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Welcome to the Last Days of the Powell Estate, where the worst is behind you. Literally.

 

Time travel is real. And if you need proof then look no further than Big Finish’s current series of Ninth Doctor Adventures. These new Doctor Who episodes, released bimonthly, contain so much unfiltered joy and wit, it’s almost impossible to believe their vintaqe is 2025, not 2005. Even Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, and Camille Coduri all sound two decades younger, as if nostalgia itself is the real fountain of youth. In Piper’s case it seems particularly impressive, given her slight struggle to recapture Rose’s voice even in her 2008 return. Indeed, there’s so much love and fun audible behind the microphone, The Last Days of the Powell Estate would still be a delight even if was just the Doctor, Rose, and Jackie having a natter over a cuppa for an hour.

As the title suggests, though, there’s something much more ominous afoot than too much milk in the tea. This second episode in Big Finish’s loose Powell Estate trilogy brings the TARDIS to the 2030s where Rose discovers her home utterly dead. Meanwhile, back in the mid 2000s, Jackie and her friend Brainy Betty check up on a neighbour on the fourth floor that nobody’s seen for a while. Soon all four, as well as urban explorer content creator Ellis, are being stalked across two time zones by the horrifying Mr. Fingers.

 

The sinister Mr. Fingers is a great Moffateque terror

Set not long after Series One’s Father’s Day, this story probably winds too close to many of its ideas and themes to ever have aired on screen in 2005. But, as a Big Finish episode, it forms a perfect complement to it. The Doctor is still understandably skeptical of Rose’s ability to follow basic time travel etiquette. With good reason too, given that his companion immediately sets Jackie’s safety above a little thing like preventing the collapse of time and space themselves. Meanwhile, a monster from out of time, beyond reason or understanding, similarly calls to mind the earlier story’s Reapers.

However, in other ways Mr. Fingers couldn’t be further from a CGI beastie. Instead he hails from the same corner of Doctor Who as the Weeping Angels, the Silence and The Well. As unseen as he is unknowable, all you need to know about this particular eldritch terror is that if you feel a tap on your shoulder, don’t turn around. Never turn around. Because you might find nobody there at all. Until you do…

 

Timothy X Atack’s script makes clever use of its two time zones

It’s a threat built for audio, when even on television Mr. Fingers would never be seen, only discussed by his prey as they desperately seek a way out. Writer Timothy X Atack also mines the time-split narrative to its full potential. Jackie having to face a monster alone except for Betty –  the Doctor a phone call, yet also two decades, away – is a great move. Brainy Betty is a wonderful companion’s companion too, drawing on the same archetype of a wise and witty auntie as Cherry Sunday. Sharp as a pin, and just as funny, you’ll spend a significant part of Last Days crossing your fingers that she beats the odds for this type of Who character and survives to get into more mischief with Jackie another day.

 

Much more than just nostalgia bait for its own sake, the re-energised Ninth Doctor Adventures recapture the quality, terrors, and fun, of one of Doctor Who’s greatest eras

Big Finish’s new strategy of releasing these new Ninth Doctor Adventures an episode at a time, alternating with the Thirteenth Doctor Adventures, is already shaping up to be a success. It’s not just easier on many fans’ wallets, but somehow feels more true to modern Doctor Who on television. Every episode gets longer to sit in your thoughts, easier to digest than when it disappears into the rearview mirror as you plunge on to the next in the boxset.

This series continues to be the perfect way to make yourself feel young again. (Or younger, at least, for some of us.) The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. Long may they run.

 

Doctor Who: The Last Days of the Powell Estate. Cover by Soundsmyth Creative (c) Big Finish Doctor Who: The Last Days of the Powell Estate

South London, 2036. The Doctor and Rose team up with an urban explorer to investigate the case of Mr Fingers, an invisible killer haunting an abandoned corner of the city. If you feel a hand on your shoulder: don’t look around…

 

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Counterstrike presents the Doctor and Belinda with a classic SF dilemma in a lively and fun adventure

Una McCormack’s latest entry into the Doctor Who universe bears some superficial similarities to her recent novel Caged. Both it and her new audiobook Counterstrike feature colonisation efforts by civilizations far enough off the galactic beaten path that they don’t seriously expect to stumble across any new life or new civilizations on these strange new worlds. Both also feature a largely automated program of drones preparing the ground. Meanwhile, each features a plucky, if introverted, low level researcher. One soon grappling with the live grenade the Doctor’s very presence throws into their plans.

