Doctor Who Magazine, Issue 607 is out today.

Inside this issue

• The concluding part of our access-all-areas coverage of this year’s apocalyptic season finale. We speak to NCUTI GATWA, MILLLIE GIBSON, RUSSELL T DAVIES, director JAMIE DONOUGHUE, plus Mrs Flood herself – ANITA DOBSON.

• Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill talk to DWM about a new series of audio adventures for the Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz.

• Behind the scenes at San Diego Comic-Con with executive producer Julie Gardner.

• Find out all about the making of Madame Tussauds’ stunning Fifteenth Doctor wax figure, with sculptor Stephen Mansfield and set designer Amanda So.

• Russell T Davies shares his experiences of visiting the Madame Tussauds exhibit.

• June Hudson on becoming the victim of the devilish Maestro.

• Bonnie Langford talks to Jacqueline Rayner about Mel’s continuing adventures in print.

• A previously unpublished interview with eighties producer John Nathan-Turner.

• The first of a two-part interview with Seventh Doctor set designer John Asbridge.This issue he talks about his work on Delta and the Bannermen and Dragonfire.

• Find out all about the new mobile game Worlds Apart.

• Discover the links between Pertwee radio drama Paradise of Death and Dennis Potter!

• Join us for a night out at the Gallifrey Cabaret.

• The Fact of Fiction – we examine the Twelfth Doctor’s encounter with Davros in The Magician’s Apprentice…

• Comic strip adventures with the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.

PLUS!

• Gallifrey Guardian – find out all about the new spin-off series: The War Between the Land and the Sea.PLUS – casting for this year’s Christmas Special, a Star Trek crossover, and forthcoming audio releases!

• Shelf Life: We take a look at the latest audio dramas and the new Fifteenth Doctor Target Books.

• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.

• Prizes to be won including the Eighth Doctor’s clash with the Daleks in audio drama The Stuff of Legend.

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 607 is on sale Thursday 15 August  from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £7.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.

Big Finish Productions, in partnership with BBC Studios, have announced a new series of twelve, hour-long, full-cast audio adventures with Jodie Whittaker reprising her role as the Thirteenth Doctor alongsider Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan.

Jodie Whittaker said: 

Mandip Gill added:

Big Finish’s Chairman, Jason Haigh-Ellery said:

Big Finish’s Creative Director, Nicholas Briggs added:

The new adventures will be available to pre-order at a discounted price from the Big Finish site, either individually or as a complete set. The series is expected to be released from July 2025.

Issue 604 of Doctor Who Magazine is published today

Inside this issue

• Previews of the new episodes broadcast this month. Russell T Davies talks about 73 Yards and Dot and Bubble, we reveal a tantalising glimpse at the recording of Rogue, and whet your appetite for season finale The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death.

• Jonathan Groff talks about his role in Rogue and his first impressions of watching An Unearthly Child…

• A day in the life of Wolf Studios… join DWM on the set of Space Babies…

• Script to Screen on realising the Baby Station crew.

• Behind the scenes on The Devil’s Chord – including contributions from actors who played the Beatles, Jinkx Monsoon, Russell T Davies, Murray Gold… plus Shirley Ballas and Johannes!

• We catch up with recurring guest star Susan Twist.

• Steven Moffat discusses some of the philosophical ideas at the heart of Boom…

• Letter from the Showrunner – Russell T Davies reports from New York as he publicises the return of Doctor Who in the US.

• “Are You My Mummy?” Nineteen years on, Time-Space Visualiser looks back at the series’ first meme…

• Loose Ends – this month we expand upon the Twelfth Doctor’s Regency adventures.

• The Fact of Fiction – a scene-by-scene look back at First Doctor story The Rescue.

• The first part of a brand-new comic strip featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.

PLUS!

• Gallifrey Guardian – meet the new companion, played by Varada Sethu!

• Reviewed: the animated Celestial Toymaker on DVD and Blu-ray, and all the latest audio releases.

• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.

• Win Blu-rays and the latest audio releases!

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 604 is on sale Thursday 23 May  from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £7.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.

Titan Comics is launching The Fifteenth Doctor in comic form as part of Free Comic Book Day on 4th May 2024

Written  by master of sci-fi and fantasy, Dan Watters (Loki, Home Sick Pilots, The Sandman Universe), this special issue kicks-off an all-new DOCTOR WHO comic series starring the FIFTEENTH DOCTOR (Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion in time and space, RUBY SUNDAY (Millie Gibson). 
 

