The latest headlines from around the Doctor Who fan press – updated periodically.
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Doctor Who Day Cinema Event to Mark 20 Years of the Tenth Doctor and Rose With The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
CultBox – 13 September 2026 To mark 20 years of the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler, an exclusive big-screen event will re-present “The Impossible Planet” and “The Satan Pit” as a single movie-length feature in select cinemas across the UK and Canada on 23 November 2026, timed to Doctor Who Day, with exclusive bonus material…
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BBC’s Silent Witness Tender Document Offers Clues to Doctor Who’s Own Process
The Doctor Who Companion – 12 September 2026 The BBC’s Invitation to Tender for long-running drama Silent Witness, published on 10 September, has offered a rare look at the process Doctor Who itself is expected to face, including a commitment to two series of ten episodes, an all-UK bidding pool, and a timeline pointing to…
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Doctor Who: The Ghosts of N-Space Audiobook Arrives January 2027
The Doctor Who Companion – 11 September 2026 A new audiobook novelisation of Barry Letts’ 1995 radio drama Doctor Who: The Ghosts of N-Space, featuring the Third Doctor and narrated by Big Finish regular Christopher Naylor, will be released on 27 January 2027. Read the full story →
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Big Finish Concludes Dark Gallifrey Trilogy With Third Doctor Showdown
Big Finish – 10 September 2026 Big Finish has released the concluding instalment of its Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master trilogy, with Geoffrey Beevers reprising his corrupted incarnation of the Time Lord opposite Tim Treloar’s Third Doctor in a new full-cast audio drama. Read the full story →
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Noel Clarke Charged With Sexual Assault, Voyeurism and Exposure
Deadline – 9 September 2026 Noel Clarke, who played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who from 2005 to 2010, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault, three counts of voyeurism and one count of exposure relating to five women between 2007 and 2016, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed on 9 September. Clarke, who denies…
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Big Finish Announces Doctor Who Halloween and Christmas Box Sets
Big Finish – 9 September 2026 Big Finish Productions has announced two new full-cast audio drama box sets themed around Halloween and Christmas, following on from last year’s editions. This year’s Halloween set features four stories spanning three classic-era Doctors and UNIT, while the Christmas set brings together the Fifth Doctor, River Song, the Seventh…
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AI-Generated Doctor Who Fan Episode Sparks Controversy Online
Doctor Who TV – 8 September 2026 An unofficial, AI-assisted Doctor Who fan episode, The Curse of Kilmorag from fan project The Unmade Season, has drawn close to 400,000 YouTube views and considerable fan backlash over its use of generative video tools to recreate David Tennant’s likeness. Writer Thomas Vittlowe says he has received threats…
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Big Finish Roundup: Fourth Doctor’s A New Occupation Released, Two New Audio Novels Announced
Big Finish – 7–8 September 2026 Tom Baker and Sadie Miller’s The Fourth Doctor Adventures: A New Occupation, sending the Doctor and Sarah Jane to face Genghis Khan and the Nazi occupation of Jersey, was released on 8 September. Alongside it, Big Finish announced two new entries in its Audio Novels range: The Missing Hour,…
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Line of Duty Production Team Interested in Bidding for Doctor Who Tender
The Doctor Who Companion – 7 September 2026 Simon Heath, CEO of World Productions — the company behind Line of Duty and Karen Pirie — has confirmed that members of his team are interested in bidding for Doctor Who once the BBC formally puts the show out to tender, though he stressed no decision has…
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David Tennant: Doctor Who’s Future Is “Probably Quite Exciting”
The Doctor Who Companion – 5 September 2026 David Tennant has struck an optimistic note on Doctor Who’s future, saying the show is likely to return “in a different form” after any hiatus, much as it did following its 1989 cancellation. He pointed to Big Finish as a source of new stories in the meantime.…
