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 #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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- #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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- 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 #920 – The Canadian Mafia
A new era of action dollies is upon us with more Daleks, Colin Baker with a new coat and and AND a Richard Hurndall dolly for all you devoted Hurndallists to enjoy (pineapple not included)! There’s also Blu-Ray uprez news, pointless banter about Supermen and 90s classic(?) film Hackers, Cutaway Comics releases and the main feature, an interview with “Pull to Open” author Paul Hayes about the birth of Doctor Who!
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- Doctor Who Magazine 594
- Four actors announced for upcoming episodes, Yasmin Finney sticking around?
- Doctor Who 14th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver Standard Edition
- B&M 2023 The History of the Daleks 13 The Five Doctors
- B&M 2023 The History of the Daleks 14 Revelation of the Daleks
- B&M 2023 The Sixth Doctor and TARDIS
- A newly remastered Series 1 – 4 Blu-ray of Doctor Who is coming soon to the UK
- Season 20 – The Collection UK release date confirmed as Sep 18
- Cutaway Comics Omega & Sutekh – Gods and Monsters due Sep 2023
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Radio Free Skaro #919 – Better Call Saul
Animated adventures are back! At least, The Underwater Menace is coming soon to DVD and Blu-ray, both in colour and black and white! There’s also a 60th anniversary concert on the way, an illustrated edition of Rose arriving on November 23, the sad news that luxury dollyists Big Chief Studios are shuttering their doors, some truly bizarre photos from the 1973 Radio Times retrospective on Doctor Who’s tenth anniversary, and the second of our two-part Miniscope on Saul Metzstein, featuring the esteemed director’s work “The Snowman”, “The Crimson Horror”, and “The Name of the Doctor”! Well, Trenza my Lores!
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- Missing adventure ‘The Underwater Menace’ to be animated in 2023
- Doctor Who 60th Anniversary concert coming Autumn 2023
- Deluxe illustrated edition of ‘Rose’ coming Nov 2023
- Big Chief Studios closing
- Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Then Legendary Tapes screening Sep 22 in Hastings
- Brain of Morbius cinema screening in Newcastle Nov 18
- Radio Times 10th Anniversary retrospective
- The Companions of Doctor Who edited by David Bushman and Ken Deep, due Feb 2024
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Radio Free Skaro #918 – Once Upon A Time in the Metz
The news remains fallow in these Times of No Who Yet, but we do have missives from the further adventures of Doom’s Day, colourization of old episodes on many fronts, an action dolly magazine spectacular, Tom Baker’s son’s Who-themed Nottingham pub and part one of our Miniscope examination of director Saul Metzstein’s work, featuring “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” and “A Town Called Mercy”!
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- Doctor Who Magazine Special 64 – Action Figures – The Essential Guide 2005-2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Doom’s Day: Dying Hours (hours 2000-2300) due September 2023
- Doctor Who classic The Smugglers gets colour revamp
- Doctor Who colourizations by jamesknox817
- Missing episodes in collectors hands?
- Doctor Who-themed pub in Nottingham run by Tom Baker’s son
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Radio Free Skaro #926 – Unconfidential
Posted on October 1, 2023 by Chris
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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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