My friends are split. Some Who fans are really looking forward to Season 5 of Doctor Who. They’re looking forward to Steven Moffat at the helm. They credit him with some of the best Dr Who episodes from new Who. Other friends have nothing but a sense of dread. They don’t recognise Moffat as the […]
Horrible pictures for any Doctor Who fan
I think this could be a sad day for Doctor Who fans around the world. New on-set pictures have emerged of the Matt Smith series. They’re not good. They show the good Doctor, in shorts and as a ball-kicker. The Timelord is not a ball-kicker. Don’t you agree?
Doctor Who leak: The Eleventh Hour will be 60 minutes long…
At the start of the month we discovered the first two Matt Smith Doctor Who episodes will be called The Eleventh Hour and The Beast Below. Radio Free Skaro seems to have got their hands on a BBC press release that has even more details. First off – if you’re worried about spoilers, stop reading, […]
Neil Gaiman will write for Doctor Who
Neil Gaiman has confirmed to SFX that he’ll be penning an episode for the second Matt Smith season of Doctor Who. He sent them this message, which is crystal clear; Over the years SFX, and its readers and their votes in the polls, have always been very kind to me. I thought I’d return the […]
Matt Smith, as the Doctor, on the cover of Doctor Who magazine
The latest edition of the Doctor Who magazine is out in the UK today. Guess who’s on the front cover? That’s right. Matt Smith. We can see the prominent bow-tie again and I suspect if BBC’s marcoms people keep on signing off on these images it’s the bow-tie that’ll become the trademark 11th Doctor feature. […]
Cause for concern? BBC backs Doctor Who
Here in the UK whenever there’s a political storm the Member of Parliament knows they’re in trouble whenever the Prime Minister is forced to publically back them. It usually means the tide has turned against the errant politician and very soon they’ll be forced to step down. Hopefully there’s no parallel here but the BBC […]
Matt Smith in action as the 11th Doctor: Video
There are already YouTube uploads of the BBC trailer/sneak of Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor. What do we see? We see spoilers. We see weeping angels, daleks, and we even see the Doctor with a gun. We hear the Doctor should “Geronimo!” for the second time. The trailer is perhaps a little more fast […]
Did David Tennant quit Doctor Who? Or was he pushed?
David Tennant announced that he was leaving Doctor Who in October 2008. He was quoted as saying; “I don’t ever want it to feel like a job, so I want to move on when it still feels exciting and fresh.” BBC has just aired The End of Time part 2 which features the end of […]
Will Matt Smith’s Womb be out before the new Doctor Who?
Steven Moffat‘s brave choice as the 11th Doctor, 27 year old Matt Smith, will feature alongside Eva Green in Benedek Fliegauf‘s movie Womb. Smith plays Thomas – alongside Eva’s Rebecca – in a near future movie which the two childhood sweethearts reconnect and begin a passionate love affair. The world comes crashing down when Thomas […]