Radio Free Skaro #963 – White Mirror
Doctor Who shows its range again with “Dot and Bubble,” an adventure that goes from the superficiality of social media all the way to some very real-world issues in what’s ostensibly a Doctor-lite episode but is in fact very heavy. Does it seem like we’re dancing around the content of the story? Well, we are! Tune in and listen to our takes, then find out about a new visual guide chronicling the adventures of Character Options dollies, a sneak peek at the first 15th Doctor comic, the further exploits of the Terry Nation Army, more Big Finish excitement including Christopher Eccelston’s final audio adventure (for now), and more! Don’t slide us!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Review: Doctor Who S1E05 “Dot and Bubble”
- Indiegogo for Go Figure! A Visual Guide to Character Options Doctor Who Action Dollies
- Terry Nation Army: Every Mistake in “Planet of Decision”
- Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction moves to New Zealand
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – Star-Crossed, the last Ninth Doctor box set (for now), is now available
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Trials of a Time Lord due August 2024
- Titan Comics Official Trailer: The Fifteenth Doctor Comic Book
- Next Time: “Rogue” – June 8, 6:45pm, BBC One
Radio Free Skaro #962 – I Saw Her Standing There
A very divisive episode of one Radio Free Skaro as the Three Who Rules review “73 Yards,” a parable of Welsh magic, loopy time conundrums and craven Prime Ministers (well, one at least). What did they think of this Millie Gibson acting tour-de-force and what in the dickens is the mysterious lady saying? Listen and find out! Plus DWM 604, virtual production, a rabbit hole discussion of 4K Blu-Rays and much, much more! Also, why not metric?
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Review: Doctor Who S1E04 “73 Yards”
- Doctor Who Magazine 604
- DWM Print the Legend bookazine due June 6
- Bringing Virtual Production to Doctor Who
- 2-part finale of Season 1 to be screened in cinemas across the UK
- Doctor Who wraps production on Season 2
- Pertwee’s Take-Away shirts now on TV Cream’s Redbubble store
- Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War – Uncharted 1: Reflections due October 2024
- Next Time: Dot and Bubble 650pm June 1 on BBC One
Radio Free Skaro #961 – Kiss Kiss Boom Boom
Steven Moffat returns to the world of Doctor Who with Boom, a tension-filled episode with land mines, Anglican Marines, many a trope from his previous era, and more! The Three Who Rule are well-known Moffat-ites to be sure, but did this measure up to their thoughts and prayers? Plus the media blitz continues with Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Time Magazine (of all things) and a halfhearted stab at the increasingly irrelevant…stats! Ahhh-aahhhhh!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Ncuti Gatwa on how to pronounce his name: “n-SHOO-tee”
- Review: Doctor Who S01E03 “Boom”
- Pertwee’s Burgers
- Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat on returning with Boom and putting the Doctor “on a knife’s edge”
- Doctor Who #4 on Disney+ on opening weekend (paywall)
- BBC One overnights for Space Babies 2.6M, The Devil’s Chord 2.4M, Boom 2.04M
- Ncuti Gatwa on the cover of Time Magazine
- The BIG Interview: Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat
- Hollywood Reporter Interview with Steven Moffat
- Hollywood Reporter Interview with Russell T Davies
- How ‘Doctor Who’ Exec Producers Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner Helped Transform South Wales Into a Buzzing Hive of Production
- Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: Last Words due August 2024
- Big Finish: The War Doctor Rises: Morbius the Mighty due August 2024
- Brandon Schatz and Danica LeBlanc nominated for an Eisner Award
- Next Time: “73 Yards”, 650pm Saturday May 18 on BBC One
Radio Free Skaro #960 – Space Baby Lasagna
Doctor Who returns! Two new episodes dropped this weekend as we enter both the wacky madcap hijinks of “Space Babies” and the outright lunacy of “The Devil’s Chord”! What did the Three Who Rule think of CG baby mouths, Jinkx Monsoon vamping all over the place, Beatles instrument accuracy and more? Listen to our multi-hour discourse but know this: the twist at the end is that song isn’t very good. Plus the media onslaught continues with Ncuti Gatwa on Canadian radio, RTD dropping secret controversies in Men’s Journal, Big Finish fun and golden sonic screwdriver tat, and more! Next week, we see how it all goes…Boom!
