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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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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 →

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…

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…

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…

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…