Capaldi and Kingston Introduce The Husbands of River Song

♦ Peter Capaldi and Alex Kingston introduce this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, The Husbands of River Song…

A Brief Comicbook History of a Timelord

With Doctor Who over until - well a couple of week's time I guess - it seemed an opportune time to rerun Rob Cave's history of Doctor Who in comics, which originally ran in Tripwire Annual 2008, part of our Brief History of a Timelord…

ROBERT CAVE puts on his long coat and scarf and delves into the history of the Doctor on the comicbook page…

A Musical Christmas?

Season 9 has finished but the year isn't over for Doctor Who yet. Christmas brings the obligatory special, The Husbands of River Song so here's the trailer…

Hell Bent

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 12 of 12

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team

Well, my pretties, Santa Steven really pulled a surprise from his Christmas sack last week didn't he? Now the Doctor's on Gallifrey, and not happy. So what next? Well, we here at the LiveBlog have long reckoned that there's some stuff about Clara that needs to be resolved. Where are all the 'other' Claras who were scattered across time, for example, now the original is brown-bread? Coal Hill School is the focus for the Who spin-off, but the teacher mortality rate is a bit scary. We don't feel we're done with her yet. We also feel some Missy magic might occur, we know that Mayor Me will be back, and surely that's a Dalek in the trailer. And a Cyberman - although neither look their best. Well, not long to go now... See us here at 20:00 hours for the season finale...

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the latest episode of the new series of Doctor Who

Hell Bent

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 Episode 12

Hello everyone, there are spoilers here for episode twelve of series nine of Doctor Who, but it’s ok, there is also a memory wipe, so you may be able to forget them. I think. Maybe. I can’t remember.

Where Has The Doctor Gone?

The Doctor is Hell Bent on finding those behind his trials, but where on Gallifrey is he?

Here’s the synopsis for the episode from imdb.com:

If you took everything from him, betrayed him, trapped him, and broke both his hearts… how far might the Doctor go? Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself. Who is the Hybrid? And what is the Doctor’s confession?

Doctor Who - The Complete Series 8 [DVD] [2014] Doctor Who - Series 9 Part 1 [DVD] [2015]

Moffat Previews Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 12 Hell Bent

Steven Moffat gets us ready for Hell Bent. Here's the synopsis for the episode from imdb.com

If you took everything from him, betrayed him, trapped him, and broke both his hearts... how far might the Doctor go? Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself. Who is the Hybrid? And what is the Doctor's confession?

BBC Doctor Who

Doctor Who - The Complete Series 8 [DVD] [2014] Doctor Who - Series 9 Part 1 [DVD] [2015]

Doctor Who Hell Bent Series 9 Episode 12 Preview

Peter Capaldi introduces Hell Bent, the stunning Series 9 finale! Here's the synopsis from imdb.com

If you took everything from him, betrayed him, trapped him, and broke both his hearts... how far might the Doctor go? Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself. Who is the Hybrid? And what is the Doctor's confession?

BBC Doctor Who

Doctor Who - The Complete Series 8 [DVD] [2014] Doctor Who - Series 9 Part 1 [DVD] [2015]

Singing a New Song

Courtesy of doctorwho.net, the BBC have released some promotional profile photos of characters who appear in this year's Christmas Special, The Husbands of River Song. The images portray Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, Alex Kingston as River Song, Rowan Polonski as Remming and Phillip Rhys as Ramone.

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the latest episode of the new series of Doctor Who

Heaven Sent

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 Episode 11

Hello everyone, I’m very much afraid that from this point on there are spoilers for episode eleven of series nine of Doctor Who.

Once again the Dr Who crew are playing with the format of the show, leaving the Doctor (almost) alone to face an (almost) perfect prison. We know Capaldi is a compelling presence, so the fact that he carries the story off (almost) single-handedly while engaging in its own right, is no surprise. A more intriguing question would be how previous incarnations might have coped with the challenge.

Heaven Sent

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 11 of 12

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team, with added trailer fun!

