Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Newsletter/2026/September

The Space-Time Telegraph Volume IV, Issue II — September 2026 Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who Don't blink, don't even blink... Blink, and you'll miss the new edition of the newsletter Hello Whopedians (see what I did there?)! We're here again with the latest issue of the Space-Time Telegraph, where we have all the latest information on your favorite niche corner of Wikipedia, and wider happenings across the franchise. Dig in and enjoy! I like Quality Articles. Quality Articles are good. Since the publication of the last newsletter, several updates to quality content have occurred. Fifteenth Doctor has been promoted to GA status, and subsequently the Fifteenth Doctor Good Topic has been promoted, indicating that all major articles associated with the incarnation have been improved to GA status! Congratulations to all who have helped with this massive milestone. The former FAs Dalek and Douglas Adams have been improved to GA, and Doctor actors Tom Baker and Christopher Eccleston have also been promoted. Two Classic serials, The Celestial Toymaker and The Ice Warriors, have been improved, as has spin-off series Tales of the TARDIS. Finally, shoutout to The Invasion (Doctor Who)'s promotion, nominated by new nominater XCBRO172, as well as Christopher H. Bidmead, which has been the second promoted article by Lbal. At present, we are currently at 28 total Good Articles promoted this year, and hopefully if we keep up the pace this will be our second most productive year on record (Beating 2012's 36, though still a fair bit behind the over 50 articles from 2025). That said, on top of those new promotions, there are numerous nominations currently in the queue, and several articles and Good Topic projects currently in the works, so make sure to keep improving and reviewing articles for the project! Every step counts to improving our coverage of this show. Congratulations to all who have improved content in the past few months! It's the End of the World Doctor Who as We Know It (and I (Do Not) Feel Fine) In June, the BBC officially announced that the previously publicized 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special, was no more. The news was accompanied by a plethora of other information, most notably that showrunner Russell T Davies and producer Bad Wolf would be departing the programme, thereby allowing the BBC to issue an Invitation to tender. Davies revealed that the special was merely a ruse to satisfy audiences as the future of it was unknown, stating that no script was ever written and no performers approached. This does however, conflict with reports from composer Murray Gold, who suggested that Davies had authored multiple versions of a script. Since this announcement, many rumors have arisen suggesting that several studios/networks are interested in taking the reigns of Who. Among these, are longtime producer of the show BBC Studios, HBO/HBO Max, Amazon/Prime Video, World Productions, and Electric Entertainment. Netflix, meanwhile, has taken its hat out of the ring, with an executive stating they believe Doctor Who's belongs with the Beeb. While these rumors will likely only continue to grow, the tender invitation has only recently been formally published, so it remains to be seen what, if any, future the series has. If Who does find a new production partner, no cast or crew is currently signed onto the series. The rumor mill is also running wild on who the next showrunner should be, with names such as Pete McTighe, Jack Thorne, Mark Gatiss, and many others, all being mentioned. Once the above is all resolved, sorted, and tucked away nicely, the biggest question of course, becomes what do you do with that cliffhanger... Intelligence Bulletin from the Subwave Network The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit will receive a limited theatrical release on 23 November to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper). The special omnibus format of the story includes previously unreleased material as well as an interview with an unspecified guest. Listings for the showing have so far appeared on some British, Canadian, and Irish cinema pages, but it is unknown where, if anywhere else, it will be shown. Big Finish Productions has recently announced two new series of full-cast audio dramas. River Song (Alex Kingston) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) will star in a quartet of adventures coming this January, while the Tenth Doctor and Rani Chandra (Anjli Mohindra) are set to record a trilogy of stories which will release in August 2027. Darvill has also teamed up with former co-star and on-screen wife Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) for "The Pondcast", an upcoming Doctor Who rewatch podcast from their time together on the show. Ex-Who boss Steven Moffat, has also been confirmed as a guest on their upcoming show. Funko revealed a new range of Doctor Who Pop figures featuring the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Doctors, as well as River Song and a Dalek due for release in October. Big Finish will also be publishing hardback replicas of the Radio Times tenth and twentieth Who anniversary specials, first released by BBC Magazines in 1973 and 1983, respectively. The BBC has revealed in their invitation to tender the series, that the next series of Doctor Who will tentatively air in 2028 