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Christopher Eccleston is Chasing Millions in the upcoming heist comedy about Belfast’s Northern Bank robbery

Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston is currently filming in Ireland for new film Chasing Millions. The former Ninth Doctor plays Crayford, a detective in the newly formed Police Service of Northern Ireland in the early days of peace. But the audacious robbery of £26.5m from the Northern Bank threatens to disturb the fragile new status quo. With suspicions running high that the IRA were behind me the crime, tracking down the thieves will be the first major challenge for the PSNI and Crayford.

Complicating matters for Crayford is the arrival of young Australian police officer Diana (Madeline Madden, Wheel of Time). On holiday in Belfast, she’s in the right place at the right time to talk her way on to what might be the biggest case of her career. The grumpy and jaded Irish detective is reluctant to work with her. However, soon they realize they’ll need to trust each other if the investigation isn’t to turn into a complete disaster.

Chasing Millions is billed as a heist comedy only loosely based on the investigation into 2004’s very real Northern Bank robbery. In real life, nobody was every prosecuted for the robbery and most of the money never recovered. So it will be interesting to see where it takes the fictional story.

 

Chasing Millions, starring Christopher Eccleston, hits cinemas in 2026. Painted poster of a man in a long coat running away as fast as he can after a bin truck down a narrow rainy street at night. Bank notes fly through the air all around.
Chasing Millions, starring Christopher Eccleston, hits cinemas in 2026

Christopher Eccleston will also appear in next year’s About a Bell

Eccleston also recently completed filming About a Bell. Eccleston’s former Doctor Who co-star Simon Callow, who played Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead, has directed the new film. Christopher Eccleston again plays a police detective, this time DC Holman, in the drama about a Syrian refuge called Sami (Omid Djalili, The Change) who teams up with local librarian Bryony (Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Cucumber.) Together they set out to try and save the bell from a recently demolished church.

About a Bell also stars Rebecca Root who played the Doctor’s companion Tania in Big Finish audio plays opposite both Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston’s Doctors. Root also co-stars with Eccleston in the forthcoming Hear Me Roar. Also in the cast are Roger Allam (The Thick of It), Nigel Havers (The Sarah Jane Adventures), and Claire Brown (Star Wars: Andor).

Both Chasing Millions and About a Bell are expected to be in cinemas sometime in 2026.

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Posted by Peter Nolan

Circuit Breaker is an epic new series of Fugitive Doctor adventures, weaving its way through audio, comics, books, and games

 

BBC Studios is teaming up once more with BBC Audio, Big Finish Productions, Doctor Who Magazine, East Side Games, Penguin Random House and Titan Comics for an exciting new multimedia crossover event. Circuit Breaker will bring all the strands together as part of one narrative arc in 2026. Like previous events Time Lord Victorious and Doom’s Day it unfolds across audios, comics, books and online games. This time the focus is on the Fugitive Doctor. The most mysterious, and at times most ruthless, Doctor joins forces with UNIT to solve a new mystery. And the Doctor’s own personal future, and the universe, hangs in the balance. Jo Martin returns to the role she first played in 2020’s Fugitive of the Judoon. She most recently reprised this year for The Story & the Engine, and currently stars in her own Big Finish audio series.

Best selling author of The Principle of Moments Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson has crafted the overall Circuit Breaker narrative. Jikiemi-Pearson previously wrote the Target Books novelisation of The Church and Ruby Road. Meanwhile, her Doctor Who novel The Moon Cruise is out this November.

 

The Doctor concentrates at the controls of her TARDIS, which is a gleaming 1960s style model. Doctor Who Fugitive Doctor
Fugitive of the Judoon is the episode which first introduced Jo Martin’s renegade Doctor (c) BBC Studios

“It’s a joy to dive back into the Whoniverse”

Jo Martin commented: “I’m thrilled to tell more stories about the Fugitive Doctor and cannot wait for fans to unlock all the twists and turns across the Circuit Breaker story. This character has always meant so much to me, and it is a joy to continue building her legacy and dive back into the Whoniverse”

Stephen Davies, SVP Global Licensing, BBC Studios added Circuit Breaker is an exciting evolution for the Whoniverse. By bringing together world-class partners across publishing, audio, comics, and gaming, we’re creating a truly immersive, multi-platform experience for fans. This is a bold step in expanding the Doctor Who brand, deepening engagement, exploring new stories, and welcoming new audiences into the universe of the Doctor.”

