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This year’s Doctor Who Annual will include a brand new short story featuring the Doctor and Ruby

 

The Doctor Who Annual 2026 is out on the 21st of August and there are more details of what fans can expect from this year’s stocking filler. The hardback book will contain a special short story written by Lucky Day scriptwriter Pete McTighe. Night of the Shreek offers a Target Books style expansion of the action, leading directly into one of the early scenes of the episode.

 

Night of the Shreek

It was cold. And it was hungry.

The shock of interdimensional travel had stunned it for a moment, so it lay there on a cold, unfamiliar floor, breathing hard. Vulnerable for just a few seconds. Then it flipped quickly on to all fours, scanning its surroundings with a defensive glare. But it was alone.

Its instincts said that this place was a fertile hunting ground. But this was its first time out of its hive, away from its kin. Detached from everything it had ever known, in a strange new world. Breathing the bitterly cold, toxic air, surrounded by towering concrete buildings, it felt lost. And lonely. And scared.

And it really, really needed to eat…

 

You can read the rest of the action in the annual. As well as Night of the Shreek, readers will have the usual mix of fact pages, quizzes and games. Although a more detailed breakdown isn’t available, previous annuals suggest there will very likely be an episode-by-episode guide to the most recent season, a character guide covering both heroes and villains, and more.

You can pre-order the annual now from your preferred bookseller, through the links on the Penguin Books website.

 

Doctor Who The Official Annual 2026 (c) BBC Books. The Doctor adopts an action pose, one leg and arm extended, the sonic screwdriver at the ready, while Belinda smiles behind him and the TARDIS and various planets float in space
Doctor Who The Official Annual 2026 (c) BBC Books

Doctor Who Annual 2026

The second official Annual of a brand-new era of Doctor Who is the must-have companion book to the latest adventures of Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor.

From the latest terrifying monsters to the friends helping to save the day, this book is packed with facts, quizzes and games.

So, jump on board the TARDIS, and step into a whole new Whoniverse!

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Fear Death by Water provides an old school pseudo historical as the Doctor meets real life hero Grace Darling as well as something darker in the depths

 

The Doctor plunges into the icy waters of history in Fear Death by Water, the debut novel by Emily Cook. This is far from Cook’s first association with Doctor Who, however, with the publication of Fear Death by Water marking ten years since she first began with DWM. Over the course of the decade she’s taken her place as one of the new generation of voices in fandom. She undoubtedly one of those who will continue to guard the flame well into the 21st century. She’s gone on to produce webisodes and Big Finish audio series, and built a career in the television industry beyond the Whoniverse too.

It’s both surprising and heartwarming then, that a voice born of the new Who generation tells such a deeply traditional story as Fear Death by Water. At times the pseudo historical about 19th century lighthouse keeper Grace Darling feels like a throwback. It’s care to educate and inform calls to mind the days of William Hartnell’s Doctor. Indeed, one of the novel’s strongest aspects is its willingness to simply dwell on the details of Grace’s day to day life. Grace isn’t the flashy historical celebrity of recent years: no Charles Dickens or Agatha Christie. Instead, she was a quiet hero whose actions inspired a movement that endures today, even as most forget her name.

 

The first third of the novel allows the real life story of Grace and the Forfashire to unfold true to history for an inspiring profile in courage

Cook is determined to shine a line on Grace’s courage. Refreshingly she’s as interested in the quiet dignity of duty that marked most of her days. There’s more to Grace than the one night of thrilling adventure that captured the public imagination. In 1838, during the night of the 7th of September, 22 year old Grace spotted the wreck of the Forfarshire. She quickly roused her family, and rowed with her father through the stormy darkness to rescue the survivors. But the early chapters concern themselves just as much as much with the hardships of 19th century lighthouse life. They provide a portrait of Grace’s love of the sea, nature, and solitude. In centering the patience, dedication, and humility of those who spend a life ready for the call, over the flashy heroics of a moment, Fear Death is unusually mature for a Doctor Who novel.

The novel also smartly places the Doctor aboard the Forfarshire on the fateful night. It not only gives us insight into the part of the story Grace herself wasn’t present for, but lets her heroism stand alone, without the Doctor’s help. The rich use of language creates an atmosphere thick when tension, too. Even though we already know how these events will play out, the characters’ fear is keenly felt.

 

The book’s middle act is typical, well done Doctor Who fare as the Doctor races to save the Earth from both an alien menace and those who simply want to blow it up

Of course, in 2025 no Doctor Who book will entirely embrace the Hartnell standard of simply bearing witness to history. So the aftermath of the Forfarshire rescue features some rather more alien complications. The Leviathan, an alien sea monster somehow able to teleport between the galaxy’s oceans, destroying entire marine ecosystems as it goes, has come to the seas around Longstone Lighthouse. Close on its fins are two agents of an interstellar ecological enforcement agency. A pair of brothers determined to end the threat of this invasive species by any means necessary.

In terms of pure plot mechanics, Fear Death by Water’s second act is well crafted, if reasonably standard, Doctor Who fare. The Doctor wants to save the Earth without killing the Leviathan. In contrast, Ketor and Chip’s single-mindedness in their hunt may only make the situation more dangerous. All the while Grace, as the Doctor’s stand-in companion, provides a human perspective. Unsurprisingly, it’s also Grace’s bravery and moral sense that will be called upon to save the day by the end.

Thematically, and even scientifically, the results are more mixed. There’s a lot of sympathy for the idea that the sea itself is like a wild and uncontrollable beast that people have to accept on its own terms. Meanwhile, there’s an element of shaming Ketor for the supposed hypocrisy hunting a sea creature to kill it. At least while claiming to be a protector of the oceans. Yet controlling or eliminating invasive species is a genuine and legitimate function of real wildlife organisations. While the genocidal threat the Leviathan represents for every marine species on Earth is a poor vehicle for the theme of letting nature be.

 

The story lingers after the danger longer than usual, allowing a richer insight than usual of its central guest’s legacy

The Leviathan itself has possibly the daftest biology in Doctor Who since Kill the Moon’s moon-egg laying space dragon. Elsewhere, the Doctor’s humane solution to the conundrum is quite charmingly silly in its application, calling to mind classic story Horror of Fang Rock. But in its long term implications it borders perilously on complete nonsense.

