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The BBC has just announced that The Ice Warriors will return in Series 10, a story written by Mark Gattis. Mark Gatiss announces the return of some old friends, but with a new twist… One of Doctor Who‘s most enduring monsters will be returning to face Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord in the next series. The Ice Warriors – first introduced to the show in 1967 – will reappear in a new episode written by Mark Gatiss. Gatiss previously reintroduced the…

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Matt Smith may have been at the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards to celebrate Netflix drama The Crown but that didn’t stop him taking time to pay tribute to his former Doctor Who co-star, Sir John Hurt. The renowned British actor passed away last week at the age of  77. “He was a wonderful man and a brilliant, brilliant actor,” said Smith, who was on the red carpet with his Crown co-star Claire Foy. Matt Smith remembers the late John…

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The full list of writers for Doctor Who series 10 has finally been completed, after official YouTube series The Doctor Who Fan Show revealed that “[episodes six and seven] are written by Steven Moffat and Peter Harness”. The addition of Harness, who wrote series 8’s Kill the Moon and Series 9’s acclaimed two-parter The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion, brings the total of series 10 writers to nine, all of whom but one (Doctor Foster writer Mike Bartlett) have written for…

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Actor Peter Capaldi is stepping down from the lead role in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who at the end of the tenth series which starts transmitting on BBC1 from Saturday 15th April 2017. It’s going to be a Good Friday followed by a VERY good Saturday for Doctor Who fans as Peter Capaldi has confirmed that the long awaited series ten will debut on Easter Saturday! Capaldi told Whiley that the upcoming series was quite “vintage Doctor Who” and said it “rolls…

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A city centre hotel has unveiled a family bedroom that’s truly out of this world. Former Doctor Who Colin Baker parked his TARDIS in New Walk outside the Belmont Hotel to open its new Space Room. The room commemorates Leicester’s location as home to the National Space Centre and the University of Leicester’s successful developments in space research since the late 1960s. Baker, the sixth in the series of time lords in the world’s longest running Sc-fi show, popped along…

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In the latest edition of Doctor Who: The Fan Show, official BBC YouTuber Christel Dee confirmed that Peter Harness has returned to write for Doctor Who series 10. His previous timey-wimey credits consist of Kill The Moon, The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion. “[Episode 6 and episode 7] are written by Steven Moffat and Peter Harness”, Dee revealed in the video linked above. Since Harness cowrote his Zygon episodes with Moffat, this collaboration shouldn’t come as a huge surprise.