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Billie Piper is currently filming Elsinore, telling the true story of the behind the scenes drama of the National Theatre’s 1989 production of Hamlet

Filming has begun on Elsinore, a new drama film co-starring Billie Piper. When Doctor Who returned to screens in 2005, Piper was a key part of its success as the Doctor’s companion Rose Tyler. She recently returned to the series in the shock reveal at the end of The Reality War, though her role in this year’s Christmas Special is still unclear. In Elsinore she joins a cast led by Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag) in the true story of Ian Charleson’s run as Hamlet at the Olivier Theatre in 1990.

When the play’s star Daniel Day-Lewis leaves the stage mid-performance, and refuses to return, it throws the National Theatre production of Hamlet into high drama of its own. They find a replacement for the remainder of the run in Ian Charleson, who accepts the challenge despite being seriously ill with AIDS. The result is a performance many critics regards as one of the greatest Hamlets of all time, tinged with tragedy as Charleson dies only weeks after finishing the run.

The actor was one of the first high profile figures in the UK to be open about their battle against the disease, and the news coverage of his final role and death helped change public attitude to HIV and AIDS.

Andrew Scott stars as Charleson, while Olivia Colman (The Eleventh Hour) plays his doctor. The roles of the rest of the cast are still unannounced. One possibility is that Billie Piper will be portraying Stella Gonet, who played Ophelia opposite Charleson in the production of Shakespeare’s most iconic work.

Other members of the cast of Elsinore include Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, Monica Dolan, Juliet Stevenson, Joe Locke, Adeel Akhtar, Matthew Beard, David Dawson, Kadiff Kirwan, Dickie Beau and Peter Mullan.

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The new Doctor Who Doctionary explains the Whoniverse, right up to the Fifteenth Doctor era

A new version of the official ‘Doctionary’ will be out this October from BBC Children’s Books. The original Doctionary by Justin Richards came out in 2012. It sought to define some of those tricky words and concepts from the Doctor Who universe. It’s not clear yet if the new Doctionary is updated from the original text, like the 2018 ebook edition or written completely from scratch. Similarly, there’s no author included in listings but, then again, the original was likewise credited simply to the Doctor.

However, we do know it brings the Doctionary up to date with all the latest concepts from the show, including bi-generation, the Vindicator and more.

If it’s anything like the original version, the 208 book will be full of colourful photos to illustrate the entries. We can also expect engaging, witty text, written by the Doctor themselves! The cover certainly reflects a fun approach to diverse topics, with brightly coloured images of the Fifteenth Doctor, Ruby, the Sonic Screwdriver, K9, a fez, and more.

‘The Doctor’s dictionary of definitions for time travellers’ as the cover describes it, will be in bookshops from the 22nd of October. The hardback edition will be £16.99. Meanwhile, an ebook version will be available to read on devices, at the price of £8.99. You can pre-order it now, though, with links for your preferred retailer on the official page here.

 

Doctor Who: The Official Doctionary (c) BBC Children’s Books Doctor Who: The Official Doctionary

Have you ever wondered what the Doctor is actually talking about? Are you burning to find out what a Vindicator is? Or what bi-generation is? In this book, the Doctor takes you through all those tricky Time Lord words and phrases to teach you everything you need to know for travelling through time and space in the TARDIS.

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The latest Doctor Who Blu-ray collection will be out in America this July

 

Doctor Who Season 21 is already available on Blu-ray in the UK, but American fans will also soon be able to see it as Doctor Who: Peter Davison Season Three arrives in July. Due for release on the 7th of July, it stars Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. In also introduces Colin Baker as the Sixth incarnation, who takes the lead for final story The Twin Dilemma.

In his final season, the action ramps up for Peter Davison’s Doctor. He faces terrors from his past, as well as invaders from the future, arch enemies and even a battle to the death. With companions Tegan (Janet Fielding), Turlough (Mark Strickson), Peri (Nicola Bryant) and robot Kamelion (Gerald Flood) the Doctor journeys from an underwater seabase to contemporary England, from a devastated Earth colony to the beaches of Lanzarote, from a volcanic alien world and finally to the deadly caves on Androzani.

Along the way, the TARDIS crew confront Daleks, Sea Devils, Silurians, Tractators, slug-like Gastropods, the evil Malus. Meanwhile, Anthony Ainley’s vengeful Master makes a deliciously malevolent return!

All episodes have been newly remastered from the best available sources. These classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.

 

Doctor Who: Peter Davison Complete Season Three includes the following stories from 1984:

• Warriors of the Deep
• The Awakening
• Frontios
• Resurrection of the Daleks
• Planet of Fire
• The Caves of Androzani
• The Twin Dilemma

 

Peter Davison Complete Season Three is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material including:

• Updated Special Effects – Optional enhanced effects for The Awakening, Frontios, Resurrection Of The Daleks and The Caves Of Androzani
• Warriors of the Deep Special Edition – An exciting four-part re-edit with updated special effects and immersive 5.1 surround sound mix
• In Conversation –  Matthew Sweet chats individually to Janet Fielding (Tegan), Mark Strickson (Turlough) and Matthew Waterhouse (Adric)
• New Making of Documentaries –  Brand new looks at the making of both Resurrection Of The Daleks and The Twin Dilemma
• Look Who’s Boating – Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton take to the river for an epic adventure.
• 48 Hours with Fielding – Toby Hadoke crashes at Janet Fielding’s
• Behind the Sofa – More Doctor Who stars from across the eras watch Who. with Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Bonnie Langford (Mel), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri). There’s also Tara Ward (Preston, Warriors of the Deep), Keith Jayne (Will, The Awakening), Jeff Rawle (Plantagenet, Frontios), Rula Lenska (Styles, Resurrection of the Daleks), director Graeme Harper (The Caves of Androzani), Paul Conrad (Romulus, The Twin Dilemma) and Andrew Conrad (Remus, The Twin Dilemma).
• The Doctor Who Escape Room: Two new teams battle it out to solve fiendish Whoniverse based puzzles in the fastest time
• The Awakening commentary – a new second commentary track for what’s the only Fifth Doctor story to not previously have commentary from Peter Davison
• New 5.1 Surround Sound mixes – Warriors Of The Deep, The Awakening and The Caves Of Androzani.
• Tales of the TARDIS – A 2023 edit of Earthshock with new linking material from Peter Davison and Janet Fielding as the Doctor and Tegan find themselves on the Remembered TARDIS from Empire of Death
• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot –  The 2013 comedy film created by Peter Davison; also including a brand new audio commentary
• Archive treats – Including never-before-released TV appearances and studio footage
• HD photo galleries – including both higher quality versions of photos from the DVDs, and new finds
• Info Text – subtitle style commentary text, full of fascinating behind the scenes details for each scene
• PDF Archive – an exhaustive collection of documentation about the making of Season 21 from the BBC Archive

The box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including Documentaries, Featurettes, Audio Commentaries and more.

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Doctor Who TV Movie stars Paul McGann are together again for the next Time War arc from Big Finish

In 1996, Daphne Ashbrook starred alongside Paul McGann in the Doctor Who TV Movie. Thirty years later, she’s reuniting with him in a brand-new box set of full-cast audio drama.

In Time War Uncharted the Eighth Doctor travels with great-grandson Alex (Sonny McGann) and pilot Cass (Emma Campbell-Jones).  They’re exploring a strange new universe, while trying to avoid the escalating conflict between the Time Lords and the Daleks. Through this all, he has had multiple encounters with Hieronyma Friend.

This shady temporal diplomat takes the form of many of the Doctor’s past companions, though he’s somehow yet to notice. In the next volume, Branches, the Doctor finally twigs what’s going on, and Daphne Ashbrook is the latest actor to voice the mysterious character.

Ashbrook said: “It was wonderful to be working with Paul again. The script was beautifully written and it was so much fun to play a villain to his Doctor. It does make me long for the days when I can be his friend – no pun intended!

“Thirty years it’s been since we shot the Doctor Who movie – I’ve recently watched it for the first time in many years, and I couldn’t believe how young we all were. Paul’s a fabulous actor, and he loves doing these audio dramas. His talent and the scripts Big Finish write for him is a match, and it’s kept his character going. He’s been able to experience much of what other Doctors got to experience on TV – what a gift, and it’s wonderful to be a part of that.”

