Across the street from the San Diego Convention Center, there’s a secret trove of artifacts from some of the biggest clashes across time and space. Well, it’s not so secret: there’s a TARDIS photo op right in front to help you find it. Doctor Who‘s future isn’t yet known—even the identity of the next Doctor […]
All Ncuti Gatwa Is Willing to Say About the Future of ‘Doctor Who’ Is That He’s Not It
Across two seasons, the Fifteenth Doctor got just 16 episodes of Doctor Who, plus two Christmas specials, and his era ended with a confusing regeneration and some intense uncertainty over what will come next for the long-running sci-fi series. You won’t get any concrete answers from its most recent showrunner, Russell T Davis—and the outgoing […]
‘Doctor Who’ Will Keep the Fifteenth Doctor Alive with New Comics
While BBC determines what to do with Doctor Who after its latest season, the comics are hoping to give you more Fifteenth Doctor adventures. The upcoming Prison Paradox miniseries comes courtesy of returning Who comics writer Dan Watters and artist Sami Kivelä (Abbott). Waters previously wrote the 2024 miniseries starring the Fifteenth Doctor, and in this new tale, he’s putting […]
BBC Apologizes for Accidentally Spoiling ‘Doctor Who’ Finale in News Report
The BBC’s apology for posting about that shocking Doctor Who finale reveal before the whole world got a chance to watch comes a little too late. For many, the spoiler was prominently featured online as soon as Ncuti Gatwa took his bow and regenerated into the franchise’s favorite companion, Rose Tyler, played by Billie Piper. […]
Russell T Davies Is Remaining Vague About the Future of ‘Doctor Who’
As Doctor Who‘s ongoing future remains in flux (no, not that flux), fans remain waiting to hear for any sign that news on the security of that future is on the way. Well, in its latest development, there’s good news and bad news: but in the middle of that is the fact that all of this still […]
‘Doctor Who’ Will Return… as an Animated Kids Show
When Doctor Who came to the controversial climax of its latest season recently, it did so with an uncertainty the series hasn’t faced for 20 years: there was then, and still is, no official news if the series will return. But while that’s still case, the BBC has announced news that should give some reassurance that Doctor […]
Where Does ‘Doctor Who’ Go From Here?
The end of the latest season of Doctor Who would be controversial for a good many reasons beyond its shocking cliffhanger ending—from its confounding narrative choices to its complete character re-writing of its latest companion—but perhaps what has made it reach another level of ire is that, for the foreseeable future, this might be it. Right […]
‘Doctor Who’ Utterly Wasted Belinda Chandra
When the latest season of Doctor Who kicked off, the most exciting thing about it wasn’t even its premiere story, or what was being set up to lead towards the season’s grand finale: it was the arrival of Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra, promising to shake up the Doctor/companion dynamic in a way it hadn’t been in […]
‘Doctor Who’ Needs to Go Away and Think About What It Did
Doctor Who is frequently bad television. In some ways, it’s part of the charm: dodgy production values redeemed by inspired storytelling or character work, or clunkily camp B-movie sci-fi elevated by glimmers of spectacle, the perpetual promise of big ideas yearning to escape one holdback or another. So rarely do those myriad failings combine, so […]
The ‘War Between Land and the Sea’ Trailer Gives Earth a Battle the Doctor Can’t Stop
With the conclusion of the latest season of Doctor Who, all eyes are on what’s next for adventures in time and space… and when, exactly, we’ll be getting them. But before the Doctor returns, Earth is going to have to stand alone in a new spinoff miniseries, The War Between Land and the Sea. To mark […]