There’s a sense, then, of the novel being one of those instances where the monster exists because Doctor Who has to have a monster. Things certainly pick up again in the extended coda that re-focuses us again on the real Grace’s life story. It’s a sensitive exploration of both the good and the bad that came from Grace’s unasked for fame. The hero worship takes a toll on the young woman, who finds it increasingly difficult to live the life of solitude and service she desires most. Yet, born from her example was a new public drive to save lives at sea. It ultimately kick starts a charitable tradition that continues today with the RNLI.

It’s Cook’s ability to capture this bittersweet contradiction in Grace’s legacy that’s perhaps her novel’s greatest achievement. In the past two centuries, poets like William Wordsworth, and songsmiths like the Strawbs have celebrated Grace Darling. With Fear Death by Water, Emily Cook, who the post-scripts make clear is distantly related to the Darlings, can be proud of her addition.

 

With the Ncuti Gatwa era cut tragically short on TV, Fear Death by Water provides the perfect opportunity to spend a little more time with this Doctor

If it at times feels like the Doctor is a guest character in his own novel, it’s made up for by how well it captures his charisma and energy. In a particularly nice touch early on, he actually uses his jukebox for once. The image of the Doctor grooving around the console as he works is lovely fun. It underlines how rarely we got it to see the jukebox in use on TV. Similarly, there’s another callback to the lack of chairs in the TARDIS. It adds to the pang of that dangling thread of this Doctor’s arc.

Despite the generally serious tone, that cheeky sense of fun still filters through. Especially in the chapter titles, which includes such gems as Rocky Horror Show, John Smith and the Common Men, and When Life Gives You Potatoes. (Sadly, the answer isn’t ‘make vodka.’)

Fear Death by Water also takes on a new importance in view of recent developments on television. When it was first announced, few would have guessed Ncuti Gatwa would have left the role by the time it arrived. As it is, following this all too brief era, every opportunity to spend more time with the Fifteenth Doctor should be seized with both hands. It’s fortunate, however, that that time should be taken with something as gently compelling as this.

 

Doctor Who: Fear Death by Water (c) Penguin Books. The Doctor in his 2025 premiere outfit of blue denim waistcoat over white t-shirt, with long matching denim kilt over blue jeans, points dramatically with the sonic screwdriver, his legs planted firmly apart on a rolling sailing ship deck, one hand griping a rope while the sea churns all around.
Doctor Who: Fear Death by Water (c) Penguin Books

Doctor Who: Fear Death by Water

Northumberland, 1838. The TARDIS crash lands on board a sinking steamship. Stranded, the Doctor and the few survivors fight for their lives – while the local lighthouse keeper’s daughter, Grace Darling, risks her life to row to their rescue.

Lauded a heroine, Grace struggles to cope with her new-found fame. But the Doctor senses something else is troubling Grace. She’s been tormented by the terrifying vision she saw out at sea in the storm. There’s a monster in her mind, wrecking ships and stealing the souls of the drowned.

And it’s real.

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Doctor Who: Causeway – Coming Soon!

Jun. 29th, 2025 11:00 am
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Paul McGann, India Fisher and Jaye Griffiths star in Doctor Who: Causeway in November 2025

 

There are brand-new adventures for the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) and his companions – Edwardian adventuress Charley Pollard (India Fisher) and Regency aristocrat Lady Audacity Montague (Jaye Griffiths) in this November’s release from Big Finish – Causeway.

The box set begins with a trip out into the far reaches of space, where Audacity realises the great dangers that come with life in the TARDIS. Then, in the vein of City of Death and Arc of Infinity, the travellers take a European excursion, enjoying the sights of Copenhagen. And everywhere they go, the Causeway is calling…

But what is the Causeway? Big Finish producer David Richardson explains: “The Eighth Doctor has been following a scent for some time, although listeners may not even have noticed. The word ‘Causeway’ has been seeded throughout his adventures with Charley and Audacity, and now their destination is the Causeway itself… Worlds will collide, and for one of the TARDIS team, life will never be the same again.”

he Time You Never Had guest stars Richard Hope – who played Silurian characters in Doctor Who TV episodes The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, and The Wedding of River Song, and once again plays a Homo reptilia, the enigmatic Mr Barabbas.

The box set’s cast also includes Nicholas Khan, Bee Menabny, Robert Whitelock, Obioma Ugoala, Andrew Wincott, Poppy Miller, and Henrietta Wolfmountain.

Writer Rochana Patel said: “I particularly enjoy the dynamic between Charley and Audacity, as this is the only series where you have two female historical companions, exploring time and history together, and that is a very special and unique window on the universe. But it’s very easy for this range to become cosy, because we know two of our leads are safe. So I put Audacity through hell in this one!”

 

 

Doctor Who: Causeway

Exploring with best friends Audacity and Charley, the Doctor delights in showing them the wonders of the universe. But something dogs their footsteps… 

On a dangerous expedition into deep space, at an anachronistic business venture in Copenhagen, and meeting visitors from another reality, the TARDIS travellers begin to unravel the mystery of the Causeway… 

Lost Amongst the Stars by Rochana Patel

The Doctor wants to find a challenge for Charley and Audacity. All of time and space awaits, with wonders beyond their wildest dreams and darkest nightmares, but are they truly ready to venture further out amongst the stars?

The Time You Never Had – Parts One and Two by Tim Foley

The yesterday of opulence

Tomorrow soft and ironclad

Beyond the merry Oculus:

The time you never had.

 

Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Causeway is available to pre-order now from Big Finish for just £19.99 (download to own) or £24.99 (download to own + collector’s edition 3-disc CD box set). Please note: the collector’s edition CD box set is strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will not be repressed.   

 

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TOS Spotlight: Commercial Promotion

Jun. 28th, 2025 05:27 pm
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The Policy & Abuse committee (PAC) is responsible for enforcing the AO3 Terms of Service (TOS). To help users better understand the TOS, we’re posting a weekly spotlight series about the TOS and our policies. We’ll also be reading comments and answering questions on this and our other spotlight posts.


For our last post in this series, we’ll be talking about our non-commercialization policy. AO3 doesn’t allow users to engage in commercial promotion of any type, which includes everything from paywalls to tip jars, and quite a lot in between. In this post, we’ll discuss why AO3 doesn’t allow commercialization, what kinds of activities are considered to be commercial promotion, and what to do if you see commercial promotion on AO3.

