So the iTunes Store seems to be getting into the whole Red Nose Day support, and already have a compilation of clips from the night available. However the real treats can be found if you take a look at the Best of Comic Relief Volume 1 which contains Blackadder: The Cavalier Years, Doctor Who and [...]

There must be a lot of pretty happy bookies this morning. If you check out the posted odds against potential new Doctor Who’s listed on Outpost Gallifrey Matt Smith is not listed, indeed his name only appeared in the press as part of a BBC Breakfast item. From that it can be pretty safe to [...]

So in amongst the usual selection of specials and weird cross-overs Children in Need last night included a preview of the first two minutes of the upcoming Christmas Doctor Who, The Next Doctor.
After David Tennant’s recent announcement there is much speculation over the title of the new episode, more so once you’ve watched the clip…

So [...]

In talking about episode twelve of Doctor Who last week, I expressed the hope that we wouldn’t get a total cop out of a resolution to the Doctor regenerating cliff-hanger – so what did we get? A total cop out of a solution where the Doctor directs his regeneration energy into his hand in the [...]

Back when Doctor Who was re-launched, after a well received opening, the whole thing was very nearly derailed by the shock news that Christopher Eccleston had resigned from the role that leaked out after just one episode. Following on from that debacle they’ve always tried to keep the big shocks secret, although that didn’t stop [...]

The trailer for Doctor Who next week started showing tonight – I notice that aside from a fully lit shot (for that see the Sun) – they are not bothering to try and hide the “surprise” return of Davros much any more…
Also from the flashes of faces in the trailer, it does look like [...]

Doctor-light episodes seem to have become a way for the Doctor Who production team to do something a bit more experimental. This has happened right back from the early days when a lead actor needed to take a break the Doctor or his companions would find one or other of them turned invisible as in [...]

It’s good to be surprised from time to time, and a surprise was exactly what we got when we watched Doctor Who last night. The episode that went out was the first of the last block of four, all written by current lead writer Russell T Davies, and it has to be said that there [...]

Years ago when Star Trek: The Next Generation did a two part episode, it seemed to be almost a given that part two would be a bit of a letdown, that the exciting cliff-hanger built up in part one wouldn’t go anywhere much in part two. Steven Moffat on the other hand seems to produce [...]

After having induced an irrational fear of statues amongst the youth of the nation last year, Steven Moffat has certainly had a good go at making them afraid of shadows this time around!
Much as he did with his previous two part story for Doctor Who, the excellent Empty Child, Silence in the Library leaves you [...]

After the general despondency induced by a whole load of depressing Eurovision voting, there was the main event of the evening (to some people), the Doctor Who mid-season preview, the now traditional special trailer we get to make up for the fact that the programme has been bumped for a week.

First off, no secret of [...]

So after months of speculation, the BBC has finally confirmed what most fans suspected, that Russell T Davies will be handing of the reigns of Doctor Who for the fifth season – the second part of the rumour is that David Tennant will be leaving at the same time, which hasn’t been confirmed or denied.
One [...]

Last nights episode of Doctor Who was perhaps one that could be classed as primarily an entertaining romp. The basic plot was your regular Doctor against a monster – in this case a giant wasp – but around that was placed a classic Agatha Christie murder mystery at a stately home, with guests being killed [...]

After all the speculation as to who the titular daughter was going to turn out to be, what we in fact got in The Doctor’s Daughter was a new character – an extension of the continuity rather than an attempt to weave a story within the established history of the programme.
As an episode it wasn’t [...]

The conclusion of the current two part Doctor Who story – The Poison Sky – proved to be just as enjoyable as the first. Chief amongst the spectacular moments was the first time on screen we’ve seen Sontarans in battle – in the original series more often than not we only ever saw one or [...]

Last night, The Sontaran Stratagem marked the return of another of the classic Doctor Who monsters brought back for the new series – this time being one of Russell T’s acknowledged favourites, the Sontarans. Much as with the other returning monsters the advances in prosthetic effects, and the much increased budget for the new show [...]

I think perhaps it was a mistake to air the first part of the new series of Doctor Who quite so soon after the last part of Torchwood as it really marks out the differences between the two programmes. After a dire episode of Torchwood we get a great opening to the new series of [...]

A week to go now and a new trailer, building the expectations…

So, Christians have found another topic of disagreement, to join the multitude of others. We now have a discussion over whether Doctor Who is evil… On the one hand we have Christians holding a Spirituality and Doctor Who event next month, and on the other we have a born again Christian in Trowbridge selling his [...]

After weeks of only having shaky in-cinema recordings of the preview trailer, the BBC have posted a copy of the Doctor Who Season 4 trailer to YouTube – less than two weeks to go now, April 5th is the date for the diary.

There is a brief glimpse of the Sontarans fighting UNIT soldiers, giant wasps [...]