Jodie Whittaker is the first celebrity revealed to be taking part in the next series of #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre on BBC One. Jodie will explore the Yorkshire roots of her family. The show will air this Summer. https://twitter.com/TVZone_/status/1239480273156411393
Bristol Hippodrome has announced John Barrowman will headline this year’s pantomime at the theatre. The popular actor, singer, presenter, author, judge and all-round showman will perform in this year’s family panto as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In November 2019 Barrowman had to cancel his scheduled Christmas show at the venue after being rushed to hospital with a neck injury, so fans will be keen to see him this time around. On television, the 53-year-old has presented…
BBC Studios has released a free set of Doctor Who items for game creation platform, Roblox. A new set of virtual Doctor Who items for Roblox are free to download until March 26, 2020. Roblox avatars can be personalised with The Pterrible Pting creature, as seen in the 2018 episode The Tsuranga Conundrum, and a nifty, bigger-on-the-inside, TARDIS backpack. Avatar bundles of the tenth and thirteenth Doctors – as played by Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant – are also available. Each bundle includes a head, torso,…
March sees the release of a range of brand-new audio adventures from Big Finish. Here’s a roundup of what’s available to buy on CD and download this month. Donna Noble: saving the world at 100 words per minute! Donna Noble has come home. After the trauma of the Library, Donna wants a break, to see old friends and family, to remind herself of normality. But when she starts investigating strange abductions, she’s dragged into a whole new universe of trouble……
Six First and Second Doctor stories are remastered as soundtrack recordings, we return to Peladon with the Third Doctor, plus ten Sarah Jane Smith stories are out now in one collection – all available this month from BBC Audio. Here’s a look at what’s available to buy on CD and download from BBC Audio in March. Jon Culshaw reads this exciting novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Third Doctor, featuring the Ice Warriors. Fifty years after his first…
According to Tom Spilsbury, the consolidated seven-day rating for Doctor Who finale, The Timeless Children, was 4.69m (4.55m on televisions and 0.14m on other devices). It was the 30th most-watched programme of the week across all television. Also reported by TV Zone… RATINGS: The series finale of #DoctorWho consolidated to an underwhelming 4.69m according to 7-day figures (inc. devices), making it the 30th most-watched show of the week. Not only is that the lowest of the series, it’s the lowest…
The BBC complaints department have issued the following: “Doctor Who is a beloved long-running series and we understand that some people will feel attached to a particular idea they have of the Doctor, or that they enjoy certain aspects of the programme more than others. Opinions are strong and this is indicative of the imaginative hold that Doctor Who has – that so many people engage with it on so many different levels. “We wholeheartedly support the creative freedom of…
For Record Store Day 2020, Demon Records presents a narrated full-cast TV soundtrack of a legendary historical adventure, starring William Hartnell as the original Doctor. In this ‘lost’ 4-part serial, first shown in February 1966, the TARDIS materialises in Paris in 1572, a time of great danger and religious strife. In The Massacre, the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici, is hatching a plot to kill all French Protestants, and the Doctor and Steven are quickly caught up in events. While…
Series 12 sees Jodie Whittaker return for her second outing as the Doctor as she travels through time and space to save the world accompanied by her three best friends Ryan, Yaz and Graham. This series follows the Thirteenth Doctor as she faces her toughest challenges yet battling the Cybermen, coming face to face with the Master, and encountering a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor. Featuring terrifying monsters old and new, figures from Earth’s history, and an eclectic set…
David Tennant is returning to his iconic Doctor Who role for another reunion with Catherine Tate. The iconic pairing have been working with Big Finish over the last few years on audio dramas continuing the adventures of the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble during gaps in the TV series continuity. Tate has also recorded her own solo series called Donna Noble: Kidnapped, featuring her intrepid companion and her mate Nat (The Catherine Tate Show‘s Niky Wardley) investigating some strange extraterrestrial occurrences following her return from The Library. Before…