Doctor Who

  • BBC announces Doctor Who anniversary details

    BBC announces Doctor Who anniversary details

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    New dramas, documentaries and radio shows will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who this November, the BBC has announced.

  • Doctor Who cinema screening axed ‘after BBC paperwork blunder’

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    A planned cinema screening of four Doctor Who episodes has been cancelled with organisers blaming a BBC paperwork hitch for the axing. The Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square was due to screen episodes Girl in the Fire Place, Blink, Midnight and Turn Left on October 27th. However the venue says the BBC has asked…

  • Doctor Who – The Third Doctor’s debut is now available on Blu-ray

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    Jon Pertwee’s debut Doctor Who adventure is now available on Blu-ray. First shown in 1970, Spearhead from Space was the first Doctor Who story shot in colour and is the only one be shot entirely on film, making it ideal for a Blu-ray release. Teaming Pertwee’s Third Doctor with alien hunters UNIT, the adventure introduces…

  • Peter Capaldi’s casting is a vote of confidence in Doctor Who

    Peter Capaldi’s casting is a vote of confidence in Doctor Who

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    LIke more than 6m other fans, I tuned into BBC One last night to discover the identity of the actor who would take Doctor Who into its second half-century. While there’s much about Steven Moffat’s era that I’ve disliked – wasting two and a half seasons on a plot-line that boils down to ‘my annoying,…

  • Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi revealed as 12th Doctor

    Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi revealed as 12th Doctor

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    Peter Capaldi has been named as the new star of BBC One’s Doctor Who. Capaldi previously appeared in the series in an episode called The Fires of Pompeii opposite David Tennant and Catherine Tate and also played John Frobisher in Doctor Who spin-off, Torchwood. He’s currently filming a new BBC One “contemporary take” on the…

  • Daleks return to mark Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary

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    November’s Doctor Who 50th anniversary special will see the return of the Daleks, the BBC has confirmed. The Skaro meanies first appeared in the show’s second story in 1963, doing battle with William Hartnell’s Doctor and his granddaughter Susan. They’re returned to appear opposite almost all Doctors, becoming a staple of the series and its…