"Doctor Who"

  • Jack’s Back! The Captain returns in Doctor Who’s ‘Revolution’ trailer…

    Update:  And here’s the trailer: John Barrowman is set to reprise his role as the infamous omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness in the upcoming seasonal episode of Doctor Who. Revolution of the Daleks, which is now being referred to as the ‘Festive’ special (rather than the ‘Christmas’ special, perhaps indicating...
  • Be Patient: Doctor Who’s 2021 run now down to eight episodes…

    Though Doctor Who side-stepped the initial coronavirus impactby shooting the next special, Revolution of the Daleks, as part of the last series in late 2019 and banking it for broadcast  sometime over the coming seasonal Christmas/New Year break, it hasn’t managed to avoid the pandemic completely. The BBC has...
  • Doctor Who: ‘Ascension of the Cybermen’ raises the stakes…

    Given the earnest warning from Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and the contempt of  Ashad, the Lone Cybermen (Patrick O’Kane) at Villa Diodati, the Doctor and her companions head into the far future and the last days of the great Cyber War to see if they can undo the...
  • Doctor Who: Whittaker will do at least three seasons…

    Though previous interview quotes have all but confirmed it explicitly, Jodie Whittaker has now formally gone on the record as coming back for a third season of Doctor Who. This comes despite parts of the show’s fandom insisting they had reliable sources that both Whittaker and show-runner Chris Chibnall...
  • Doctor Who: ‘Spyfall II’ Herstory in the Making?

    As Daniel Barton’s plane plunges to Earth – with Barton and the Master (for it is he!) safely beamed away and the Doctor finding herself between dimensions, it seems some quick and unlikely escapes are desperately needed. Both Ryan and The Doctor find help via unexpected people but that’s...
  • Doctor Who: Spy-fi debut for Whittaker’s sophomore salvo…

    Readying to meet up again and head off on more travels, The Doctor and her companions are all individually summoned to MI5 by ‘C’ (Stephen Fry) to help investigate the bizarre killings of several operatives scattered around the world. In each case, their DNA has been totally scrambled, something...
  • Post-Mod ‘Squad’: James Gunn unites Doctor Who and Mal Reynolds..?

    James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is certainly cranking up the geek credentials in the casting department. After news that Nathan Fillion and Taiki Waititi were joining the cast, it now appears that Peter Capaldi, the Twelfth Doctor Who, is also aboard in an unknown role. At first glance the...
  • Doctor Who: Shocking lack of announcement over rumours…

    When Jodie Whittaker was announced and then debuted as the Thirteen Doctor, there was a lot of media and fan attention at the first female incarnation of the famous time-traveller. Some of it was positive, some negative. The negative contingent was much smaller than the more reasonable ‘Let’s see...
  • TYPE 40: Rebranding and Regenerating ‘Doctor Who’…

    The new Doctor was certainly a notable shift gender-wise… but there were also some more profound tweaks for Doctor Who this past season. You can hear more of Kyle Wagner, Kevin Reitzel and guest John Mosby’s musings on the subject in the latest edition of the Type 40 Podcast…...
  • Doctor Who: Talking about a ‘Resolution’ (of the…)…

    The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) is giving her team a treat, a successive string of ‘New Year’ celebrations across the galaxy. But their celebrations are cut short when the Tardis alerts her to There was no unwrapping of an extraterrestrial signal that seems to be pulling different objects together from...
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