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…
All the Doctor Who news that is fit to publish
As you can imagine there has been a lot of Doctor Who news for me to write. Firstly on Saturday night there was a pre-cooked news story that went live just after the episode finished. I watched it in the…
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…
Lots of new (and old) Doctor Who for Christmas
There is a mini-Xmas present for Doctor Who fans this week as Big Finish have made available a free new story – War Stories, an adventure featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts, written by Patrick Ross and narrated by…
Visiting the Museum of Brands in London
Occasionally I am convinced that time travel means that suddenly things that have never previously existed in our timeline pop up, and have apparently been here forever. That is how I feel about the Museum of Brands in London, which…
Listen to The Holmwood Foundation!
Fio Trethewey, one of my Doctor Who brethren – I’ve previously bought their incredible little Who-themed enamel pin badges – has a really cool new project with their partner Georgia Cook called The Holmwood Foundation. Described as “a found footage…
Thoughts on … Doctor Who: Season one (2024)
[This is part of an occasional series where I ramble without much focus about an old episode/episodes of Doctor Who what I have just watched on my tellybox or a new audio one I listened to on my pocket computer…
I put all the Doctor Who actors into the correct order for you
So I’ve contributed for the first time to the Guardian’s “ – Ranked!” series with a subject dear to my heart. “Every Doctor Who episode – ranked!” was a step too far, as was “Every Doctor Who companion – ranked!”,…
Doctor Who ratings 2023 for the 60th anniversary specials are going to be apples/oranges
A rare actual blog post on this site these days. I’m sure I’ve written before that Doctor Who fandom is uniquely culturally scarred by the 1980s experience of hiatus and cancellation and being pitched against Coronation Street, and so obsesses…