Win a page of original John Ridgway DWM art

Just send an artistic response to this by Wednesday. Apparently hardly anyone has, so you would be in with a shot!

A Jar Of Goggles

A plug for A Jar Of Goggles, a shiny new gamer blog loaded currently with lots of TimeWatch RPG material.

Class due in October

Class creator Patrick Ness talking to Empire.

A different Doctor Who miniatures game?

Announced in October, now apparently in pre-orders, Time Of The Daleks from Gale Force Nine (makers of D&D boardgames, Star Trek Ascendancy and Firefly: The Game) “contains highly detailed miniatures representing the Daleks and six of the regenerations of the Doctor and a host of additional miniatures”...

No images of figures or other components yet, or indications of scale.

Which six? I would guess the four modern ones and two more... Eight and War?

Rio 2016

Any Doctor Who adventure ideas came from the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony?

Rio, and Brazil in general, have their share of history that could inspire adventures. From the spotlighted figures in the ceremony, I must admit that I had never heard of Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont before and he sounds like the type of character the Doctor might recruit when needing to fly somewhere in the early 20th century. Or to encourage the creation of the wristwatch!

And respect to Tunisia for wearing Tenth Doctor blue suits with red ties...

Twelfth Doctor and companions miniatures

Like the Clara. Is Strax really that big? Hmm.

Updates on the Doctor Who Miniatures Game

First look at the complete set of Tenth Doctor And Companions in pre-orders, adding Rose and Donna to Martha and Wilf, and the box for Twelve, Clara and the Paternoster Gang. £19.99 per box (£4 per figure, ouch!) for metal.

Confirmation of plastic Dalek, Cybermen and UNIT soldier sets on the way.

Time travel films getting TV remakes

Time After Time and Frequency are both coming to small screens. Both were perfectly self-contained movies, and Time After Time in particular feels like it could be a stretch as one person (H.G. Wells) pursues another person (Jack the Ripper) across time, while Frequency could easily become a gimmick for a procedural show, with a mystery about the time-radio and maybe some mysterious origin stuff too.

Nettie Stevens

A Google Doodle for the 155th birthday of Nettie Stevens, pioneering geneticist who found the X and Y chromosomes. “Before Stevens’ work, scientists thought that the mother or the environment determined if a child was born male or female.” Which allowed Henry VIII to get away with dumping wives for giving him daughters, for example.

O Canada

Happy Canada Day!

Representation in Class

Patrick Ness reveals an LGBTQ main character to feature in Class.

Our lives may depend on a Dalek!

Bacteria on the Dalek at Broadcasting House could be vital to future medicines.

If that doesn’t give you an adventure hook about capturing a Dalek for science...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

A Google Doodle for the 180th birthday of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, co-founder of the London School of Medicine, mayor of Aldeburgh.

Rok Of The Reds

And on the subject of Doctor Who comics, the legendary John Wagner and Alan Grant are back, writing an alien invasion threatening a lower-rung British football club in Rok Of The Reds for BHP.

Ninth Doctor issue 1 Writer's Commentary

More teases than reveals in Cavan Scott’s commentary, encouraging reading.