Muppet Christmas Carol

Doctor Who

So, presumably you have by now checked out all the previews and realise we are in for a grim 50+ minutes of the Doctor being chased around what looks like a monastery by the Ghost of Christmas yet to Come from A Muppet Christmas Carol. Somewhere in the middle of all this there will be a picture of the late lamented Clara. The Doctor will shout. A lot. There are tasks set up for the Doctor, which will sadly only serve to emphasise his resemblance to Edward Tudorpole, the second presenter of The Crystal Maze. This will either be very, very good, or not. Join us at 20:05 to find out which it is.
You can find all the other LiveBlogs here…

Heaven Sent

Well as we wave goodbye to the current season of Doctor Who, promo has gone through the roof. Here, in one handy place, are all the promos for Episode 11: be here at 20.05 for the LiveBlog....

Steven Moffat's Introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Tp81jyaJU

BBC Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47-RFzZutkc

Next Time Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biQb3WRQpw8

Take No Prisoners Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue-jkwPzzJQ

Doctor Who: Tis The Season to be Jolly

Doctor Who Christmas Special time again! The BBC have released a new synopsis and publicity image for the Christmas Special, starring Peter Capaldi as the Doctor with Alex Kingston as River Song, and also features Greg Davies as King Hydroflax and Matt Lucas as Nardole.

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the latest episode of the new series of Doctor Who

Face the Raven

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 Episode 10

Hello everyone, welcome to the trap street, from this point on there are spoilers for episode ten of series nine of Doctor Who.

Well, that was very… mechanical. We arrive at Clara’s death, something that has been heavily foreshadowed throughout this season and as it was finally presented here. Like our own deaths, we know it is coming eventually, but only seldom know exactly what how it will happen until it is too late.

Face the Raven

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 10 of 12

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team

Well, we have two episodes to go to the series finale, and due to considerable and unsubtle hints in every bloody episode it all feels like Clara's going to die, or is already dead. Or alive forever. Or doesn't exist. After last week's episode, who knows what will be pulled from the orifice of dark creativity that is Doctor Who? This week the Doctor is in a "secret pocket of alien life in the middle of London", or Diagon Alley, if you will. Maisie Williams returns as Me, but who's side is she on? And do we care? Last time she was staring out of a photo, with an "Oh yes, I'm watching you, all right!" expression on her face. Which, to be fair appears to be her permanent expression in this show. Is she less wooden in Game of Thrones, or doesn't it really matter there? Who's side is she on? See what I did there?

On A Wing and A Prayer

Episode 10 of Doctor Who's Season Nine is coming tonight: here's the trailer for the episode:

Sleep No More

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 9 of 12

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team

"They've started to liveblog us, Doctor!"

Well last week was lovely wasn't it? This week we're in an old Doctor Who favourite, a space station – which probably functions in the same way as an underground base, an undersea base, or a base of any kind really – in Doctor Who. Nothing good will come of it! Who designs all these bases, where you constantly get cut off from your companions? We've had two this series already. Is there a future architect who was traumatized by Cube?

Reece Shearsmith is our guest star for this week, reunited with his old League of Gentlemen partner Mark Gatiss, who wrote this week's episode. The Daily Mirror has some interesting information about this:

Doctor Who Season 9 Episode 9: Sleep No More

Here is the trailer for next week's episode. Join us on the Doctor Who LiveBlog on Saturday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJp018tXYCY

Doctor Who's Clara on How to Play a Zygon

...with interpolations from Peter Capaldi...

The Zygon Inversion

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 8 of 12

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team

Clara looking a little less "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" than usual. So, Bonnie then.