 

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker - a new multimedia event for 2026 (c) BBC Studios. The Circuit Breaker logo, metal like letters with diodes and circuits attached to them
Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker – a new multimedia event for 2026 (c) BBC Studios

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker

Strange alien artifacts begin appearing inside UNIT’s Black Archive. Each object is unmistakably linked to a different incarnation of the Doctor, but they’ve been tampered with. A corrupted energy signature of unknown origin pulses through them, and their sudden arrival has torn tiny ruptures across time and space.

UNIT is out of options. To repair the damage and restore the timeline, the objects must be returned to the exact moments they were taken from. If not, the Doctor’s adventures – and the universe itself – could unravel.

 To solve the mystery, UNIT calls upon a little-known incarnation of the Time Lord: the Fugitive Doctor, played by Jo Martin, who returns in a central role. But how does UNIT know about her? And is she the Doctor they expect?

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The election season is in full swing! As part of the election season, we have a chat with our candidates coming up soon. You can also find links to the candidates’ answers to your questions at the bottom of this post.

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There will be one public chat with all three candidates that will last 90 minutes. Chats will take place in our public chatroom (Discord).
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During this chat, chat attendees will have the opportunity to ask the candidates questions not already covered in their platforms, bios, and Q&A, as well as to ask individual questions of specific candidates. New questions will only be accepted for the first hour of the scheduled chat time to make sure candidates have time to finish them all.

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The Loch Ness Monster attacks the South Bank of the Thames (again) as the Terror of the Zygons strikes the BFI this September

The British Film Institute is once again supporting the Doctor Who Collection Blu-ray range with a screening of a newly restored story. Fans will get a chance to see Terror of the Zygons at the BFI in Southbank in London, on the 20th of September. It will be accompanied by a showing by the new documentary Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter and a Q&A with produced Philip Hinchcliffe.

The four part serial Terror of the Zygons was the first story of Doctor Who’s 1975/1976 season. Starring the iconic TARDIS team of the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan, it also introduced classic shape-shifting villains the Zygons. When oil rigs come under attack from some force able to rip them to shreds, UNIT’s Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart summons the Doctor to Scotland. The Doctor has a theory about exactly what’s causing the destruction, but it couldn’t really be the Loch Ness Monster. Could it?

 

Ian Marter as Harry with John Woodnutt (Broton) filming Terror of the Zygons (c) BBC Studios
Ian Marter as Harry with John Woodnutt (Broton) filming Terror of the Zygons (c) BBC Studios

Worlds Within explores the life of much missed actor and writer Ian Marter

Meanwhile, Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter celebrates the actor who brought Harry Sullivan to life. Marter appeared in two seasons of Doctor Who as the UNIT surgeon including Season 13’a Terror of the Zygons and The Android Invasion. In addition, he was also a writer who penned several highly regarded novelisations to the Target Books range.

Worlds Within is the latest in the Collection series of documentaries exploring the lives of writers, directors, and actors who sadly passed away before the advent of the DVD range. Often praised as highlights of the range, they offer an opportunity to get to learn more about those who left a substantial mark on Doctor Who but never get a chance to contribute to commentaries or special features.

Tickets for the screening go on sale to BFI Patrons on 4 August, BFI Members on 5 August, and to the general public on 7 August.

 

Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 13. Cover by Lee Binding (c) BBC Studios. The Fourth Doctor wears a Tam O'Shanter and a tartan scarf, holding a biomechanical transmitter.
Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 13. Cover by Lee Binding (c) BBC Studios

Both Terror of the Zygons and Worlds Within will be included in the forthcoming Collection: Season 13 Blu-ray set

Meanwhile, there’s still no exact date for the release of Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 13. However, based on the dates of previous BFI screenings it will probably be the very end of September or early October. Featuring all 26 episodes of one of Doctor Who’s most loved seasons, and a host of new extras, as well as existing ones from the DVD range, it’s the ultimate edition of Season 13.

You can find full details of the box set in Blogtor Who’s run down here.

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July 23rd, 2025: I'm at San Diego Comic Con this week! Thursday in Room 6A I'm on the X-Men panel at 1:45, and then on Friday in Room 6A I'll be on the FANTASTIC FOUR panel at 2:30, and then the NEXT BIG THING panel at 3:30 (same room!). And on Saturday I've a signing from 10-12 at booth 4901 - hope to see you there!

