ll stay on or leave with him. “I’ve been asked to stay on and I haven’t made my mind up about that yet, mainly because I don’t want to have to make that decision,” the actor told Wales Online. “I’m trying to avoid it!” The actor, who we first briefly…

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This year’s Doctor Who Christmas special – fantastically entitled The Return of Doctor Mysterio – features a superhero known as the Ghost, the return of Matt Lucas’s Nardole and a New York setting. But beyond that we don’t know a huge amount. So here’s showrunner Steven Moffat to tell RadioTimes.com a bit more about the origins of the Ghost, when we might have seen this year’s villains before, how Nardole came to be travelling with the Doctor and just how…

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The actor Johnny Dennis has died. Johnny Dennis played the bus driver Murray in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen. As well as Doctor Who, Dennis appeared in television shows such as The Bill, The Devil’s Crown, The Enigma Files, Prospects, Dempsey and Makepeace, Surgical Spirit and Conjugal Rights. On film, he appeared in Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, The Great Escape II: The Untold Story, and Il giovane Toscanini. An actor by trade,…

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You know you are talking to a fellow Doctor Who fan when you casually mention the similarities between the debut stories of both Tom Baker and Peter Capaldi as the Timelord. But for Dan Starkey, an actor who has become a notable, albeit mostly unseen, presence on the show over the last few years, he is delighted to be appearing in Peter and the Starcatcher coming to Northampton’s Royal & Derngate to indulge his inner fan. Dan said: “I’ve never…

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The prime minister will be curled up on the sofa watching traditional British TV on Christmas Day. While being a fan of “Scandi dramas” like Borgen, Theresa May said she’d tune in to Doctor Who and “a nice Agatha Christie”. Earlier in the day, she’ll have a drink with friends before helping churches in her Berkshire constituency who provide lunch for elderly people. The PM also said she enjoys Strictly Come Dancing, but wouldn’t take part. “I always like to see…

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