Comments for The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com Get your daily fix of news, reviews, and features with the Doctor Who Companion! Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 Comment on Reviewed: Big Finish’s Eleventh Doctor Chronicles Volume 3 – Geronimo! by Reviewed: Big Finish’s Eleventh Doctor Chronicles Volume 6 – Victory of the Doctor – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2022/10/28/reviewed-big-finishs-eleventh-doctor-chronicles-volume-3-geronimo/#comment-5246 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:11:08 +0000 https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=36738#comment-5246 […] review contains spoilers for the previous boxsets – Geronimo!, All of Time and Space, and Everywhere and Anywhere – and Broken Hearts. […]

]]> Comment on Reviewed: Big Finish’s Eleventh Doctor Chronicles – Broken Hearts by Reviewed: Big Finish’s Eleventh Doctor Chronicles Volume 5 – Everywhere and Anywhere – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2023/12/18/reviewed-big-finishs-eleventh-doctor-chronicles-broken-hearts/#comment-5245 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:10:14 +0000 https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=40084#comment-5245 […] and Anywhere is the strongest boxset in the Series 7V arc, thus far — up there with Broken Hearts; retroactively the fourth story in All of Time and Space. Such imaginative concepts, […]

]]> Comment on Reviewed: Big Finish’s Eleventh Doctor Chronicles Volume 4 – All of Time and Space by Reviewed: Big Finish’s Eleventh Doctor Chronicles Volume 5 – Everywhere and Anywhere – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2023/03/24/reviewed-big-finishs-eleventh-doctor-chronicles-volume-4-all-of-time-and-space/#comment-5244 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:07:21 +0000 https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=37784#comment-5244 […] review contains spoilers for Geronimo! and All of Time and Space. Be warned, or beg mercy from River […]

]]> Comment on Peter Capaldi Reasserts That He Won’t Return to Doctor Who by Peter Capaldi Reflects on the Popularity of Fan Favourite Doctor Who Episode, Heaven Sent – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024/01/16/peter-capaldi-reasserts-that-he-wont-return-to-doctor-who/#comment-5242 Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:12:08 +0000 https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=40582#comment-5242 […] and was 57 when Heaven Sent was broadcast, is still very busy as an actor and has reasserted that he won’t be returning to the role of the Doctor on television. He very specifically cited that medium in response to Tenth Doctor actor David […]

]]> Comment on The First Episode Title for Doctor Who Series 14 Has Been Revealed by Millie Gibson Calls the “Sixties Episode” Her Favourite of Doctor Who Series 14 – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024/01/07/the-first-episode-title-for-doctor-who-series-14-has-been-revealed/#comment-5241 Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:14:14 +0000 https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=40535#comment-5241 […] episode” is due to be screened as the second in Series 14, directed by Ben Chessell, called The Devil’s Chord and featuring a massive battle at Abbey Road. Oh, plus the Beatles, […]

]]> Comment on Reviewed: Big Finish’s Doctor Who, Once and Future – The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 by Reviewed: Big Finish’s First Doctor Adventures – Fugitive of the Daleks – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2023/09/17/reviewed-big-finishs-doctor-who-once-and-future-the-martian-invasion-of-planetoid-50/#comment-5240 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:01:16 +0000 https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=39400#comment-5240 […] in the Once and Future 60th anniversary event; with an expanded appearance in the fifth chapter, The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50. It’s a real honour that Noonan has already joined the line of Doctor recasts at Big Finish, […]

]]> Comment on Reviewed: Pull to Open – The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who by Reviewed — Doctor Who Fanzine, Vworp Vworp! #6 – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2023/11/02/reviewed-pull-to-open-the-inside-story-of-how-the-bbc-created-and-launched-doctor-who/#comment-5239 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:06:06 +0000 https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=39650#comment-5239 […] origins has been told very comprehensively before, not least in Paul Kirkley’s impressive volume Pull to Open, but the team of writers assembled here find plenty of new things to say. There are in-depth […]

]]> Comment on Reviewed: Big Finish’s Eleventh Doctor Chronicles Volume 4 – All of Time and Space by Reviewed: Big Finish’s Eleventh Doctor Chronicles – Broken Hearts – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2023/03/24/reviewed-big-finishs-eleventh-doctor-chronicles-volume-4-all-of-time-and-space/#comment-5238 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:21:00 +0000 https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=37784#comment-5238 […] Doctor (voiced by Jacob Dudman), continues the events of Curiosity Shop, the third episode in All of Time and Space. The midpoint in the serialised “Series 7V” arc (thank you, Max Kashevsky!) which sort […]

]]> Comment on Viewing Figures for Doctor Who Christmas Day Special, The Church on Ruby Road, Revealed by Doctor Who Was Streamed More Than 10 Million Times Over the Christmas Period – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024/01/13/viewing-figures-for-doctor-who-christmas-day-special-the-church-on-ruby-road-revealed/#comment-5237 Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:02:11 +0000 https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=40584#comment-5237 […] that’s a big figure, and adds into the 4.73 million overnights, rising to a final figure of 7.49 million […]

]]> Comment on Out Now: Big Finish’s Short Trips – The Lichyrwick Abomination by Reviewed: Big Finish’s Doctor Who Short Trips – The Hoxteth Time Capsule – The Doctor Who Companion https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2021/12/29/out-now-big-finishs-short-trips-the-lichyrwick-abomination/#comment-5236 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:06:19 +0000 http://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/?p=34071#comment-5236 […] (* At first, I thought Hoxteth was the name of a planet, until listening to the Short Trip which describes it as a fictional English village. Very much reminds me of the Scottish fishing town, Lichyrwick, from the 2021 winning entry.) […]

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