Radio Free Skaro #1080 – Rather Smart and Clever
It’s the end of an era but the moment has been prepared for as the trailblazing Verity! crew release their final episode capping more than a decade of smart talk about Doctor Who from six awesome ladies. Pay tribute to their work and the community they built, as we do in this episode! Plus Gallifrey One announces Mat Irvine and Waris Hussein as guests, more Circuit Breaker and Big Finish fun, various Kickstarters and neat obscurities, and an interview with Stephen James Walker, the editor of the keenly anticipated Doctor Who Production Diary – The Troughton Years!
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- The last episode of Verity!
- Mat Irvine, Waris Hussein announced for Gallifrey One 2027
- Projections in Time – Battlefield happening Sep 13 at Riverside Studios, tickets sold out in 10 minutes
- Circuit Breaker 2 from Titan Comics available now
- Circuit Breaker: Lost In Time mobile game segment Castling available for a limited time
- The Six Doctors novelization by Simon Guerrier coming Jan 21, 2027
- The Vampire Mutation novelization by Steve Cole coming Mar 4, 2027
- The Monster of Fang Rock, featuring Peter Cushing’s Doctor, due Sep 2026 from Obverse Books
- New “lay flat” book-style Blu-ray sets coming November 3 for the Smith, Capaldi, and Whittaker eras
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Wings of Steel released
- Adventures on Bannerman Road kickstarter
- Just Sarah by Candy Jar Books released
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Radio Free Skaro #1078 – I See That You Know Your Judo Well
The TARDIS is in Glasgow this week as both the King and Queen of England opened the Commonwealth Games and Sylvester McCoy (in costume and adorned with a traffic cone) calls out all the Scottish Doctors by name, as is his right), and in February of next year both Carole Ann Ford and Anita Dobson will be in Los Angeles for Gallifrey One! Also, we discuss the future of Doctor Who alongside a new DWM article, Dugga Doo action dolly madness, a strange digression into the work of Giorgio Moroder, and is The War Between The Land and the Sea coming to Disney+ in January? If you can get past all that, we also have Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Warriors of the Deep”!
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- The TARDIS Is On A Royal Mission To The Commonwealth Games
- Sylvester McCoy being an icon for 26 seconds
- Carole Ann Ford, Anita Dobson announced for Gallifrey One 2027
- Doctor Who Magazine #632, including the next chapter of Circuit Breaker
- First look at Circuit Breaker story ‘The Honourable Society’
- What has the BBC ever done for me?
- No TWBTLATS on Disney+ schedule for August
- Russell Tovey hints at 2027 Disney+ release for The War Between
- DisneyBeat fan site predicted January 9, 2027 as TWB premiere
- Character Options The Fifteenth Doctor Set with Mr Ring-a-Ding & Dugga Doo available Aug 3
- Doctor Who: The Key to Time novelization series, including three new books, coming Oct 29
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: The Broken Man available now
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: A New Occupation due Sep 2026
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Greatest Train Robbery due Sep 2026
- Network DVD returns to business with new ownership
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Radio Free Skaro #1077 – Business Business Business
Do you want to hear about MRAHHH BUSINESS regarding BBC Studios and the BBC’s annual report for the better part of an hour? Well, you’re going to, along with keen insights into the NHK man prowling Tokyo looking for license fee avoiders, James Bond musings, the continued myth of Christopher Nolan films having minimal CGI and more! Plus exciting Jo Martin sonic screwdriver news, more Big Finish analysis, and the exciting second part of our “Warriors of the Deep” Special Edition Classic Series Commentary with a new, pizazz-filled Myrka!