or 2029. Their songs have ended... but their stories never end 🌹 Since the previous issue was published, a number of people related to the Whoniverse have sadly passed away and some who passed away before the previous issue only had their deaths announced recently: 2010 Q2 – Mohammad Shamsi, 80, actor (Carnival of Monsters) 2016 14 December – Jan Spoczynski, 68, designer (Snakedance) and design assistant (Revenge of the Cybermen) 2020 26 December – Charles Jeanes, 67, visual effects designer (Vengeance on Varos) and visual effects assistant (Full Circle, Warriors' Gate) Their songs have ended... but their stories never end 🌹 (continued) 2023 30 June – Gordon Wales, 93, actor (The Keys of Marinus) 20 August – Jennifer White Shah, 80, assistant (The Daleks' Master Plan) Q4 – Geoffrey Frederick, 90, actor (The Savages) 2025 27 March – Don Weinstein, 81, actor (Paradise Towers) 14 April – Heather Carney, 95, daughter of William Hartnell who helped her daughter write Hartnell's biography and contributed recollections featured in Vworp Vworp! issue 6 15 May – Michael Kelligan, 86, actor (The Pirate Planet, Delta and the Bannermen) 16 May – Kenton Moore, 93, actor (The Ark in Space, The Dalek Invasion of Earth) 27 August – Eric Mival, 86, film editor (The War Machines) 25 November – Jane Enshawe, 84, actress (The Macra Terror) 23 December – David Garfield, 92, actor (The War Games, The Face of Evil, The Hollows of Time) 29 December – Eddie Shah, 81, floor assistant (The Smugglers, The Tenth Planet, The Power of the Daleks) 2026 12 February – Peter Logan, 88, visual effects designer (The Sun Makers, Destiny of the Daleks, The Keeper of Traken, Kinda, Time-Flight) and effects assistant (The Ice Warriors, Inferno, Terror of the Autons, The Claws of Axos) 20 February – Harry Van Engel, 94, actor (Genesis of the Daleks, The Sun Makers, The Leisure Hive) 2 March – William "Bill" Wilde, 85, actor (Frontier in Space, "The Eleventh Hour") 7 March – Noel Chanan, 86, film editor (The Ark) 8 March – Maurice Gallagher, 82, floor assistant (The Krotons) 16 March – Sally Grace, 74, guest (Doctor Who at the BBC: "Week Ending") 20 March – Nicky James, 65, location manager (Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures) and location scout (Torchwood) 23 March – Janos Kurucz, 89, actor (The Romans, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Gunfighters, The Massacre) 25 March – Burnell Tucker, 91, actor ("The Angels Take Manhattan") 10 April – Jasmine Jackson-Lloyd, 28, horse provider ("Resolution") 30 April – David Daker, 90, actor (The Time Warrior, Nightmare of Eden, Creatures of Beauty) Circa 13 May – Pamela Greer, 85, actress (The Daleks' Master Plan) 26 May – John Bradburn, 80, assistant floor manager (The Sea Devils, Frontier in Space), production assistant (Revenge of the Cybermen) and actor (Frontier in Space) 1 June – Anthony Head, 72, actor ("School Reunion") 2 June – Nicholas Evans, 93, Dalek operator (The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Power of the Daleks) and actor (The Romans) 2 June – Kay Patrick, 84, actress (The Romans, The Savages) 4 June – Patrick Godfrey, 93, actor (The Savages, The Mind of Evil) 5 June – Sam Dastor, 84, actor (The Emerald Tiger) 5 June – Raymond Llewellyn, 97, actor (The Abominable Snowmen) 9 June – Terry Brett, 81, technical manager (Nightmare of Eden, Logopolis) 13 June – Roy Hattersley, 93, documentary guest (What Lies Beneath) 28 June – Justin Richards, 64, writer (too many credits to list) 3 July – Michael Owen Morris, 78, director (The Awakening) and production assistant (The Pirate Planet) 8 July – Ann Widdecombe, 78, actress ("The Sound of Drums") 9 July – John Bruce, 88, production assistant (The Dominators) 17 July – Mike Catherwood, 83, vision mixer (Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks) and floor assistant (The Dalek Invasion of Earth) 18 July – Tom Chadbon, 80, actor (City of Death, The Mysterious Planet and several Big Finish audios) 25 July – Bill Oddie, 85, actor (Doctor Who and the Pirates) 27 July – Phyllida Law, 94, actress (Eye of the Gorgon, The Bride of Peladon) 9 August – Cheryl Hall, 76, actress (Carnival of Monsters) 13 August – Nick Joseph, 84, actor (The Creature from the Pit, The Leisure Hive, Black Orchid, Terminus, The Mark of the Rani) 18 August – John Walker, 83, cameraman (Horror of Fang Rock, The Androids of Tara, City of Death and more) 26 August – Roger Stevens, 67, writer ("Scout Ship"), editor Myth Makers 15: Jon Pertwee and director (Myth Makers 37: Roger Delgado - A Tribute) 1 September – Carla Jeffery, 33, actress ("The New World") Circa 11 September – Gillian Brown, 82, actress (The Brain of Morbius) 18 September – Stephanie Cole, 84, actress (The Abandoned, Bessie Come Home) Unknown year Tom Booth, unknown age, actor (The Aztecs) Liz Edney, unknown age, actress ("The Idiot's Lantern", "Army of Ghosts", "Doomsday") Kevin O'Brien, unknown age, actor (too many credits to list) Tony Ryan, unknown age, actor (The Curse of Fenric) Norman Stewart, unknown age, director (Underworld, The Power of Kroll) and production assistant (The Underwater Menace, The Invisible Enemy and more) Contributors Spectritus (talk) Pokelego999 (talk) TheDoctorWho (talk) If you wish to contribute to future editions of the newsletter, leave a message on the WikiProject talk page or reach out to one of the current contributors listed above. 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