The Man Who Thought Outside The Box: The Life and Times of Doctor Who Creator Sydney Newman (Paperback) Exactly where did the idea of Doctor Who come from? What did Canadian Sydney Newman do that changed British culture forever? We can trace the show’s origins back to a BBC report on the development of a science-fiction serial in the early 1960’s, but Sydney had been kicking the idea around a long time before he came to England. Travel back into the…
Extremis, the sixth episode of Doctor Who series ten, has just aired on BBC1. Radio Times reviewer Patrick Mulkern calls it “ingenious, breath-taking television” and has asked its writer, the showrunner Steven Moffat, to talk about the episode in detail. SPOILERS follow… RT’s Patrick Mulkern: Cardinal Moffat, apologies if it seems I’m blowing incense up your cassock, but Extremis is a remarkable piece of television. Unusual storytelling in that it is largely two interwoven stories: one set “A Long Time Ago” dealing…
Michelle Gomez has told Doctor Who: The Fan Show – The Aftershow that, along with Peter Capaldi, she will be leaving the show, and has also revealed that Missy ‘might’ be a Cyberman… The actress, who has been playing Missy since the Twelfth Doctor era began in 2014, told The Aftershow: “This is my last year, I’m done. I’m not coming back. I’m not kidding. I wouldn’t want to be The Master to anyone else, I really, really enjoyed disturbing…
This week’s Doctor Who was an episode of surprises, from the revelation that (spoiler alert) the whole storyline was pretty much just a computer simulation run by some evil aliens to the fact that the story wouldn’t end in this week’s episode, instead continuing into next week’s instalment The Pyramid at the End of the World. In effect, this means that writer Steven Moffat has delivered a stealth two-part story, with episodes that were previously announced as individual standalones actually…
Doctor Who – Extremis achieved an overnight viewing audience of 4.16 million viewers, a share of 22.7% of the total TV audience, according to unofficial figures. This figure is up on last week’s, where Oxygen achieved 3.57m(20%). The episode was third most watched show of the day, with ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent as usual taking the top spot with 9.13m viewers and a whopping 44.7% share of the total television audience! Second place went to Pointless Celebrities, which was watched…
‘Those people you shoot at in computer games? Now you know … they think they’re real. They feel it.’ There has been a lot of chatter in recent weeks about shape. What should a series of Doctor Who look like? So far, this one has been met with near-universal praise for its back-to-back, self-contained stories. But those of us on here tend to enjoy arcs that walk on the wild side. Last week I suggested the idea of a fully…
The BBC is poised to shutter its download store only a year and a half after it was opened, after it failed to hit commercial targets under pressure from US streaming rivals. Sources said the BBC Store, which allows viewers to buy digital copies of new and classic programmes such as Doctor Who, is being prepared for closure due to the rapid rise of subscription streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, which also offer BBC programming. A…
Warning: this article contains spoilers from Doctor Who episode ‘Extremis’. After this week’s confusing Doctor Who episode ‘Extremis’, it seems that the Doctor, Bill and Nardole are heading to more challenging terrain next week. In a trailer for ‘The Pyramid at the End of the World’, we see the trio visit a 5,000-year-old pyramid. Except there’s a problem – the structure was not there the previous day, and the creatures inside have been studying the people around it to arrive…
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is preparing to hand over the keys to the TARDIS after an “overwhelming” but “amazing” ride — but first, he has “some real belters” in store for fans of the cult show. Moffat, the lead writer and executive producer known for his labyrinth plots with complex twists and reveals, is preparing to hand over the TARDIS keys to Chris Chibnall. He said he has achieved everything he wanted to in his six series of Doctor…
The last time we saw Missy she was in a sticky situation, at the mercy of a handful of Daleks in The Witch’s Familiar – but this weekend’s episode of Doctor Who sees the Time Lord make a (well-publicised) reappearance. Michelle Gomez’s inclusion in series 10 was first revealed by the woman herself, back in October last year, but it’s not yet clear what her “very clever idea” to escape the Daleks was… Still, a new clip for episode six,…