Don’t go looking for things to report.

Please do not start searching for works to report after reading this post. We know that commercial promotion frequently appears on AO3. However, when people deliberately search for works to report, we end up getting a lot of duplicate tickets about works that have already been reported. Every ticket we receive is reviewed by a PAC volunteer, so we only need one report in order to investigate an issue. We know it seems like sites only respond to mass reports, but on AO3, duplicate and mass reports increase the time it takes our volunteers to investigate.

What is commercial promotion?

Commercial promotion covers all references or links to commercial sites, monetized features of non-commercial sites, and anything else that makes it clear someone is asking for or has received financial contributions.

On AO3, you can’t encourage anyone to give other people money, or talk about anyone having given people money in the past. This applies whether you are promoting yourself or a friend, or even if you’re collecting donations for other people or causes. If there is money changing hands, then it likely violates AO3’s TOS.

AO3 is a non-commercial space.

AO3 was created and is managed by the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), a nonprofit organization committed to the defense and protection of fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenges. The OTW is entirely staffed by unpaid volunteers, and AO3 is itself entirely non-commercial. No one involved in AO3’s creation or management profits from it. The site is made available free of charge to all fans who wish to share their works with other fans and fan communities.

We understand that many people today choose to monetize their creative activities. However, in order to keep AO3 as the non-commercial space it was designed to be, users are not permitted to engage in any commercial activity on the site.

When you use AO3, you agree to follow our Terms of Service, which includes the non-commercialization policy. This applies to all parts of the site, whether you’re posting a work based on an existing source or creating content entirely original to you.

AO3’s non-commercialization policy applies to the entire site.

Real-world commercialization is banned everywhere on AO3. This includes:

  • Profile pages
  • Usernames, pseuds, and pseud descriptions
  • Works (including all tags, beginning or end notes, chapter notes, summaries, and titles)
  • Series (including titles, summaries, descriptions, and notes)
  • Bookmarks (including tags and notes)
  • Comments
  • Prompt memes, gift exchanges, and other collections
  • Any other part of AO3

It’s okay for fictional characters in fanworks to talk about fictional monetization. For example, it’s fine if a character has a fictional OnlyFans or Patreon within the story, as long as that commercial reference doesn’t direct the reader to a real-world OnlyFans or Patreon account for the work creator or anyone else.

What are some examples of commercial activities?

There is a wide variety of things that are not allowed under AO3’s non-commercialization rules.

Links or references to any commercial site or service. A “commercial site” is any site whose primary purpose is to facilitate the transfer of money. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Storefronts like Amazon or Etsy
  • Crowd fundraisers like Kickstarter or GoFundMe​​
  • Tip jars or membership subscriptions like Ko-Fi or Patreon
  • ​​Payment platforms like PayPal or Venmo

Links or references to the monetized features of non-commercial sites. This covers any site that has features you can enable or opt-in to earn revenue, but the primary purpose of the site is social media, sharing artwork, or anything else that isn’t inherently payment-focused. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Paywalls or early-access content like Wattpad Paid Stories or Webtoon Canvas
  • Storefronts like DeviantArt Shop or Instagram Shop
  • Tip jars or membership subscriptions like TikTok Donation Stickers or Twitch Prime

Previews and other promotions for paid content. This covers situations like excerpts or teasers shared in an attempt to entice people to purchase a book or become a paying subscriber. It also includes references to paywalled or early-access content (e.g. “Patreon subscribers get the new chapter one week early before I post it on AO3”).

Advertising content or services involving an exchange of money, such as buying merchandise, collecting donations, offering paid commissions, or selling published works.

Any other language which one might interpret as requesting or having requested financial contributions, whether for yourself or others. This covers indirect references, euphemisms, or other language intended to get around the TOS. Some examples of this include:

  • Thanks for the coffee!
  • My ☕ username is the same as my username here
  • This chapter is brought to you by my patrons
  • You know where to find me if you want early or bonus chapters
  • Check out my Twitter to learn how you can donate to me since I’m not allowed to discuss it here
  • If you want to hear more about my ideas, talk about fandom, or find more of my stuff for a coin, visit my Tumblr

Solicitation is not allowed, whether it’s for yourself or on behalf of someone else.

Commercial activity is not permitted on AO3. It doesn’t matter if you’re promoting yourself or a friend, or even if you’re collecting donations for other people or causes.

This means that if you paid an artist to create artwork for your fanfic, you’re not allowed to mention that they have a Patreon or use any other language that suggests people should also commission or donate to them. If you like a book by a particular author, you are certainly welcome to gush about what a great book it is, but you can’t link to the Amazon page where it’s for sale or encourage others to buy it.

What is the difference between a commercial site and a non-commercial site that has monetization features?

As mentioned above, a commercial site is a platform that is first and foremost intended to facilitate the exchange of money. For example, while you can use Ko-Fi as a blog, the site’s primary purpose is to encourage people to give each other money. Ko-Fi’s social features are secondary to its purpose as a donation and paid membership platform. This means you cannot link to or mention your or anyone else’s actual Ko-Fi on AO3 whatsoever.

An example of a non-commercial site that has monetization features is DeviantArt, an art gallery that is mainly intended as a place to share artworks. DeviantArt also allows its users to opt-in to additional monetization features, such as the DeviantArt Shop. Because DeviantArt’s paid features are both optional and not the primary reason people use the site, you can talk about or link to DeviantArt on AO3 – as long as you aren’t directing anyone to a paywalled post or referencing DeviantArt’s paid features in any way.

Can I link or mention a social media site where I talk about making money or collecting donations?

You’re allowed to link or mention social media like Tumblr or personal websites like WordPress, even if you sometimes post about commercial activities on those sites. However, you cannot reference commercial promotion on AO3 itself, nor may you link, mention, or give instructions for finding an account, page, or post that is solely promoting paid content.

Statements such as “Follow me on social media” or “Check out my Linktree” are fine. Directing people to an Amazon author page or to the Ko-fi link in your Twitter bio would not be allowed. This includes things like “Check out my Linktree to learn how you can support me” in cases where you are clearly referring to monetary support.

Can I post a fanwork created for a charity drive or for-profit zine?

