Unofficial news on Doctor Who production progress. #dwsr Same handle on other platforms.
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There's no thanks nor praise to be found from the BBC as Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf withdraw and Doctor Who Christmas special plans are scrapped. See replies for more information on Doctor Who's future.
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Russell T Davies confirmed that Bernard Cribbins' scene in âWild Blue Yonderâ is his final appearance as Wilfred Mott in Doctor Who.
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Bernard Cribbins at 'The Star Beast' read-through. I know it's disappointing that he's not in this episode but don't worry, you will see him again. #DoctorWho
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Ncuti Gatwa:
"So something I took from Margot [Robbie working on Barbie] onto Doctor Who was to get the crew good food vans. Once a month, bring in a pizza van or an ice cream van. Feed everyone!"
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Steven Moffat says that using preferred pronouns âis basic courtesy. That's normal. It's not a big ask, is it? Just be nice.â
inverse.com/entertainment/stâŚ
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Peter Davison on current Doctor Who:
âItâs like watching a trailer for a Doctor Who show youâd like to watch later. There are huge gaps in the narrative. Theyâre just leaping onto the next bit and hoping your brain fills in the rest.â
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Billie Piper on her regeneration scene at Florida Supercon:
"This is such a minefield - I have to really engage with how I answer this. All I can say is I was approached very last-minuteâŚâ
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Christopher Eccleston on the Doctor having his accent:
âItâs a tiny nod to the little boy who had gone, âI donât like that guy, heâs posh. I donât trust him. He sounds like a Tory politician to me.ââ
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Peter Davison on Billie Piper's âDoctorâ:
âItâs a completely mad idea. I donât think she is the Doctor. I think itâs kind of just a hand grenade thrown into the final episode to try and go âwhoa, whatâs this?ââ And then itâs almost like âget out of thatââ.
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Matt Smith:
â⌠Ncutiâs brilliant. I feel very proud to have been in the show.â
âPeople that attack Doctor Who blow my mind. Itâs about an alien who is cool and travels around the universe saving civilisations â whatâs not to love?â
thetimes.com/magazines/cultuâŚ
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Russell T Davies on Christopher Eccleston:
"âŚI love what he did. I think his comedy is funny â he plays it brilliantly. I think the darkness is off the scale with him â when the Doctorâs angry, itâs spectacular. Itâs a magnificent, never-to-be forgotten DoctorâŚ"
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Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill are doing a a podcast called Pondcast where they reminisce about Doctor Who. No word on when it will become available but theyâve already recorded a few and have had Steven Moffat as a guest.
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Ncuti Gatwa only got into trouble once with Russell T Davies - and that is when he swore while in his Doctor Costume. That's a big no-no apparently.
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Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu were filmed acting out their animated scene as a reference for the animators. They watched Scooby-Doo beforehand to learn how to perform the more heightened cartoon gestures.
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They've done a good job of hiding 'The Reality War' slates but you can tell from the Behind the Scenes and Unleashed videos which scenes were part of the February shoots because director Alex Pillai's hair is longer.
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Congratulations to Anjli Mohindra and Sacha Dhawan, who married in Tuscany! The photos from the wedding were found in British Vogue.
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Millie Gibson:
"So whenever they want me to be back, even if it's for a cough and a spit, just to nod to the next Doctor, I will be there with my hands up, for sure. But for now, wait for the finale!"
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Ncuti Gatwa singing at the unit base at Newport Stadium April 21. Sounds like ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' but I don't think he knows all the words. đ #DoctorWho
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Camille Coduri:
âWe came back from a couple of weeksâ break, and everything had changed, the atmosphere⌠people were unhappy. I donât know what happened, but [Christopher Eccleston] wanted to leave.â
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Russell T Davies must be aware of some complaints about the amount of emotion the Fifteenth Doctor shows.
He said in SFX magazine that thereâs going to be more of it and good luck to you if you donât like it.
