Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 1
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.
Doctor Who Returns To Christmas Day With “The Church on Ruby Road”
Long ago on Christmas Eve, a baby was abandoned in the snow. Today, Ruby Sunday meets the Doctor, stolen babies, goblins and perhaps the secret of her birth.
Christmas has come early as brand new images are released from the Doctor Who Christmas special – The Church on Ruby Road. As the Fifteenth Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, takes over the TARDIS for his first epic adventure he will be joined by Ruby Sunday, played by Millie Gibson, as she makes her debut as the Doctor’s companion.
Airing on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, the episode sees the Doctor come face-to-face with the mythical and mysterious goblins as his life collides with Ruby Sunday, played by Millie Gibson.
Little is known about Ruby Sunday as she was abandoned on Christmas Eve as a baby. Now living with her mum, Carla and grandmother, Cherry her world is about to be turned upside when she encounters the Doctor and the two set off on their first adventure together…
Alongside Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson is Davina McCall who will be playing herself as she joins the cast alongside Michelle Greenidge as Ruby’s mum Carla, Angela Wynter as Ruby’s grandmother Cherry and Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood.
Davina said: “It is beyond an honour to be asked to appear in not only Doctor Who but also Ncuti’s first episode as the new Doctor. It was such an extraordinary experience and Russell has written you all a Christmas delight! Now I just can’t wait for everyone to see it!”
Russell T Davies, Showrunner adds “From Day One in this job, I wanted Doctor Who back on Christmas Day! And with Ncuti, Millie, Davina and the Goblin King, I hope it’s a feast for all the family!”
Doctor Who returns this Saturday at 1830 on BBC One and iPlayer with Special Two: Wild Blue Yonder featuring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.
Radio Free Skaro #934 – The Number of The Meep
Doctor Who is back, and so are Russell T Davies, The Doctor (the Fourteenth version, more or less), Donna, her family, new addition Rose Temple-Noble, and a suspiciously cute furbag sprung from the comic book pages known as The Star Beast! What did the Three Who Rule think of the inaugural episode of the RTD2 era, the differences between 10-Tennant and 14-Tennant, the resolution of the MetaCrisis, and everything else? Take a listen, and then dive deep into the Daleks In Colour, the Fifteenth Doctor meeting William Hartnell (sorta), a cavalcade of VAM, and all the other bibs and bobs that come with the 60th anniversary of our favourite show! Wait for it…Allons-y!
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- The Star Beast
- The Star Beast BBC One overnights 5.08M
- New Doctor Who title sequence
- Doctor Who Unleashed – “The Star Beast”
- The Star Beast: Behind the Scenes
- Doctor Who 60th Anniversary trailer, narrated by Paul McGann
- The Official Doctor Who Podcast on The Star Beast
- In-Vision commentaries return on BBC iPlayer
- Next Time Trailer: Wild Blue Yonder
- The Giggle going out at 6:30pm Dec 9 on BBC One
- Cardiff Bay water projection show celebrating the 60th
- Totally Doctor Who now on iPlayer
- “The Daleks in Colour” review
- Ncuti Gatwa appears at the end of An Adventure in Space and Time
- An Adventure in Space and Time edited to remove An Unearthly Child content
- David Tennant reads a CBeebies Bedtime Story
- Report: Sea Devils 5-part spinoff series The War Between The Land and the Sea to film this spring
- Ncuti Gatwa appearing on The Graham Norton Show on December 15
- Radio Times Doctor Who 60th Anniversary photo shoot
- BF Master! Planet Doom due Feb 2024
- Dominic Glynn’s Doctor Who: The Survival Remixes now available
Radio Free Skaro #933 – Plunger Cutaway
There’s only a week or less (depending on when you listen) for new Doctor Who but wait! There already IS new Who in the form of a Children In Need segment starring Doctor Who the Fourteenth, a Skaro marketing middle manager, a Mark III travel machine, and a new and somewhat controversial Davros! Plus we have a flood of celebratory radio and television programmes about Our Favorite Show on its 60th anniversary, Vworp Vworp and comic book news, Amazon Prime and Tubi showing Who 2.0 and Classic Who respectively AND an interview with Benjamin Cook, Rich Tipple and Kieran Highman on their sterling work colourizing “The Daleks”!
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- Radio Free Skaro Livestreams
- BBC Children in Need Doctor Who segment
- Children in Need Doctor Who Unleashed
- New to Who guide from the Doctor Who YouTube channel
- Wild Blue Yonder will air at 6:30pm Dec 2 on BBC One
- Nicola Coughlan joins cast for Ncuti Gatwa’s Season 2
- Gatwa mentioned the First and Fifteenth Doctors share scenes
- BBC releases colourized images from The Daleks
- Colourized, omnibus version of The Daleks airing November 23 on BBC Four
- The Daleks coming to Blu-ray in North America on February 27
- Series 1-10 now available on Prime Video in Canada
- Classic Doctor Who now on Tubi
- The Philip Hinchcliffe Years – The DNA of Doctor Who launches Kickstarter
- Vworp Vworp issues 6 available now
- Fifteenth Doctor comic from Titan Comics coming for Free Comic Book Day 2024
- 60 years of Doctor Who: in search of classic Who locations
- Missing Doctor Who episodes audio on BBC Sounds
- Surviving Doctor Who – an A-Z with Toby Hadoke on BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Doctor Who: The Wilderness Years documentary coming to BBC Radio 4 on November 19
- Radio 2 Celebrates Doctor Who at 60 through December 3
- Murray Gold: Hitting The Right Notes special coming to BBC Radio Solent on November 23
- Doctor Who: The Welsh Connection on BBC Radio Wales on November 23
- Doctor Huw on BBC Radio Wales on November 23
- Doctor Who edition of Bargain Hunt to air November 23 on BBC One
- Doctor Who: 60 Years of Friends and Foes on BBC Radio 4 Nov 24, 9pm
- Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story on CBeebies on November 24
- Doctor Who: Secrets and Scandals on Channel 5 on November 25, 830pm
- Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder opens in Wellington NZ June 1, 2024
- Doctor Who event at Pulse and The Kings in Cardiff, Nov 25
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Radio Free Skaro Livestream Reviews on YouTube Begin November 26
Doctor Who is returning to BBC One and iPlayer in the UK and to Disney+ for the rest of the world, and you can listen in on Radio Free Skaro’s live episode recordings of our reviews!
We’ll be reviewing the three David Tennant specials live on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/radiofreeskaro). Here’s our recording schedule:
“THE STAR BEAST” review: Sunday, November 26 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK
“WILD BLUE YONDER” review: Sunday, December 3 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK
“THE GIGGLE” review: Saturday, December 9 7pm PT/10pm ET/3am UK
Also, submit your comments in the live chat using #FluidLinks for our 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar!
Join us starting Sunday, November 26 as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who!
Radio Free Skaro #932 – The Dark Crystal
Another week, another absolute deluge of Doctor Who news has buried the Three Who Rule in minutiae. Amongst the highlights are The Star Beast news, Steven Moffat absolutely dominating a Best Of poll in DWM, the name of the Christmas Special being nonchalantly announced by Disney , Ncuti Gatwa looking dapper as usual in British GQ, and so…much…more! Also, we correct the record of onscreen Metebelis crystals, dispel rumours of a new spinoff starring Paul McGann, and kibosh an erroneous story about missing episodes!
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- Doctor Who airing at 6:30pm on BBC One on Saturday, November 25
- The Star Beast cast list
- Doctor Who Christmas special “The Church of Ruby Road” dropping December 25 on Disney+
- Colourized version of “The Daleks” airing at 7:30pm on November 23 on BBC Four
- The Daleks in Colour coming to Blu-ray in the UK on February 12, 2024
- “The Star Beast” premiere happened at Battersea Power Station on November 6
- Daleks and Cybermen not returning in Series 14
- Doctor Who Magazine 597
- Moffat tops Doctor Who Magazine top 10 poll
- Doctor Who: 60 Moments in Time from Doctor Who Magazine
- Ncuti Gatwa profile in GQ Magazine
- A Beginner’s Guide to Doctor Who from the Royal Television Society
- Peter Davison Season 2 Blu-Ray available for preorder at Amazon US
- Simon Guerrier’s David Whitaker book is out now
- Revenge of the Cybermen soundtrack re-release due Nov 24 on CD and vinyl
- Doctor Who: 60 Years of Friends and Foes coming to BBC Radio on November 24
- Doctor Who: Through Time collection on BBC Sounds
- Big Finish Short Trips 2023 winner announced
- BFI Missing Believed Wiped 2023 happens Dec 3, tickets went on sale Nov 9
- Fourteenth Doctor Build-a-Bear
- Red Dwarf prequel in the works from Rob Grant
- The Box of Delights revealed as the RSC Christmas show in Stratford
- Steven on Pull to Open
Radio Free Skaro #931 – Across the Whoniverse
It’s time for some Tales…of the TARDIS, as the Three Who Rule were thoroughly charmed by a nostalgia bomb measuring several megatons with appearances by former Doctors, companions and a Metebelis crystal! There’s also a tidal wave of news including SFX magazine’s many articles including interviews with RTD, David Tennant and Phil Collinson, novelizations of the three Tennant specials, audio documentaries, Billie Piper returning to Gallifrey One, and our feature look at the new Doctor Who reader Adventures Across Space and Time with Paul Booth, Joy Piedmont, Matt Hills, Tansy Rayner Roberts!
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- Colourized, omnibus version of The Daleks airing November 23 on BBC Four
- BBC officially brands the extended Doctor Who universe the “Whoniverse”
- Tales of the TARDIS dropped on iPlayer November 1, RTD promises bigger plans for it
- 2005-2022 Doctor Who will not be on Disney+
- SFX Doctor Who preview
- New BBC Doctor Who archive site
- Covers for the three Tennant special novelizations revealed
- The Star Beast novelization by Gary Russell
- Wild Blue Yonder novelization by Mark Morris
- The Giggle novelization by James Goss
- Toby Hadoke’s Doctor Who report on Newsnight
- Special Fourteenth Doctor sketch will feature in Children in Need
- Doctor Who: The Wilderness Years documentary coming to BBC Radio 4 on November 19
- Murray Gold: Hitting The Right Notes special coming to BBC Radio Solent on November 23
- Doctor Who: The Welsh Connection on BBC Radio Wales on November 23
- Doctor Huw on BBC Radio Wales on November 23
- Doctor Who edition of Bargain Hunt to air November 23 on BBC One
- New Doctor Who inflight entertainment channel on board British Airways’ flights
- Billie Piper announced for Gallifrey One
- Big Finish Doctor Who The Last Day begins Dec 2023
- Children of the Circus, audio sequel to The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, available for pre-order
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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 #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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