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No matter which reboot or what season, showrunner Russell T. Davies' version of Doctor Who has a few...let's call them "consistencies." His Doctors are morally complex figures who are optimists at heart, although they carry around no small amount of trauma (Fourteen's
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On paper, Doctor Who meets Eurovision feels like an unbeatable premise. An over-the-top, purposefully high-camp event, with flashy outfits that may or may not light up, coordinated dance numbers, and dedicated fanbases waging voting campaigns should result in an hour that's fun, if nothing else, and it seems
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"We're all just stories in the end" is an idea we've encountered on Doctor Who before. But although this line was originally spoken in the Season 5 episode "The Big Bang," the Eleventh Doctor's famous phrase has rarely felt more
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Though Doctor Who ostensibly follows the adventures of a two-hearted alien who travels through space and time in a blue police box, the show's heart is most often found in the stories of the companions alongside him. Showrunner Russell T. Davies has always been interested in the idea
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The introduction of any new companion to the world of Doctor Who tends to follow a few predictable patterns: The Doctor usually meets a new traveling partner on Earth, introducing them to the existence of things like aliens and the concept of time travel in a familiar environment before whisking
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In the world of Doctor Who, the only thing that's ever constant is change. Showrunners, stars, and stories come and go, and still the franchise carries on into its sixth decade, travelling hopefully and finding new stories to tell about the indefinable wonders of the universe. Ncuti Gatwa&
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Doctor Who Christmas specials are a unique beast. Current (and former) showrunner Russell T. Davies introduced the concept to the franchise when he brought the show back in 2005, and he loves nothing so much as a big, bombastic holiday spectacle. One of his first moves upon regaining control of
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The first Russell T. Davies era of Doctor Who contained several consistent hallmarks: Fiesty companions who prove ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things; complex supporting characters with depth and agency; deep cuts from classic lore; and twisty plots that tended to make almost no sense at all from
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If there's one thing Russell T. Davies is going to do, it's craft a big, loud, splashy two-parter to close out any season of Doctor Who he's involved in. From "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways" back during
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Somewhat unintentionally, this season of Doctor Who has somehow managed to spin itself into the most timely thing on television. The Ruby-centric "73 Yards," whose primary villain was an aggressive nationalist and xenophobic politician with his hand on the nuclear trigger, arrived just as real-life Prime Minister Rishi
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Doctor Who is a show that is aspirational at its heart. Travel hopefully; never cruel or cowardly, and above all, be kind. Because of this, it's easy to assume that the stories it tells are always happy ones and that everything turns out alright in the end. The
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that some of Doctor Who's best episodes barely feature the show's primary character. These so-called "Doctor-lite" episodes were initially deployed during showrunner Russell T. Davies' first tenure to help mask the fact that the show was filming