John Hurt, who played the War Doctor in the 50th Anniversary special The Day of the Doctor, has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen's New Year Honours list.

The actor was given his award for services to drama. Sir John Hurt has had a career lasting more than five decades, appearing in films such as The Elephant Man, where he played John Merrick, Nineteen Eighty-Four where he played Winston Smith and Scandal where he played Stephen Ward. On Television he is best known for playing Caligula in the renowned I, Claudius and Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant. His distinctive voice has been used in many productions such as Watership Down and the animated The Lord of the Rings.

Also honoured is actor James Corden who played Craig Owens alongside the Eleventh Doctor, who has been made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, or OBE. Corden, who was also honoured for services to drama said he was delighted at with award.Other actors honoured include Sheridan Smith who is made a OBE and Meera Syal who is made a CBE.

The awards are given by Queen Elizabeth on the advice of the British Government.

Veteran actor and presenter, and former Doctor Who Companion, Bernard Cribbins has been awarded the annual J M Barrie Award for a lifetime of unforgettable work for children on stage, film, television and record.

The Action for Children’s Arts J.M.Barrie Award is given annually to a children’s arts practitioner or organisation whose work, in the view of ACA, will stand the test of time. The J.M.Barrie Award was formerly the ACA Peter Pan Award, presented as part of the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity Awards.

Bernard Cribbins has featured in many iconic BBC Children’s programmes over the last 40 years, including Jackanory, The Wombles, and most recently Old Jack’s Boat on CBeebies. In 2007 he appeared in the Doctor Who Christmas special, Voyage of the Damned, playing Wilfred Mott. The character returned in Series 4 where it was revealed Wilfred was the grandfather of Donna Noble and he had regular appearances in the series, ultimately being the catalyst for the tenth Doctor's regeneration at the conclusion of The End of Time.

Cribbins first contact with Doctor Who came in the 1966 feature film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., where he played Tom Campbell alongside Peter Cushing's portrayal of 'Dr Who'

The award was presented at the BBC's Headquarters at Broadcasting House in central London at a ceremony attended by the BBC’s Director General Tony Hall and a range of Cribbins colleagues from across the decades, including Chris Jarvis, CBeebies presenter and writer on Old Jack’s Boat; actress Jan Francis; former Blue Peter Presenter Peter Duncan; and Kate Robertson, daughter of Elisabeth Beresford, creator of the Wombles. Messages were received from Sir George Martin, Russell T Davies and John Barrowman.

Also in attendance were Jenny Agutter and Gary Warren, who played The Railway Children in the 1970 film, which co-starred Cribbins as station master Albert Perks.

Speaking about the event Joe Godwin Director of BBC Children’s saidRussell T Davies who has worked with Bernard Cribbins on Doctor Who and most recently on the CBeebies series Old Jack Boat sent a message:

The Model Unit have been nominated alongside Real SFX for a Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award in the Special Effects category for their work on The Day of the Doctor.

A number of people who have worked on the production of Doctor Who over the years have also been nominated for their work on other programmes. These are listed below.

Costume Design – Drama
Edward K Gibbon - The Honourable Woman

Costume Design – Entertainment & Non Drama
Annie Hardinge - Rev. – Series 3

Effects – Special
Colin Gorry - The Smoke
Paul Kelly - Da Vinci's Demons

Graphic Design – Programme Content Sequences
Peter Anderson Studio - Sherlock – Series 3

Make Up Design – Drama
Davy Jones - In The Flesh – Series 2

Photography – Drama
Neville Kidd - Sherlock – His Last Vow

Editing – Drama
Iain Erskine - Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
Jamie Pearson - Happy Valley
Philip Kloss - Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story

The full list of nominations in the shortlist for the Craft & Design Awards 2013/2014 can be found at rts.org.uk. The winners will be announced at a ceremony, hosted by Jennifer Saunders, on Monday 1 December 2014 at the London Hilton Park Lane.

Doctor Who has been nominated in the 2015 People's Choice Awards in the U.S.

The nominees were announced on Nov. 4 at a media event at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. Doctor Who was named to the Favorite Cable Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show category following an initial round of online voting. Fans are now invited to cast votes for this and many other TV, film and music categories in advance of the awards being presented during a live broadcast on CBS on Jan. 7, 2015.

Competition for Doctor Who in the category consists of American Horror Story, Game of Thrones, Outlander (based upon a series of novels whose creator has credited companion Jamie McCrimmon as an inspiration and which is reportedly to feature Frazer Hines in a guest role), and The Walking Dead. Last year, the category incorporated both network and cable series and was won by Beauty and the Beast. Doctor Who was previously nominated in similar categories for the 2008 and 2013 editions, but did not win (it was beaten by Stargate Atlantis in 2008 and Supernatural in 2013). This year, the award was split into network and cable categories (with Beauty and the Beast nominated in the network category). Appropriately, Doctor Who's nomination was announced by Karen Gillan's Selfie co-star, John Cho. (Selfie, which co-stars David Harewood, is also nominated in the Favorite New TV Comedy category.)

The original round of elimination voting had included Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman shortlisted for acting categories, but they did not make it through to the final round. David Tennant, however, received a nomination for Favorite Actor in a New TV Series for his work on Gracepoint.

Fans can cast their votes online by going to PeoplesChoice.com.

Doctor Who has won a British Academy Cymru Award for its special effects.

The effects team collected the award for Best Special, Visual Effects and Graphics on Sunday in a ceremony at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.

