Tag Archives: Matt Smith

‘Call The Midwife’s Jessica Raine: “‘Doctor Who’ Is Magical”

By | Posted on January 16th, 2013
Jessica Raine in 'Call The Midwife'

Actors must find it strange to wander into the middle of a full-scale cultural phenomenon like a long-running soap or, say, the longest-running science fiction show on television, and just sort of fit in. Especially if it’s not a ...

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‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Assembling The Doctors

By | Posted on January 15th, 2013
The First Eight Doctors

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.

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

By | 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 ...

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WATCH: Matt Smith, Michelle Dockery Read Poems for Disney Junior

By | Posted on January 3rd, 2013
'Doctor Who's' Matt Smith and 'Downton Abbey's' Michelle Dockery are among the British celebrities who have contributed narration to Disney Junior's 'A Poem Is...' series. (Smith photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP; Dockery photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

They may be too young to be fans yet of either Doctor Who or Downton Abbey but pint-size viewers of the Disney Junior channel will soon get their first exposure to Matt Smith and Michelle Dockery.

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

By | 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. ...

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‘Doctor Who’ Recap: ‘The Snowmen’

By | Posted on December 26th, 2012
Jenna-Louise Coleman and Matt Smith in 'The Snowmen' (Photo: BBC AMERICA)

Our story begins in 1842, with a very antisocial little boy called Simeon. He’s built himself a little snowman friend with the voice of Gandalf, and that’s all the company he needs for the rest of his life.

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GALLERY: The Royal Mail Issues A Special Set Of ‘Doctor Who’ Stamps

By | Posted on December 26th, 2012
Royal Mail stamp of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor

This March, a new collection of Royal Mail stamps will be issued to mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. There will be eleven first class stamps, featuring each of the Doctor’s incarnations to date, and four second class ...

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

By , and | Posted on December 25th, 2012
Doctor Who

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 ...

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What Was on ‘Doctor Who’ Star Matt Smith’s iPod in 2012? Have a Listen.

By | Posted on December 21st, 2012
'Doctor Who' star Matt Smith (Photo: Ian West/PA)

A true music connoisseur, Doctor Who‘s Matt Smith was kind enough to spend several minutes with us scrolling through his iPod and highlighting the tracks and albums he loved this past year. Certainly, he has embraced quite a few ...

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

By , and | Posted on December 18th, 2012
Jenna-Louise Coleman in 'The Snowmen'

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, ...

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