While you cannot promote, solicit, or otherwise ask for donations on AO3, you are allowed to add your work to a collection or otherwise briefly mention why you created a fanwork, as long as you do so in a non-commercial manner. This means you can say “This was created for [Event]” or “Originally Written for [Name of Person/Zine]” as long as you do not directly link to a donation page or ask others to donate to them.

Keep in mind we also do not permit mentions of monetary transactions, regardless of when they occurred. A note such as “This was a $100 bid for Fandom Trumps Hate” would still be considered commercialization.

I’ve seen authors say their works are commissions. Is this allowed?

You are allowed to gift your work to someone else or otherwise briefly mention why you created a fanwork, as long as you do so in a non-commercial manner. Because not all commissioned fanworks were created for pay, we do permit usage of the word “commission” as long as there is no indication that a monetary transaction was involved in the creation of the work or that you are available to create other paid commissions.

For example, phrasing like “This is a commission for X” is acceptable, but “Commission for my Gold Tier Patron, Julie” or “My client agreed to let me post the first chapter of their commission” isn’t. The context makes it clear that both “patron” and “client” are references to a paying sponsor.

I’ve seen others ask for donations or advertise paid commissions. Why can’t I?

As our TOS FAQ explains, we don’t review content until it’s reported to us. You may have seen somebody else mentioning their paywalled content or otherwise engaging in commercial activities on AO3, but that doesn’t mean that it’s allowed. All it means is that nobody has reported that content to us yet, or that we haven’t finished processing the report.

What will happen if I get reported for commercial promotion?

First, we’ll review the reported work to confirm that you violated our TOS by engaging in commercial activities on AO3. If we determine that you did, we’ll send you an email telling you to remove the violating material.

If your work can be edited to fix the issue, you’ll be asked to edit the work. Your work may be hidden from other users until you do. If you choose not to edit the work, or if your work cannot be edited into compliance with the TOS, it will be deleted.

PAC will only ever contact you by email, and only after we’ve determined that your work violates our Terms of Service. We will never comment on your work or contact you through social media. Please make sure to keep your account’s email address up to date and check it regularly (including your spam folder), or else you may miss our warning email.

If you repeatedly post works that violate our commercial promotion policies, you may be temporarily suspended. Continuing to violate the TOS will result in your being permanently banned from AO3. You can learn more about warnings and suspensions in our TOS FAQ.

What should I do if I encounter commercial activity on AO3?

You can give the creator a heads up by politely commenting on their work and linking to the TOS FAQ or this post. Alternatively, you can report the work to us.

What about spam comments?

The best way to deal with spam comments, commercial or otherwise, depends on whether the comments are from registered accounts or guests.

How do I report commercial activity?

Although we ask that you do not deliberately seek out commercial promotion to report, if you come across commercial activity while browsing, you can report it using the Policy Questions & Abuse Reports form, which is linked at the bottom of every page on AO3.

Please don’t report more than one user at a time or submit multiple reports about the same user. When reporting multiple works by the same user, please submit only one report with links to each work you’re reporting, so that all information about that user is in the same place.

Please tell us exactly where in the work the commercialization is. The best way to do this is to give us a description or short quote that we can search for in order to immediately find the content. If you are reporting multiple works by the same creator, please group all the works into one report and provide this information for each work.

For example, a report of commercial promotion might look like this:

Link to the page you are reporting: https://archiveofourown.org/works/00000000

Brief summary of Terms of Service violation: Commercial promotion

Description of the content you are reporting:
This work by USERNAME advertises a ko-fi in the end notes of chapter 3.

If you are reporting additional works, please include all relevant links and other information in your report description:

Description of the content you are reporting:
This work by USERNAME advertises a ko-fi in the end notes of chapter 3.

Some of their other works also contain commercial promotion:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23456789 encourages readers to purchase their book on Amazon: “If you’re curious what else I’ve been working on or want to support me elsewhere, check out my new short story on Kindle Unlimited!”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34567890 contains an embedded image with a Patreon watermark. Underneath, the sentence “If you want more like this, click here” takes you to their commissions price sheet.

You can add more details if you like, but this example provides the basic information we need:

  • Who posted the commercial promotion: Tell us their username or if the work is anonymous or orphaned.
  • Where we can find the work(s): Enter one URL in the “Link to the page you are reporting” field, and (if applicable) include links to any other violating works in the description of your report.
  • What violates the TOS: Explain why you think commercial promotion has occurred, for example by including a quote and/or providing context for a comment exchange. A brief description of the situation is fine; you don’t need to be very detailed or quote an entire TOS or FAQ section.

You’ll receive an automatic email confirming that we received your report, and our volunteers will investigate when they get a chance. Please be patient and do not submit another report about the same work. While PAC investigates every report we receive, it can take several months for us to process a report, and not every report will receive a reply.

What if I have more questions about commercial promotion?

PAC follows a strict confidentiality policy. Therefore, while you are welcome to ask general questions in the comments of this post, we will not give information on specific cases, publicly rule on a work, or update you on the status of a report you have already submitted. Comments on this post that discuss specific works or users will be removed.

If you think you’ve found commercial promotion on AO3, or if you want to know whether a particular work contains commercial promotion, please report the work to us as described above. For more information, you can read our TOS FAQ on Commercial Promotion.

If you are still uncertain, you can comment below or submit a question through the Policy Questions & Abuse Reports form.

Doctor Who Calendars for 2026

Jun. 28th, 2025 03:00 pm
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Doctor Who calendars for 2006 are available to order now

Doctor Who fans now have the choice of four different calendars for 2026. Officially listed as simply the Doctor Who Calendar 2026, the first celebrates Ncuti Gatwa’s incarnation of the Time Lord with 12 months of action from Joy to the World and the most recent season.The second has the slightly ambiguously title of Doctor Who Classic Calendar 2026. Preview images for that one are still forthcoming, but in this context ‘classic’ probably covers everything from 1963-2023, rather than just the first eight incarnations. The Doctor Who Collector’s Edition A3 Calendar 2026 is an oversized calendar of Whoniverse art. Each month’s page has perforations along the edge to make for easy removal and permanent display as posters. Finally there’s a desk block calendar with a day by day guide to the Doctor’s friends and foes.

