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Month: July 2020

Get your guide to the Dark Times in ‘Time Lord Victorious’

Get your guide to the Dark Times in ‘Time Lord Victorious’

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The Doctor Who annual joins Time Lord Victorious! This year’s edition of the annual will join the multiple stories that are already part of the multi-platform Doctor Who story, told across audio, novels, comics, vinyl, digital, immersive theatre, escape rooms and games. The 2021 annual is jam packed with activities, puzzles, stories, facts and illustrations, including a thrilling peek into the world of the TARDIS with a TARDIS Tour and TARDIS Trip Reviewer. This annual has more on Series 12, such…

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New Doctor Who comic LYTTON unveils first 8 pages online

New Doctor Who comic LYTTON unveils first 8 pages online

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The series focuses on the eponymous character, a mercenary who appeared on the iconic sci-fi show in the ’80s serials Attack of the Cybermen and Resurrection of the Daleks. Doctor Who fans can get a sneak peak of a new comic book miniseries with the first 8 pages of LYTTON having been made available online. The four part comic mini-series comes from legendary Doctor Who writer Eric Saward, who worked on the show as a screenwriter and script editor for several years during the…

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Doctor Who gets first Emmy nomination for interactive spin-off The Runaway

Doctor Who gets first Emmy nomination for interactive spin-off The Runaway

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Doctor Who has earned its first ever Emmy nomination, although it might not be in the category you’re expecting. First held in 1949, the Emmys are an American award show dedicated to recognising excellence in the television industry, with the Emmy nominations 2020 announced just yesterday. Doctor Who was first put forward for consideration at the Emmys in 2016, when BBC America became a co-producer on the long-running sci-fi series. However, the show is yet to bag its first acting or writing nomination,…

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Virtual Big Finish Day 2020

Virtual Big Finish Day 2020

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A host of stars from Big Finish’s audio drama series, including Doctor Who, Space: 1999, Timeslip, will be livestreaming on the Big Finish YouTube channel from 16:00 (UK time) on Saturday 1 August 2020. Big Finish will be hosting an exciting and unique YouTube livestream event on Saturday 1 August 2020, featuring a galaxy of stars from its audio dramas. Fans are invited to join in and comment during the livestream at the Big Finish YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/user/bigfinishprod) from 16:00…

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Doctor Who’s ex-script editor asks fans to fund spin-off for popular character

Doctor Who’s ex-script editor asks fans to fund spin-off for popular character

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Former script editor Eric Saward is creating a four-part comic miniseries about Dalek mercenary Gustave Lytton. A former script editor for BBC One’s Doctor Who has started a Kickstarter page to fund his comic mini-series about Gustave Lytton, a former enemy of the Doctor. Eric Saward, who worked on Doctor Who from 1982 until 1986, is creating a four part noir comic LYTTON, which will follow the former Dalek mercenary and long-time companion Wilson as they run the Jazz Soirée Club in…

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Save ‘The Hollow Planet’ from your own home!

Save ‘The Hollow Planet’ from your own home!

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Escape Hunt has today announced the upcoming release of their Download, Print & Play Game Doctor Who: The Hollow Planet. In this new style of Doctor Who game, perfect for lockdown and social distancing, you join together with family and friends to save an abandoned planet from a rogue Dalek! You find themselves on planetoid TG-88.3Ω, otherwise known as ‘The Hollow Planet’. A rogue Dalek has knocked out the local android population and taken over the mining facility built long ago…

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Time Lord Victorious figurines revealed!

Time Lord Victorious figurines revealed!

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Coming in late-October, various characters from Time Lord Victorious will be immortalised as Hero Collector figurines! These four new box-sets of characters are the perfect accompaniment for your Doctor Who collections. Each of the four Time Lord Victorious box sets will contain two hand-painted polyresin figurines at 1:21 scale (approximately 3.5 inches tall). The first three Hero Collector box sets will feature brand new Dalek designs created specifically for the series, such as the Dalek Time Commander and the new Dalek Emperor….

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DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 554

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 554

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Highlights of the new issue include: An in-depth investigation into the areas of the Doctor Who universe where our fragments of knowledge don’t quite add up, with sections devoted to the Doctor, the TARDIS, Gallifrey, the Daleks and the Cybermen. Arthur Darvill, who played Rory, answers questions from the TARDIS Tin. Hair and make-up designer Claire Pritchard discusses her work on Series 12. The writers and artists behind Cutaway Comics explain how the imprint is expanding the worlds of Doctor Who. An at-a-glance…

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First look at lost Doctor Who: The Power of The Daleks

First look at lost Doctor Who: The Power of The Daleks

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DOCTOR Who fans have been given their first look at the special edition release of The Power of the Daleks. No complete film recordings of The Power of the Daleks are known to have survived the purge of the BBC’s archive in 1975. The Power of the Daleks was second Doctor Peter Troughton’s first adventure in 1966, but it has now been brought back to life in a high definition animated series. The special edition release also includes surviving footage…

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Missing Doctor Who story ‘Marco Polo’ comes to vinyl!

Missing Doctor Who story ‘Marco Polo’ comes to vinyl!

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Demon Records presents the narrated TV soundtrack of a ‘lost’ seven-part adventure set in the 13th Century, starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor, pressed on 4 x 140g Desert Sandstorm Vinyl. When the TARDIS breaks down in Central Asia, its occupants are met by the explorer Marco Polo. The year is 1289, and Marco is crossing the Gobi desert to Peking, for an audience with the emperor Kublai Khan. Marco sets his mind on offering the TARDIS as a…

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