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Posted by Caitlynne

Over the past few weeks, we completed several important infrastructure updates including upgrading to Elasticsearch 8, finishing the transition to Rails 7.1, and migrating the bookmarks table to create room for more bookmarks. We also made some user-facing improvements, such as fixing various access and display bugs; clarifying some error messages, form labels, and page titles; and adding chapter numbers to comments in your inbox. Special thanks and welcome to first-time contributors Abhinav Gupta, hk-contribs, TemperedPetals, and Vemmy RM! We’d also like to thank Dhiraj Mishra for reporting a security issue.

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  • Coders: Abhinav Gupta, AliceLsr, Bilka, Brian Austin, calm, ceithir, Connie Feng, EchoEkhi, Hamham6, hk-contribs, kitbur, sarken, slavalamp, TemperedPetals, Vemmy RM, weeklies
  • Code reviewers: Bilka, Brian Austin, ceithir, Coding-Hen, Hamham6, sarken, weeklies
  • Testers: Bilka, Booksarelife, Brian Austin, Caitlynne, calamario, choux, Deniz, Keladry, LilyP, Lute, lydia-theda, Sam Johnsson, Sanity, Teyris, therealmorticia, wichard

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0.9.414

In the process of installing the new Elasticsearch servers, we upgraded to Elasticsearch 8 on June 24!

  • [AO3-6259] – We upgraded the Elasticsearch gem to version 8.18.0.

0.9.415

On June 25, we finished off the last remaining parts of the update to Rails 7.1.

  • [AO3-6894] – We flipped the remaining configuration values to use the new defaults from Rails 7.1.

0.9.416

Our deploy on July 1 updated older language on the work search and filtering forms from “Author/Artist” to “Creator” and added chapter numbers to comments in your inbox, among other improvements.

  • [AO3-6050] – When accessing the Tag Wrangling page showing all relationship tags related to a character, tags would always be shown in alphabetical order, regardless of sort order. Now, tag wranglers can additionally sort through the tags by how many times they were used or by creation date.
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  • [AO3-6373] – If you blocked a user who had previously commented on your work, you could no longer freeze their comment. We fixed this, so you can now block users and freeze their comment threads in any order without problems.
  • [AO3-6735] – We fixed that when you left a comment on an news posts with comment moderation enabled, the resulting comment email would incorrectly tell you that the comment was on a work with moderated comments.
  • [AO3-6936] – We changed the browser page title on subscriptions pages to a format that matches other user pages: “username – Subscriptions | Archive of Our Own.”
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  • [AO3-7017] – If you knew the ID of a draft work or a work restricted to logged in users, you could access a few subpages of the work that revealed its title and blurb. Since that information isn’t meant to be public, we’ve once again restricted access to these pages.
  • [AO3-7016] – We updated the gem we use to run database schema migrations of large tables.
  • [AO3-5345] – Collection maintainers get an email notification if they run matching in a gift exchange and the sign-ups are invalid. We’ve improved the text of this email and prepared it for translation.
  • [AO3-6541] – We changed the works search and the sorting and filtering options to use “Creator” instead of “Author/Artist” to match the terminology used by the rest of the site.
  • [AO3-6750] – Comments in your inbox now include the chapter number, so you don’t have to follow the comment link to know where exactly it was left.
  • [AO3-6807] – If you tried to use an invalid URL for an external work or in your collection sign-up, you would sometimes get a 500 error. We fixed that so now you will always get a proper error message telling you that the URL is invalid.
  • [AO3-6999] – We removed some duplicate code for sending comment emails to admins.

0.9.417 & 0.9.418

On July 3 and July 4, we ran out of rows in the database table that stores bookmarks, so we had to move them to a larger table that can hold them all! Now you can once again add your own bookmarks to the 647 million we already have.

  • [AO3-7031] – We migrated the bookmarks table to be able to hold more rows and then migrated all other table columns that refer to bookmarks to also support the larger bookmark IDs.

0.9.419

On July 12, we deployed an assortment of minor changes that included allowing the accent-color property in skins and clarifying some error messages.

