Filming for the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who is underway in various locations across the UK, and eagle-eyed fans have snapped some interesting photos that have set fandom ablaze on the forum boards! WARNING: The things you see cannot be unseen. Proceed at the risk of the wide-eyed, innocent nine-year old that resides inside [...]
With just over seven months to travel on the “slow path” to the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode in late November, casting announcements have begun to materialize. One week after the official BBC press release that David Tennant (The Tenth Doctor) and Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) would be returning for the anniversary celebration, fans hoping [...]
I’m very surprised that Doctor Who Executive Producer Steven Moffat (the man responsible for many statue-related nightmares in children and adults) hasn’t created an entire villainous race called The Spoilers. Evil, wraith-like beings who appear to us at a moment of indecision and whisper the outcome of the choice we’re about to make. “Hector, [...]
Before the dawn of video tapes and digital recordings, back in the days when Star Trek had no subtitle or surname, there were very few ways of experiencing new adventures of the original crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. There was a short-lived animated series, a handful of 45 and 331/3 records with a limited amount [...]
Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf! The BBC has officially announced this morning that David Tennant and Billie Piper will be returning to Doctor Who for the 50th Anniversary special, set to air [...]
Doctor Who returns to our screens on Saturday March 30th on BBC America at 8PM/7C in The Bells of St. John. The BBC have released a special prequel webisode written by Steven Moffat, set just after the Christmas Special The Snowmen and prior to the first episode of the second half of Series 7. The [...]
When laying out his plans in the tone meeting for Doctor Who Series 7, Executive Producer Steven Moffat said, “I want slutty titles and movie-poster plots. I want big pictures and straplines!” To date, each episode of Series 7 has been previewed with a big-budget style “movie” poster, and the first round for the second [...]
The secrets of the 50th Anniversary episode of Doctor Who have been locked up tighter than The Doctor’s grip on his trusty sonic screwdriver, but Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith has revealed a one-word clue to the plot of the highly anticipated adventure set to air in November. Appearing on ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show on [...]
Although the omni-sexual 51st century Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness is a character who is out of the closet in every possible way (robots, people?) it seems as though his RAF Greatcoat is destined to remain in John Barrowman‘s closet for the foreseeable future. The character was introduced in the first series of the BBC’s [...]
In this installment of Spoilers, Sweetie we have reviews of some of the first round of merchandising for the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who. However, before we look back at the items already released, we must first look ahead to some news about the start of the new series at end of the month! The [...]
Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat is keeping the plot details of the 50th anniversary special on a need-to-know basis at the moment, but by close examination of the marketing strategy behind the celebrations, it would seem safe to assume we will be seeing all eleven incarnations of the Doctor come November. Every month of [...]
The latest Doctor Who item for all Whovians to add to their Christmas list is a stunning t-shirt that will allow you to display your love for all eleven incarnations of The Doctor at one time! Using the incredible Doctor Who 50th Anniversary image created by Tea-Lady Design, this shirt is produced by Ripple Junction, [...]
An answer to a question can often lead to more questions, which then require more answers. The reluctance to answer a question can often be perceived as an answer in and of itself. The fine folks associated with the ‘modern’ era of Doctor Who (the new series began in 2005) both in front of the [...]
Very MINOR spoilers ahead! The BBC has released the “movie poster” for the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special, The Snowmen. The new movie poster is only the sixth in a series of special promotional images released for each of the episodes in Doctor Who, Series Seven. The idea was born when showrunner Steven Moffat noticed [...]
If you have ever wanted to celebrate a special occasion or victory by drinking a frothy mead from the skull of a Time-Lord, here’s a real “time-saver” for you! Thanks to Zeon, LTD, you no longer have to find your own Time-Lord or commit Gallifreyan Homicide (up to thirteen times) in order to obtain a skull to [...]
Only a handful of Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Merchandise announcements to date, and it is already looking like an expensive year to be a Doctor Who fan! With most merchandise companies taking advantage of the 12 month calendar year to release one item each month to correspond with each of the eleven Doctors, Word of the [...]
Happy 49th Birthday, Doctor Who! Forty nine years ago in the U.K., cathode-ray tube televisions were flickering through our first black and white images of William Hartnell as The Doctor, the TARDIS, the first companions to form a TARDIS ‘crew’ and a common junk yard from which many adventures in time and space have been [...]
The 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who is less than a year away, and with the number of companies that have their hand in producing new Doctor Who content constantly on the increase, it makes sense that each of these companies will want to contribute to the celebration in their own way. IDW Publishing, the current [...]
For those of you who do not like to pick up their Christmas presents and shake them in an attempt to figure out what you’re getting, then be warned. There are many festively-wrapped spoilers with big bright bows on them, just waiting to be shaken and unwrapped ahead. CLICK AWAY IF YOU WANT YOUR CHRISTMAS [...]
Before reporting to the jungle for the new series of UK reality hit I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here, Colin Baker (The Sixth Doctor, 1984-1986) spoke to DigitalSpy about joining the popular reality show. As interviews with former Doctors usually do, the talk turned toward the upcoming 50th Anniversary Doctor Who TV specials, [...]
