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After 17 years, Ianto’s shrine in Cardiff is set to be taken down permanently to allow for maintenance work.

First established after the on-screen death of the character in 2009’s Torchwood: Children of Earth, the unofficial wall of tributes in Cardiff Bay’s Mermaid Quay soon became a place of pilgrimage for fans of the series, and some bafflement for othe...


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The Eleventh Doctor is back, albeit not this time played by Matt Smith — instead, Miles Taylor steps into the role for Big Finish’s new series of Doctor Who audio dramas.

This Doctor is joined by Jasmine Bayes (who previously played Corporal Alice Sullivan in The Legend of Ruby Sunday/ Empire of Death) as his new companion, Eleanor Fong.


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Doctor Who showrunner, Russell T Davies, has said that he thinks of the series as a “gay show”.

Davies appeared at a talk at Series Mania in France, and claimed:

“In many ways, I kind of think of Doctor Who as a gay show — which it isn’t, technically, but he’s an outsider who doesn’t fit in with the world and lives his own life and… he...


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You can now read a free short story, written by the editor of The Doctor Who Companion (that’s, uh, well, me!), and starring the granddaughter of Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.

Lucy Wilson essentially inherited the position of defender of the planet from her grandfather, so travels to different times and places using her Time Ring to battle ...


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Loved watching The Nightmare Begins and Devil’s Planet, the newly-discovered episodes of the largely-missing 1965 serial, The Daleks’ Master Plan? You might be wondering what happens to the Doctor’s companions, Steven Taylor and Katarina – not to mention the companion-that-never-was, Sara Kingdom.

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