No One Knows What’s Happening in the Next Doctor Who Special, and They’re Going Insane

After Doctor Who’s triumphant return this past weekend in “The Star Beast,” all eyes are now on this weekend’s second of three 60th anniversary specials, “Wild Blue Yonder.” But the fact that those eyes are upon it and the BBC is not willing to say alm…

Oh, Doctor Who, We’re So Back

Human drama suffused with alien weirdness? A shotgun blast of emotional sincerity to sweep you away from barely coherent sci-fi technobabble? The power of love, specifically encapsulating queer love? David Tennant and Catherine Tate running around the …

10 Years Later, “Day of the Doctor” Remains One of Doctor Who’s Finest Hours

For a show that is about the capability to be everywhere and anywhere, any period in time, Doctor Who is a show that is arguably burdened with context. Now 60 years old today, the thought of navigating any of its stories without an awareness of its pla…

Watch David Tennant’s New Doctor Who Debut

The 14th Doctor has arrived—a little earlier than we first expected. Although Doctor Who will return to TV in a little over a week in a big way to celebrate its 60th anniversary in a trio of specials, tonight the BBC released a short scene marking the …

David Tennant’s 14th Doctor Will Make His TV Debut This Week

Doctor Who’s new 14th Doctor—with that old face—has already gone on his first adventures in the pages of the show’s official magazine. But he’ll be making his televised debut a little earlier than anticipated… and bringing some old foes with him.Read…

The History of Doctor Who’s Anniversary Celebrations

When you’ve been around as long as Doctor Who has—it turns 60 on November 23—you go through a lot of milestones, and ways to mark those milestones. As the series prepares for what might just be its biggest celebration ever with a trio of specials, a ne…

Russell T. Davies Doesn’t Want Doctor Who to ‘Unwrite’ Chris Chibnall

Of all the moves made with Doctor Who in recent years, few proved as divisive as “The Timeless Children”—the season 12 finale that saw Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor face the Master on their homeworld, and discover the truth behind the Time Lords’ origi…

An Ode to the Doctor Who Hand Pose

David Tennant’s Doctor is very big on hands. Well, most biped humanoids, Time Lords included, are quite keen on having all their limbs. But remember the sword fight in “Christmas Invasion”? Remember the fighting hand? Remember how he grew a whole other…

Tales of the TARDIS Makes Doctor Who Feel Like Forever

“This song is ending,” the Tenth Doctor is told as he limps painfully back to the TARDIS to begin his regeneration in “The End of Time,” “but the story never ends.” It’s an incredibly Doctor Who thing that this poignancy is delivered by a choir-backed,…

Doctor Who Reveals Anniversary Miniseries With Classic Stars

This week the Doctor Who universe is expanding with the official launch of what is now being dubbed “The Whoniverse”—a streaming home for over 800 episodes of Doctor Who and its spinoffs from the BBC… and now, its first original programming.Read more…