For all that, though, Counterstrike quickly goes its own way. If nothing else, its brisk hour long runtime means there’s just no space for the political and cultural ramifications that came to dominate the earlier novel. There’s also no space to introduce an entirely different, second culture. Rather than a meditation on how colonisers can dehumanise indigenous people, it’s a story of technology doing exactly what you asked it to, in the worst possible way.

 

Una McCormack continues to be one of the best authors at capturing the Fifteenth Doctor’s distinctive energy

McCormack continues to prove herself one of the few authors who can authentically capture the Fifteenth Doctor’s voice and energy. It’s been a recurring minor issue in this Doctor’s prose adventures that, without Ncuti Gatwa’s charismatic performance, he can sound a little generic, apart from a random sprinkle of “babes” and “honeys.” But Counterstrike has that sense of a smile that’s never far from his lips. While there’s the laugh that can mean joy, sadness, or anger depending on the moment.

He also proves very well suited to this sort of story where, like an escape room, there’s a series of logical problems to solve, leading one into the other, rather than an evil force to vanquish. The Fifteenth Doctor loves a puzzle, it turns out. There’s a real pleasure in seeing him work it out, too, like a detective collecting suspects in an interstellar library.

 

Belinda’s characterisation skillfully walks the line between her continued quest to just go home and being an enthusiastic partner for the Doctor

The script mainly succeeds in finding that awkward balance necessary to Belinda’s companion role. On television she had five brief stops along the way home from Missbelindachandra I. But the more novels, comics, and audios, that are slotted in between, the greater the challenge in maintaining her singular drive to get back to Earth while not making her a complaining drag on the adventure. Counterstrike presents the nurse as by now quite enjoying her journey. Although, she’s not quite willing to give the Doctor the satisfaction of hearing her admit it yet.

Similarly, it’s nice that McCormack picks up on the oddity of The Robot Revolution, establishing Belinda is prickly about her name being shortened, though she never complains about the Doctor calling her “Bel” all the time. It’s here that they have it out, as Belinda learns to like the nickname. (Though what that does to Revolution’s themes of resisting the presumption and condescension of men is a more complicated question.)

 

The hour long drama passes quickly with its short duration made up for by its

While many Doctor Who audiobook readers come from the show itself, Counterstrike’s Claire Corbett is a highly respected veteran of the form. She’s previously read bestsellers like The Girl on the Train and The Hunting Party. Corbett approaches Counterstrike with the same measured, clear, style. There’s no attempt to make either the Doctor or Belinda sound like Gatwa or Sethu, but this allows the focus to remain solidly on the text.

Like all these hour long BBC Audio originals, the runtime makes for a fast paced, relatively uncomplicated story. Given the greater need to describe everything from the jungle covered landscape, to Belinda’s facial expressions, there’s even less room for plot than in an hour of television. However, whether accompanying your gym session or your commute to work, Counterstrike will help the time pass quickly.

 

Doctor Who: Counterstrike. Cover by Lee Johnson (c) BBC Audio Doctor Who: Counterstrike

Landing on an unnamed planet, the travellers find themselves besieged by a swarm of drones. They shelter in a cluster of hi-tech buildings, inside which lie living quarters and a control base. The only thing missing is any sign of life. While the Doctor puzzles over a base without people, Belinda finds herself whisked off by teleport.

Meanwhile, three thousand light years away, project manager Hazzet is puzzled by unusual systems activity on the uninhabited Colony 5. An automated probe was sent there months ago – so why are there now apparently two bases on the planet, each poised to attack the other?

With the Doctor in one base and Belinda in the other, a race against time begins to avoid mutually assured destruction…

You can order Counterstrike now from your preferred retailer with the links from the official Penguin Books page.

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Doctor Who’s future is secure, with a new Christmas Special next year and a new season to follow

The BBC have confirmed that there will be new Doctor Who on BBC One in 2026. The next episode will be a Christmas Special next year, written by Russell T Davies. While the announcement doesn’t include a date for the next full run of episodes. However, the BBC Director of Drama made sure to be clear it was on the way, saying “We can assure fans, the Doctor is not going anywhere, and we will be announcing plans for the next series in due course which will ensure the TARDIS remains at the heart of the BBC.” Davies has previously told Doctor Who Magazine that he already has early drafts of some scripts for the new season.

The BBC has finally ended months of speculation and, in some cases, open doom-mongering among fans. Their ability to do so is due to Disney+ at last making a decision. Their current co-production deal with BBC Studios and Bad Wolf ends with the upcoming mini-series The War Between the Land and the Sea. They’ve decided not to renew the deal beyond that. Therefore BBC Studios and Bad Wolf will make the 2026 Christmas Special alone. Whether they’re actively seeking a new co-production partner for next season is still unknown for now.

As recently as last week the official stance was that there would be no decision until after The War Between the Land and the Sea aired. However, it’s possible Disney came under increasingly pressure to clarify their position so work on Doctor Who’s future could begin.

 

The Christmas Special will probably answer the question: “Is Billie Piper the Doctor?”

No cast is included in the statement, but the 2026 Christmas Special will likely star Billie Piper and clarify whether she actually is the Sixteenth Doctor or not. Though Blogtor Who strongly suspects that by the end of the episode we’ll have our first glimpse of the new lead for the following season. (Whether that’s dubbed Season 42, Series 16, Season 3, or even Season 1 again.)

 

But for now it feels good to be able to finish Blogtor Who articles once more with the customary sign off…

 

Billie Piper returned to Doctor Who at the end of the 2025 season.. But is she the Doctor? DOCTOR WHO WILL RETURN on BBC One and iPlayer at Christmas next year

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After 100 releases and over 10 years, Big Finish’s ongoing Torchwood range will bow out next year with Fare Well

 

Since September 2015, Big Finish Productions’ Torchwood range has told stories of the Earth-defending Institute, exploring characters from the popular Doctor Who spin-off TV series and introducing new agents from across Torchwood’s history. After ten years and 100 full-cast audio dramas, the Torchwood main range will come to an end in May 2026.

Producer James Goss said: “Ten years after we started, the Torchwood monthly range is coming to an end. John Ainsworth’s first conversation with me when he joined as Senior Producer was ‘you’ve got to keep it going to 100’, and so we have.

“We took Ianto to space, Suzie to the bottom of the sea, Captain Jack moved to suburbia, and Rhys and Gwen fought monsters without getting out of their car. Somehow, over those ten years of disasters and BAFTAs, the cast have done their best to find time for us, and we’ve loved working with them all. “

 

Fare Well is “an absolute heartbreaker by Torchwood’s very own Joseph Lidster.”

Goss praised the talents of those he’s worked with on the range. “It’s been the longest job I’ve ever had and the one I’m quietly proudest of. So many stellar writers have done their first Big Finish work at Torchwood – Tim Foley, Juno Dawson, Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle – and it’s been the privilege of my life to do so much of it with Scott Handcock, supported by Lisa Bowerman, Bethany Weimers and David O’Mahony.

“It’s also all been scored by Blair Mowat, a man simply too famous and busy to do it anymore. But he’s scored every single monthly range adventure and it’s been remarkable. We’ve found diverse and interesting stories, we’ve broken hearts, and provided inspiration for pet names and tattoos. What greater achievement is there? Big Finish is for the love of stories and has let us tell 100 great ones.

“It gives me joy that the final three stories are called Everyone’s Dead, Curtain and Fare Well more or less). Because we always were too cute to breathe. You’ll be even more pleased to know that they feature an unusual send-off for Bilis Manger, for Norton Folgate, and for the range, with an absolute heartbreaker by Torchwood’s very own Joseph Lidster.”

 

Torchwood: Legacy will provide a fitting capstone to the range at a later date

While these four stories mark the end of the main range, Torchwood will carry on fighting for the future. Goss explains: “There’s one final release. It’s called Legacy, it’s all been recorded, it’s a celebration of twenty years of Torchwood and ten years of Torchwood at Big Finish, and that’s all that can be said at the moment. But it’s something we’re all really proud of.”

More details about Torchwood: Legacy will be available at a later date.

 

The final four stories in this Torchwood range are: The Flawless Man by Lauren Mooney & Stewart Pringle,  November 2025

Martin Binns is dead. He leaves behind a pile of video tapes and a warning on the walls of his flat: “He Is Coming”.

Andy’s boss is keen to write the death off, but Andy’s been around Torchwood too long to let it go. The tapes contain the rushes of an unfinished horror film. Hidden in it is a forgotten crime and a terrible warning. He. Is. Coming.

 

Everyone’s Dead on Floor 3 by James Goss, from a story by Alfie Shaw, January 2026

1954, an ordinary morning at Matthews and Small, until the screaming starts. Racing upstairs, they find everyone’s dead on floor three.

