Big Finish – 22 October 2026 Big Finish has released Doctor Who: The Missing Hour, a six-hour audio novel narrated by Barnaby Edwards and written by Simon Guerrier. Set in Malta in June 1940, it sees Barbara Wright reunited with her father, a Hurricane pilot, in the days before he goes missing. Read the full…

Big Finish – 20 October 2026 Tim Treloar and Katy Manning return as the Third Doctor and Jo Jones in The Third Doctor Adventures: The Planet Killers, a three-hour box set of two stories – The Beasts of Sakhalin Island by Jez Fielder and The Planet Killers by Andrew Smith – with Nicholas Briggs voicing…

Big Finish – 15–16 October 2026 Big Finish is re-releasing the download-only Eleventh Doctor Adventures (The First Question & Hidden in Plain Sight, January 2027) and Twelfth Doctor Adventures (Run Fast, Be Kind, July 2027) as limited-edition six-CD box sets priced at £54.99, alongside CD editions of Torchwood: Legacy (15 October). Read the full story…

Doctor Who TV – 15 October 2026 Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s The Media Show, Russell T Davies said production on a new series with a new Doctor and companion would begin in summer 2027. The BBC has not confirmed production dates, and its tender for a new production company is not expected to conclude…

Cultbox – 13 October 2026 Russell T Davies says he and Steven Moffat tried to plan a crossover with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and even booked a flight to Los Angeles, according to an interview on the Pilot TV Podcast. Read the full story →

Big Finish – 13 October 2026 Lesley Joseph joins Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper in The Ninth Doctor Adventures: The Rag Man, a December 2026 audio drama. Separately, The Ninth Doctor Adventures: False Friends was released the same day, with Máiréad Tyers and Joe Pitts joining the regular cast. Read the full story → Cultbox…

The Doctor Who Companion – 11 October 2026 Ten Acre Books has announced The Reality War, the publisher’s latest unauthorised history of Doctor Who, with author David Mullen credited. The announcement opens by looking back at Doctor Who’s 2005 return to television, which was far from guaranteed to succeed. Read the full story →

Doctor Who TV – 9 October 2026 In his memoir The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television, Russell T Davies describes unmade plans for a third series, including three fully scripted episodes, a Great Fire of London story, a Rogue sequel and a four-part Dalek finale. The plans were never produced after Disney ended…

Doctor Who TV – 7 October 2026 Following the 2 October close of applications, Deadline reports that Hat Trick Mercurio (with Jed Mercurio attached as executive producer), World Productions (leading ITV Studios’ attempt) and STV Studios (with Screen Scotland) have bid for the next era of Doctor Who, with a bid from BBC Studios also…

Doctor Who TV – 6 October 2026 BBC Children’s and Education has released a first look at Doctor Who: TARDIS Crew, a 52-episode animated preschool series from Blue Zoo Animation Studio. It follows the Doctor, a young Time Lord, and companions Hannah, Beastie and Toast-IE, and is scheduled to premiere on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer…