Tag Archives: Doctor Who’s Day

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Who’s Back For Easter

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on January 29th, 2013

There is only one major news story that concerns fans of Doctor Who this week, and that is the premiere date for Phantom of the Hex, the first episode of the second half of Season 7. So, in case you missed it, it’s Saturday, March ...

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Matt Smith Gets Behind The Camera

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on January 22nd, 2013

Matt Smith makes his TV directorial debut this spring with Cargese, a Sky Arts production written by the award-winning playwright Simon Stephens, as part of their Playhouse Presents programming, which stars Craig Roberts and will be ...

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Assembling The Doctors

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on January 15th, 2013

Exciting news! Five of the Doctor’s former incarnations have signed up to appear in a new Who story, in which past incarnations of the traveling Time Lord meet up, written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show.

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: You’ve Seen The Stamps, Now Read The Books

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on January 8th, 2013

The Doctor and the new-look TARDIS interior

Today we’ve seen the launch of a rather splendid Whovian initiative. Eleven authors have been commissioned to write ebooks for the British publisher Puffin, based on the eleven Doctors, and these will have a staggered release ...

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: 50 Years Young, And Counting

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on January 1st, 2013

Royal Mail stamp of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor

So, it’s 2013: the year it all happens, the year in which, for Britain at least, Steven Moffat has promised that Doctor Who will “take over television” when the show’s 50th anniversary rolls around in November. ...

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: How the Cast is Spending Christmas

By Brigid Brown, Fraser McAlpine and Kevin Wicks | Posted on December 25th, 2012

Well, first and foremost, Happy Christmas! Hopefully you’ll all be knee deep in Whovian stuff and wrapping paper right now, trying to work out how well a tweed jacket goes with an extra long scarf and a ruffled shirt, and ...

‘Doctor Who’s’ Day Roundup: New Trailers, New Dangers From ‘The Snowmen’

By Fraser McAlpine, Karen Ho and Kevin Wicks | Posted on December 18th, 2012

This is always the most exciting part of the buildup to a new episode of Doctor Who, when the little crumbs of information and the tiny sugary nuggets of preview clips start to fuse together, without ever quite becoming the full cake, ...

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Prepare For ‘The Snowmen’

By Fraser McAlpine and Karen Ho | Posted on December 11th, 2012

As we inch closer and closer towards Christmas Day, new material on the Doctor Who Christmas special continues to trickle in.

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Look Who’s On TV Guide!

By Fraser McAlpine and Karen Ho | Posted on December 4th, 2012

Once again, this friendly little news roundup has been entirely swamped by an astonishingly huge event. In this case, the arrival on the front cover of TV Guide Magazine, for the first time EVER, of our favorite Time Lord, as a result ...

‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Happy 49th Birthday, Mr. Time Lord

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 27th, 2012

Last Friday (November 23) marked the 49th anniversary of the very first transmission of Doctor Who, way back in 1963. This has caused the web to stage a kind of avalanche of appraisal, with sites lining up to pay tribute to the Doctor ...