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Doctor Who Annual 2024

Doctor Who Annual 2024

You’ve never seen a Doctor Who Annual quite like this . . . In November 2023, Doctor Who returns to our screens with an almighty TARDIS-crashing bang. David Tennant is back as the Doctor, Catherine Tate is back as the incredible Donna Noble. And the Doctor Who 2024 Annual is THE place to start an incredible journey. With everything you wanted to know about the Doctor – plus costumes, games, behind-the-scenes info – it even includes a never-seen-before Fourteenth Doctor story, and a sneak peek at…

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Doctor Who regeneration wins TV Moment of the Year at Edinburgh TV Awards

Doctor Who regeneration wins TV Moment of the Year at Edinburgh TV Awards

Doctor Who, The Traitors and BBC One all took home trophies at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival Awards. BBC One picked up the Channel of the Year award, while other wins for the broadcaster included The Traitors topping the Best Entertainment category and Graham Norton being named Best Entertainment TV Presenter. Best Drama was awarded to Sally Wainwright’s hit series Happy Valley, while Ellie Simmonds triumphed in the Breakthrough Presenter category for her documentary Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?. It was…

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Missing adventure ‘The Underwater Menace’ to be animated in 2023

Missing adventure ‘The Underwater Menace’ to be animated in 2023

The Second Doctor’s partially missing adventure will be animated with four new episodes in colour and high definition, releasing on DVD and Blu-ray. BBC Studios continues to offer Doctor Who fans the opportunity to extend their at home collection by announcing the latest release DOCTOR WHO: THE UNDERWATER MENACE on DVD and Blu-Ray. The two-disc box set contains the fourth series story as well as special features. This classic series stars the Second Doctor Patrick Troughton and co-stars Anneke Wills as Polly, Michael Craze as Ben and Frazer Hines…

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Doctor Who stars pay tribute to Patrick Troughton at plaque unveiling

Doctor Who stars pay tribute to Patrick Troughton at plaque unveiling

Legends of classic Doctor Who gathered to pay tribute to Patrick Troughton as a plaque was unveiled in his honour at his former school. The Doctor Who Appreciation Society, the show’s longest-running fan club, collaborated with Mill Hill School in London to place the plaque at the school’s Patrick Troughton Theatre. Sylvester McCoy, who played the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred, who played Ace, and Frazer Hines, who played Jamie McCrimmon, were among those pictured in attendance to celebrate the actor, best known as the Second Doctor. Carole…

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The 1963 Doctor Who diaries of Waris Hussein

The 1963 Doctor Who diaries of Waris Hussein

For the very first time, the veteran director shares his personal journals from 1963. The following is a compilation of Waris’s diaries originally published in Radio Times and presented here for the first time complete. Much has been written about Doctor Who across the past six decades, but surely little could be more striking and fascinating than the diary kept by Waris Hussein way back in 1963 – his contemporaneous account of those crucial months 60 years ago when the sci-fi series…

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Bafta award winner Lenny Rush joins Doctor Who

Bafta award winner Lenny Rush joins Doctor Who

It’s an absolute honour to be part of Doctor Who, one of the most iconic shows on television and wow what a dream come true! — Lenny Rush Having just won a Bafta at the age of fourteen, Lenny Rush’s stardom is once again about to go out of this world as he takes on the role of Morris in the new series of Doctor Who, starring alongside Ncuti Gatwa. Lenny has starred in numerous shows including Dodger and A Christmas…

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First look at Doctor Who’s Jinkx Monsoon as the Doctor’s “most powerful enemy yet”

First look at Doctor Who’s Jinkx Monsoon as the Doctor’s “most powerful enemy yet”

Jinkx Monsoon has landed and started filming for Doctor Who and here is the first look image of her in character… as the Doctor’s most powerful enemy yet! Jinkx has cultivated an international fanbase after winning two seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race including an All Stars season where she was crowned Queen of Queens, competing against other winners of the show. Jinkx joins Doctor Who after completing her sell out run on Broadway, where she made her highly-anticipated debut as Matron…

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New audio adventures for the Fifth Doctor, Rani and Clyde and more!

New audio adventures for the Fifth Doctor, Rani and Clyde and more!

April sees the release of a range of brand-new audio adventures from Big Finish. Here’s a roundup of what’s available to buy on CD and download this month… A new adventure for the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan In the far future and the recent past, the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan discover that humans can be monsters too. This release comes with a bonus audiobook: GOBBLEDEGOOK by Frazer Lee, performed by Dan Starkey. Get The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Conflicts of Interest here….

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Four Doctors Amongst RadioTimes.com TV 100 2022

Four Doctors Amongst RadioTimes.com TV 100 2022

Radio Times have just released their top 100 TV figures for 2022 and an impressive NINE of these are prominent Doctor Who members.  Straight in at number 1 is Ncuti Gatwa (the new 15th Doctor) followed by Jodie Whittaker (Doctor 13) at number 21. Lenny Henry (Daniel Barton, “Spyfall”) is at 52. Another Doctor (10 and 14) David Tennant is at number 55 with The Master actor Sacha Dhawan at number 58. Doctor 11 Matt Smith is listed at number…

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