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Mark Gatiss Says Doctor Who Should Just Ignore The Reality War’s Cliffhanger
The Doctor Who Companion – 3 September 2026 Writer and actor Mark Gatiss has suggested that Doctor Who doesn’t need to explain the Fifteenth Doctor’s apparent regeneration into Billie Piper at the end of The Reality War, arguing the show could simply move on rather than resolve the cliffhanger. He compared the situation to Dallas’s…
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Character Options Reveals Autumn 2026 Doctor Who Figure Range, Including Paradigm Daleks
The Doctor Who Companion – 31 August 2026 Character Options has unveiled its Autumn 2026 range of 5.5-inch Doctor Who action figures for UK B&M stores, including a Twelfth Doctor & Missy set, an Eleventh Doctor & Amy Pond set, and two limited-edition History of the Daleks Paradigm sets featuring the Strategist, Scientist, Drone and…
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Netflix Exec Anne Mensah Says Doctor Who “Belongs on the BBC”, Praises Russell T Davies
Bleeding Cool – 29 August 2026 Speaking to Radio Times following the Edinburgh TV Festival, Netflix’s VP of Original Series Anne Mensah said she believes Doctor Who “belongs on the BBC”, while praising former showrunner Russell T Davies as “a freaking genius” she would love to work with again. Her comments came shortly after Prime…
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Amazon’s Prime Video Says It Would “Welcome” Doctor Who Conversations
Bleeding Cool – 29 August 2026 Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Prime Video’s senior UK scripted commissioner Oliver Jones said the streamer would “welcome any conversations” about Doctor Who as the BBC prepares to put the show out to competitive tender. Jones and Amazon MGM Studios’ London-based VP Nicole Clemens also discussed plans to…
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Big Finish Releases Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Reunion
Big Finish – 28 August 2026 Big Finish has released The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Reunion, a new three-story box set reuniting Colin Baker’s Doctor and Nicola Bryant’s Peri with Mark Strickson’s Vislor Turlough. The trio travel from Swinging Sixties London to medieval France and Viking Denmark, building to Turlough’s long-awaited return to his home planet,…
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Waris Hussein and Carole Ann Ford Reminisce on The Whoniverse Show
Doctor Who (BBC) – 27 August 2026 The series’ first-ever director, Waris Hussein, and its original companion, Carole Ann Ford, reunite for a new episode of The Whoniverse Show to look back on working with William Hartnell during Doctor Who’s earliest days. Read the full story →
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Billie Piper Tells Doctor Who Fans to “Chill Out”, Insists She’s Not the Next Doctor
Doctor Who TV – 23 August 2026 Speaking at For the Love of Fantasy & Sci-Fi in London, Billie Piper addressed speculation over her future in Doctor Who following her surprise appearance at the end of The Reality War, saying: “I am not the next Doctor. I am Rose Tyler in hiatus.” She urged fans…
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David Tennant Suggests Doctor Who Tender Pitch Could Revolve Around a “Particular Performer”
CultBox – 20 August 2026 Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, David Tennant suggested a production company bidding for the BBC’s Doctor Who tender might try to entice the broadcaster by attaching a “shiny” star to its pitch. He stressed he wasn’t hinting at insider knowledge, but said whoever wins the tender should feel free to…
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Radio Times Doctor Who Anniversary Specials Reissued by Big Finish
Big Finish – 20 August 2026 Big Finish Productions is republishing the classic Radio Times Doctor Who 10th and 20th Anniversary Specials from 1973 and 1983 as restored collector’s edition hardbacks, released this November. Senior producer John Ainsworth said painstaking work had gone into replicating the original magazines, which are now rare to find in…
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Mark Gatiss Warns Doctor Who’s Tender Could “Quietly” Fail Like 1989
Doctor Who TV – 19 August 2026 Speaking to Radio Times, former writer and actor Mark Gatiss said he has a “doomy” feeling about Doctor Who’s immediate future, comparing the BBC’s current tender process to 1989, when a similar promise to continue the series quietly came to nothing. Gatiss stressed he still believes the show…