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Broadcast dates for all five episodes, a new synopsis, and the full name of Russell Tovey’s Barclay

 

New details about upcoming Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea are now available. Following the announcement of the premiere date of the 7th of December, the dates for the remaining episodes have been published. They’ll be on iPlayer and BBC One in double bills each Sunday, with the final episode airing the Sunday before Christmas.

• Episodes 1 and 2 – 7th of December
• Episodes 3 and 4 – 14th of December
• Episode 5 – 21st of December

We also now know the full name of Russell Tovey’s central lead character. It turns out Barclay’s not his last name, it’s his first. His full moniker is the impressive Barclay Pierre-Dupont. Whether any French ancestry plays a role in the adventure is hard to say. However, Dupont is certainly an appropriate name for someone in Barclay’s position – literally meaning ‘of the bridge’ just as the UNIT member tries to form a bridge between UNIT and the Sea Devils. (It’s probably not a Tomb Raider deep cut, though.)

An updated BBC synopsis for The War Between the Land and the Sea also confirms Barclay’s status as a “low level UNIT staff member” who somehow “becomes humanity’s ambassador.”

The BBC have also launched dedicated social media accounts for the series, in addition to the existing Doctor Who presence. These include a new trailer, featuring Jemma Redgrave as UNIT leader Kate Stewart briefing the world on the crisis.

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The War Between the Land and the Sea (c) :BBC Studios,CREDIT LINE:BBC Studios/Bad Wolf/James Pardon The War Between the Land and the Sea

The five-part series follows Barclay (Russell Tovey), a low-level UNIT staff member whose ordinary life becomes a world of terror when an ancient species rises from the sea. Barclay becomes humanity’s ambassador when the mysterious Salt (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) emerges from the Tank at a summit on the Thames. UNIT, led by Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave), fights for control as humanity faces destruction.

The War Between the Land and the Sea begins at 8.30pm on iPlayer and BBC One on the 7th of December

 

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The Doctor and Belinda make a prison break for the stars in Titan Comics’ new lively and fun series

The Fifteenth Doctor is back! Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox continues his adventures at Titan Comics, once again told by fan favourite writer Dan Watters of Batman: Dark Patterns fame. Appropriately for a Time Lord whose run was cut short on television, there’s a real sense of pace and energy. It’s as if this era is grabbing every second of extra time it can.

That extends to cutting out a lot of the standard Doctor Who set up in order to get to the action faster. We begin with the Doctor already on a shuttle to Pantopolis. The space station at the edge of a black hole is infamous as the prison from which there’s no return. From the start, he’s on a mission – to break Belinda out of prison. But before long, a whole gang of prisoners have surrounded him, eager to help. (Mostly because they recognise he’s their own best chance of freedom too.)

 

The cast of alien prisoners make full use of the comic medium to provide wildly entertaining designs

Even with this brisk pace, the nature of a first issue means that it spends most of its pages establishing the setting and characters. Indeed, not much happens that it’s covered in the promotional blurb for Prison Paradox.

Fortunately, that doesn’t matter much when it’s so full of energy and fun. The Doctor’s showman aspect is in full effect as he sets about antagonising the prison staff as soon as he arrives. Watters writes a note perfect Fifteenth Doctor, full of style, laughter and danger. He’s matched by Sami Kivelä’s dynamic art, taking full advantage of the comic medium to push the alien designs beyond even a Disney budget. Meanwhile, Belinda’s characterisation has that nice blend of holding the Doctor accountable while embracing the adventure. Their fellow prisoners already have entertainingly quirky personalities, even sketched in across just a few pages. And there’s enough intrigue about exactly what’s going on with the mysterious Warden to promise plenty of drama in the remaining three parts.

The Prison Paradox retains all the wit and stylish storytelling of Everyone Must Go! but with more polish and confidence. For anyone already missing Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor, the series is already promising as lively and charismatic a substitute as you could hope for.

 

Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #1. Cover A by Jay Anacleto (c) Titan Comics Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #1

20th Anniversary of the 1st appearance of the Slitheen!

From Dan Watter, the acclaimed writer of Doctor Who: Everyone Must Go!

Experience a Doctor Who adventure like no other as The Doctor, Belinda, and an unlikely team of allies infiltrate a prison holding monsters and villains from across the cosmos.

With new friends and old foes, and some old foes who might just be new friends, it’s an adventure that will take you across the Whoniverse… and beyond!

You can order Prison Paradox #1 now. Issue 2 is out on the 3rd of December.