Personally, I feel more open emotion suits Ncuti Gatwaâs Doctor.
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Okay, so what is this photo from now? I mean, it looks like it says, "Happy (May?) Day".
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Peter Capaldi:
"I'm still a huge fan of Doctor Who. It's not that I have anything against it, but there comes a time when you have to leave things alone. IÂ can't imagine the situation in which I'd be able to go back into it with enough influence over how it was going to be."
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When asked by SFX magazine if would she would return to Doctor Who either on TV or audio, Jo Martin grinned and said:
âI would do both for the rest of my life. When they call, trust me, Iâll be there.â
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Millie Gibson essentially told Radio Times that Ruby Sunday is the only person who knows that the 'Wish World' reality is the wrong reality.
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Ncuti Gatwa:
âI would like to go up against the Rani. I'd like to meet the Rani, and then I also would like, at some point, to face the Daleks. I'm sorry, but I feel like I want a shot of beating up the Daleks, so I want that as well.â
collider.com/doctor-who-ncutâŚ
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Steven Moffat:
âYou think [Doctor Who is] that cheesy old BBC adventure series. Actually, it is the single smartest television format ever devised."
hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-âŚ
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Millie Gibson on Ruby Sunday:
"She is very cool [laughs]. Iâve said this before, but I think her dynamic with the Doctor is very much like two girls at school gossiping. Theyâre very cliquey. I think the Doctorâs not had that sort of dynamic before."
gamesradar.com/doctor-who-miâŚ
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Steven Moffat:
âDavid Tennant turned up at our Christmas party entirely dressed as an elf. No one else was in fancy dress! Heâs just wandering around like an elf.â
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Graham Linehan was rightly and promptly dropped by his TV agent for calling David Tennant an âabusive groomerâ.
msn.com/en-au/entertainment/âŚ
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Russell T Davies told Comicbook dot com that there was a scene deleted from the Devil's Chord where Ruby and the Doctor run into a real police box by accident thinking it's their TARDIS.
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Yasmin Finney confirms her Doctor Who character Rose is trans.
via @CultBoxTV
cultbox.co.uk/news/headlinesâŚ
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Doctor Who actor, writer, and disability rights advocate Nabil Shaban dies at 72. See replies.
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RTD:
âI just this morning delivered a Doctor Who script that will be on air in May 2025.â
âIt does things weâve never done before. The writing really pushed me.âŻItâs such a mad episode, I had to deliver it with a diagram explaining whatâs going on!â
bigissue.com/culture/tv/russâŚ
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Carole Ann Ford:
âI think enough people out there know by now that something extra was filmed and wasn't shown.â
Bonnie Langford:
âIt was quite different to how we had filmed it. We'd filmed it the year before, and I had to pop back and do some extra filmingâŚâ (while in USA)
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Matt Smith:
âI loved playing Doctor Who.â
âThat show gives you permission to be eccentric because heâs truly an alien in a human world.â
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Russell T Davies at the RTS panel:
âItâs a soft launch on Disney+. The big launch is going to come with Ncutiâs first season. If youâre thinking âWhy havenât I seen gripping adverts across the world on Disney+ now?â, that will come. Next year theyâre going to do the big push.â
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According to David Tennant in Radio Times magazine, the original plan was for him and Catherine Tate to return for the Doctor Who 60th anniversary in a flashback episode in an unseen adventure from their 2008 series. đŻ
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Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker:
âI was sort of asked about Doctor Who once, I wasnât asked to run it, I was asked to write for it, and it felt a bit like the Home Office asking you to do something, like it was my national duty, but I just didnât have timeâŚâ
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Tom Baker has been honoured by King Charles with a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) award for services to television.
Link in replies
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Jodie Whittaker to Radio Times:
âDoctor Who was different because I wasnât playing comedy, I was just playing myself! That character made my life because I was allowed every twitch and fidget that I usually have to rein in.â
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Peter Capaldi on the inspirations for his Twelfth Doctor costume:
âYeah, [David Bowie] and David Lynch, who used to do that buttoned-up white shirt thing.â
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Peter Capaldi on playing the Doctor again:
"I like the idea that my Doctor is still out there. He's not available to come and be on TV. The real Doctor is not on TV, the real Doctor is out there."
forbes.com/sites/simonthompsâŚ
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The latest theory about the Pantheon of gods (Pantheon of Discord, including The Trickster?) is that only the members of the pantheon can break the fourth wall and wink at the audience - which would include the Doctor.
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Jodie Whittaker:
"The flight landed at midnight into Gatwick and got picked up and driven to Cardiff. Got into hotel about half 3, 4. Got picked up at 6, taken to Cardiff, walked on set with a code name (Petrol)âŚ"
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Asked if he would be on Doctor Who, John Boyega said he'd âlove thatâ.
"But get me in an episode where Iâm one of the many Doctors in many timelines so I can just cameo it. Or Iâd be the assistant, whatever. Iâd show up â but just for one episode"
metro.co.uk/2023/03/20/john-âŚ
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Jodie Whittaker:
âItâs never been questioned that I had to look up to men. So it was fascinating that for some, we [women] could not be role models. The Doctor is still the Doctor. But also, I was playing an alien! My gender was not the issue.â
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Colin Baker when asked for his thoughts on the Billie Piper regeneration:
âI don't have a clue, but I suspect itâs a load of old malarky. I think they didn't know what to say, so they did that.â
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Jodie Whittaker:
âNobody tells you anything. They didnât even tell Billie [Piper] and me that the other was in [The reality War].â
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According to the BBC, the new series of Doctor Who starring Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson will air in SPRING of 2024.
cultbox.co.uk/news/headlinesâŚ
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Barbara Clegg, the first woman to write a story for Doctor Who (1983âs âEnlightenmentâ), has died at age 98.
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According to Russell T Davies in SFX magazine, the TARDIS must give off sparks as it comes in contact with the Time Vortex in the title sequence. This becomes very important later in the series. The Fifteenth Doctor's will be "slightly different" from the 60th sequence.
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From Millie Gibson's Instagram story
Ncuti Gatwa turns 32 today.
Happy Birthday! #DoctorWho
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Steven Moffat has the same intuition about the Billie Piper regeneration as I do.
âI genuinely donât have any insider information, but they have hedged their bets.â
âThey've not said [sheâs the Doctor] so I donât know. I donât even know if they know!â
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Millie Gibson:
âI wouldnât blame [Ruby] if she decided to hibernate after this. But â ta-da! â I can say that sheâs going to be in episode seven and episode eight this season, so this hasnât broken her completely.â
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Ncuti Gatwa scoffs at the idea that casting him is âbox-tickingâ:
elle.com/uk/life-and-cultureâŚ
ALT âFirst of all, you donât know anything about me. Secondly, tick f*cking boxes! People need to be f*cking seen. What are you going to do, tell the same stories? Have the same people fronting things for all of eternity? Representation and inclusivity and branching out⌠it enriches us all. How embarrassing. You people with your tiny mindsets â open a book, look out the window and then f*ck off.â
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According to Doctor Who Magazine, Ncuti Gatwa filmed his first Doctor Who scene on June 21, 2022.
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Peter Capaldi to Radio Times magazine:
â[The secrecy on Doctor Who] was ridiculous â who cares if the Cybermen will be here next week?â
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Paul McGann says his appearance in âThe Power of the Doctorâ was âthe only time that the Eighth Doctor got on to the telly. So it gave me a little taste for it. I wouldnât mind doing some more. #DoctorWho
theguardian.com/film/2023/ocâŚ
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Bernard Cribbins on the phone to Catherine Tate as she was filming for the 60th specials:
âI think of you, love - out there.â
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Jodie Whittaker to Graham Norton on regeneration:
âThey are never going to tell me who it is. We filmed some scenes, but the new Doctor wasnât there. I wasnât there for Peter (Capaldi), and I only met him months later when I passed him in the street!â
metro.co.uk/2021/10/15/doctoâŚ
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The Telegraph has an interview with Peter Capaldi. I'll share the one interesting quote regarding Doctor Who.
Very telling that he's not sure "the brand" supports a dark, slightly irate Doctor anymore, or if they favor a "cosmic imp".
telegraph.co.uk/music/what-tâŚ
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Steven Moffat confirms he penned 2024 Doctor Who Christmas special
via @CultBoxTV
cultbox.co.uk/news/headlinesâŚ
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Jodie Whittaker:
"The Doctor, oddly, is like the most I've played to myself ever."
"Which is why, like Chris [Chibnall] cast me in it, is because of the personality⌠he was like, 'Ah, be that little hyperactive, unfocused human'."
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"The illness is still there raging within me as the Doctor. People love the way I look in that series, but I was very ill. The reward for that illness was the part. And therein lies the perpetuation of the whole sorry situation."
dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arâŚ
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According to Russell T Davies, Episode 3 of the 2024 series is "gorgeous" with "beautiful" depth and emotion in the performances - and there's a forcefield in their somewhere.
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Ncuti Gatwa received some lovely artwork by Simon Wyatt on set yesterday. #dwsr
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Steven Moffat:
âRussell [T Davies] showed me [Ncuti Gatwaâs] audition tape a while back. He is magnificent: all at once a brand new hero and the same wonderful mad old Doctor weâve always known. Trust me, we are all in for a treat.â
telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/steven-âŚ
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There's an interesting Ncuti Gatwa quote released from the taping of The Graham Norton show:
âI like physical theatre and got to do a lot. I am a very energetic doctor. I was showing off on the first day, with lots of acrobatics but they all got cut out!â
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The BBC received 144 viewer complaints in its fortnightly report.
Some claimed Rose Noble was âanti-male,â while others bewailed âinappropriate inclusion of transgender character.â
This is a minuscule percentage of the total audience.
deadline.com/2023/12/doctor-âŚ
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Ncuti Gatwa told Empire that he was so anxious taking on the Doctor Who role that âI was so angry at times,â thinking, âWhy did you cast me?â But was told, âItâs not going wrong; itâs fine.â âBut now Iâm settled, itâs so much fun. The character is so much fun⌠now.â
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Russell T Davies when answering about Mrs Flood:
"Please stay offline because someone out there has spotted all already like they do."
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It's fairly obvious from this credit and the press release that Billie Piper's seeming incarnation of the Doctor is going to be brief. I have absolutely no interest in the (likely dumb) explanation for this stunt or how we get past this glitch to the next proper Doctor.
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Russell T Davies teases a big role for Helena Bonham Carter in the future on Doctor Who
digitalspy.com/tv/a46167865/âŚ
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Ncuti Gatwa watches himself give airline safety instructions while on a well-deserved holiday break.
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Doctor Who Magazine revealed that 'The Church on Ruby Road' will feature a "show-stopping musical number" composed by Murray Gold with lyrics from Russell T. Davies. Featuring Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson and a cast of Goblins.
tvzoneuk.com/post/doctor-whoâŚ
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At his Disney/BBC lunch in New York City, Ncuti Gatwa said that heâs seen the inside of his TARDIS and itâs âvery niceâ and âlovelyâ. #DoctorWho
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Ncuti Gatwa:
"Yes, I think at many times in my life I have felt like an alien. A kid like me growing up in Scotland - there's been many times I felt like an alien, and so I feel like I get it.â
bbc.com/news/entertainment-aâŚ
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From Georgia Tennant's Instagram story
David Tennant in his trailer during filming
#DoctorWho 'The Star Beast'
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