The launch of the new series in 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the first DOCTOR WHO comics under Titan Comics. The publisher first started travelling with the Doctor in 2014 and hasn’t stopped since.

Now, in its 10th year, Titan Comics will be part of an exciting new era of Doctor Who with the Fifteenth Doctor. 

On the Free Comic Day edition of DOCTOR WHO: THE FIFTEENTH DOCTOR, series editor, Jake Devine says,

Free Comic Book Day takes place every year on the first Saturday of May. With over two thousand stores and several comic book publishers participating, the event gives readers a chance to grab a free comic and meet fellow comic readers.

Readers can find their local participating store HERE. 

June marks the 50th anniversary of the Fourth Doctor’s first appearance.

Doctor Who Magazine is celebrating with an 84-page Special Edition, packed with all-new features, interviews, infographics and fiction.

Editor Marcus Hearn

Highlights of the new DWM Special Edition include:

A joint interview with Louise Jameson (Leela) and Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), who remember their TARDIS travels with the Fourth Doctor.

Interviews with Fourth Doctor guest stars Gareth Armstrong (The Masque of Mandragora), Janet Ellis (The Horns of Nimon), Hilary Ryan (The Invasion of Time) and Guy Siner (Genesis of the Daleks).

June Hudson is reunited with the famous burgundy coat she designed for Tom Baker’s Doctor – courtesy of the collector who now owns it.

Dave Gibbons looks back on the seminal artwork he created for the golden age of Fourth Doctor comics.

A timeline of the Fourth Doctor’s television journey from 1974 to 1981, with details of the off-screen adventures in between.

Light-hearted guides to the Fourth Doctor’s numerous costumes and everything that came out of his pockets.

Our choice of 20 moments that define the Fourth Doctor, including classic scenes from The Ark in Space, The Deadly Assassin, City of Death and more.

Plus… new fiction by Christopher H Bidmead, who wrote the Fourth Doctor’s final television story, Logopolis.

Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: 50 Years of the Fourth Doctor

 is on sale Thursday 2 May from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £9.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £8.99.

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine marks the return of Doctor Who to Television screens worldwide

Inside this issue

• Previews of the new episodes broadcast this month. Russell T Davies talks Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord and we take a quick peek behind the scenes of Boom with writer Steven Moffat and exec producer Joel Collins.

• Meet the Beatles: John, Paul, George and Ringo (alias Chris Mason, George Caple, Philip Davies and James Hoyles) and their producer George Martin (Ed White)…

• …and to celebrate the Beatles appearance on opening night of the new season, we also look back at the relationship between the band and Doctor Who over the years…

• Jinkx Monsoon discusses her role as the malevolent Maestro.

• Can we get any answers from Anita Dobson about her character, the mysterious Mrs Flood? Worth a try!

We also speak to the equally intriguing Susan Twist about her roles in last year’s episodes and her involvement in the forthcoming season…

• Letter from the Showrunner – Russell T Davies considers the scheduling of the new episodes and welcomes new readers!

• Script to screen: discover the intricacies involved in bringing ‘Jimbo’ – the robot from Wild Blue Yonder – into being.

• A tribute to the work of the late Sid Sutton who, among many other career highlights, designed the Doctor Who titles in the 1980s.

• We test the memory of Matthew Waterhouse, who played companion Adric.

• Time-Space Visualiser – how second Doctor Patrick Troughton made a partial comeback in the late seventies…

• Loose Ends – tying up some dangling threads from the 1960s

• The Fact of Fiction – a scene-by-scene look back at an earlier opening night: 2007’s Smith and Jones.

• The concluding part of Mancopolis – our comic strip featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.

PLUS!

• An exclusive comic strip supplement featuring TIMESLIP – the memorable multi-Doctor comic strip by former DWM editor Paul Neary. This also includes an essay on the story by Gary Gillatt and a chat with Dez Skinn who came up with the original idea for the strip.

• Two art cards to celebrate the new season!

AND ALL THE USUAL REGULAR FEATURES INCLUDING THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND COMPETITIONS!

BBC Books has announced that three new Doctor Who novels will be published this year, featuring Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor. Each book is an original, stand-alone adventure and will be published simultaneously in hardback and audiobook. The books are:
 

Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She has written for several sets in the Big Finish Doctor Who Audio range, including The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, Gallifrey: War Room, and the Interludes. She has also contributed short stories to publications such as Baffling Magazine and Flame Tree Press, and is a frequent contributor to various horror anthology podcasts as a writer and voice over artist.

