Doctor Who makes an explosive return on 11 May with a brand new series as Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday travel through time and space on adventures to unknown lands, to the Regency era in England, to outer space worlds, the sixties and beyond. BBC Studios caught up with the cast and Russell T Davies to find out all about the new season… Russell T Davies (Showrunner) What made you so eager to come back to the helm of Doctor Who?…
WHAT IS FREE COMIC BOOK DAY (FCBD)? On the first Saturday in May – this year, May 4th – participating comic book shops across North America and the world give away a selection of FREE comic books to anyone who comes into their shop. Whether you’re a seasoned comics fan, or a first-time reader, this is the perfect time to discover your local comic shop. Major publishers put out free comics for fans to enjoy at the more than 2,300…
The Fifteenth Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, will join Madame Tussauds London’s out-of-this-world line-up this summer. The hit show’s highly anticipated new season lands on UK screens on the 11th May. Ahead of this, the Baker Street attraction has released behind-the-scenes imagery of Ncuti Gatwa working closely with its highly skilled artists to capture his perfect likeness for the upcoming figure of the Fifteenth Doctor. Ncuti Gatwa took over the TARDIS in the 2023 Christmas special, The Church on Ruby…
The TARDIS appears to have materialised at Wellington Airport, ahead of a Doctor Who exhibition that has fans ready to break out their multi-coloured scarves and open a bag of jelly babies. The “bigger on the inside” blue British police box, or TARDIS (time and relative dimension in space), is the recognisable ship used by The Doctor to travel through time and space on the hit TV series which has been running since 1963. Its arrival in New Zealand comes…
Doctor Who Magazine celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Fourth Doctor’s first appearance with an 84-page Special Edition, packed with all-new features, interviews, infographics and fiction. Highlights include: • A joint interview with Louise Jameson and Matthew Waterhouse, remembering their TARDIS travels with the Fourth Doctor. • Interviews with Fourth Doctor guest stars. • June Hudson is reunited with the famous burgundy coat she designed for Tom Baker’s Doctor. • Dave Gibbons looks back on the seminal artwork he created for…
The new season of Doctor Who will see Ncuti Gatwa return as the Fifteenth Doctor, alongside Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday, it comes after they made their highly acclaimed debut on Christmas Day in The Church on Ruby Road. Within the upcoming series, audiences will see the Doctor and Ruby travel through time and space on adventures to unknown lands, to the Regency era in England, to outer space worlds and the sixties. This season will also see the return…
Candy Jar Books is pleased to announce Companions: Sixty Years of Doctor Who Assistants, the definitive story of all the Doctor’s friends in time and space. The book covers every companion from Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, as well as the Doctor’s granddaughter, Susan – introduced in An Unearthly Child, the first episode of Doctor Who – to Ruby Sunday, the Fifteenth Doctor’s companion who travels with Ncuti Gatwa’s incarnation of the Time Lord. The tome charts the adventures of…
Doctor Who makes its much-anticipated return to the Proms with a brand-new show celebrating the latest adventures of the Doctor with Prom 47 and 48 on Monday 26th August 2024 and both 2.30pm and 7.00pm Showcasing Murray Gold’s epic music for the series performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Prom features sequences from the series on big screens, spectacular lighting and a host of special guest appearances – and, yes, there will be monsters! A concert like no other…
Doctor Who is back on TV! Inside this issue: Previews of the new episodes broadcast this month. Russell T Davies talks Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord and we take a quick peek behind the scenes of Boom with writer Steven Moffat and exec producer Joel Collins. Meet the Beatles: John, Paul, George and Ringo (alias Chris Mason, George Caple, Philip Davies and James Hoyles) and their producer George Martin (Ed White)… …and to celebrate the Beatles appearance on opening night of the new season, we…
BBC Books has announced three new Doctor Who novels will be published this year, featuring Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday. Each book is an original, stand-alone adventure and will be published simultaneously in hardback and audiobook. Plus, the audiobook edition of DOCTOR WHO: RUBY RED will be narrated by Millie Gibson, who plays companion Ruby Sunday in the TV series. Caged BY UNA MCCORMACK Are aliens ever abducted by aliens? And if they were, would anyone believe their story? When the Doctor…