Category Archives: Doctor Who

Blog posts about the Doctor Who show, its characters, or the actors.

New Doctor Who video news recs

MattSmithBBC18032013Matt Smith on ‘vast and epic’ new Doctor Who

Check out this new BBC article and video interview with Matt Smith, with clips from the upcoming new episodes.

There’s another one on the  Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, too, also new today.

New: Fanfic Recommendations Page

bearded man reading in the study

I have occasionally made fanfic recommendations on my blog. Now, rather than having to search through myriad posts tagged “fanfic recommendation” and skim through the blather to find the recommendations: Continue reading

Holmes v. the Doctor?

More episodes of Sherlock in 2012 means fewer episodes of Doctor Who?

That’s what an article in BBC online says. Continue reading

From film to television to stage . . .

Television in the U.K. and U.S., with a good dose of nostalgia thrown in . . .

A comment about Arthur Darvill from a reader got me thinking about acting, actors, and seasonal v. series television programming. In the U.S., there’s the well-known television season, traditionally beginning in the autumn and continuing through spring. Lately, we’ve seen an increase in summer seasons and other non-traditional seasonal television programming — half-year seasons beginning in January, for example. Continue reading

From Rory to Mephistopheles

An Interview With Arthur DarvillRory, Last Centurion, from Pond's illustrated children's book

on going from being the Last Centurion in “Doctor Who” to Mephistopheles in the Globe’s production of Doctor Faustus.

It was fun to see Darvill talk about the new theatre production he’s in, and especially to get a few of his reflections on his role in “Doctor Who” — and about the secret recently revealed in “A Good Man Goes to War.” Continue reading