Each issue, the Time and Space Visualiser looks back at a landmark moment and provides updates on Doctor Who luminaries, past and present…

Joanna Lumley as the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death (1999).

TELEVISION

If you missed seeing Pearl Mackie in The Long Call when it aired at the end of last year, the whole series is now available on BritBox and ITV Hub. Directed by Lee Haven Jones, it also features Amit Shah.

Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley and Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary in Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).

AWARDS

Congratulations to Comic Relief Doctor Joanna Lumley on becoming a Dame in the New Year’s Honours List, which also included an OBE for June Brown.

Pearl Mackie as DC Jen Rafferty in The Long Call (2021).

Also on BritBox, Lesley Manville and Daniel Mays star in Magpie Murders from 10 February.

FILM

DC Films’ forthcoming Batgirl has added Rebecca Front and Corey Johnson to its cast list, in unspecified starring roles.

Downton Abbey: A New Era – featuring Hugh Bonneville, Imelda Staunton, Phyllis Logan and Penelope Wilton – is released in cinemas worldwide on 18 March.

STAGE

The Park Theatre’s murder-mystery fundraiser Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 2 features a guest actor improvising their way through each performance. The latest stars to be announced are Sanjeev Bhaskar, Jim Broadbent, Simon Callow, Michelle Collins, Mark Gatiss, David Haig, Suranne Jones, Paterson Joseph, Maureen Lipman, Joanna Lumley, Lee Mack, Tim McInnerny, Ian McKellen, David Mitchell, Tamzin Outhwaite, Sue Perkins, Meera Syal and Bradley Walsh. Stephen Fry lends his voice as the Captain at every presentation. The production runs from 9 February to 12 March, each show being followed by a Q&A with that evening’s guest actor. Tickets are available from the theatre’s website.