Posted today at the Tides of Time blog - Russell T Davies and the Rejoining of the Ways. which Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society members - students, alumni, and friends - comment on the return of Russell T Davies to Doctor Who. I'm pleased with how it all came together. Also posted at https://sir-guinglain.dreamwidth.org/2021/09/28/russell-t- ( Read more... )

So, Bad Wolf Productions will be taking over Doctor Who once Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker leave... and not only does this mean the return of Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter in some executive capacity, but the beadline news is that Russell T Davies is returning as Doctor Who showrunner. This part of the news was completely unexpected to me, ( Read more... )

We have been busy at Tides of Time towers (a block of flats outside Oxford as much as a student room in an ancient college) and have published a special pdf-only issue reporting from Doctor Who conventions at Aldbourne, Banbury, Bedford and Derby as well as appearances in the recent past by Russell T Davies and in the more remote past by Sophie ( Read more... )

Russell T Davies's talk to Worcester College, Oxford and (by invitation of the provost) the Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society was enjoyable. I wasn't in the target audience, of course - there was a lot of talk about how to get into television and how Russell failed to get into the BBC training course three times, ending up by going in as a ' ( Read more... )