Okay folks, recap time. Osgood is a UNIT scientist, who met Doctors 10, 11 and "War" in The Day of the Doctor, when a Zygon took her form, but was killed, presumed missing, in Death in Heaven, and is now either original Osgood, or her Zygon "sister". Osgood has been caught by the Zygons (and there is no way that phrase just doesn't sound funny). She is the victim of a group of "radicalised" Zygons – insert heavy-handed Islamic metaphors and ISIS styled Zygon flags here – who are unhappy with the terms of the peace treaty agreed in The Day of the Doctor, and want a "land" of their own. Sadly this "land" appears to be Earth. Or possibly Wales, which spent a lot of last episode doubling for Genericstan. Happily the Zygons' shape-changing powers are so good that soldiers (who are aware of these powers) are easily fooled into thinking that their Moms, Dads, Sisters, and children have been instantaneously transported to Genericstan to plead with them from a Shack/Church - still not sure which. As you can imagine this does not go well…

Doctor Who Season 9 Episode 8

Below Stephen Moffat and Ingrid Oliver introduce 'The Zygon Inversion', and further below (!) Moffat's teaser for this week's episode. Remember to join us here at 20:00 for the Doctor Who Liveblog!

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the seventh episode of the new series of Doctor Who in a weekly review column

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 Episode 7

Hello everyone, either I’m here to review the seventh episode of series nine of Doctor Who or it’s my Zygon counterpart doing the same job. Either way, there’s nothing to worry about.

First of all, arrrgh! No next week trailer! I really want next week’s episode now!

The Zygon Invasion

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 7 of 12

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team

"I can confirm my peril in tonight's episode."

Well, last week went a bit pear-shaped didn't it? For our international readers I should explain that "pear-shaped" is not a good thing. Your liveblog team consists of Peter Mann and Jack Graves, plus assorted snarky passersby, and Mr Graves definitely indicated his displeasure with the direction of last week's episode. It was pretty much a disgrace to TV, making little sense, and possessing plot holes you could drive the coach and horses that "Me" was trying to rob through. This week 20 million of the rubbery and shape shifting Zygons reappear, in what critics are already calling "a heavy-handed parallel about immigration."

Anyhow, we'll be here at 20.15 to liveblog the whole thing. Apparently Clara is in peril. Fancy!

Sneak Peek into Zygon Invasion on Dr Who

Tomorrow night is episode seven of Dr Who series 9 and we'll be having the usual Liveblogging and Englishman in LA reviewing it over the weekend but here's a little clip to whet everyone's sonic screwdriver…

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the fifth episode of the new series of Doctor Who in a weekly review column

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 episode six

Hello everyone, I’m here to stand and deliver spoilers for the sixth episode of series nine of Dr Who.

So, comedian and Dr Who guest star Rufus Hound is immortal now. You can insert your own joke about that here.

I really wanted to like this episode. I was really sold on the notion that Ashildr might not like the immortality that had been thrust upon her. I even like her adoption of the new identity of “Me” (which is how she was credited this episode), though it makes referring to her grammatically difficult. But while the idea of “Me” as a resentful immortal was central, somehow the story as a whole didn’t quite gel together into a convincing narrative for me.

 The Girl Who Lived

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 6 of 12

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team

"A bit dark in here...?"

Or “The Second One With Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams.” Okay, so now we know that Ms Williams (Ashildr) is (effectively) immortal, is carrying another of the Mire technology chips that will allow her to gift another mortal with living forever. Oops, sorry, SPOILER ALERT! On the other hand, if you're reading this before you saw last weeks episode, why? And babies have their own language. And it's poetic. And, of course, the Doctor speaks it… How would he not? We learned that this Doctor chose his face from Caecilius in the Season 4 episode The Fires of Pompeii, featuring one P Capaldi, where Tennant’s Doctor had a right fit at Donna (cue blubbing) about not changing the future. We've discussed this, and we think it's a heavy-handed pointer that "NO GOOD WILL COME OF THIS!"

Peter Capaldi Introduces 'The Woman Who Lived'

Ahead of Tripwire's liveblog on Dr Who Episode Six tonight here, here's Peter Capaldi on this week's episode 'The Woman Who Lived'

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the fifth episode of the new series of Doctor Who in a weekly review column

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 episode five

Hello everyone, spoilers abound here for the fifth episode of series nine of Doctor Who.

So, when he regenerates, the Doctor can take inspiration for his new face from those he’s met before. This time he thinks he chose his current face to remind him to save people regardless of the risks to time itself. I can’t help but remember how he tried to save Adelaide Brooke in defiance of the laws (or perhaps are they more sort of guidelines?) of time back in The Waters of Mars. That didn’t turn out so well. And why did he choose the face of a Gallifreyan guard who once shot him for his sixth incarnation? Maybe it was as a warning not to trust his fellow Time Lords, who did, let us remember, put that incarnation on trial.

The Girl Who Died

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 5 of 12

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team

I'm a Cyber-Viking, and this is my friend from Easter Island...

Or "The One With Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams." And Vikings. And killer space warriors. This would be more impressive if the liveblog team had a) ever watched Game of Thrones, or b) knew who Maisie Williams was. As neither condition is true this isn't quite so exciting for us as it may be for other people. We just hope it's not the start of the kind of "stars of geekdom" franchise swapping action that you see in the States, when you're often not sure what program you're watching because the producers of drafted in a fan favourite from another show. Surely Mr Moffatt wouldn't do anything that cheap, or indeed, cheesy. The last two-parter was one of the best Doctor Who stories seen for some time, and thankfully fairly low on the hysteria monitor. We like Vikings, and killer space monsters too, and we're sure Maisie Williams is a perfectly fine young lady, so we're looking forward to tonight…

Moffat's Mystery Teaser...

Steven Moffat's teaser for tonight's Doctor Who episode - join us at 20.25 GMT for the LiveBlog...

Preview Heaven

BBC's Preview clips for tonight's (17/10/15) episode of Doctor Who, The Girl Who Died, starring Maisie Williams and the rest of the usual crew. Join us when we start the LiveBlog at 20.25....

Maisie, Maisie...

One of the new clips the BBC has issued for tonight's (17/10/2015) new episode. Join us at 20.25 for the LiveBlog...

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the fourth episode of the new series of Doctor Who in a new weekly review column

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 episode four

Hello everyone, here be spoilers about the fourth episode of series nine of Doctor Who, but my real concern in typing this spoiler warning is not to warn you, but to let the me who’s gone to the future and read this know what to do when he gets to the past and realises I hadn’t written a review for this week’s episode, and to give that me a warning that I am involved in a bootstrap paradox. I googled it, so you can too.

Doctor Who: Season 9 Episode 4: Before the Flood

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team

Sorry Clara, I feel quite unwell...

Ok, so when we left our heroes last week they were all dead except The Doctor - oh, sorry that was the week before. Last week it was The Doctor who was dead... or so his ghost seemed to indicate. Hey, maybe he's what's in the suspended animation box/trunk thingy? Spooky...

We will apparently meet chipmunky (or moley, if you prefer) Prentis (Paul Kaye - Thoros in Game of Thrones) before he died and the Fisher King, screams by Corey Taylor from Slipknot and voice by Peter Serafinowicz (Denarian Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy). The Doctor will die (again!). Joy is unconfined! Onwards....

Slipknot Vocalist in Saturday's Dr Who

Corey Taylor – best known as the lead singer in the US rock band Slipknot – lends his unique vocals to the Fisher King, a terrifying new foe in this week’s episode of Doctor Who.

Titan Comics Unveils NYCC Plans for Dr Who Comics

This year’s New York Comic Con (NYCC) is set to be the biggest ever for Titan’s Doctor Who comics line! Titan is set to release a very special NYCC triptych cover featuring the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors from the ongoing Doctor Who comic book series. This triptych forms a special image of the Doctors against a stunning New York skyline.

Dr Who Does It For The Kids

According to Film and TV trade news website theknowledgeonline.com , A YA Dr Who spin-off is in the pipeline at BBC Cymru Wales.

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the third episode of the new series of Doctor Who in a new weekly review column

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 Episode 3

Hello everyone, once again here be spoilers for the third episode of series 9 of Doctor Who. If you’ve not seen the episode or dislike spoilers, please step into the Faraday cage of spoiler protection now.