The cast of Time War Uncharted: Branches also includes Carole Ann Ford as Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter, and Nicholas Briggs as the Daleks, as well as Kate Harbour, Akbar Kurtha, Susan Penhaligon, Jane Asher, Amy Rockson, Olivia Woolhouse, and Robert Fitch.

 

The four new episodes starring the excellent Eighth Doctor are: The Only Girl in the World by John Dorney

Searching for Cass, the Doctor and Alex find themselves on board an odd slave spaceship with a version of their friend from the Uncharted universe – the swashbuckling and dangerous Cassie.

Cassie is seeking revenge for the destruction of her homeworld – believing her destiny is to stop Mr Karl, the ruthless killer who obliterated it. But if that is her destiny, why is it so hard to fulfil?

False Dawn by Alison Winter

A galactic quarantine order has the Doctor investigating an invasive species that is rapidly spreading across the uncharted universe and infiltrating multiple dimensions. As the walls between worlds weaken, even the TARDIS struggles with keeping everything on the inside.

Council of Susan by Tim Foley

Looking for a way through a dangerous Barrier, the Doctor and his friends stumble upon an unusual organisation. The Council of Susan is stationed by a wormhole – and they know all about the mysterious time traveller known as ‘Grandfather’. Are the Doctor and Alex due for a family reunion? Or will a darker presence try its best to sever all family ties?

All Over by Patrick O’Connor

Out on the ice lies an empty blue box. Luckily, there’s someone out here who can drag it to safety – that’s what Friends are for, after all. In a rundown house at the edge of the Uncharted, someone will face her destiny. It’s time for myths to be exposed and everything to end.

 

Doctor Who – Time War Uncharted: Branches is now available to pre-order for just £24.99 (download to own) or £30.99 (download to own + collector’s edition CD box set), exclusively here. Please note: the collector’s edition CD box set is strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will not be re-pressed.

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Cloud Eight delivers a classic tale of darkness beneath the suburban ideal, as the Doctor and Rose visit the 47th century Powell Estate

 

The new series of adventures for the Ninth Doctor and Rose stretches its wings a little by taking the pair thousands of years into the future. The TARDIS is still inexplicably drawn to the Powell Estate, but by this point in Earth history it’s been replaced by Cloud Eight, a supposed utopia high above the rain forest previously known as London. That geographical link otherwise impacts the plot not one bit. However, that only underscores it as some sort of hint, Bad Wolf style, of some subtle wider plot arc for this season of audios.

Cloud Eight exists during Earth’s Second Dark Ages. In Doctor Who’s most pleasingly pedantic line since the Master decimated the population of Earth, the Doctor correctly identifies the Dark Ages as merely a period from which little to no historical records survive. “Dark” as in unknown, not somehow grim or evil. Though, of course, this being Doctor Who, the reason nothing survives from this time is not exactly benign…

 

Despite feeling slightly misplaced in the timeline of the Doctor and Rose’s relationship, Eccleston and Piper are both on fire as the pair clash over the Time Lord’s plans

The Doctor and Rose insert themselves with typical ease into the lives of young Elsa and her two Dads, Oz and Marty. With humanity whiling away their days among the clouds while AIs repair the damaged ecology below, the little family initially appear to have a cosy, if somewhat bland, existence. Lots of morning walks, afternoon visits to cute little coffee shops, evenings watching classic Westerns, and all tucked up by bedtime. A very strict bedtime. So strict, in fact, nobody on Cloud Eight can even understand the concept of being awake after dark.

There are typically two types of dystopia in science fiction. The ones where the inhabitants know it’s a dystopia, and the ones where they think it’s a utopia. Cloud Eight definitely falls into the latter camp, and the Doctor’s immediate instincts to pull it all down lead to some conflict with Rose. Their arguments never quite ring true, though, given this series’ setting between Father’s Day and The Empty Child. Rather than the confident time traveller, ready to topple evil galactic news organizations and smoothly con interstellar con men, this Rose regresses to her earliest days. She’s strangely determined that nothing’s wrong here, and the Doctor’s just making trouble. Similarly, she angrily berates him for trying to enlist Elsa’s help in scenes reminiscent of her attitude to Gwyneth in The Unquiet Dead.

