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British Shows We Want To See in 2026
We run down ten of the shows we're most excited to see in 2026, which of them already have streaming homes and which are still waiting for pick up.
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'Doctor Who' Announces New Multimedia Story While TV Hiatus Continues
The Doctor Who fandom expanded tenfold when the series regenerated on Disney+ in 2024, with new viewers drawn in by star Ncuti Gatwa, the series' first Black man to inhabit the role, and the first openly gay portrayal of the two hearts alien. The series reached a fever pitch
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'Doctor Who' Animated Spinoff In the Works at CBBC
Plans for Doctor Who Season 3 (or Season 16 if you prefer, or Season 42 if you're really going to be like that) are currently stuck in limbo as negotiations 9or lack thereof) occur behind the scenes between series producer Bad Wolf (showrunner Russell T. Davies' company)
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The Official Teaser Holds a Plea to End 'The War Between the Land & the Sea'
For Doctor Who fans, 2025 is proving to be a bittersweet one. In the U.S., the show's longest-running convention, Gallifrey One, announced it would be shutting down before the end of the decade. On TV, Disney seems to be on the fence about making the marriage official
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'Doctor Who' Finale "The Reality War" Shakes Up the Franchise All Over Again
Russell T. Davies wraps up the second (and possibly final) season of Doctor Who on Disney+ with an hour that goes for broke in every respect. "The Reality War" is an epic spectacle of the sort that Davies has always loved as a showrunner — a finale that brings
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In "Wish World," the Rani Builds an Alternate 'Doctor Who' Reality
No matter which reboot or what season, showrunner Russell T. Davies' version of Doctor Who has a few...let's call them "consistencies." His Doctors are morally complex figures who are optimists at heart, although they carry around no small amount of trauma (Fourteen's
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'Doctor Who Unleashed' to Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Modern Revival
Given that the franchise has been around for over sixty years, Doctor Who has a lot of anniversaries to celebrate. As a general rule, it usually likes to go all out for them, in ways that most frequently involve copious applications of former Tenth Doctor, David Tennant. (See the global
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'Doctor Who's "The Interstellar Song Contest" Earns Null Points for Singing
On paper, Doctor Who meets Eurovision feels like an unbeatable premise. An over-the-top, purposefully high-camp event, with flashy outfits that may or may not light up, coordinated dance numbers, and dedicated fanbases waging voting campaigns should result in an hour that's fun, if nothing else, and it seems
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'Doctor Who' Season 2 Finale Will Premiere Simultaneously in U.S. and U.K.
Doctor Who fans have had literal decades of practice at dodging spoilers. It's a practice that's been honed over years' worth of conflicting release dates, long waits between U.S. and U.K. transmissions, eventual day and date synchronicity, and whatever was happening last season,
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'Doctor Who's' "The Story & the Engine" Is a Powerful Ode to the Stories We Tell
"We're all just stories in the end" is an idea we've encountered on Doctor Who before. But although this line was originally spoken in the Season 5 episode "The Big Bang," the Eleventh Doctor's famous phrase has rarely felt more
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In "Lucky Day," Ruby Sunday Is a 'Doctor Who' Companion On Her Own
Though Doctor Who ostensibly follows the adventures of a two-hearted alien who travels through space and time in a blue police box, the show's heart is most often found in the stories of the companions alongside him. Showrunner Russell T. Davies has always been interested in the idea
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"The Well" Is a Surprise Sequel to An All-Time Great 'Doctor Who' Episode
When a franchise has been around as long as Doctor Who has, it's inevitable that it's going to revisit some of the same stories over time. Most often, that's reflected in repeated encounters with the Time Lord's most famous enemies: Daleks, Cybermen,