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Meet Eccleston, Whittaker, and Gatwa in small group Fan Meets at Flux

Flux, the new Doctor Who convention from Starfury Events, already had a stellar lineup. The event in Birmingham next March features three Doctors – Christopher Eccleston, Jodie Whittaker, and Ncuti Gatwa – as headliners. That’s on top of Whittaker’s companion, and real life best mate, Mandip Gill; Torchwood’s Kai Owen (Rhys), Naoko Mori (Tosh), and Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto); Class’s Fady Elsayd (Ram); and everyone’s favourite Slitheen Annette Badland. But now Starfury have now not only added Sophie Hopkins (Class’s April), but Starfury’s signature Fan Meets. And all three Doctors are included!

Fan Meets involve small groups of fans, typically about 20, getting to have a round table discussion with guests. It’s a far more intimate experience than the quick hellos of a photo opportunity or autograph signing, or a panel Q&A before a large audience. At Flux the Fan Meets will give you the opportunity to sit down with Christopher Eccleston, with Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill, and with Ncuti Gatwa. There are also fan meets with the cast of Torchwood, the cast of Class, and with Badland.

Fan Meets are at an additional cost to entry to the three day convention. In fact, the prices for the three Doctors may well make your eyes water. However, for those with deep enough pockets, it’s a unique chance for a close up meeting.

Flux takes place from the 13th to the 15th of March, 2026 at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham. There will be photo opportunities, autograph sessions, panels, a cosplay competition and more. There will also be the traditional Starfury late night fan parties from 9pm-2am each night.

Gold tickets are already sold out, but you can still buy regular tickets, which include autographs from Mori, David-Lloyd, Owen, Badland, Elsayd, and Hopkins from the official Starfury Events website.

 

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Doctor Who’s Rory, Arthur Darvill, takes part in a global chase to stop a deadly virus in new TV series Apollo Has Fallen, filming now

 

Former Doctor Who companion Arthur Darvill is the latest star to join the popular ‘…Has Fallen’ action adventure franchise. The series began in 2013 with Olympus Has Fallen, where Gerard Butler’s secret service agent has to retake the White House after terrorists seize control. Since then it’s spawned two movie sequels, London Has Fallen and Angel Has Fallen. Last year a spin-off TV series Paris Has Fallen joined the universe. The next entry in the franchise will be Paris sequel Apollo Has Fallen, filming now, featuring Arthur Darvill.

Darvill joins Ritu Arya (Fugitive of the Judoon, The Umbrella Academy) and Tewfik Jallab returning as Paris Has Fallen’s MI6 agent Zara Taylor and former close protection officer Vincent Taleb. In that series they joined forces to save the French President from a vengeful rogue French Foreign Legionnaire. This time their mission takes them around the world when terrorists steal a deadly virus. But it’s sure to feature the same high octane action, twists, turns, and betrayals as you’d expect from the Has Fallen series.

Will Arthur Darvill be friend or foe to the pair as they fight to save the day again? That’s a mystery for now. But we do know another new member of the cast will be Annabel Scholey, who memorably played the Weeping Angel possessed psychic Claire in Doctor Who: Flux. Main series lead Ritu Arya was, of course, also in Doctor Who as the Time Lord Gat in Fugitive of the Judoon.

Alice Troughton (The Doctor’s Daughter, Midnight) will also direct episodes of Apollo Has Fallen.

Apollo Has Fallen is currently filming internationally, and will presumably be on television screens on Amazon Prime in the UK in 2026. In the meantime, you’ll soon be able to see Darvill in short film A Rose for Iris.

 

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This year’s Doctor Who Christmas jumper offers a cheaper, and louder, alternative

 

As a man of taste, refinement, and a very tall sparkly hat once declared, “It’s Chriiiiiisstmaaaass!” Well almost. It’s steaming down the calendar towards us fast enough that shoppers are emptying every supermarket of tins of Roses and Quality Street faster than staff can fill them. Workplaces around the world are bracing themselves for the fallout of some inevitable Very Bad Decisions at the office party. And dad bods across the land are getting ready to be billboards for some eye watering knitwear. Once again this year, festive fans get the option of a new Doctor Who Christmas jumper.

This year’s official model comes via TDP Textiles. TDP’s not a high end, niche retailer like Lovarzi, who has made a number of Doctor Who Christmas jumpers over the past few years. Instead, they’re a manufacturer focusing on the mass market. You’ve undoubtedly already seen their wares on the shelves of retailers like Tesco, Primark, and B&M. That distinction shows up in their product, which is at a lower price point, and slightly lower quality, than Lovarzi’s work. The material is a relatively thin acrylic. However, at this price having a genuinely woven jumper at all, rather than a festive design printed on a simple sweater, is pretty impressive. It’s also surprisingly soft and comfortable, so no need to worry about scratching during the present unwrapping.

 

The back of the new Doctor Who Christmas jumper (c) TDP Textiles The colourful and fun design will leave no one with any doubt of your fandom this festive season

The design itself will certainly leave nobody around you in any doubt that you’re a Who fan. It’s dominated by snow covered TARDIS decked out in Christmas lights and a giant Doctor Who diamond logo. There are some more subtle nods too, though. In place of some of the snowflakes in a more traditional design, there are Daleks and Cyberman heads. Even the actual snowflakes, if you look closely enough, contain snarling faces as in the 2012 special The Snowmen.

This out and proud Who fan flavour even extends to the packing. Blogtor Who’s arrived on his doorstep in a transparent plastic bag. So be warned: if buying one as a surprise for the fan in your life, make sure to get to the door before they do. Even buying it for yourself, be prepared for your postie to discovering how big a nerd you really are. You may also want to consider that, as is usually the case with Christmas jumpers for some reason, the sizes run small – so you should probably go one size up from your usual sweaters.

If this is your first Doctor Who Christmas jumper, and you have a couple of extra pounds to spend, Blogtor would still recommend the current Lovarzi edition. It’s much more stylish and discreet, designed for fans to nod knowingly at each other. But if you already have that version, and are looking for something new for the New Year, the TDP jumper provides an unmistakably fun alternative.

The official Doctor Who Christmas Jumper 2025 is available now through retailer such as Amazon.

 

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The Sea Devils return in more ways than one next month, as the original 1972 serial gets a special edition on BBC Four

Travel back to 1972 this December with a newly re-edited version of the classic Doctor Who story The Sea Devils. It will stream on BBC iPlayer from 6am on the 7th of December before airing on BBC Four at 7pm. That’s immediately ahead of The War Between the Land and the Sea at 8:30pm on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.

This new 90-minute blockbuster special condenses the original six-part adventure into a feature-length experience. Mark Ayres has updated the sound design. It also features Lorne Balfe’s The War Between the Land and the Sea score. The new theme weaves together with original composer Malcolm Clarke’s groundbreaking 1972 music.

Present day Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies says: “52 years after they first rose from the depths, it’s Sea Devil night across the BBC! A great idea never dies, and viewers young and old can now heed the warning: watch the seas!”

 

The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Jo (Katy Manning) in The Sea Devils (c) BBC Studios The Third Doctor and his companion Jo must try to stop an alliance between the Sea Devils and the Master which could end the human race

The Sea Devils stars Jon Pertwee who played the Doctor between 1970 and 1974, alongside Katy Manning as companion Jo Grant, and features the iconic villain the Master, played by Roger Delgado. Written by Malcolm Hulke and directed by Michael E. Briant, the story introduced audiences to the formidable aquatic species the Sea Devils.

The story begins as the Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high security prison cell on an isolated island. However, the Doctor soon becomes interested by the mysterious destruction of boats in the surrounding waters. Who has been attacking the local fishermen from the depths below? And is the Master really the helpless prisoner he seems? The answers introduce the creatures nicknamed ‘the Sea Devils.’ Aquatic cousins of the Silurians they’ve slept beneath the oceans for millions of years, survivors on an ancient apocalypse. But now they’re awake. And they’re not terribly happy with the human race.

 

The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) is hunted by one of the ancient aquatic race in The Sea Devils (c) BBC Studios Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

The Doctor and Jo visit the Master who is held prisoner on an island. There they learn that someone has sunk several ships in the area and the Doctor decides to investigate. He’s eager to make peace between the Sea Devils and the humans discovers that the Master is up to his old tricks.

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The War Between the Land and the Sea is only weeks away!

The BBC has announced that Doctor Who spin-off series The War Between the Land and the Sea will launch with a thrilling double bill on Sunday the 7th December. The story, which pitches UNIT against old enemies the Sea Devils, will be on BBC One and iPlayer from 8:30pm.

The five-part series follows Barclay (Russell Tovey), a low-level UNIT staff member whose ordinary life becomes a world of terror when an ancient species rises from the sea. Barclay becomes humanity’s ambassador when the mysterious Salt (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) emerges from the Tank at a summit on the Thames. UNIT, led by Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave), fights for control as humanity faces destruction.