  • [AO3-6795] – When you were excluding a tag in a search and then made a syntax error when trying to filter those results, you’d get a 500 error. We’ve fixed this so it instead tells you that your query has a syntax error.
  • [AO3-6989] – If you tried to view the pseuds list for a user who didn’t exist, you’d get redirected to the People Search page. That made sense in a way, but wasn’t terribly consistent with other nonexistent pages. Now you’ll get a 404 error instead, which makes it easier to check for typos in the URL you entered.
  • [AO3-7007] – We fixed a 500 error when a guest tried to add a work to a collection by directly going to the “Add To Collection” URL.
  • [AO3-7025] – We fixed a typo in one of the CSS properties in the Creating a Skin help pop-up.
  • [AO3-7022] – We changed the default comment setting for news posts to “Only registered users can comment.”
  • [AO3-5344] – We prepared the email that you get when your work is invited to a collection for translation.
  • [AO3-7019] – You will now get an informative error message if you try to change your username to the same name as you currently have, instead of it silently doing nothing.
  • [AO3-7033] – When you access a skin, the skin title is now part of the browser page title.
  • [AO3-7041] – You can now use the accent-color property in site and work skins!
  • [AO3-6852] – We removed some old unused scripts for testing gift exchange matching.
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Get ready for some interstellar looks and merchandise as the BBC Shop website returns

BBC Studios is opening the doors to a brand-new  Doctor Who  e-commerce experience, giving fans around the world access to exclusive, limited-edition merchandise inspired by the Whoniverse.

BBC Shop returns at https://shop.bbc.com/ on the 22nd of July. The relaunch coincides with the immersive Doctor Who: The Black Archive experience at San Diego Comic Con that weekend. The Doctor Who shop will include two exclusive ‘timey-wimey, merchy-werchy’ collections, Horror of Fang Rock and Analogue Gallifrey. BBC Studios describes them as “inspired by fan insights and nostalgia trends. These ranges celebrate the show’s rich legacy while tapping into contemporary fandom aesthetics.”

A preview of the front page of the new BBC Shop website (c) BBC Studios
A preview of the front page of the new BBC Shop website (c) BBC Studios

The Analogue Gallifrey range mixes the old and the new, with various items featuring art designs featuring stories and monsters in the style of classic 1980s VHS tapes. These include tote bags and other items featuring the tape spines of a fan’s home recording collection of everything from Pyramids of Mars to 73 Yards. There are t-shirts, too, featuring “Daleks: Master of Earth,” “K9: Maximum Defence Mode,” and “TARDIS Mode” done in the style of the logos of classic VHS blank tape brands. Meanwhile, Jackets and hats will feature an ‘every logo ever’ design.

 

The new football style top is made of recycled material, and has "HARTNELL 01" as the player on the back (c) BBC Shop
The new football style top is made of recycled material, and has “HARTNELL 01” as the player on the back (c) BBC Shop

As well as standard t-shirts, the collection will also feature football shirts and crop tops

There will also be t-shirts celebrating classic stories and quotes like Tomb of the Cybermen’s “You will become like us” and Silence in the Library’s “Hey! Who turned out the lights?” On the new BBC Shop site you’ll find regular t-shirts and hoodies, but also sports tops made with recycled material, reversible hats, and crop tops.

 

The new Analogue Gallifrey tote bag imagines a world where fans recorded The Angels Take Manhattan on VHS! (c) BBC Studios. A tote bag covered in illustrations of the spines of classic VHS tapes, with story titles written on them in marker like "City of Death," "Rose" and "The Day of the Doctor."
The new Analogue Gallifrey tote bag imagines a world where fans recorded The Angels Take Manhattan on VHS! (c) BBC Studios

There’s homeware too, including a travel mug emblazoned with various fictional company logos from Doctor Who history.

 

One of the VHS inspired motifs appearing on various products is this TARDIS MODE design (c) BBC Studios. The TARDIS rises up through a triangle, against a striped sunset background under the stars. "TARDIS MODE" is written in block text with a 3D illusion of extending back into the distance.
One of the VHS inspired motifs appearing on various products is this TARDIS MODE design (c) BBC Studios

What to expect:

  • Fandom-powered collections  inspired by iconic moments, characters, and fan-favourite content
  • Limited-edition drops tied to key cultural moments and anniversaries
  • Personalisation options  for select products
  • Global shipping  and region-specific exclusives

Now that the BBC Shop is back, the big question is: what are you going to get first?

 

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