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 #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 #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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