Doctor Who News

Big Finish – 3 November 2026 Big Finish has announced a four-story festive box set for December 2026, featuring the Fifth Doctor with Tegan and Nyssa, River Song (Alex Kingston), the Seventh Doctor and Ace (Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred) facing a Cyber-Soviet alliance in Moscow in 1991, and the Eleventh Doctor alongside Bernice Summerfield…

Doctor Who TV – 2 November 2026 John Leeson, the actor who voiced K9 from The Invisible Enemy (1977) through School Reunion (2006), The Sarah Jane Adventures and numerous Big Finish productions, has died aged 83. His son, filmmaker Guy Ducker, confirmed that he died peacefully on 1 November 2026 after an illness over the…

Doctor Who TV – 31 October – 1 November 2026 Peter Capaldi says he has been repeatedly asked to join companies bidding to develop the next era of Doctor Who, but has declined because he knows how consuming the show is to make and has other projects to pursue (31 October). In a separate interview…

The Doctor Who Companion – 29–30 October 2026 Varada Sethu says she was “really surprised” by the negative reaction to Belinda Chandra’s exit in the Series 15 finale, The Reality War, adding that she was glad Belinda got to be a mother to Poppy (29 October). Separately, Obverse Books is publishing Fabulous! A Missing Episodes…

Big Finish – 28–29 October 2026 Daniel Tout has won the 2026 Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity with his First Doctor story, The Underwater Prison, which Big Finish will produce as an audiobook narrated by Stephen Noonan. It will be a free download on 29 December 2026. Separately, Big Finish has published a Halloween…

Big Finish – 27 October 2026 Sir Derek Jacobi returns as the War Master in the four-episode full-cast box set The War Master: Deeds Without Name, released on 27 October. Hunted by Daleks and Time Lords during the Time War, the Master tests his methods on the residents of a luxury care home, brings power…

The Doctor Who Companion – 27 October 2026 Speaking while promoting the audio series Sir Sherlock, in which he plays Holmes, Tom Baker said he hopes Doctor Who carries on partly so that fans will keep saying hello to “old Tom” in the street. Read the full story →

The Doctor Who Companion – 26 October 2026 The latest Myth Makers DVD, a long interview with Doctor Who artist Colin Howard conducted by Neil Cole, is now available. The second volume of Howard’s Timeslides artbook is also out. Read the full story →

Big Finish – 23 October 2026 Georgia Tennant returns as Jenny, the role she first played in the 2008 episode “The Doctor’s Daughter”, in a new three-story box set due in June 2027. Zero Chill features Sean Biggerstaff as Noah and Anna Lundberg as the wealthy intergalactic criminal Jexabel Glyce, with stories by Adrian Poynton,…

The Doctor Who Companion – 22–23 October 2026 Gareth David-Lloyd has confirmed that the Torchwood/Ianto shrine, dismantled from Cardiff Bay during redevelopment, has been saved. Cardiff artist Nathan Wyburn is turning its pieces into an artwork, which may be displayed at the Red Dragon Centre around the show’s 20th anniversary, possibly early next year. Read…

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…