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The tradition of families gathering around the telly at Christmas in the U.K. to watch Christmas specials from their favorite series has been going on since the early 1980s; however, it wasn't until the 2005 reboot of Doctor Who that it gained enough cultural cache to earn
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If the latest internet reports are to be believed, former The Good Wife star will be stepping aboard Ncuti Gatwa's second season of Doctor Who. The actress, best known for playing Kalinda Sharma on the critically acclaimed CBS series and allegedly feuding with star Juliana Margulies behind the
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It’s been nearly a decade since Doctor Who last graced San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H, though, in terms of the show’s 60 years, that’s just a drop in the bucket. Returning showrunner Russell T Davies, the Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, and Season 1 companion Millie Gibson,
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The first Russell T. Davies era of Doctor Who contained several consistent hallmarks: Fiesty companions who prove ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things; complex supporting characters with depth and agency; deep cuts from classic lore; and twisty plots that tended to make almost no sense at all from
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Doctor Who’s new reboot era has garnered buzz in cultural circles for many “firsts” in LGBTQ+ representation. So far, there’s been the first gay Doctor, the first gay kiss in Doctor Who, the first transgender actor, the first transgender character, and so on. All of these have happened,
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One of the best things about Doctor Who, as a series, is its willingness to revisit, reimagine, and interrogate its own long-running history. For all that showrunner Russell T. Davies has insisted this latest incarnation of the sci-fi classic, with its new home on Disney+ and the bigger budget to
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If there's one thing Russell T. Davies is going to do, it's craft a big, loud, splashy two-parter to close out any season of Doctor Who he's involved in. From "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways" back during
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Somewhat unintentionally, this season of Doctor Who has somehow managed to spin itself into the most timely thing on television. The Ruby-centric "73 Yards," whose primary villain was an aggressive nationalist and xenophobic politician with his hand on the nuclear trigger, arrived just as real-life Prime Minister Rishi
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Truly, there's never a bad time to go to London. One of the greatest cities in the world in general, it's got incredible museums, awe-inspiring history, excellent food, iconic scenery, and a theater scene that often beats out America's own Great White Way for
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Doctor Who's much-ballyhooed move to Disney+ didn't quite work the way most assumed, with the House of Mouse deciding not to bother to do much to promote the trio of 60th anniversary specials. To be fair, the three-episode mini-season featuring former-turned-current Doctor David Tennant was an
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Doctor Who is a show that is aspirational at its heart. Travel hopefully; never cruel or cowardly, and above all, be kind. Because of this, it's easy to assume that the stories it tells are always happy ones and that everything turns out alright in the end. The
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that some of Doctor Who's best episodes barely feature the show's primary character. These so-called "Doctor-lite" episodes were initially deployed during showrunner Russell T. Davies' first tenure to help mask the fact that the show was filming