Category Archives: Doctor Who People

Ninth Doctor actor Christopher Eccleston leads the latest campaign from Alzheimer’s Research UK #sharetheorange. The project features stop motion animation from award winning studio Aardman, demonstrating how the diseases that causes dementia, most commonly Alzheimer’s, physically attacks the brain. Through … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat who has been presented with an OBE for services to drama. Moffat told the Scottish Daily Record: It was very thrilling and formal and slightly, slightly, just very slightly, like being back at school. … Continue reading →

Actor, writer, director and UNHCR Supporter Peter Capaldi travelled with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to meet Syrian families living in refugee camps and towns and cities across Jordan.

While at the Lucca Comics & Games event in Tuscany, Italy, the executive producer and lead writer of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat, found time to talk to Variety magazine’s International Correspondant Nick Vivarelli  about all things Doctor Who. Asked if … Continue reading →

Steven Moffat has revealed that the highly anticipated Sherlock special will air on New Year’s Day 2016. He told fans at London Comic Con yesterday: I can exclusively reveal that the long wait for Sherlock will begin again in the … Continue reading →

ITV have released the first image of actress Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) who stars in  their upcoming drama series depicting the life of Queen Victoria. The eight-part drama follows the early life of Queen Victoria from her accesion to the … Continue reading →

Steven Moffat, lead writer of Doctor Who and co-creator of Sherlock, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Steven said: I never thought I would get something like this, I’m astonished and more thrilled than I … Continue reading →

Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat interviewed by youtube channel Brilloxians, owned by his son Louis.

It’s nearly Hallowe’en, and this year, something truly terrifying is going to happen… Six seemingly random strangers are drawn by a mysterious figure to a disused, semi-derelict theatre in a sleepy, seemingly innocuous, seaside town. There they begin their journey … Continue reading →

[singlepic id=813 w=311 h=231 float=left]The actress Kate O’Mara has died aged 74 after a short illness. An accomplished theatre actress she appeared in many stage roles across a very long career. But it is for her many varied roles across … Continue reading →

[singlepic id=816 w=321 h=245 float=right]Veteran Doctor Who director Derek Martinus has died at the age of 82. Derek Martinus directed 26 episodes of Doctor Who beginning with the 1965 story Galaxy Four starring William Hartnell. He then stayed on to direct the … Continue reading →

A shooting script from Doctor Who series four is being offered for auction to raise money for the National Literary Trust. The signed script was used by actor Steve Pemberton who played Strackman Lux in the two-part 2008 story Silence in … Continue reading →

The actor Roger Lloyd Pack has died aged 69. Lloyd Pack appeared in Doctor Who in 2006 playing the role of John Lumic, owner of Cybus Industries, in the two part adventure Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel. … Continue reading →