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Big Finish has announced that its licence to produce Doctor Who audio dramas has been renewed, meaning brand-new adventures until at least the end of 2035!

The news was announced at the Gallifrey One fan convention in Los Angeles on Saturday 7th February 2026.

Big Finish’s Doctor Who range has been going since 1999, largely con...


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BBC Studios’ Zai Bennett has spoken about the corporation’s attitude to Doctor Who‘s future, and seems to suggest that the upcoming Christmas special will be a one-off, dealing with the consequences of The Reality War.

Bennett is the head honcho at BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, and notes that while he “won’t speak for the BBC”, we ar...


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National Storytelling Week 2026 concluded yesterday (8th February 2026), but the power of a strong narrative will always be important — and that’s why Candy Jar Books is giving away a free downloadable PDF, with numerous short stories and sample book chapters in!

Organised by the Society for Storytelling, National Storytelling Week ran from 31st January to 8th Febr...


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I don’t know whether there is any hard line on just how many actual releases there are in this strand of BBC Audio’s Doctor Who output – it’s a talking book range that encompasses all readings of the Target Books era, yes, but may also include extraneous readings such as Paul McGann’s reading of his 1996 film, Frazer Hines’ reading his The Evil of the D...


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Alex Kingston, who played the Doctor’s wife, River Song, regularly between 2008 and 2015, says she doesn’t think Billie Piper really is the next Doctor.

We saw Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor regenerate into Billie Piper at the end of The Reality War, though there’s a suggestion that this was a last-minute change to the finale. Alex isn’t


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