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Waris Hussein has been a leading light in film and television since the early 1960s, and will probably be most familiar to our readers as the very first, and very influential, director of Doctor Who. He even became a character (played by Sacha Dhawan, below) in Mark Gatiss’s “origins of Who” drama, An Adventure in Space and Time (2013). There is, of course, so much more to his career. The youngest drama director employed by the BBC in 1960, Waris…

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** Warning – This clip contains mild innuendo and may not be suitable for younger readers ** https://twitter.com/georgiaEtennant/status/957666470233870337 It’s not that we haven’t loved the incarnations of the Doctor since, but there’s something about David Tennant’s turn as Doctor Who that really sticks with us. Yes, still. Fortunately, David’s wife Georgia – who has more than a few Doctor Who connections herself – has made our collective days by sharing a throwback clip of her and David as the Doctor. And this isn’t behind-the-scenes…

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Last month saw all sorts of new beginnings for Doctor Who, with Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor making her debut while longtime series writer Chris Chibnall took over with a plan to take the sci-fi series in a bold new direction later this year. However, all these new starts meant that we had a few sad endings as well, with Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi, companion Pearl Mackie and showrunner Steven Moffat all saying their goodbyes in the Christmas special. Now, a…

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Actor Peter Wyngarde, the star of Doctor Who Planet of Fire has died aged 90. His agent and manager confirmed that he had passed away in a London hospital. He described the Doctor Who actor as “the most exceptional person I met in my life and a great mentor and teacher.” After beginning his career on stage in 1947, he went on to act alongside Richard Burton in Alexander the Great. But it was taking the lead role in Department S…

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We know the Doctor is partial to a Jammie Dodger, but across the Channel, the Time Lord is helping create even more impressive pastry-feats. It turns out that in France, Le Meilleur Pâtissier (“The Best Baker” en Anglais) opens with the most epic music in the Whoniverse. Specifically, the baking competition greets viewers with I Am the Doctor, a tune we first heard in Matt Smith’s debut outing as the Time Lord in series 5’s The Eleventh Hour. Composed by…

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The new series of Room 101 starts on BBC One tomorrow at 8.30pm, with Frank Skinner returning to oversee eight new episodes of the show. They were all recorded last October and November, and this latest run has two faces of particular interest to fans of Doctor Who. For both Pearl Mackie and Steven Moffat are guests on the new series! They won’t be appearing together, though, but we roughly know when their episodes will air, and who will be…

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Doctor Who: The Fan Show has released the first of three very special episodes which sit down with former showrunner Steven Moffat and take an in-depth look on his time on the series. Watch the first instalment of an exclusive three-part interview with Steven in the player below. During the interview, Moffat discusses his inspiration for writing and how he sees the world of Doctor Who through the eyes of children. The writer says: “When you talk about Doctor Who,…

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Doctor Who: Twice Upon A Time had a 7-Day official rating of 7.92 million viewers. The rating includes those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days. The final rating is an increase of over 2.2 million on the initially reported figure. It makes Twice Upon a Time the highest rated episode of Doctor Who since the 2014 Christmas episode Last Christmas. An additional 600,000 viewers have accessed the episode on the BBC iPlayer so far. Doctor Who…

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