The audiobook edition of Doctor Who: Ruby Red will be narrated by Millie Gibson, who plays companion Ruby Sunday in the TV series

Una McCormack is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She has written many Doctor Who articles, scripts and novels, including The King's Dragon, The Way Through the Woods, Royal Blood, Molten Heart and Time Lord Victorious: All Flesh is Grass, all from BBC Books.

Abi Falase is a Black British writer and director, reimagining fundamental societal concepts in inventive new worlds. Creating what they like to call “feel-good social realism”, wrapping big discussions about everything from race and gender to capitalism in little pockets of humour – because if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.

Ruby Red by Georgia Cook (BBC Books, £14.99) is out in hardback and audiobook on 13th June

Caged by Una McCormack (BBC Books, £14.99) is out in hardback and audiobook on 27th June

Eden Rebellion by Abi Falase (BBC Books, £14.99) is out in hardback and audiobook on 24th November

BBC Studios have released images of Varada Sethu who will join the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday in Ncuti Gatwa's second season of Doctor Who which will air in 2025.

The pictures released today show the cast together at a read-through for an episode in the series currently being filmed. 

Like many Doctors who have come before him, one companion is not enough for the Fifteenth Doctor and in season two, he will have two by his side as Varada Sethu steps aboard the TARDIS joining Mille Gibson playing Ruby Sunday

Sethu is best known for her  role as Cinta Kaz in the Disney+ Original series “Andor.” Her additional credits include “Jurassic World Dominion,” “Annika” and “Strike Back.”

Sethu says:

Showrunner, executive producer and writer Russell T Davies says:

Currently in production, the second season of Doctor Who, the fifteenth since the revival in 2005 and the 41st since the series started in 1963, is set to debut in 2025 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and Disney+ in the U.S. and around the world (where available).

Issue 602 of Doctor Who Magazine is out today

Inside this issue!

• In the run-up to the new series, Millie Gibson talks to DWM about playing companion Ruby Sunday – her most in-depth interview yet!

• We examine a long-lost interview that First Doctor William Hartnell gave to the Scottish press – including some forthright opinions!

• Davina McCall shares her love of Doctor Who and reflects on her role in last year’s Christmas Special. 

• Script to screen: find out what processes went into bringing creepy puppet Stooky Bill and his family to life in The Giggle.

• To tie-in with the release of Season 15 on Blu-ray, we present an interview with model-maker Bill Pearson.

• We visit the set of Henry House – a new series starring many familiar faces....

• A report from from LA super convention Gallifrey One!

• Letter from the Showrunner – Russell T Davies on celebrating milestones out of sequence!

• Time-Space Visualiser – this month: the Trods! 

• Who & Me – DWM contributor Beth Axford on how she became hooked on Doctor Who.

• Loose Ends – exploring the mysteries of the Sixth Doctor!

• The Fact of Fiction – a deep dive into the plot of Twelfth Doctor story The Woman Who Lived.

• The adventures of the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday continue in the comic strip!

PLUS!

• Gallifrey Guardian – packed with all the latest news about the upcoming series!

• Reviewed – the new Season 15 Blu-ray Collection and all the latest audio releases.

• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.

• Win Blu-rays and the latest audio releases!

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 602 is on sale Thursday 28 March from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £7.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.

Doctor Who is set to make a return to screens worldwide on Saturday 11th May 2024.

Viewers inside the UK will be able to access two episodes from midnight on the BBC iPlayer, the first time episodes have made their premier on the 'on demand' service.  The episodes will be shown on BBC One later that day just before the annual Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final.

For those outside of the UK the episodes will be available on Disney+ from midnight UK time, 2300 GMT.

The new season of Doctor Who will see Ncuti Gatwa return as the Fifteenth Doctor, alongside Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday, it comes after they made their highly acclaimed debut on Christmas Day in The Church on Ruby Road. 

Within the upcoming series, audiences will see the Doctor and Ruby travel through time and space on adventures to unknown lands, to the Regency era in England, to outer space worlds and the sixties.

This season will also see the return of Michelle Greenidge as Carla Sunday, Angela Wynter as Cherry Sunday and Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood as well as featuring an array of special guest stars including Jinkx Monsoon, Aneurin Barnard, Yasmin Finney, Jonathan Groff, Bonnie Langford, Jemma Redgrave, Lenny Rush and Indira Varma with more to be announced soon. 

Russell T Davies, Showrunner said: