Radio Free Skaro #930 – Remember, Remember the 25th of November
As we crawl ever closer to the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who and three David Tennant specials the news has gone from a trickle to a flood and the Three Who Rule are struggling to stay above the waves of information and indeed, this very strained metaphor. We have a release date (November 25!), a Disney+ trailer, a press release, promo pics, writer news, BluRay and Big Finish updates, a Humble Bundle and most importantly, a project to create the longest Doctor Who scarf ever. Thrill to our debate as to what makes a “proper” Doctor Who scarf and discover if you are a Scarf Truther or merely sane.
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- Doctor Who returning to Saturdays for Tennant specials starting November 25
- BBC Tennant specials press release
- Tennant specials to be broadcast in 4K
- First promo pic for “Wild Blue Yonder”
- First promo pic for “The Giggle”
- Writers Kate Herron and Briony Redman Join Doctor Who
- Filming begins on Ncuti Gatwa’s second season
- RTD profile “imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me” coming to BBC One, date TBD
- Doctor Who preview in Empire Magazine
- David Tennant regeneration behind the scenes
- Doctor Who 60th Anniversary specials available to pre-order on Steelbook, DVD and Blu-ray
- The Underwater Menace coming January 9, 2024 to North America
- Doctor Who missing stories animations to continue, more Hartnell likely
- Missing Doctor Who episodes resurrected on BBC Sounds
- Toby Hadoke’s Surviving Doctor Who An A to Z begins Nov 18 on Radio 4 Extra
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Rani Takes on the World: The Revenge of Wormwood due January 2024
- Big Finish Doctor Who — The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Storm of the Sea Devils due throughout 2024
- Dan Slott’s Doctor Who one shots released early for MCM London Comic Con
- Humble Bundle Doctor Who megabundle
- Longest Doctor Who scarf project
- Jodie Whittaker contributed artwork to a fundraiser raising £37,500
- Film is Fabulous
Radio Free Skaro #929 – Sunken Treasures
The controversy continues as An Unearthly Child remains AWOL on the BBC iPlayer, and further flashpoints occur as the Three Who Rule wildly speculate on the continued insistence of the BBC to pretend it’s still 2008 while Disney+ does whatever it’ll do in regards to airing the upcoming David Tennant specials and beyond. Plus animation, a Who exhibit at Riverside Studios, Vicki is back in Big Finish form and Warren has an interview with author DG Valdron about his three-book series diving deep into Doctor Who fan films, “The Pirate’s Histories of Doctor Who”!
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- BBC confirms Doctor Who’s first story won’t be in iPlayer back catalogue
- BBC Studios and Toshiba TV unveils new partnership to mark Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary
- Doctor Who not yet on November press release for Disney+
- Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration TV premiere on BBC Four on November 1
- Interview with the three showrunners
- David Tennant to host Talking Doctor Who documentary Nov 1
- 2023 UK viewing trends
- More Doctor Who animations confirmed during Underwater Menace BFI event
- 2024 Doctor Who Annual
- Doctor Who exhibit at Riverside Studios
- Doctor Who: The Survival Remixes – EP by Dominic Glynn pre-order now available
- Film is Fabulous reveals three missing 1960s BBC TV programmes
- Big Finish Doctor Who: Fugitive of the Daleks due Jan 2024
- 2023 Hugo Award Winners
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Radio Free Skaro #927 – Fonts of Knowledge
It’s getting close to new Doctor Who and the 60th anniversary and it’s also getting close to new Gallifrey One, as seen by the first batch of guest announcements including Alex Kingston, Lalla Ward, Segun Akinola, and more! In 59th anniversary news, Doom’s Day comes to an end, there are new dollies on the way, and our special feature interview is a talk with Graham Kibble-White, Jack Kibble-White, and Stuart Manning about their upcoming book, Adventures in Type and Space! Fontacular!
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- Gallifrey One guest announcement
- DoctorDonnathon
- Final instalment of Doom’s Day
- The Deadly Assassin, two Dalek sets coming from Character Options
- Revenge of the Cybermen and Time of the Rani soundtracks coming Nov 24
- Big Finish The Art of the Audio Adventures book due Nov 2023
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Radio Free Skaro #926 – Unconfidential
Doctor Who has been Unleashed! Yes, Confidential is returning in the form of Doctor Who: Unleashed and roaming around biting people and then having a nap or possibly catching a frisbee in its teeth. In reality a whole new generation of behind-the-scenes nerds will have a new look at the process of making Doctor Who, which is most exciting. There’s also the Doctor Who @60 concert, which is headed to the iPlayer and BBC Sounds on October 15 and will include the new Who theme along with other new and old material, which is most exciting. Plus Doctor Who RPG news, Simon Guerrier’s two new David Whitaker-themed books, another chapter in the ongoing Season 20 Blu-Ray scandal, and Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Mawdryn Undead”!
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- Doctor Who Unleashed coming to BBC Three, iPlayer in November
- Doctor Who @60 concert coming to BBC Radio 2 October 15, iPlayer later
- DW @60 concert will feature the debut of the new theme
- RTD, Moffat and Chibnall together for the DW @60 concert
- Michael Gambon died
- David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure With Television coming November 6
- Simon Guerrier also writing the Black Archive book for The Edge of Destruction, due Oct
- Doctor Who Magazine Doctor Who: 60 Moments In Time due Oct 26
- DW Collection Peter Davison Season 2 coming January 23 (BBC Canada link)
- DW Collection Peter Davison Season 2 coming January 23 (BBC USA link)
- Cubicle7 Doctor Who: Sixty Years of Adventure Book 1 due 4Q23
- Cubicle7 Doctor Who: Sixty Years of Adventure Book 2 due 4Q23
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Broken Hearts due Nov 2023
- Time and the Rani soundtrack listed on Amazon UK as “under sink storage”, due Nov 24
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Radio Free Skaro #925 – Phoenix Without Ashes
The time has come once again for everyone to lose their collective minds as a real, proper, UNIT-y, Toymaker-centric trailer graces our internet and airwaves featuring David Tennant, Donna Noble, Jemma Redgrave, and Ncuti Gatwa in two minutes and change of new footage! What did the Three Who Rule think? And what are their opinions on news such as a UK free live tv service over broadband, a Radio Times list of the top 100 television shows and radio programs, and what do they think about Big Finish Ood adventures featuring Torchwood! All of that is mere piffle however compared to the main event, a long-gestating analysis of Canadian sci-fi television “legend” The Starlost, featuring Steven, Warren, Harlan Ellison editor, author and friend Jason Davis and Incomparable host and producer Annette Wierstra. Prepare the Bounce Tube!
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- 60th Anniversary Trailer
- BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 to launch free live TV service over broadband
- Rachel Talalay, Jeff Rawle coming to Chicago TARDIS
- Doctor Who makes Top 100 list of UK TV & radio programmes
- Big Finish Torchwood Oct/Nov/Dec 2023 releases
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Radio Free Skaro #924 – Rills on Film
Is a missing episodes return on the horizon via private film collectors? We talk to Tim Burrows of the Doctor Who Missing Episodes Podcast to learn more. It’s also a bumper crop of news this week as Miriam Margolyes is confirmed as the voice of Beep the Meep, Simon Guerrier measures the length, intensity and frequency of the Screams of Mel, Steven spends an inordinate amount of time cogitating about the upcoming Doctor Who Limited Edition New Who box set, we ponder the significance of Disney’s D23 being held at the same time as WorldCon in Glasgow (August 8-12, 2024), and more!
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- Miriam Margolyes officially confirmed as voice of the Meep
- Tennant and Tate 15 years later
- Doctor Who Magazine 595
- Simon Guerrier analyzes Mel’s screams
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition New Who Collector’s Blu-Ray Set art and trailer (Canada)
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition New Who Collector’s Blu-Ray Set art and trailer (US)
- Doctor Who: The White Dragon 13th Doctor graphic novel due Mar 1, 2024
- D23 announces August 8-12, 2024 as dates for next convention
- Doctor Who: Redacted podcast returns for second series Sep 18
- Second Doctor regeneration video
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Radio Free Skaro #923 – Force Sensitives
For the first time in almost 20 years, #WhoSpy has returned to give you all sneak peeks from behind the scenes of Doctor Who (from a year ago now, but still!) Plus we have new photos in EW that are ever-so-slightly different from what we’ve already seen of the three Tennant specials, a spurious rumor about Ryan Gosling in Doctor Who, and Jemma Redgrave saying “not really, no” to a UNIT spinoff, plus a BFI premiere, a yearbook, Dan Slott’s “Once Upon a Time Lord” is finally almost here, and Part the Second of our Classic Series Commentary for “Mawdryn Undead”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- #WhoSpy returns
- Entertainment Weekly Doctor Who preview contains new photos
- Ryan Gosling in Doctor Who?
- Jemma Redgrave confirms she’s back in Doctor Who, denies UNIT spin-off
- Gallifrey One 2024 update
- The Underwater Menace BFI premiere happening October 21
- Doctor Who Magazine Special #65 2024 Yearbook due Jan 24
- Titan Comics “Once Upon A Time Lord” by Dan Slott due October 24
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Radio Free Skaro #922 – The British Rocket Group
It’s a bumper crop of news this week with confirmation of Ncuti Gatwa’s second season being built as you read this, Rose Noble as played by Yasmin Finney, more Marvel and Disney+ machinations, and hold onto your wallets because Doctor Who: Magic the Gathering is due to arrive in October, if you haven’t already spent your cash on audio annuals, new Big Finish releases and a plane ticket to Chicago TARDIS to see Doctor Who legend Carole Ann Ford! All this, and we also have an extensive interview with one Toby Hadoke about all things Quatermass!
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- Doctor Who Series 15 production underway, lasting from July 2023-May 2024
- BBC confirms Rose Noble as the character played by Yasmin Finney
- Doctor Who 60th anniversary musical celebration coming September 28
- Marvel Shows Shift Premiere Dates Due To Strikes & New Disney+ Strategy
- Disney+ passes on “The Spiderwick Chronicles”, non-Disney IP that was already completed
- Disney also passes on Nautilus UK Series
- Doctor Who Annual 2024 due September 7
- Doctor Who: Magic the Gathering coming October 13
- Doctor Who: The Phaser Aliens & Other Stories audio annual due March 2024
- Big Finish Torchwood: Dog Hop due September 2023
- Big Finish The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers – Rogues Gallery due October 2023
- Carole Ann Ford added to Chicago TARDIS guests
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Radio Free Skaro #921 – Maudlin Undead
It’s a mystery that isn’t as the BBC publishes then pulls confirmation that Ncuti Gatwa’s first series will air in “Spring 2024”, as we all suspected. This had the unsurprising effect of clickbait farms pondering on Doctor Who’s future, which in actuality will also feature Big Brother and Dead Set’s own Davina McCall and Indira Varma! We also have a video essay about I, Claudius (because of course we do), details on the book launch of Simon Guerrier’s “David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television”, Big Finish endings and audiobook news, and most excitingly, Part One of our Classic Series Commentary of “Mawdryn Undead”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- BBC “confirms” Spring 2024 debut for Ncuti Gatwa’s first season, Indira Varma in “Christmas special” 2023
- Davina McCall appearing in Christmas special
- Video essay on multicam directing in I, Claudius
- David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television: Book Launch
- Take a glimpse behind-the-scenes of Doctor Who 40 years ago
- Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen: 6th Doctor Novelisation Audio CD due Feb 1
- Doctor Who: The Phaser Aliens & Other Stories: Doctor Who Audio Annual due Mar 7
- Doctor Who: River of Death: 6th Doctor Audio Original due Mar 7
- Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon: 4th Doctor Novelisation Audio CD due Apr 4
- BF Gallifrey: War Room 2: Manoeuvres due September 2023
- BF Doctor Who – Once and Future: Time Lord Immemorial due October 2023
- BF Doctor Who – The War Doctor Begins: Enemy Mine due December 2023
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Radio Free Skaro #928 – The Tribe of None
Posted on October 15, 2023 by Chris
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If you’re looking for new things to hum as you while away the days to the 60th anniversary and its specials, wait no more! The new arrangement of the Doctor Who theme tune is now in the wild, along with the Fifteenth Doctor’s theme just aching to bust out of your speakers and into your heart. You’ll need all that love because although the BBC will soon put almost all of Classic Who and the various spinoffs on the iPlayer, “An Unearthly Child” is a bone of contention between the son of writer Anthony Coburn and…the rest of the internet. Plus we have Disney+ intrigue and speculation, a new edition of Outside In, music and audio news, and part the fourth of Classic Series Commentary for “Mawdryn Undead”!
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