 

The Doctor Who Official 2026 Calendar features 12 designs based on recent episodes, plus a fold out poster (c) Danilo. Calendar back cover. Shows the 12 month images as described in body of article
The Doctor Who Official 2026 Calendar features 12 designs based on recent episodes, plus a fold out poster (c) Danilo

For the Fifteenth Doctor calendar, the monthly breakdown is as follows:

  • January – Joy to the World featuring the Doctor, the TARDIS, Joy, Anita, Trev and the Hotel Manager
  • February – The Robot Revolution – featuring the Doctor, Belinda, two Missbelindachandrabots and Scoot the Polish-bot
  • March – Lux featuring the Doctor and Belinda in both live action and animated forms, and Mr. Ring-a-Ding
  • April – The Well featuring the Doctor, Belinda, and Aliss
  • May – Lucky Day featuring Ruby, Conrad, and the Shreek
  • June – The Doctor in his Joy to the World costume
  • July – The Story & the Engine featuring the Doctor, Belinda, the TARDIS, the Barber, and Abena
  • August – The Interstellar Song Contest featuring Rylan, Sabine, Kid, Wynn, and Cora
  • September – Belinda in her The Reality War costume
  • October – Wish World featuring the two Ranis, Conrad, the Seeker, and a Bone Beast
  • November – The Reality War featuring Omega
  • December – the whole season, featuring the Doctor, Belinda, the TARDIS, the two Ranis, Conrad, Omega, Aliss, Mr. Ring-a-Ding, the Barber, Kid, and a Missbelindachandrabot.

The calendar also includes a poster featuring the Doctor and Belinda in their The Reality War costumes.

 

The Doctor Who A3 2026 Calendar comes with 12 art prints ready to pull out and frame (c) Danilo. Back cover of calendar showing 12 art designs as described in body of article
The Doctor Who A3 2026 Calendar comes with 12 art prints ready to pull out and frame (c) Danilo

Images for the A3 art calendar include:

  • March – The Sound of Drums imagined as a club night poster
  • June – A collection of classic monsters, like Zygons, Cybermen, Daleks and Autons in the style of a vintage Japanese poster
  • September – A Dalek propaganda poster
  • December – The logo of International Electromatics from The Invasion

There are also posters for the Time Lord Academy, Adipose Industries, the Sonic Screwdriver technical manual and more.

 

You can pre-order the calendar of your choice now from stockists, including Calendar Club. All of them will be arriving on the 1st of August, and no doubt also coming to a pop-up calendar shop in your nearest shopping centre in the coming months too. There’s also a 52 page desk pad, for writing up your weekly To Do lists, and a 2026 TARDIS diary.

 

 

 

 

 

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In May and June, we made some security additions for user accounts by adding email notifications when an account’s username or password is changed. We also made some improvements around tag sets and challenge signups. As one more security change, we also permanently disabled image embedding in guest comments.

A special thank you to our new contributors Ashley Tan, dismayonnaise, Grayson von Goetz, Jen Mann, kitbur, and ryelle!

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  • Coders: Ashley Tan, Bilka, Brian Austin, Ceithir, Connie Feng, dismayonnaise, EchoEkhi, Grayson von Goetz, Hamham6, Jen Mann, kitbur, marcus8448, ryelle, Sarken, Scott, slavalamp, weeklies
  • Code reviewers: Bilka, Brian Austin, Ceithir, james_, lydia-theda, redsummernight, slavalamp, Sarken, weeklies
  • Testers: Bilka, Brian Austin, choux, Deniz, Eskici, LilyP, Lute, lydia-theda, Maine, megidola, Runt, Sam Johnsson, Sarken, Scott, Tal, Teyris, therealmorticia, wichard

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0.9.409

On May 11, we deployed some improvements to tag sets and added an email notification whenever the username on your account is changed.

  • [AO3-5513] – Admins can now successfully create and rename media tags without running into 500 errors or caching issues.
  • [AO3-5714] – When a canonical fandom and a non-canonical character or relationship were added to the same tag set, the non-canonical tags were automatically listed under the fandom. However, this is just how the tags were displayed in the tag set. They weren’t really connected to the fandom, which meant they weren’t included in autocompletes and couldn’t be used in challenge sign-ups. We’ve stopped automatically listing the non-canonical tags under the fandom and will instead only do it if the tag set moderators set up an association (which will also make the non-canonical tags usable in sign-ups and help ensure they appear in the autocomplete).
  • [AO3-5919] – We updated the code for kudos emails to avoid using a method that wasn’t particularly efficient.
  • [AO3-6757] – When an admin hides a comment, any embedded images in the hidden comment will now be replaced with the image URLs.
  • [AO3-6844] – We fixed a whole bunch of display and page structure issues on pages that list the tags in a tag set.
  • [AO3-6977] – We’ve started spam checking edits to comments from new users and stopped spam checking any comments a work creator leaves on their own work.
  • [AO3-6981] – To improve account security, we now send you an email when you (or someone logged in to your account) change your username.
  • [AO3-6984] – Our dependency updater bumped our version of net-imap to 0.5.7. It’s not something we use, but keeping dependencies up to date is good.
  • [AO3-6988] – We started caching the package installs involved in our automated tests, making each test run faster.
  • [AO3-6990] – We bumped our version of the rack gem to 2.2.14 to get the latest security fix.

0.9.410

On May 16, we added an email notification whenever the password of your account is changed. We also made a number of small improvements all around the site.

  • [AO3-5712] – Under certain circumstances, it was possible to sign up for a challenge using a character or relationship that wasn’t permitted by the challenge’s tag set. Now you’ll get an error if you try to do that.
  • [AO3-6267] – If a draft chapter was added to a work in your History, your History would lie to you and say an update to the work was available. Now it will only tell you an update is available if a new chapter has been published since you last accessed the work.
  • [AO3-6627] – Whenever a site admin tried to update the roles for a user who already had roles outside the admin’s purview, those existing roles would be removed. (For example, when a Tag Wrangling admin gave the tag wrangler role to a user who had the Open Doors archivist role, the user would lose their archivist role.) We’ve fixed it so any existing roles will stay in place.
  • [AO3-6994] – We fixed an issue that was causing our spam checker to run on comments from accounts with recently changed email addresses.
  • [AO3-6005] – We used feature tests somewhere we should’ve been using unit tests, so we changed them over.
  • [AO3-6975] – At some point the admin setting for how long to keep around unactivated accounts had become disconnected from the code it was meant to control. We fixed this so the setting once again affects the right piece of code.
  • [AO3-6970] – When the Policy & Abuse committee hides a work, you get an automatic email to notify you. To prepare for some future changes, we’ve updated the email text to allow for multiple works in the same email.
  • [AO3-6973] – Another account security enhancement: you’ll now get an email when you (or someone accessing your account) change or reset your password.