It’s almost as if writers Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle weren’t in the loop about where during Series One the story takes place. It’s a shame as in isolation as a story about an inexperienced Rose learning to trust the Doctor’s judgement and not take things at face value, this is top notch stuff.

 

Most of all, Cloud Eight succeeds in feeling like a true, missing piece of 2005’s iconic season

Cloud Eight’s deeper themes and concerns only reveal themselves in the final act, as the root cause of everyone’s behaviour becomes apparent. Unfortunately, that makes them difficult to even touch on without completely spoiling the plot. However, Blogtor can say they’re very much of their time, which is to say 2005. Indeed, if Cloud Eight had aired on television in Series One, it would seemed eerily prescient. As it stands though, the fast pace of world events even between Mooney and Pringle pitching the story and Big Finish releasing it make it almost passe. (More amusingly, a line about Rose not getting any WAP at home will probably trigger a generational divide between those old enough to remember Wireless Application Protocol and younger fans who’ll see it as yet another reason she dumped Mickey.)

Nonetheless, despite feeling like it belongs in a slightly different part of Rose and the Doctor’s timeline, this is peak 2005 Doctor Who arriving two decades on. The slow but steady slide from futuristic domesticity to a living nightmare is neatly balance, while having the Doctor himself fall under the spell is a card all the more effective for being so rarely played.

Most remarkable, Eccleston and Piper continue to excel as their characters, so steeped in every aspect that they perfectly recapture the motions of friction between the two as deftly as the strength of their bond.

 

Doctor Who: Cloud Eight. Cover by Soundsmyth Creative (c) Big Finish Doctor Who: Cloud Eight

The Doctor and Rose travel to the 47th century, Earth’s ‘Second Dark Age’, but when they arrive in the floating box city of High High Wycombe, it’s more like a paradise. The residents live an existence of endless leisure, and at night sleep a blissful, dreamless sleep.

But cracks soon begin to show on its perfect, polished surface, and something terrible is brewing in the mind of teenage Elsa – something ancient and hungry – something that sounds like a nightmare.

Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Cloud Eight, written by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle, is now available to purchase for just £9.99 (download to own) or £11.99 (download to own + collector’s edition CD), exclusively here. Please note: the collector’s edition CD is strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will not be re-pressed. 

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Doctor Who’s Mandip Gill will be a new mum facing a literal nightmare scenario in new horror short Hush Little One, coming to film festivals this spring

 

Doctor Who star Mandip Gill is starring in the new short horror film Hush Little One. The actor, who played the Doctor’s companion Yaz Khan between 2018 and 2022, will play new mother Maya. However, darkness threatens to consume Maya and her baby when the child’s nightmares begin to manifest is physical form in the shadows of their home.

Hush Little One will tour film festivals throughout 2026 and has been described by producers Rebel Yeah! as a “proof of concept” for a feature length version of the story. Whether Mandip Gill will also star as Maya in any feature adaptation is unclear for now.

Hush Little One continues a busy post-Doctor Who career for Mandip Gill. Can You Keep a Secret?, the sitcom starring Dawn French, Mark Heap as a married couple defrauding their insurance company by faking the husband’s death, and Gill as their police officer daughter-in-law, has just finished its first season on BBC One and received a warm reception from audiences and critics alike. Meanwhile, last December she starred as DC Diane Fry in Five’s detective series Cooper and Fry, alongside Downton Abbey’s Robert James-Collier as DC Ben Cooper. Earlier last year, she also has a lead role in near future dystopian series Curfew.

There’s no word yet on second season renewals for either Can You Keep a Secret? or Cooper and Fry. However, it seems likely. Certainly in the case of Cooper and Fry, there are still fourteen more novels in the original series to adapt, so there’s plenty of material with which to continue the show.

In the meantime, Hush on Film will receive its premiere on the 20th of March at Ashford Cinema as part of the Kent on Film weekend.

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