Article about the return of Doctor Who in 2026
I mentioned yesterday that I had been in the paper wittering on about the return of Doctor Who and what it might mean for the future of the show. There is now an online version of the story to go…
Appearing on Good Morning Scotland talking about Doctor Who
I was invited on to BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland today to be interviewed by Laura Maxwell about the news that Doctor Who will be returning to our screens in 2026 with a Christmas special, and a new series…
Some lovely radio about how Leyton Orient got Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Taxi as their signature tune
There was a lovely bit of radio over the holiday period, where Colin Murray and former footballer and Scottish national treasure Pat Nevin discussed with Leyton Orient commentator Dave Victor how it came to be that the O’s, uniquely in…
Listen to Toby Hadoke’s “Absent Friends” for 2024
Yesterday I was musing about how much I still miss people like Paul Spragg, Dan Martin and Paul Condon from Doctor Who fandom, and so it seems an appropriate time to recommend you have a listen to the 2024 edition…
Blake’s 7 and the rare occasion of the internet being lovely
The other day a very rare thing happened, which is I posted something on social media, had a little moan, and then somebody replied politely and changed my mind. I think the last time anybody had a nice interaction like…
Thoughts on … Doctor Who: Redacted (2022)
[This is part of an occasional series where I ramble without much focus about an old episode of Doctor Who what I have just watched on my tellybox or a new one I listened to on my pocket computer device.]…
Complaints about complaints at the BBC
This weekend seems to be a good time to remember that I used to be the new media department producer on the BBC Complaints online website in 2005, and that I do not do that job anymore. Look, if you…
Doctor Who Shada – some other bits and bobs from the press screening
I was lucky enough to be at the press screening for Shada yesterday. There was a Q&A afterwards where a lot of the press quotes you may have seen came from, including in the piece in the Guardian. I felt…
I interviewed Peter Capaldi for the Guardian and here’s the rest of the transcript…
Regular readers may know that I am slightly a fan of Doctor Who, so it has been a great pleasure over the last few weeks to have had the chance to both interview and meet Peter Capaldi as part of…
“It is happening again…” – BBC junking more Doctor Who
I’ve written for the Guardian today about the experience of watching “Power of the Daleks” as a massive, massive Doctor Who nerd who knew nothing about the story and was able to watch the new animation as if it was…