What was the mysterious firm upstairs? Can the prompt arrival of an investigator from Torchwood find a traitor?

 

Curtain by James Goss, from a story by David Llewellyn, March 2026

Many years ago, the Palace Theatre burnt down during a performance that accidentally summoned the devil.

Now the cast have been invited back to the grand reopening by a mysterious figure. Who is Bilis Manger?

 

Fare Well by Joseph Lidster, May 2026

Ianto Jones and Tommy Pierce have fought many alien invaders together. They’re more than work colleagues, they’re friends. But their friendship is about to be put to the test as they prepare to face a Cyberman.

A Cyberman in a cellar.

In the village of Wetwang.

 

These Torchwood stories are each available to pre-order for just £8.99 (download to own) or £13.99 (download to own + collector’s edition single-disc CD), exclusively from www.bigfinish.com.

 

 

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Next month’s Pandorica convention adds more Doctor Who stars including Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines

 

Fantom Events’ Pandorica convention has added several new Doctor Who stars to its line-up. These include Second Doctor companions Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines, who played Zoe and Jamie. There’s also Colin Spaull, who had roles in both 1985’s Revelation of the Daleks and 2006’s Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, along with his Revelation of the Daleks co-star Bridget Lynch-Blosse. From the Ninth Doctor era, Fantom have recruited Z.oe Thorne (the Gelth, and also the Toclafane), and Beccy Armory (Raffalo, The End of the World). Meanwhile Skaro’s finest, Barnaby Edwards and Nicholas Pegg, will be stepping out of their Dalek shells to be as entertaining as always.

From behind the scenes, there’s legendary Doctor Who director Graeme Harper, responsible for classics like The Caves of Androzani and Army of Ghosts/Doomsday.

Meanwhile, some of the team from popular Blu-ray series The Collection will be at Pandorica, including documentary makers Chris Chapman and Toby Hadoke. There’s also everybody favourite Sontaran, Dan Starkey. (Whomever your favourite Sontaran is, statistically they’re probably played by Dan Starkey.)

All the newly announced guests join the existing stellar line up. This includes Doctor Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, and companions Katy Manning (Jo), Maureen O’Brien (Vicki), and Sophie Aldred (Ace).

Pandorica takes place next month, across three days from the 7th to the 9th of November. The venue is Bristol’s Future Inn, and limited numbers of tickets are still available.

The remaining tickets are all in the Mondas tier, which costs £79 for the weekend and includes:

• Entry to all stage panels and screen presentations
• Entry to Evening Entertainment
• ‘Mondas Badge’ and Registration Pack

Autographs can be purchased individually on the day.

 

You can order your ticket now here on the official Fantom Events website.

 

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The Seventh Doctor and Ace head back to the start, as her early days are explored in three TARDIS trips full of character and emotion

 

Ace has long been had one of Doctor Who’s most mysterious personal timelines. In large part due to carrying the flag of the ‘current’ companion in comics, novels, and audios through the so-called Wilderness Years, her history is largely multiple choice. Even within Big Finish’s own contributions, you can take your pick from several different endings to her story. But Wicked! isn’t about endings. Rather wonderfully, it’s about beginnings.

Ace’s later years have been such a flame for moth-like writers, seeking to fix the inconsistencies, or provide a final, definitive statement on them, it’s been easy to forget how little we know about her early days aboard the TARDIS. She joins Sylvester McCoy’s impish wizard in the closing moments of Season 24. Yet by the time of Season 25’s premiere it’s clear script editor Andrew Cartmel has decided all the typical explanations would only slow things down.

So by Remembrance of the Daleks she’s clearly already been travelling with the Doctor for some time. They have their own private in-jokes about her definitely not having that nitro-9 he definitely told her not to bring. Meanwhile Ace clearly adores her Professor, like the bestest, maddest, uncle a family could ask for. Fans often regard her as the first ‘modern’ companion – the young woman who walked in Doc Martens so Rose Tyler could run in head to toe Punkyfish. How strange then, that Ace’s story effectively skips from Rose to The Empty Child. Or at least it did, until Wicked! arrived to rather neatly close the gap.

 

Ace’s journey from wide-eyed newbie to confident time traveller echoes many of the beats of Rose Tyler’s arc back in 2005

If Ace helped inspire Rose, then it’s appropriately timey wimey that those early Billie Piper episodes inspires her predecessor here. We get many of the same beats. The teenage girl suddenly realizing that grabbing a ride from a mysterious older man was perhaps not her safest ever decision. Challenging the Doctor in ways he’s not used to, determined not to be ‘just an assistant.’