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- Review: Doctor Who S1E01 “Space Babies”
- Review: Doctor Who S1E02 “The Devil’s Chord”
- Doctor Who Unleashed is available for purchase on iTunes in North America
- Men’s Journal: Russell T Davies Interview: Giving “New Energy” to a “Classic Show”
- Russell T Davies confirms more diverse writers for Season 2
- Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson & Russell T Davies Talks New Series with Kyle Anderson
- Ncuti Gatwa on CBC Q Radio
- Special Doctor Who BBC One ident aired May 6
- Doctor Who: The Fourteenth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver (Exclusive Gold Metallised Edition) coming July 5
- The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Hartnell Years now available
- Doctor Who – Death in the Stars by Bonnie Langford with Jacqualine Rayner due Aug 22
- Big Finish annual Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip opportunity now open until the end of June
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Dominant Species due September 2024
- New Titan Comics DW Humble Bundle
- Long Island Who: August 23-25, 2024
- Gallifrey One: February 14-16, 2025
- “Boom” airs Saturday, May 18 at 6:50pm on BBC One
Radio Free Skaro #959 – Time of the Season
It’s less than one week until Doctor Who enters a new era on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer, and the Disney+ money machine has been busy bussing Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson all around New York City to promote the show, look generally gorgeous wearing many different looks, and riding a Doctor Who-themed NYC subway car! There’s also chatter about Doctor Who: Unleashed, the TARDIS at Disneyland, theatre productions, and more, with our friend Sarah Murphy sitting in as guest host!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Ncuti and Millie on Good Morning America
- Ncuti and Millie on ABC News
- Ncuti Gatwa on “Late Night with Seth Meyers”
- Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on their “great chemistry”, loving Jon Pertwee and the future of Doctor Who
- Rolling Stone: ‘It’s About Time’: Ncuti Gatwa on Becoming the New Face of ‘Doctor Who’
- “Space Babies” airs at 6:20pm on BBC One; “The Devil’s Chord” at 7:05pm on May 11
- Ncuti Gatwa’s Message to the Fans
- Doctor Who segment on Blue Peter airing May 10
- Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa set for Madame Tussauds
- Ncuti Gatwa appearing in “The Importance Of Being Earnest” from November-January
- Paul Cornell awarded Terrance Dicks Award for lifetime achievement in Doctor Who writing
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Deathworld due July 2024
- Big Finish: The Doctor’s Daughter returns for four new adventures in October
- Companions: Sixty Years of Doctor Who Assistants due later in 2024
- Ice Hot, a collection of stories set in Paradise Towers, coming May 20
- The Incomparable 714: You Can’t Protect People From Doctor Who
- Andrew Orton YouTube
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Radio Free Skaro #958 – Ghost Threat
The Doctor Who publicity machine is slipping into second gear with Gatwa and Gibson making the rounds of a BBC premiere, chat shows, Variety Magazine, and more, but that doesn’t stop the Three Who Rule from marinating in questionable nostalgia as they recall viewing The Phantom Menace for the first time 25 years ago, aka the Dawn of Anticipointment. Plus we issue an all hands on deck alert for next week’s Gallifrey One Hotelmageddon, and Warren emerges from the Metaverse to give his take on the just released PS VR2 version of The Edge of Time! Don your own Helmet of Pretend and join us!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One 2025 hotel block on sale May 3
- BBC Press Launch of Season 1
- Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on The One Show on April 26
- Variety: Doctor Who Regenerates
- Doctor Who Magazine #603
- Doctor Who Magazine Special: 50 Years of the Fourth Doctor coming May 2
- “The Church on Ruby Road” will be under Season 1 on Disney+ starting May 10
- Doctor Who Season 1 to be released on Blu-ray in the UK on August 12
- Doctor Who Prom coming August 26; tickets on sale May 17
- Doctor Who: The Edge of Time now on Playstation VR2
- Film is Fabulous pilot study reveals previously missing BBC treasures
- Big Finish: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Star-Crossed due May 2024
- Big Finish: The Trials of a Time Lord due August 2024
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: The Great Beyond due September 2024
- Big Finish Torchwood due July – October 2024
Radio Free Skaro #956 – Lesser Mithril
We’re less than a month away from new Doctior Who on Disney+ and the BBC and to help us navigate this stormy sea of streaming madness is professor, media expert, and all-around lovely fellow Derek Kompare as we look into the BBC’s inevitable admission that Varada Sethu is joining the cast of the show, a fascinating Beatles-centric (or lack thereof) interview in Empire Magazine with Ncuti Gatwa and one Russell T. Davies, archive film musings, Chicago TARDIS news, and a very important televisual anniversary! Plus Episode Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who – First Look at Ncuti Gatwa with Varada Sethu and Millie Gibson ahead of Season Two
- Empire Magazine Interview with Russell T Davies and Ncuti Gatwa
- Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, Russell T Davies in the Radio Times TV 100 list
- The Celestial Toymaker to be released June 10/11 in the UK, North America
- The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Hartnell Years available soon
- Film is Fabulous! Pilot Study: Documenting Private Film Collections
- Chicago TARDIS adds Jo Martin to guest list with Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann
- Big Finish: Torchwood: The Restoration of Catherine coming June 2024
- Twelfth Doctor, Cyberman ornaments coming from Hallmark for Christmas 2024
- Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street (April 12, 1973)
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First Look at Ncuti Gatwa with Varada Sethu and Millie Gibson Ahead of Season Two of Doctor Who
Varada Sethu will join the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday in the second season of Doctor Who which will air in 2025. New pictures released today show the cast together at a read through for the second season.