Alongside Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Jemma Redgrave, the series features a star-studded cast including Ruth Madeley as Shirley Bingham, Alexander Devrient as Colonel Christofer Ibrahim, and Colin McFarlane as General Austin Pierce. Other previously announced cast members include Adrian Lukis, Patrick Baladi, Francesca Corney, Mei Mac, Vincent Franklin, Waleed Hammad, Iestyn Arwel, Hannah Donaldson, Manpreet Bachu, and Ann Akinjirin.

 

 

Barclay (Russell Tovey) and Salt (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) in The War Between the Land and the Sea (c) BBC Studios The rest of the five episodes will air over Christmas

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies has written the series with fellow Doctor Who writer Pete McTighe (Lucky Day). In addition, Executive Producers for Bad Wolf are Joel Collins, Julie Gardner, and Jane Tranter.

Davies says the entire team are “so proud to launch this show at the height of the schedules. And then all five episodes will combine to make a terrific box set to watch over the Christmas holidays!”

The series is the last of the episodes which BBC Studios co-produced with Disney. It will drop on Disney+ outside of the UK in 2026.

The series is directed by Dylan Holmes Williams, with Lorne Balfe serving as the show’s composer.

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Eight new short stories proves as strange, daft, heartfelt and emotional as the episodes which inspired them

 

Everybody knows that every story ends. Otherwise, as has been said by a certain Time Lord and others, nothing would ever get started. But a lot rests on when you choose to close the book. Nobody ever really lives entirely happily ever after – it’s a choice to finish on the wedding day kiss to a prince charming, not on the 3am argument about who’s turn it is to change a nappy. One person’s life can be the story of a tragic accident or heroic recovery, of rags to riches or riches to rags, depending on when you call ‘cut.’ It’s an idea explored, in ways variously whimsical, thoughtful, and just plain fun, ways across the eight short stories in new collection Doctor Who: The Adventures After.

Naturally, with so many authors involved they have different interpretations of the brief. There are tales which pick up directly after their inspiration’s closing credits, revealing loose ends we didn’t know existed. Then there are direct sequels, in which old enemies return years after that first encounter. Finally, and possibly most satisfying, there are those which reflect on the personal impact on the characters. Some even delightfully subvert the expectations of the format – one Doctor dealing with the fallout of a later incarnation’s adventure, or a sequel to one story turning out to actually be a sequel to an entirely different one.

 

The two headline stories feature Susan and Jo, written by the actors themselves

Obviously, the two biggest draws in The Adventures After are the entries by Carole Ann Ford and Katy Manning. They reflect, respectively, on Susan and Jo – the characters the two authors played on TV. Ford’s The Verge of Death picks up directly after the climax of Marco Polo. However, it’s previous serial The Edge of Destruction that really powers it. The idea the danger was never actual as simple as a broken spring – that there really is a malign invader in the TARDIS effecting the travellers’ minds – is a completely unnecessary embellishment. But it mainly exists to give Ford the chance to address some old wrongs, centering Susan as a powerful telepath and gifted child of Gallifrey, who understands ever inch of the TARDIS almost as well as her grandfather.

It’s as self-indulgent as it sounds, but Ford, but co-writers Beth Axford and Rob Craine present it with all the poetic earnestness of a 1960s children’s book with charming results.

 

Take Our Breath Away providing a loving coda to Jo’s time as a companion

Meanwhile, Manning’s Take Our Breath Away follows Jo up the Amazon, the ink barely dry on her marriage certificate with Cliff. It fills the gap between the Doctor giving her a wedding present of a Metebelis III crystal in The Green Death and her sending it back to him in Planet of the Spiders. It turns out her note in the latter failed to mention that the Doctor wasn’t the only Time Lord fascinated by its powers. Take Our Breath Away ultimately offers a better, and somewhat bittersweet, coda to Jo and the Delgado Master’s relationship, in all its playful deadliness. It also gently emphasises that the former UNIT agent was right to leave when she did, as she continues to grow into her new life.

Jo’s post-Doctor life must be one of the most heavily explored of all the companions, so it’s testament to both the character and Manning that there always seems to be something new to say.

 

Second Doctor story The Face of Fear and Fires of Pompeii sequel The Ashes of Pompeii are other highlights of the collection

Other highlights include Rochana Patel and David N. Smith’s Second Doctor story The Face of Fear and Janelle McCurdy’s The Ashes of Pompeii. The former starts off as a fairly standard bit of continuity bridging, dwelling on Victoria’s increasing unhappiness between the London underground horrors of The Web of Fear and her departure in next serial Fury from the Deep. But it soon evolves into something much more interesting. It’s a genuinely creepy mystery, expertly teasing out its revelations one by one. It also finds a new angle on the now regular topic of how former companions adjust back to ordinary life, focusing on issues of identity in a very Doctor Who way.

Meanwhile, as the name suggests, The Ashes of Pompeii takes the brave step of trying to follow on from the emotional climax of The Fires of Pompeii. What could be a very basic premise for a sequel – somehow, a Pyroville survived – pivots into something much more lyrical and beautiful. Though there’s the usual Doctor Who ‘aliens!’ handwave of mythology, it’s essentially the story of the spirit of the land itself, scarred and wounded, the lava barely cold, and grieving for the people it had sheltered and protected. The Doctor and Donna, for whom the destruction was only moments ago, share in its pain. Ashes in an entry light on incident but heavy on emotional impact, and like the episode which inspired it, may stay with you for a while.

 

Harry Sullivan and the Chalice of Vengeance may not have the tightest plot in the collection, but presents the UNIT surgeon at his adorable best

Harry Sullivan and the Chalice of Vengeance takes a more basic approach to the one lone survivor premise. To say more would give the game away, but the rather tortured way they survived, and their rather muddled motives and methods in seeking vengeance, aren’t too convincing. But it’s easily worth it to spend some time in the noggin of Doctor Who’s most underrated companion, Harry Sullivan. This is very much Harry’s story, too, with the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane taking a back seat. Like a cross between Bertie Wooster and James Bond, he’s brave, resourceful, determined and selfless… yet easily confounded and slightly slow on the uptake. If there’s a wrong end of a stick, he’s sure to find it, and author Mark Griffiths presents him at his adorable best.

 

Dæmons in Levenshulme retreads the original’s plot almost beat for beat, but with some wonderfully cheeky twists

Rounding out the collection are Aftercare, Save the Earth, and Dæmons in Levenshulme. Paul Magrs’ tale is probably takes the most standard Hollywood movie sequel approach in the book. The Master shows up in the 2020s to try and raise Azal the Dæmon again, in exactly the same way as before, right down to becoming the local vicar. The Doctor, meanwhile, tries to stop it once more, again aided by the now 100 year old white witch Olive Hawthorne.

Given this “Again! But more so!”approach, a lot of Levenshulme’s appeal rests on changing up which Doctor and Master are facing off this time. The Thirteenth Doctor and Missy make for great frenemies. The Doctor is like a put upon mum, sighing and grumping about whatever their wayward teen daughter has done to get excluded from school this time. While Missy has all the flinty malice and cheek we’ve come to know and love to hate.

 

Aftercare presents an emotionally raw, but uncomfortable, account of Brian Williams’ grief while Save the Earth proves a rather generic Twelfth Doctor adventure

Aftercare may well divide opinion, with its depiction of a post-Angels Take Manhattan Brian working his way through the stages of grief for his time-displaced son and daughter-in-law. His bitterness and resentment – blaming the Doctor, UNIT, even his newly discovered grandson, but most of all himself, is thoroughly raw and human. True to human experience it may be (or as true as such a fantastical situation can be). But like many of the most human experiences it’s also deeply uncomfortable.

Final story Save the Earth has the loosest interpretation of the brief by far. It’s set during the fallout of the Doctor and Clara’s row in Kill the Moon. But that’s little more than an excuse to team the Time Lord with a new young woman he’s obviously considering as a replacement if the teacher really doesn’t return. Indeed, with the Doctor pondering the Shoreditch rift, and the need for a more permanent guardian, this is more a prequel to spin-off show Class than anything.

 

The Adventures After proves a worthy addition to the tradition of fans never quite being able to close the book on their favourite Doctors and companions

Everybody knows that every story ends. And nobody knows it like Doctor Who fans. But they’re unlikely, even for one moment, to accept it. The Adventures After is a worthy addition to a decades old tradition of never quite being able to close the book on the characters we grew up with and loved. And it’s as daft, profound, weird and heartfelt as the show that made its authors fans in the first place.

 

Doctor Who: The Adventures After (c) BBC Books Doctor Who: The Adventures After

The Doctor has had many adventures, visited many planets and made a whole host of friends (and some enemies).

But if you thought it was all over after the TARDIS doors closed, and the time ship dematerialised, onto the next adventure, you’d be very much mistaken.

From Earth’s past, present and future, to the furthest reaches of the universe, here are eight tales that give us a glimpse into the worlds the Doctor left behind. Sometimes triumph, sometimes tragedy (and always chaos) these are stories you’ll never forget.

You can find links to order The Adventures After, in paperback, ebook, or audiobook formats, here.

 

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