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- BBC Studios Boss Confirms It Will Compete To Become The Next Producer Of ‘Doctor Who’
- Broadcast: BBC Studios revenues stable as profits rise
- BBC Boss Says ‘Doctor Who’ Disruption Is Opportunity For Creative Regeneration
- BBC 2026 Annual Report released
- BBC License Fee Payers Plummet By Half A Million
- How BBC Studios’ CEO Thinks About Mega-Mergers Reshaping the Media Landscape
- New Fugitive Doctor sonic scredriver unveiled, will debut in “The Kaleidoscope” book
- Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker producer confirms why Fugitive Doctor has a sonic screwdriver after fan confusion
- Circuit Breaker #1 on Hoopla
- Doctor Who on Pop Culture Jeopardy
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: The Second Death released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – Rutans vs Sontarans: Peace at Last released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill due August 2026
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Radio Free Skaro #1076 – The Ceefax Initiative
The UK is awash in televisual Mrrahhh Business this week as Sky is set to purchase ITV for $2.13 billion and what better “experts” to weigh in on the subject than three Canadians with a passing familiarity with the industry? Plus a surfeit of Troughton-era goodness in the form of a massive production diary of the era by author David Brunt and a Doctor Who: Legends special featuring Ol’ Two himself. We also have blatant foreign election interference as we endorse Count Binface and poorly explain what Ceefax is to the younger generations who do not in any way care! All this AND part one of our Classic Series Commentary for the newly released special edition of “Warriors Of The Deep”!!
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- ‘Doomsday’ 20 years on – remembering the final adventure of the Doctor and Rose
- Sky acquires ITV for $2.13 billion
- BBC “Discussing” Partnership With Channel 4 in Streaming Race for Scale
- Doctor Who: Legends – Patrick Troughton available July 16
- The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Troughton Years available August 14
- Dalek 63-88: How One Director Made ’60s Doctor Who Look Like Cinema
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers available now
- Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master – Part One released
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Radio Free Skaro #1075 – Open Wide for Some Soccer
We’re Breaking Circuits over here at Radio Free Skaro Towers, with a web-based UNIT story setting up the whole shebang and a new Titan Comics adventure (which we have read in preview form) soon to come! While TWBLATS has yet to grace North American bandwidth via Disney+, the BBC Writers Room site has provided scripts for you to peruse! Plus Steven Moffat continues his unofficial Doctor Who appreciation tour with a guest appearance on Peter Purves’ podcast, Blake’s 7 Series C Blu-Ray available for preorder in the US, and the conclusion of our Classic Series Commentary for part four of Spearhead From Space!
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- Circuit Breaker: An Introduction
- Doctor Who Circuit Break #1 available July 8 from Titan Comics
- Doctor Who: 20 Years On – The Tenth Doctor BFI event Aug 15, tickets on sale July 9
- The War Between the Land and the Sea scripts available on the BBC Writers Room site
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O’Clock released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides due August 2026
- Steven Moffat on Peter Purves’ podcast
- Target Book Club 2026 happening October 24 in London
- Blake’s 7 Season C available for US preorder, quotes Dec 1 release
- Blake’s 7: Revenge of the Mutoes & Other Stories audiobook coming July 23
- Justin Richards obituary
- Big Finish tribute to Justin Richards
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Radio Free Skaro #1074 – The Happy Days-verse
It’s a bumper crop of news this week despite a complete lack of Doctor Who…except for Circuit Breaker, which begins by way of an online game where you join UNIT! Plus a fine interview with Steven Moffat on the Whoniverse Show, some fine Big Finish Zaprudering, and some truly insane talk about both a possible (but thankfully never followed up on) Doctor Who-Star Trek crossover and a deep investigation into the Happy Days animated universe! Don a leather jacket and say “Wonzie” with us!
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- Bad Wolf producing The Other Bennet Sister Christmas special in July
- There were ideas for a Doctor Who/Strange New Worlds crossover
- Doctor Who Magazine #631
- Jo Martin DWM interview excerpt
- Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker begins
- Steven Moffat on The Whoniverse Show
- Steven Moffat improvs a Doctor Who story
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Gallifrey: War Room: Loyalties available now
- Big Finish: Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon released
- Big Finish: Torchwood: Legacy due Sep/Oct 2026
- David Daker died April 30
- Whocast (German Doctor Who podcast) celebrates 20 years on July 3
- Simon Guerrier delivered a talk about David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks at the York Festival of Ideas
Radio Free Skaro #1073 – Cancel Culture
If you thought a complete vacuum of Doctor Who news would stop the Three Who Rule from prognostication based on the vapours and some recent UK media podcast analysis about the BBC tendering process, boy howdy you would be wrong! Thrill to our educated guesses as to where we go from here in a fractured media landscape! Puzzle over the tender process! Draw no real conclusions! Plus part the third of our Spearhead from Space Classic Series Commentary!
