‘You don’t have to go to outer space to find monsters. There’s plenty of things that want to kill you right here on Earth.’ Here’s an uncomfortable hypothesis: Steven Moffat has ruined Doctor Who for other haunted house stories. This is because every haunted house story anyone tries to tell will forever be judged beside Blink, his 2007 classic that regularly tops best-ever episode polls. Anything else is destined to fade into obscurity (see 2013’s Hide). Can Mike Bartlett, the…

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Doctor Who – Knock Knock had an overnight viewing audience of 4.32 million viewers, a share of 24.9% of the total TV audience, according to unofficial figures. Doctor Who has increased its audience by half a million from the previous week, no doubt helped by the appearance to David Suchet in the episodes as well as the lack of a bank holiday in the UK Top for the day was once more the ITV variety show Britain’s Got Talent with…

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TV legend David Suchet, known for his role as Belgian detective Poirot, is one the guests on the new edition of Doctor Who: The Fan Show – The Aftershow. On the show he talks about his role as The Landlord in the latest episode from Doctor Who Series 10, Knock Knock. But the actor had a very eerie connection to the location used for shooting the creepy story. David told The Fan Show: “It was even more scary for me…

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Peter Capaldi’s regeneration into the next Doctor will be “like no other” say show insiders. The moment when the Twelfth Doctor hands over to the Thirteenth is of course still shrouded in secrecy but the indications are that Capaldi will go out in style. “Just because we have done it one way in the past doesn’t mean we will do it the same way again – in fact you can definitely expect the unexpected when the time comes,” said a…

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The new design for The Doctor’s favourite tin dog, K-9 has been revealed at the DWAS convention being held this weekend in Sussex. The robot dog will feature in a new movie, TimeQuake, due to be released next year. The new design was unveiled by the Robot’s creator, Bob Baker and by Paul Tams, the producer of the upcoming film and one of the men behind the Australian TV series K-9 The new film will see the robot dog battle…

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David Suchet has very few rules in his career, but last year he discovered a new one. “My agent rang and said, ‘You’ve been asked to guest in a Doctor Who…’ I said, ‘Say yes!’ She replied, ‘I haven’t told you what the part is or what the episode is about…’ I said, ‘Just say yes.’ The rule is, always say yes to Doctor Who!” Suchet recalls watching the very first episode starring William Hartnell back in 1963 – and…

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The episode Knock Knock has a pop at the current UK housing crisis. Viewers will see The Doc’s companion and university canteen worker Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie) forced to move into a creepy old house with a bunch of students because they cannot afford anywhere decent. When asked what other people do to avoid living in slums, Bill moans: “Other people have money.’’ Story writer Mike Bartlett tells Doctor Who Magazine: “Knock Knock is a little bit based on the…

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