Like many Doctors who have come before him, one is not enough for the Fifteenth Doctor and in season two, he will have two companions by his side as Varada Sethu steps aboard the TARDIS.
Varada joins the Whoniverse from a galaxy far, far away after starring in the Disney+ Star Wars series ‘Andor’. Now she straps in for another journey through time and space alongside Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday.
Sethu says: “I feel like the luckiest person in the world. It is such an honour to be a part of the Whoniverse, and I’m so grateful to the whole Doctor Who family – because that is what they are – for welcoming me with open arms and making me feel so at home. I couldn’t ask for a better team than Ncuti and Millie to be on this adventure with, this is SO much fun!”
Showrunner, executive producer and writer Russell T Davies says: “I first worked with Varada on a BBC production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and it’s a joy to welcome her on board the TARDIS. Right now in the studio, shooting for 2025, we’ve got Ncuti, Millie and Varada fighting side by side – we need all three, because the stakes are higher than ever!”
Sethu is best known for her standout role as Cinta Kaz in the Disney+ Original series “Andor.” Her additional credits include “Jurassic World Dominion,” “Annika” and “Strike Back.”
Currently in production, the second season of Doctor Who is set to debut in 2025 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and Disney+ in the U.S. and around the world (where available).
Season one of Doctor Who will premiere simultaneously for the first time on BBC iPlayer and Disney+. In the UK, the first two new episodes of the season will premiere at 00:00 on May 11 on BBC iPlayer, and then on BBC One later that day. Episodes will drop on BBC iPlayer followed by a primetime slot on BBC One each week following that. Outside the UK, Doctor Who begins streaming 10 May at 7pm ET on Disney+, where available, giving audiences a simultaneous global launch.
Doctor Who is produced by Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for the BBC and Disney Branded Television.
Russell T Davies is showrunner, executive producer and writer. Additional executive producers include Phil Collinson, Joel Collins, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter.
Radio Free Skaro #955 – The Roblox of Death
Chris is a wandering vagabond this week, trolling both the Internet and ourselves with images of the real Magna Carta, but the real highlight of this week is the appearance of one Kyle Anderson of Nerdist fame for his thoughts on Doctor Who trailers, the current media landscape, and more! Plus we have news of one Dr. Who in Roblox form, the release of the Companions of Doctor Who on April 10, and River Song is back in Big Finish’s “Death and Life of River Song: Last Words”! Plus Past Chris returns in Episode Two of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!
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- BBC launches new Wonder Chase experience on Roblox
- The Companions of Doctor Who Available April 10
- Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: Last Words coming August 2024
- Doctor Who’s WEIRD History of Regeneration
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Radio Free Skaro #957 – What Are The Movellans Watching?
Posted on April 21, 2024 by Chris
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The hype train has left the station for Doctor Who as Entertainment Weekly, SFX, Attitude, and other pulp-based data products celebrate the impending Full-On Ncuti Gatwa Era along with the BBC and Disney+ releasing promo illustrations, and most importantly of all the release of Movellan action dollies, which caused spontaneous disco-infused celebrations across the United Kingdom. There’s also the quite suspicious timing of a restored Let It Be hitting Disney+ two days before the two-part premiere of Doctor Who, and most exciting of all, Episode Four of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!
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