Meanwhile, under her bravada she’s confused why he thinks a ‘nobody’ like her would be useful. But most of all, the dawning realization that this is more important than some substitute father figure or intergalactic joyride. It’s a better way to live her life – to never be cruel or cowardly; to never give in, and never give up.

 

Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred at the recording of Wicked! Each of the three stories keeps the new friends’ developing relationship at their heart, as the wary Ace learns just how amazing the Doctor can be

Each of the three stories approach these themes in their own way. Alison Winter’s Backwards and in Heels starts moments after the end of Dragonfire. As such, it gets to reveal some of the juiciest unseen moments (“This is a time machine!?“) but also establishes something deeper about Ace’s reasons for staying with the Doctor. After all, she mainly just wants to avoid going home to Perivale and her mother. So when she finds herself in the fabulous London of the 1920s, isn’t that as good a place as any to escape to? It’s only as the Doctor starts to reveal that he’s something better and deeper than an aimless thrill seeker that Ace truly accepts her role as her companion.

Middle entry The Price of Snow is Ace’s introduction to the way the Doctor does things. His refusal to simply blow up the monsters, or discount the villains as undeserving of mercy, may be frustrating. But by the end, his young companion has begun to realize that high explosives can’t solve every problem. Just most of them.

Most powerful, however, is finale The Ingenious Gentlemen by Alan Ronald. The Doctor, Ace, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza make up a heroic quartet as they chase down an alien enchanter rampaging across the Spanish countryside. The parallels between the two pairs are obvious. Yet Ace bristles at the idea she and Sancho are at all alike. After all, Quixote’s loyal(ish) squire is the answer to that other space wizard’s question “who’s more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?.” Until she comes to realize there’s more to Sancho, and her own place by the Doctor’s side, than she thought.

 

Fairly ordinary Doctor Who fare in the first two stories allows Ace herself to take centre stage

If Wicked! is a brilliant new introduction for Ace, what of the stories in their own right? Backwards in Heels is probably the most familiar of the three. A mysterious gamesmaster, the Treasurer, assembles players for a treasure hunt across 1920s London. It’s a quest filled with the usual bewilderingly specific clues for which the Doctor’s wild, improbable, guesses wind up being entirely correct. Meanwhile, the game has an ulterior motive behind it, and someone is playing for keeps. The result is a story which plays out pretty much exactly as you knew it would. However, if it allows the plot-centric part of your brain to listen on autopilot, it leaves more space to focus on that lovely character work for Ace.

The Price of Snow shifts the action about a century into Ace’s future, where there are some more unexpected twists in a story where nothing and nobody are quite what they seem. Welcome to the playground of the super-rich, where the top 0.01% enjoy skiing on the last natural snow on a post-climate change Earth. Yet money won’t save these trust fund teens from what’s lurking in the shadows if they wander off piste. The messages about the nature of privilege and family are rather muddled, and the evil plan of the Bond villain at the heart of it all doesn’t really bear scrutiny.

It’s all worth it though for Tom Anderson’s wonderful Teddy. On television, Hugh Skinner would be top of every casting director’s list for Teddy, but Anderson is a terrific substitute. His good natured falling in with the Doctor’s investigation is extremely charming, as is his general energy like a befuddled puppy dog.

 

Ekow Quartey (Sancho Panza) and Simon Callow (Don Quixote de la Mancha) at the recording of The Ingenious Gentlemen © Oliver Bowring The Ingenious Gentlemen is Wicked’s stand out story, mixing the bittersweet emotion of Vincent and the Doctor with the rare fun of the Doctor geeking out over his literary hero

The jewel in the crown of Wicked! though is undoubtedly The Ingenious Gentlemen. Taking its title from the full name of Cervantes’ novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de La Mancha is just the first sign of the wit and intelligence at work in Alan Ronald’s script. It’s a treasure trove of references, both overt and obscure, to delight every fan of the novel.

The Doctor himself being a huge fan of Don Quixote is incredible fun. The knight errand turns out to be one of the Time Lord’s inspirations. And certainly, departing his life of noble privilege for one wandering in search of good deeds and adventure fits neatly with that. While there’s a superficial parallel with The Unquiet Dead, this is a much significant moment for the Doctor than having simply liked the book.