0.9.411

On May 24, we deployed an improvement to word counts for multichapter works on the Statistics page. We also took steps to fight abuse in guest comments by preventing them from ever displaying embedded images.

  • [AO3-3818] – On some specific browsers on certain devices, leaving comments or submitting support tickets would result in an error. We’ve now fixed that.
  • [AO3-4190] – Every time invitations were sent, the log on the site settings page updated to say the settings had been modified. We’ve fixed it so it will only say the settings have been updated when an admin updates them.
  • [AO3-7000] – One of the external links in the Creating a Skin help pop-up pointed to a site that had been taken over by a crypto magazine, so we’ve replaced it with a new resource for learning about CSS.
  • [AO3-6995] – In a previous release, we tried to drop an unused database column. Unfortunately, we had to put it back when it turned out Rails was still looking for the column due to caching. We’ve now made a code change that will let us drop the column for real after a future release.
  • [AO3-5270] – The yearly word counts on your Statistics page will now only count words written in chapters posted in that year. That means if you add a chapter to a WIP you started last year, the words you wrote last year will still count toward 2024’s total instead of being added to 2025’s total.
  • [AO3-5347] – The notification you get when someone cites your work as a related work has now been prepared for translation.
  • [AO3-6092] – A while ago, we unintentionally fixed a bug where the chapter title didn’t display in Entire Work mode if the work only had one posted chapter. Now we’ve added an automated test to make sure we don’t unintentionally break it again.
  • [AO3-6684] – The close button on the banner we use for sitewide announcements uses an ×, which typically makes sense if you’re looking at the page, but which gets read as “multiplication sign” if you’re using a screen reader. That was confusing, so we’ve made sure screen readers will now say “hide banner” instead.
  • [AO3-6967] – We’ve added a second save button to the top of tag edit pages to make things a little more convenient when the page is long and a wrangler is just changing something at the top of the form.
  • [AO3-6987] – Under certain circumstances, we strip embedded images from certain fields. We used to just show the image URL when we did that, but now we show all of the HTML.
  • [AO3-6991] – As a safety measure, guest comments with embedded images will always show the HTML instead of embedded images. (This includes existing guest comments.)

0.9.412

On June 5, we deployed a small release with some bug fixes.

  • [AO3-6166] – If you knew the ID of an unrevealed work you could access a few subpages of the work, such as the collections page, and find out the title of the work that way. Since that’s meant to be unrevealed, we’ve changed these pages so you can no longer access them if the work is unrevealed.
  • [AO3-6937] – We changed the browser page title on inbox pages to a format that matches other user pages: “username – Inbox | Archive of Our Own.”
  • [AO3-6953] – We made sure you’ll get an error message if you attempt to clear your History and it fails.
  • [AO3-6993] – The Edit Multiple Works page will no longer display a bunch of unusable options when you don’t have any works. Instead, it will simply tell you you don’t have any works.
  • [AO3-6550] – When displaying work titles, we used to call a function on them that had already been called. We’ve stopped doing that since it’s redundant.
  • [AO3-6948] – We added some code to enable us to monitor the performance of the job that sends invitations to people in the invitation queue.

0.9.413

Our June 16 deploy added the ability to embed media from audio.com in works.

  • [AO3-6515] – We fixed an error 500 that occured when a work with end notes was marked as published, but only had draft chapters.
  • [AO3-6912] – We changed the browser page title for unrevealed works to include the site name at the end.
  • [AO3-6437] – We removed some unused database tables.
  • [AO3-6996] – We finally dropped that unused database column and removed the code we added to make that go smoothly.
  • [AO3-6235] – Admins from the Policy & Abuse committee can now turn invitation requests on and off from the site settings page.
  • [AO3-6588] – Admins from the Open Doors and Support committees can now give users the role that disables password reset emails for their account.
  • [AO3-7003] – You can now add embeds from audio.com to your works.
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Doctor Who’s Varada Sethu is currently filming BBC One Pride and Prejudice sequel The Other Bennet Sister

Varada Sethu’s next post-Doctor Who project has been announced. This month she began filming new BBC drama The Other Bennet Sister. Bad Wolf, the production company behind Doctor Who, are working on the ten episode series which adapts the 2020 novel by Janice Hadlow. The story overlaps with the plot of enduring classic Pride and Prejudice. However, from there it launches beyond it into a sequel exploring one of Jane Austen’s most overlooked characters.

Ella Bruccoleri (Call the Midwife) plays Mary Bennet. Mary’s neither as conventionally pretty as eldest sister Jane (Maddie Close), nor as witty and quick as next in line Lizzie (Poppy Gilbert, Stay Close). She doesn’t even have the gift of younger sisters Lydia (Grace Hogg-Robinson, The Coroner) and Kitty (Molly Wright, The A Word) for getting into exciting trouble. Instead, Mary’s bookish, introverted, and perhaps a little too pious. Even pathological match-maker Mrs. Bennet (Ruth Jones, Torchwood) makes little effort to find her middle daughter a man.

Mary falls for visiting Mr. Collins (Ryan Sampson, The Sontaran Stratagem) but is stung by the injustice of him proposing to Lizzie (who doesn’t even want him!) instead. But everything changes when her father (Richard E Grant, Scream of the Shalka) dies. The Collinses at last take possession of the only home she’s ever known, and none of her sisters, much less their husbands, are keen for her to live with them.

It all forces Mary to finally become the heroine of her own story. She moves to London, determined to reinvent herself among new people. But can she find happiness while remaining true to herself?

 

Varada Sethu’s Ann is among the original characters created for the sequel

Varada Sethu plays the original character of Ann Baxter, one of the new friends Mary makes in London. Meanwhile, Indira Varma (Doctor Who: Rogue, Torchwood) plays the Bennets’ aunt Mrs. Gardiner, who takes Mary under her wing.

