2 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Glad they found the funds for more animation, although I will always just hold out for the classics to arrive. Silly I know.

I'm with you, esp on DMP. If it's true

 

the Celestial Toymaker is in the 60th

I wonder if they will recreate that finally.

Edited January 3, 20233 yr by Vee

Seems RTD is leaning into the political, and good for him:

 

Seems to be some debate whether it's set in 2024 or 2046.

 

 

Considering how much I disliked The Long Game, not sure how I feel about more RTD politics. 

I think it's likely more in the vein of his work on Years and Years or the better parts of the Saxon arc. I think now is the time to be bold, especially given the state of the UK.

There have been credible rumors of Carole Ann Ford and/or Susan appearing next year for awhile. I hope this is a true hint.

 

 

Oh, that's a hoot.

I was maybe the only one who liked Moffat's revamped bright Technicolor Daleks that riffed on this and the Peter Cushing films. I am so bored of the gray and black and bronze Daleks. At least the camp Daleks appeared on and off in small clusters all the way through Capaldi's run.

RTD and cohorts (including DRW's favorite Phil Collinson) from DW Magazine (c/o Cultbox and Bleeding Cool), discussing Gatwa, Gibson and Coronation Street:

Quote

Showrunner Russell T Davies revealed in a DWM Zoom interview which included executive producers Phil Collinson, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter “as a rule, we were looking for younger – most of the people we saw were under 30 – but not as a definite rule, and kind of new talent.”

Collinson said “We saw men, we saw women, we saw one non-binary actor.”

There was another talented actor in contention for the role who had already read on a prior day.

“I think, as we were heading towards the end of the final day, Russell and I were thinking, “It’s going to be that person, isn’t it?,” Collinson continued. “And then in walked Ncuti [Gatwa] and absolutely stole the part. He took control of it and did things with it that I’d never seen an actor playing Doctor Who do. It was just extraordinary.”

In fact, Gatwa was the very last person to audition.

“I don’t think I’ll ever forget that audition tape,” added Tranter. “Because I hadn’t been given a tip-off. Russell and Phil hadn’t said, ‘All eyes are on Ncuti.’ They just sent them all through, and it was the most extraordinary audition I’ve ever seen. I didn’t even clock that it was Eric. He was the Doctor.”

RTD:

Quote

I'd had my eye on Millie for a while because I'm still watching 'Coronation Street' [Gibson played Kelly Neelan from 2019 to 2022] and, I tell you, the writers obviously loved her. Over four years, I noticed her getting more and more to do. That reached the most extraordinary synthesis of plots where she was on a drug heist, and her father had been kidnapped, and she was being accused of murder, at the same time as she was winning North-West Regional Hairdresser of the Year!

Edited January 9, 20233 yr by Vee

Kate Stewart is definitely back:

There has been a rumor that Ruth Madeley's character in the specials (who had PR material released recently)

may head up a UNIT spinoff

so I wonder if Kate appearing has any linkage.

 

 

And now:

 

And now for something completely different:

 

 

As others have noted, the growing rumors about Susan (which have been circulating for a year or so) would also dovetail with the possible restoration and colorization of classic eps like An Unearthly Child - if they broadcast the first story during the anniversary month, it would cue the general audience up to be acquainted with Susan and Carole Ann Ford.

Edited January 9, 20233 yr by Vee

In honor of this rumor, it's time (not the first and probably not the last time) to repost this from either 2016 or 2017, when Capaldi surprised children at the Doctor Who Experience and took questions in character apparently entirely improvised. One of them, at 2:30, led to him bringing up Susan.

 

Speculation abounds:

I've heard another theory though: That he is the son of Harold and Lucy Saxon.

This is great.

 

Meanwhile, I should've known who was behind these amazing, legendary ads: @DRW50

Clever Prime.

Thanks. I never knew that. Even with whatever happened with Lalla and Tom, those ads are adorable.