The Doctor always hoped Don Quixote would be “one of the ones who turns out to be real.” Indeed, the concept takes full advantage of Cervantes’ claims his novel was based on real events. Unquiet Dead’s Charles Dickens Simon Callow makes a brilliant Don Quixote (or “Don! Quixote! DE LA MANCHA!” as he consistently refers to himself with glorious relish.) Irascible but kind; foolish but wise; conceited yet selfless – it’s practically an audition piece to play the Doctor. No wonder it’s so easy to imagine mini-Billy Hartnell tucked up in his barn, sneaking a late night read of a couple of chapters.

 

The mad man on a horse and the mad man with a box are so perfect together it’s slightly incredible this is their first meeting

The story doesn’t shy away from acknowledging that Quixote is, by modern standards, mentally ill. However, while Cervantes was pressured to repudiate the knight’s worldview at the end of his sequel, with shades of Vincent and the Doctor this version also embraces his heroic example. A man who’ll stand against the whole world of naysayers if he must. Never wavering, no matter how they mock him, from his goal to protect the weak and help the helpless.

There’s no direct shout to the musical Man of La Mancha that Blogtor Who can detect. But it’s a clear influence on this interpretation of the character. After all what is to dream the impossible dream, fight the unbeatable foe, bear unbearable sorrow, and to run where the brave dare not go, but never being cruel or cowardly; never giving in and never giving up, by a different form of words?

The only thing missing is a return performance by Tom Baker as Rosinante the horse. Still, you can’t have everything.

 

McCoy and Aldred continue their recent run of top form performances as they smoothly recreate those early television characterisations

Wicked! benefits hugely from the clarity about exactly when and where it takes place. Not only the writers, but also Sophie Aldred herself have sometimes struggled to place exactly how jaded or bright eyed Ace should be in any given story. This set, though, allows her and McCoy to slip seamlessly into the characters as they played them on television. No dark manipulations, or cynical suspicions. Just a excitable young woman grabbing onto the question mark umbrella of her oddball best mate as he leads her on a wild race down the corridors of the universe.

All in all, it’s simply Wicked! Here hoping for more from this era soon.

 

Doctor Who: Wicked! Cover by Rafe Wallbank (c) Big Finish Doctor Who: Wicked!

The Doctor has a new friend. Ace has just joined the TARDIS, and is a long, long way from home.

Hunting treasure, solving snow-covered mysteries and meeting heroes of legend, a partnership is formed. The Doctor starts to see his protégée’s potential – while Ace thinks their adventures are nothing less than ‘wicked’…

 

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Ncuti Gatwa, Peter Capaldi and David Tennant have nominations for Best Actor at this year’s awards

Ncuti Gatwa has nominations in two different categories at next month’s BAFTA Scotland Awards for his role as the Doctor. The Rwandan-Scottish actor is nominated both as Best Actor for Doctor Who, and as Favourite Scot on Screen. The audience votes fort the latter award and the nomination is in recognition of the popularity of his Doctor with viewers.

However, Gatwa will be facing two other former TARDIS travellers for the Best Actor award. David Tennant has a nomination for his role as ruthless television executive Tony Baddingham in Rivals. Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi also receives a Best Actor nomination for Black Mirror. His starring role in the episode Plaything saw him play a former video games reviewer with a dark secret.

The three Doctors are up against James McAvoy for Speak No Evil, James McArdle for Four Mothers, and Ruaridh Mollica for Sebastian.

Meanwhile, Ncuti Gatwa is the only Time Lord up for the Favourite Scot Award. Other nominees in the public vote are Ashley Jensen (Shetland), Gary Lamont (Rivals), Kiran Sonia Sawar (Slow Horses), Richard Rankin (Rebus), and Sheli ‘Sabre’ McCoy (Gladiators).

This is Gatwa’s sixth nomination at the BAFTA Scotland Awards. These include a 2020 Best Actor win for his role as Eric Effiong in Netflix’s Sex Education. He also has three Best Actor nominations from the overall British BAFTAs, all three for Sex Education from 2020 to 2022.

 

Karen Gillan also has a nomination for Best Actress

Elsewhere, former companion Karen Gillan has a nomination for Best Actress. The Scottish actor features for her role in drama Douglas is Cancelled, written by her former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat.

The awards take place on the 19th of November, and you can see them on BBC One Scotland and on iPlayer. You can vote for your Favourite Scot on Screen here. The vote is open until 4pm on the 30th of October here.

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