Filming is currently underway in Bath and around the UK. There’s no word yet on when to expect The Other Bennet Sister on television. However, it will likely be on BBC One sometime next year.

You can also catch the former Doctor Who star soon in 100 Nights of Hero. The upcoming movie tells the story of a young wife and her handmaiden, left alone in a castle for 100 nights.

 

 

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Doctor Who: Season One finally materializes in North America on DVD and Blu-ray

Last year’s run of Doctor Who had a prolonged period of exclusivity for Disney+. However, Ncuti Gatwa’s first season as the Doctor is now out on DVD and Blu-ray in North America. The Doctor Who: Season One set contains all the same extras and episodes as the original UK release. From his first meeting with Ruby Sunday in The Church on Ruby Road to the high drama of Empire of Death, it’s all here. There’s also behind the scenes show Doctor Who: Unleashed, which was never available on Disney+, and lots of additional extras.

 

Season One includes the following content per disc

Disc 1

The Church on Ruby Road

Extras

Doctor Who: Unleashed
Behind the Scenes
In-vision Commentary
Millie Gibson’s Set Tour
Behind the Scenes Trailer
Get to Know Doctor Who – with Ncuti Gatwa
Get to Know Doctor Who – with Millie Gibson

Disc 2

Ep1 – Space Babies
Ep2 – The Devil’s Chord

Extras

Space Babies – Behind the Scenes
The Devil’s Chord – Behind the Scenes
The Devil’s Chord – Scene Breakdown
Ncuti’s Message
Video of a Bogeyman – Video Diary
Finding Fifteen
Jinkx Monsoon tries British food
Millie Gibson’s Set Tour
Jinkx Monsoon – The Looks of Maestro

Disc 3

Ep3 – Boom
Ep4 – 73 Yards

Extras

Boom In-vision Commentary
Boom – Behind the Scenes
73 Yards – Behind the Scenes
Ncuti & Millie’s Guide to Get Your Zen On
Steven Moffat preview
Bringing Virtual Production to Doctor Who
Mundy Flynn Profile
Boom – Script to Screen
Welsh Lingo with Ncuti & Millie
Roger Ap Gwilliam Profile
Millie Gibson’s Very First Day – Video Diary

Disc 4

Ep5 – Dot and Bubble
Ep6 – Rogue

Extras

Dot and Bubble – Behind the Scenes
Dot and Bubble – Scene Breakdown
Rogue – Behind the Scenes
Rogue – Scene Breakdown
Ncuti & Millie’s Top 5 People in Their Bubble
Lindy Pepper-Bean Profile Sneak into the TARDIS
Dot and Bubble Set Tour
Regency Costume Quiz with Jonathan Groff
Most Likely To…with Ncuti & Millie
Rogue Profile
Getting to Know – Jonathan Groff
Rogue Dance Scene

Disc 5

Ep7 – The Legend of Ruby Sunday
Ep8 – Empire of Death

Extras

Empire of Death In-vision Commentary
The Legend of Ruby Sunday – Behind the Scenes
Empire of Death – Behind the Scenes
Empire of Death – Scene Breakdown
Jemma Redgrave’s UNIT Set Tour
Who is Susan Triad?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Villain Reveal
Getting to Know – Lenny Rush
Empire of Death – Script to Screen
Epilogue
Bonnie’s Remembered TARDIS Tour
Ncuti & Millie’s Favourite Memories
Genesis in the TARDIS

Disc 6

Doctor Who: Unleashed Eps 1-5

Disc 7

Doctor Who: Unleashed Eps 6-8
Doctor Who: Unleashed Unseen
Tales of the TARDIS: The Pyramids of Mars

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Candy Jar Books continues to mark 15 years with two new additions to Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC Files

2025 is the fifteenth anniversary of Candy Jar Books, and also the tenth anniversary of the Lethbridge-Stewart range. To honour that, Candy Jar are publishing new volumes of The HAVOC Files. The HAVOC Files 5 and 6 feature short stories and comic strips set in the Doctor Who universe.

Stories and artwork are by Baz Greenland, Tim Gambrell, Gareth Madgwick, Tom Dexte, John Peel, Philip Bates, Steve Beckett, Simon A Forward, Robert Mammone, George Ivanoff, Iain McLaughlin, Jonathan Macho, Andrew Allen, Sharon Bidwell, Nick Walters, Martin Baines, Aly Leeds, SJ Groenewegen, Chris Lynch, James Middleditch, and Adrian Salmon.

Both books will be available to buy exclusively from Candy Jar Books, on a
limited print run, and will be a welcome addition to any collection.

 

“I realised pretty early on that if everyone delivered, we’d have far more than we needed for one standard volume”

UNIT range editor Tim Gambrell explains how this came about. “As always with these things,” he says, “there’s quite a story behind it.

“Earlier this year, out of the blue, Shaun Russell (Head of Publishing) suggested we should do another HAVOC Files book to celebrate the upcoming anniversaries. I suggested approaching authors from the Lethbridge-Stewart range to see if any of them were interested in telling stories connected in some way with their previous novels. Side-steps or
continuations, that sort of thing.

“The take-up was huge! I realised pretty early on that if everyone delivered, we’d have far more than we needed for one standard volume. We’ve ended up with enough great stories for two standard volumes, from everything that was submitted.

“Shaun had an idea to give the books an extra dimension, as well,” continues Gambrell. “Each of them would have a short, exclusive comic strip, as a kind of intermission halfway through. There’s a Lucy Wilson comic strip in The HAVOC Files 5, and the Dominators and Quarks in The HAVOC Files 6, being the characters that lend themselves most readily to the comic strip medium, with some superb artwork from Steve Beckett and Martin Baines, respectively.

“Although all the writers I approached wanted to be involved, not everyone had the time to produce something new. A few of our contributors had written stories for previous  Lethbridge-Stewart collections that, for one reason or another, had never come to fruition. These were good tales, and thankfully, we were able to give them a home. Linking some of the stories back to previous collections, such as Lineage, or The Laughing Gnome, was still in the spirit of celebrating the range, so there was no issue about fitting them in.”

