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 #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 #917 – F for Fake
Unlike last week’s veritable tsunami of info, this week we have a quieter news offering, including a staggeringly expensive 14th Doctor sonic screwdriver replica, more bon mots from Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa via Rolling Stone, Gav Rymill noodling with AI to recreate missing episodes (sort of), Doom working through her Day in game form, and the highlight of this week’s episode: an interview with skilled Photoshopist and bon vivant Andrew-Mark Thompson, author of “This Is A Fake – A Collection of Unreal Things”!
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- Doctor Who and the Sonic Screwdriver
- Rubbertoe Replica 14th Doctor sonic screwdriver
- Ncuti Gatwa’s Rolling Stone UK cover shoot video
- New instalment of Doom’s Day called AI am the Doctor coming soon
- BFI to show colourized early DW as part of Missing Believed Wiped
- Gav Rymill testing AI for recons
- Doctor Who The Sun Makers Original Music Soundtrack Orange Vinyl LP
- Doctor Who The Visitation Original Music Soundtrack Green Vinyl LP
- BF Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon – Trapped due Sep 2023
- BF Doctor Who – Once and Future: The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 due Sep 2023
- Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection due Sep 1
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Radio Free Skaro #916 – Electro Quarterstaff
After subjecting you to an intense bout of trivia last week, we have a surfeit and indeed a tsunami of News Content for you, including a new sonic for the Fourteenth Doctor, promo pics, a pink TARDIS Barbie cross-promotion, Ncuti Gatwa being funny and fashionable in a Rolling Stone UK interview, new books, audios, missing episode musings, a gigantic Blu-Ray set off all the Doctors from Eccleston to Whittaker, another Blu-Ray set for Season 20, and much, much more!
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- New promo pics
- Fourteenth Doctor sonic screwdriver
- Fourteenth Doctor sonic screwdriver sold out
- Series 14 wraps filming (Instagram link)
- Series 14 wraps filming (Wales Online link)
- Doctor Who/Barbie pink TARDIS crossover promotion
- Ncuti Gatwa interview in Rolling Stone UK
- Doctor Who Magazine 593
- Fourth Doctor comics Anthology, including The Star Beast, coming November 2
- Season 20 announced as the news classic Blu-Ray set
- Season 20 Blu-Ray set trailer “The Passenger”
- “The Passenger” behind the scenes
- The Five Doctors event at the BFI on September 16
- Richard Bignell’s Season 20 PDF archive
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition Complete New Who Collectors Blu-Ray Set (US)
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition Complete New Who Collectors Blu-Ray Set (Canada)
- 60th Anniversary specials Target novelizations
- Liberation of the Daleks paperback due Nov 2
- The Tom Baker Record Collection brings 4 Classic Stories to vinyl
- Doctor Who: Escape the Daleks!: 3rd Doctor Audio Original due Jan 4, 2024
- Doctor Who: The Cuckoo: 12th Doctor Audio Original due Dec 7
- Praxeus could have had Autons
- Andrew Skilleter 2024 Doctor Who art calendar
- Patrick Troughton Blue Plaque Unveiling
- Terry Burnett’s film collection reveals missing episode of Hugh and I
- Steven on the Doctor Who Missing Episodes Podcast
- John Nettleton died
Radio Free Skaro #915 – The King’s Head
Several self-styled Doctor Who “experts” in the form of Warren, Chris, Kat and Erika square off against trivia master and Smug Poltroon Steven in our semi-annual trivia showdown aptly named “Trivia, Mr Fibuli”! Based on Jacqueline Rayner’s Doctor Who – The Official Quiz Book from 2014. Who will emerge triumphant in this contest of intellect, skill and pointless fact-knowing? Tune in and find out!
Radio Free Skaro #914 – Rate Limit Exceeded
The news is sparse this week, as sparse as the Thursday/Friday schedule for San Diego Comic Con, reflecting the general malaise of the entertainment media complex in these times of IP dominance and labour strife. But that won’t stop the Three Who Rule from giving their half-baked opinions on costuming, editing video tape via razor blades and gumption, the non-legacy of VR, and Threads, the latest in a long line of social media hellsites. So go on, skeet that toot into your eardrums, tweeps! Not the nighttime crowd, obviously.
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- SDCC Hall H Schedule
- SDCC Panel: Titan Comics Doctor Who
- The 1960s Doctor Who diaries of Waris Hussein – part three
- Peter Davison reveals scrapped plans for Five(ish) Doctors Reboot follow-up
- How Jack the Ripper Shaped The Talons of Weng Chiang
- 2023 Hugo Awards nominees
- Doctor Who The Target Book Club happening July 16
- Sacha Dhawan coming to Long Island Who
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Intelligence for War due Oct 2023
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Missy: Bad Influence due Apr 2024
- Doctor Who Hidden Mysteries update adds difficulty level and new content
Radio Free Skaro #913 – Most People Depart With a Scream
It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for…by the Three Who Rule who are ringing in Canada Day weekend by wringing out the very last vestiges of the Timelash, our popular(?) time-filling exercise in Doctor Who reflection. We also have news of Doctor Who mostly absent from SDCC, MIA for Fortnite, and country cousin Star Trek all but vanishing from Crave, which continues to be Canada’s HBO by going from quite decent to very crappy in under a year. Next week…not the Timelash, that’s for sure!
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- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Pride Month wrapup
- Doctor Who will be present in the Exhibit Hall at SDCC
- Titan Entertainment Unveils Doctor Who and My Hero Academia Merchandise for SDCC
- The Black Archive upcoming release schedule
- Doctor Who Am I available for free on Tubi
- Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Unbound due Aug 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: Two’s Company due Aug 2023
- Big Finish Box of Terrors audio novel due Nov 2023
- Doctor Who/Fortnite crossover delayed
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Radio Free Skaro #921 – Maudlin Undead
Posted on August 27, 2023 by Chris
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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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