The Doctor Who Sound Team lost out in race for Best Sound, which went to Cardiff Singer of The World

The Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television went to Nerys Hughes who played Todd in the classic Doctor Who story Kinda.

Voting has now opened for the twentieth National Television Awards, the annual ceremony that takes place in January with award-winners chosen by the British viewing public.

Doctor Who is included in the Drama category as usual, but competition is strong with some 34 productions to choose from at this stage of voting. The show is up against a range of British programmes, with only one import included this year: Atlantis, Call The Midwife, Casualty, Cilla, DCI Banks, Death Comes To Pemberley, Death In Paradise, Downton Abbey, Endeavour, The Escape Artist, Grantchester, Happy Valley, Holby City, Inspector George Gently, In The Club, Jonathan Creek, Last Tango In Halifax, Line of Duty, Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Midsommer Murders, Mr Selfridge, The Musketeers, New Tricks, Our Zoo, Prey, Scott & Bailey, Sherlock, Shetland, Silent Witness, Suspects, Vera, The Village, and The Widower.

In the combined Drama Performance category, both Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are nominated for their Doctor Who roles, and will also face former Doctor David Tennant, up for his role in The Escape Artist. There are some 50 personalities listed in this category, including a number of Doctor Who guest stars from the past and present: Clare-Hope Ashitey (Suspects), Brenda Blethyn (Vera), Paul Bradley (Holby City), Jim Carter (Downton Abbey), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Jack Donnelly (Atlantis), Neil Dudgeon (Midsommer Murders), Shaun Evans (Endeavour), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Martin Freeman (Sherlock), Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey), Helen George (Call The Midwife), Robson Green (Grantchester), Miranda Hart (Call The Midwife), Keeley Hawes (Line Of Duty), Douglas Henshall (Shetland), Lee Ingleby (Our Zoo), Sir Derek Jacobi (Last Tango In Halifax), Suranne Jones (Scott & Bailey), Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge), Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley), Nicholas Lyndhurst (New Tricks), Rosie Marcel (Holby City), Kris Marshall (Death In Paradise), Anna Maxwell Martin (Death Comes To Pemberley), Maimie McCoy (The Musketeers), Amanda Mealing (Casualty), Hermione Norris (In The Club), James Norton (Grantchester), Tamzin Outhwaite (New Tricks), Sarah Parish (Atlantis), Katherine Parkinson (In The Club), Maxine Peake (The Village), Luke Pasqualino (The Musketeers), Jeremy Piven (Mr Selfridge), Anne Reid (Last Tango In Halifax), Matthew Rhys (Death Comes To Pemberley), John Simm (Prey / The Village), Lesley Sharp (Scott & Bailey), Martin Shaw (Inspector George Gently), Reece Shearsmith (The Widower), Dame Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey), Sheridan Smith (Cilla), Derek Thompson (Casualty), and Stephen Tomkinson (DCI Banks).


The initial round of voting takes place until midnight 26th October, with the short-list votes taking place in January in the lead-up to the Awards Ceremony itself at the O2 Arena in London on 21st January 2015; the ceremony will be broadcast on ITV.

Last year saw Matt Smith win the Drama Performance category, with the show itself also winning Best Drama. The complete list of winners from previous years can be found on the NTA website.

The drama based on the birth of Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time, has been nomionated of an International Emmy Award.

Nominations for the 2014 International Emmy Awards were announced today by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at a Press Conference at the Mipcom convention in Cannes.

An Adventure In Space And Time was written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Terry McDonough.

The drama has previously been nominated for a BAFTA award and a Critics Choice award, but lost out in both cases. The 42nd International Emmy Awards will take place November 24, 2014 at the New York Hilton Hotel.

A fan from Manchester in the United Kingdom has been recognised by Guinness World Records for having the largest collection of Doctor Who memorabilia worldwide. Ian O'Brien's collection comprises of some 1,573 items at the time of recognition on 6th September 2014, with more added since that date!

Ian told us:

Full details on Ian's record can be found via the Guinness World Records website.


Doctor Who and its fans are not strangers to the Guinness Book of World Records, which celebrates its own 60th Anniversary this year. Rob Hull was recognised in 2011 for having the largest collection of Daleks, Doctor Who Magazine became the "Longest Running Magazine Based on a Television Series" in 2010, and the series itself was recognised in 2009 as the "Most successful sci-fi series". Last year's 50th Anniversary episode, The Day Of The Doctor, was also officially recognised as "the world's largest-ever simulcast of a TV drama".

Peter Capaldi has been named TV Personality of the year at the 2014 GQ Men Of The Year Awards.

The actor was presented with the award by his TARDIS sidekick, Jenna Coleman, at a special event at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden.

The awards, presented in association with Hugo Boss, are now now in their seventeenth year.

On receiving the award Capaldi said Previous GQ awards have been won by Capaldi's predecessor Matt Smith who was named Best Actor in 2010 and Most Stylish Man in 2011.

Game of Thrones which has won the 2014 Hugo award for for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form beating Doctor Who for the second year running.

The Day of the Doctor and The Name of the Doctor were both nominated, as was An Adventure in Space and Time and The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. However Game of Thrones came through to win the award with the episode The Rains of Castamere.

It was a disappointing night for Doctor Who fans with other Who related nominees losing out in their categories. The winners were announced on Sunday evening at the ExCel Converntion Centre in London.

Full results are here.