 

Adrian Salmon’s distinctive cover art creates one striking image across the two books

“I know that regular Lethbridge-Stewart readers like to know where all the stories fit in,” muses Gambrell. “I wasn’t about to go messing about with the timeline. Andy Frankham-Allen worked out for the range, so I’ve stated where each story fits, or when it’s set, for those readers to whom it matters.

“I’ve also put the stories pretty much in chronological order across the two volumes – although I think the final story in The HAVOC Files 5 and the first story in The HAVOC Files 6 ended up transposed because they seemed to fit better that way. We start off in 1897 in HAVOC Files 5 and end up in 2025 at the end of The HAVOC Files 6.

“As well as there being the comic strips inside, Shaun also wanted the cover artwork to be special for these two complementary books. Adrian Salmon has provided distinctive cover art for several of the previous HAVOC Files volumes, and he was the natural choice to approach again. Between Adrian, Shaun, and Tim, they came up with the idea for the covers to work on their own, but also for them to create a bigger image when placed alongside each other. The theme is Heroes and Villains, with one book cover featuring heroes and the other featuring villains.”

Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC File 5. Cover by Adrian Salmon (c) Candy Jar Books. Blocky, comic book art style: The Brig,and Benton fire on the enemy, while Professor Travers and Anne look concerned.
Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC File 5. Cover by Adrian Salmon (c) Candy Jar Books

Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC Files 5

Take a trip down memory lane with ten new stories from Candy Jar’s Doctor Who spin-off ranges.

Join the Brigadier’s ancestors, Alistair and Lillian, as they dance the night away in Barcelona. Find out why Farmer Dury’s hens wouldn’t lay, courtesy of the Bledoe Cadets, and see what Professor Travers was up to in Wales during WWII with the Fourth Operational Corps.
We once again enter the Analysis Bureau, before the Fifth Operational Corps takes us on a series of adventures linked to some of the most popular Lethbridge-Stewart novels, pausing only to watch Lucy Wilson attempt to tidy her room in an exclusive new comic strip. The collection finishes up with UNIT investigating mass hallucinations in Scotland.

There’s something here for everyone!

You can order Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC Files 5 direct from Candy Jar Books here.

 

Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC File 6. Cover by Adrian Salmon (c) Candy Jar Books. Blocky comic book art: a Yeti and a Quark blast away, while a Dominator and Tobias Vaughn pose dramatically
Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC File 6. Cover by Adrian Salmon (c) Candy Jar Books

Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC Files 6

Take a trip down memory lane with eight new stories from Candy Jar’s Doctor Who spin-off ranges.

Join Bill Bishop as the Laughing Gnome plants him outside International Electromatics. Discover what Anne Travers finds lurking beneath the Museum of Scotland. The Brigadier faces old friends and foes with new colleagues at UNIT, before the Dominators and Quarks provide a brief intermission in an exclusive new comic strip.

The collection then closes with several stories linked to some of the most popular Lethbridge-Stewart novels, bringing the adventures right up-to-date in 2025.
There’s something here for everyone!

You can order Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC Files 6 direct from Candy Jar Books here.

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The latest viewing figures update reveals the +28 rating for Doctor Who episode Lucky Day

A new BARB update means we now have the +28 viewing figure for the fourth episode of the most recent season of Doctor Who. They reveal that Lucky Day was seen by 3.18m viewers in its first 28 days. That includes the pre-broadcast iPlayer number, the BBC One audience, catch up recordings, and all iPlayer views on all devices up until the 6th of June. There will likely have also been some modest growth in the two and a half weeks since then, which the BBC will have access to. However, the +28 viewing figure is the final official viewing figure made publicly available by the independent ratings body.

This result is up 1.67m (110.6%) on the initial overnight, meaning this year’s rule of thumb of roughly doubling the overnight continues to hold true. It’s also up 0.38 (13.6%) on +7 result. With the BBC increasingly preparing to shift to a streamer model, over half of Doctor Who’s audience coming from streaming may be a major factor in decisions about its future. Meanwhile, the result is down 0.43m (11.9%) on the +28 number for The Well. Furthermore, it down 1.45m (31.3%) on last year’s equivalent episode 73 Yards. That’s an imbalance partly caused by 2024’s spooky mystery being the highest for that whole season, and Lucky Day the lowest so far this season. However, it’s still a remarkable drop from one year to the next.

All in all, however, Lucky Day might be happy simply to have followed The Well’s lead and squeaked past 1989’s Battlefield Part One’s 3.10m to avoid the ‘Lowest Viewing Figure Ever’ title for Doctor Who.

 

Doctor Who. Conrad (JONAH HAUER-KING) and Ruby Sunday (MILLIE GIBSON) go on a date in Lucky Day ,COPYRIGHT:BBC Studios,CREDIT LINE:BBC Studios/Bad Wolf/James Pardon. The pair sit at a table in a bar, looking happily at each other.
Conrad (JONAH HAUER-KING) and Ruby Sunday (MILLIE GIBSON) go on a date in Lucky Day ,COPYRIGHT:BBC Studios,CREDIT LINE:BBC Studios/Bad Wolf/James Pardon

Lucky Day also moves up slightly in the weekly chart

In terms of chart positions, Lucky Day finishes at #23 in the weekly chart. That’s up an impressive six places from its original spot in the +7 chart, another sign of Doctor Who’s strong streaming numbers compared to other shows. It is down two spots from previous episode The Well, though. It’s also down 14 places from last year’s 73 Yards. Though, again, that’s as much to do with 73 Yards winning a Top 10 place at #9.

Finally, Blogtor Who is aware of some reports of a +28 result for The Interstellar Song Contest. That number is very probably correct, but Blogtor hasn’t seen it confirmed in our usual sources yet. However, we’ll update you with both that and the final viewing figure for The Story & the Engine once we have confirmation.

 

 

The War Between The Land and the Sea - Salt (GUGU MBATHA-RAW) - BBC Studios,CREDIT LINE:BBC Studios/Bad Wolf/Samuel Dore
The War Between The Land and the Sea – Salt (GUGU MBATHA-RAW) – BBC Studios,CREDIT LINE:BBC Studios/Bad Wolf/Samuel Dore

Return to the Whoniverse with The War Between the Land and the Sea. The Doctor Who spin-off pitting UNIT against the Sea Devils is coming later this year to BBC One in the UK and Ireland, and Disney+ everywhere else

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