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- The Rest is Entertainment podcast on the Doctor Who farrago
- The War Between not in the Disney+ schedule for July
- How I Filmed This – Rachel Talalay – Regenerating Doctor 12 to Doctor 13
- First Doctor Who Collect & Build Set to be released June 29
- Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks – Part Three released
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Radio Free Skaro #1072 – This Song May Be Over
It’s (not) the end, but the moment has been prepared for! Well, not as such but a press release from the BBC confirms what we long suspected: there will not be a Christmas special nor were plans for one ever seriously pursued. Sad news to be sure, but we’ve cobbled together industry and wider fan reaction along with our own lengthy takes tinged with what we’d like to think is both optimism and realism. More importantly, we have former Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury to give us his rather more informed take on the whole situation. Brave Heart, Tegan, after all somewhere the tea is getting cold.
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- An update on the future of Doctor Who
- ‘Doctor Who’ Set To Be Off Air For Years Amid A Creative Regeneration That’s Failing To Spark Enthusiasm Among Producers
- Russell T Davies on Instagram: “For the record, there was no script”
- Russell T Davies: Doctor Who hasn’t been cancelled
- Bad Wolf Studios post on Instagram
- Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who news
- Andy Pryor also leaving Doctor Who
- Variety: ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special Not Going Forward as Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf Exit Series
- ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special Canceled, As Russell T Davies & Bad Wolf Exit BBC Sci-Fi Series
- Vinay Patel on the stress of making Doctor Who
- BBC tendering process explained
- Doctor Who’s Billie Piper Stunt Was Never Going to Pay Off by Kyle Anderson
- Doctor Who premiered on AMC+ in the US only
- Recovered: Doctor Who Special with Film Is Fabulous in Leicester Aug 15
- The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television by Russell T Davies due Oct 8
- Big Finish: Planet Krynoid – Survivors released
- Big Finish: The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Reunion due Aug 2026
- Big Finish: The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill due August 2026
- Nicola Bryant did the narration for The Ultimate Evil
- Lifelong Doctor Who collection fetches £49,000
- Sir Sherlock – The Sickle and the Sea Kickstarter, fully funded in less than a day
- Michael Keating obituary by Toby Hadoke
- Gene Shalit died
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Radio Free Skaro #1071 – Minimal Editing
The rumours and nonsense continue to bubble up from the internet swamps this week with claims of the Christmas Special shot in a minimal style, a fake news release to irritate us all, and actual footage of RTD saying there will be a BBC press release in a week or two. The Three Who Rule dig deep and are quite skeptical of all this torpor (other than RTD’s almost certainly correct claim) as well the usual Big Finish and Dalek 63-88 updates and Part the Second of our Classic Series Commentary for Spearhead from Space!
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- RTD says to expect a press release about Doctor Who in the next couple weeks
- “BBC Announces Doctor Who Christmas Special to Mark End of an Era” fake press release
- The Doctor Who Gossip No One Is Talking About – Because No One Knows About It
- Dalek 63-88: Why The Daleks’ Master Plan Makes No Sense – The Galactic Warfare Problem
- Big Finish Day 2027 will be April 17, 2027
- Big Finish: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Lethal Progress released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: New Pathways due Nov 2026
- Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: River and Rory due Jan 2027
- Anthony Stewart Head 1954-2026
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Radio Free Skaro #1079 – Brave Heart, Tegan
Posted on August 2, 2026 by Chris
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We’re breaking circuits once more as we cover both the new Audiobook Doctor Who: The Deadliest Weapon and preview a new Titan comic in the sprawling saga of Circuit Breaker starring Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor! Spoilers: we’re enjoying Circuit Breaker! Plus books, Big Finish tomfoolery, more Dalek 63-88 goodies, and Part the Fourth of our Classic Series Commentary for the special edition of “Warriors of the Deep”!
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