As much as I love the Daleks and Missy, and all the other returning monsters, they are quite limiting in narrative terms. You already know who they are, what they want and what they will do. New monsters are unencumbered with these narrative certainties, and therefore the possibilities for their stories are that much greater.

Under the Lake

By the Tripwire LiveBlog Team

See: Chipmunky!

Last week our hero rescued everyone! Will the Yamaha SG Samurai be back? Will the Doctor rock out in an undersea base (that's where he is, you know!)? Will the chipmunky ghosts glimpsed last week be scary? Is that why it's on at 20.25 GMT? Did you know the Christian Post is a fount of information about things Doctory? Don't click that link - it'll be here when we're finished!  Read on....

Doctor Steals OAP's Mode of Transport

by Tripwire Liveblog Team

When we live blogged Dr Who Season 9 Episode 2 last Saturday we little imagined that the BBC would celebrate the Doctor's appalling attitude to the differently-abled (Davros) when he stole what is, frankly, a wheelchair.  The BBC, instead of condemning the peripatetic time-lord, seem to have doubled down on his reprehensible behaviour by circulating more of this awful behaviour. Really! Justice will out - join us for the Live Blog, and what looks like undersea chipmunky ghosts, at 20:25pm on Saturday 3rd of October.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUFA3qwKrcw

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the second episode of the new series of Doctor Who in a new weekly review column

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 episode 2

First of all, in case anyone is in any doubt, here be spoilers for the second episode of series 9 of Doctor Who. If you’ve not seen the episode or dislike spoilers, please step away now.

The Witch's Familiar

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 2 of 12

You remember these chaps, don't you? Where are they now?

Last week we left our hero with everyone he cares about, and at least one person he doesn't, dead. Only, not really. Or at least that's what we're predicting. Will he kill the boy Davros? Will those really ugly Daleks from Season 5 make an appearance? You know, the ones no one speaks about? Will Clara be back? Well, until Christmas she will be. How about the guitar? It's a Yamaha SG Samurai you know. Quite fancy one now I've seen it... sorry, back to Dr Who.

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Dr Who: An Englishman in LA

Our man in Los Angeles, ROBERT CAVE, takes a look at the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who in a new weekly review column

Doctor Who Series 9/ Season 35 episode 1

As the archetypal long-running family drama series, Doctor Who has always played to multiple audiences, pleasing viewers of widely different ages with varying levels of engagement to the shows narrative, and comfort levels regarding spoilers. It’s a juggling act and one that I feel the series just about carries off, even in an episode like this, packed with an eclectic mixture of references to various old stories you don’t need to have seen to follow the plot (although having done so definitely will enhance your viewing experience).

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Doctor Who: Season 9 Episode 1 Liveblog

Series 9 Episode 1: The skies of Earth are frozen - where is the Doctor?

Welcome to the first liveblog of the new series. Press refresh to update. It must be said that most of those here are not huge fans of the fan fiction direction that the show has taken lately.... Apparently we have Daleks in the offing and Clara offski at Christmas. The Doctor is hiding out with with the Sisterhood of Karn (first seen in 1976’s The Brain of Morbius) and Missy is also back. Here we go.... Spoilers ahoy!

19:45

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Doctor Who Series 9 Missy interview

Killing Time

With Doctor Who coming back on 19 September, Michelle Gomez (Missy) talks about series 9

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Doctor Who Series 9 Interview Clara

At The Doctor's Side

With Doctor Who coming back on 19 September, Jenna Coleman (Clara) talks about series 9

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Doctor Who Series 9 Interview; Peter Capaldi

The Doctor Will See You Now

With Doctor Who starting again on 19 September, here's a chat with the man who plays the Doctor, Peter Capaldi, about the new run

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Doctor Who Series 9 Steven Moffat Interview

Time for A Change?

Steven Moffat, Lead Writer and Executive Producer, gives an insight in to what to expect from the ninth series of Doctor Who, returning to BBC One on Saturday 19 September.

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