I headed off to the Invasion conference in Barking today for another major overload on Doctor Who. While I’ve been to several UK Who conventions before, this was the first since the new series got broadcast and Who shifted from cult favourite to mainstream obsession. Here are the random highlights with the customary appalling [...]

Just in case anyone hasn’t seen it: there’s a new Doctor Who interlude available on the BBC Web site, broadcast last week as part of its annual Children In Need appeal. The last time these two TV phenomena interacted we got the amazingly shocking Dimensions In Time, but this isn’t a dumb comic interlude: rather, [...]

Having spent more than a decade neglecting Doctor Who on screen, the BBC isn’t wasting any time catching up. Not only has it commissioned two further series of the show itself, it’s also now approved what is only the second televisual Who spinoff. (The first, K9 & Company, is not normally mentioned in polite company.)

Torchwood, [...]

Clearly, I have no sense of restraint or shame. After coughing up a small fortune for a vaguely rare Who annual, I then splurged further amounts of money for the right to sit at the same table as India Fisher at Saturday night’s Whovention banquet. Obviously, this makes me seem like a complete deranged fanboy, [...]

While this Whovention is technically Doctor-less, having four international guests more than makes up for it. Today was largely dominated by interview sessions with the four imports, all of whom made for entertaining viewing.

Of course, if you’re a dedicated Who fan and you’ve read all the reference works, then the odds of any of the [...]

Whovention 2005 kicked off on Friday night with a traditional staple of fan conventions: the trivia night. From my own point of view, this had the potential to be highly embarrassing. If you dumped me in a room with 20 random strangers, the odds are good that I’d know more about Doctor Who than any [...]

This weekend, I’ll be happily attending Whovention 7, the latest in the Doctor Who Club of Australia’s series of biannual get-togethers. Given the success that the new series has enjoyed, I imagine things will be a tad more crowded than at previous Whoventions, which can only be a good thing, really.

One of the special guests [...]

It’s been a few weeks since I went on one of my customary Doctor Who news searches, so I was in for a very pleasant surprise when I hit Outpost Gallifrey. In amongst the expected casting news for the first David Tennant-starring series was the revelation that Janet Fielding had finally been persuaded to return [...]