380 and 392), and Steven Moffat (Issues 417/418, 447, 468/469, 484 and 515), amongst others. He also served as co-editor of the magazine's comic strip with Scott Gray, and wrote the regular Public Image column, which reports on the series' ratings, which he has continued to provide since his departure as editor. Spilsbury has admitted to being greatly influenced by Radio Times, paying tribute to covers of the listings magazine on several occasions. In 2015 Spilsbury appeared on BBC Worldwide's Doctor Who: The Fan Show, where he was complimentary about the episode The Witch's Familiar, and confirmed that the story he first remembered watching was Destiny of the Daleks A further episode in 2016 saw Spilsbury and his team appear as themselves in a spoof documentary, showing the production of Issue 500 of DWM. On 12 July 2017 Panini UK announced Tom Spilsbury was stepping down as Doctor Who Magazine'''s editor after Issue 515 and would be succeeded by Marcus Hearn. Inside Soap Spilsbury's first freelance work for Inside Soap magazine was an interview with director Graeme Harper in November 2010, about the tram crash seen in the 50th anniversary episodes of Coronation Street,. Since leaving Doctor Who Magazine in 2017, Spilsbury initially contributed to Inside Soap as an occasional writer, before joining the full-time staff in 2018 as a regular writer and sub-editor, contributing stories on EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks. In March 2020, he took over editing Inside TV, the television section of the magazine, providing features on Red Dwarf, We Hunt Together, and Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow, among others. TV Choice and Total TV Guide Spilsbury left Inside Soap in July 2021, and since then he has been a regular feature writer and interviewer for sister listings magazines TV Choice and Total TV Guide, published by Bauer Media Group. Other magazines Spilsbury has occasionally contributed freelance articles to other magazines, including SFX features on Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek in issue 324 (published February 2020) and an interview with Carole Ann Ford in issue 327 (published May 2020). Doctor Who DVD appearances Spilsbury was a regular contributor to BBC Worldwide/2 entertain Ltd's Doctor Who DVD range, appearing as a talking head on documentaries for the Region 2 DVD releases of The Androids of Tara and The Armageddon Factor in 2007, The Rescue, The Deadly Assassin, The War Games and Enlightenment in 2009, Doctor Who (Doctor Who: