Video of the Day – Tom Baker Official, 2025
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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.
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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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.
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.”
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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July 25th, 2025: I'm at San Diego Comic Con today and tomorrow! 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! – Ryan |
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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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?
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.
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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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.
In the process of installing the new Elasticsearch servers, we upgraded to Elasticsearch 8 on June 24!
On June 25, we finished off the last remaining parts of the update to Rails 7.1.
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.
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.
On July 12, we deployed an assortment of minor changes that included allowing the accent-color
property in skins and clarifying some error messages.
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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.”
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.
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.
There’s homeware too, including a travel mug emblazoned with various fictional company logos from Doctor Who history.
Now that the BBC Shop is back, the big question is: what are you going to get first?
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