John Hurt, who played the War Doctor in 2013, has received a knighthood in the New Year Honours.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Arise-Sir-Doctor

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Doctor Who World Tour!
Peter, Jenna and Steven will go on a world tour to promote Series 8 of Doctor Who. They'll start by visiting Cardiff on August 7, moving on to London and winding up in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on August 19, passing through South Korea, Australia, the US and Mexico.
Peter said: “It’s fantastic that so many people across the ( Read more... )

http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2014-hugo-awards/

There's a number of noms for Doctor Who, and just not in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category. :)

* Jenna interview at NTAs where she talks about filming with Peter Capaldi (very mild ep 1 spoiler?):

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* Peter can be seen on new 10-episode BBC show The Musketeers. Ep 1 and 2 are on iPlayer.
* A couple of old short video interviews with Peter about his roles in World War Z and Maleficent, since that's coming out soon. And a very funny old ( Read more... )

Matt Smith won in the Best Drama Performance category! Matt's acceptance video. Video of Jenna and Steven picking up award for him.
Doctor Who won Best Drama!

The final round of voting for the national television awards is open, where Doctor Who (and a number of Whovian actors) are nominated. See the relevant categories below:

Drama
Broadchurch
Call The Midwife
Doctor Who
Downton Abbey

Drama PerformanceMartin Clunes (Doc Martin ( Read more... )

The annual national television awards long list voting is now open. As usual this includes a number of nods for Doctor Who and its alumni, the most prominent are:
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The 60s Dalek movies have been released on Blu-Ray. Bernard Cribbins, who played a companion in the second one, has been doing several interviews where he talks about them, as well as his time on show as Wilf. Here's a radio interview (originally from here) with Mark Gatiss and there are text interviews in Sci-Fi Now, Den of Geek Part One, Part Two ( Read more... )

The 2013 Hugo Awards Nominatons have been announced and Doctor Who has recieved a number of nominations:

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Doctor Who, “The Angels Take Manhattan”, Written by Steven Moffat, Directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales ( Read more... )

Oh, this is sad: visual effects house The Mill is closing down their TV department. This will mean the loss of 25 jobs and the departure of managing director Will Cohen. The company "had weathered losses in 2012 and those losses had accelerated in the first quarter of 2013", what with, amongst other things, no more Merlin and "the BBC not ( Read more... )