Doctor Who News, Articles, Cast and Crew Interviews

[BruTak]

Classic Doctor Who companion Peter Purves helps recreate lost episode Mission to the Unknown

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2...%20Newsletters

[Alan]

Win breakfast with Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill
Friday, 22 February, 2019 - Reported by Marcus

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/02...taker-and.html

Comic Relief is offering one lucky winner the chance to have a special private breakfast with Jodie Whittaker on the set of Doctor Who.

Jodie Whittaker and companion Mandip Gill would like to share a coffee and breakfast with you and a friend - to discuss the show, explore some theories, revisit some highlights. After breakfast, you will go on a tour of the Doctor Who set, watch the filming and meet the stars, and get to speak to the crew who make the show.

The offer is a prize in a special draw to raise money for comic relief. Entries can be made online and cost £10 each. To enter you need to be over 18. The guest may be under the age of 18 provided they are over 14 years old and the winner is their parent or guardian.

Other offers available include a private breakfast with Sir David Attenborough at the Natural History Museum, Afternoon Tea with the Queen and the rest of the Royal Family from The Crown and a fry-up with Louis Tomlinson in his favourite London cafe.

Emma Freud, Executive Producer of Red Nose Day, has curated these once in a lifetime experiences. She said:

I’m SO proud of this year's Prizeathon. It’s the best list of unique, cheeky and daring prizes we were able to compile. Every one of them has been given by the celebrity themselves - and we're absolutely delighted to have Sir David Attenborough on board for breakfast at the Natural History Museum and a wander with him through his favourite exhibition before the museum opens

Money raised through bids and prize draw entries will go to Red Nose Day, which is back on Friday 15th March. Comic Relief is a UK charity with an aim to create a just world, free from poverty by funding and investing in organisations across the UK and around the world to tackle some of the key issues of our time.

Since 1985, Comic Relief has raised over £1.25 billion.

To enter click here

[cosmichobo]

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/02...-released.html

Benton has written an autobiography!

I don't know why, but I've always had a soft spot for Sergeant Benton. Probably comes down to Day of the Daleks...

BENTON: Ah, you've saved my life.
(But before he can even cut into a piece of cheese.)
YATES [OC]: Sergeant Benton!
BENTON: Sir! (sotto) No.
YATES: Just what do you think you're up to, Benton©
BENTON: I was just checking, sir.
YATES: Yes, well I want you to go and check on number three patrol. Move, Sergeant Benton.
BENTON: Sir.
(Benton leaves.)
YATES: Jo, how thoughtful.
(Yates has a drink of the wine.)
JO: That wasn't very kind of you.
YATES: RHIP, Jo.
JO: Pardon©
YATES: Rank Has Its Privileges. Thank you.

[Alan]

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/02...-released.html

Benton has written an autobiography!

I don't know why, but I've always had a soft spot for Sergeant Benton. Probably comes down to Day of the Daleks...

I always have too. I always thought that he should have been the Brigadier's right-hand man from Terror of the Autons onwards rather than Captain Yates. Don't get me wrong, I liked Yates, but Benton was a bit more relatable. He's more of a salt-of-the-earth type of guy. Having said that, if Yates hadn't been brought in by Doctor Who's writers, it could have been Benton betraying everyone in Invasion of the Dinosaurs and I'm very glad that didn't happen.

[Alan]

Doctor Who: The Collection: Season Ten
Tuesday, 16 April, 2019 - Reported by Chuck Foster

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/04...419120008.html

BBC Studios have annnounced that the next release in their Doctor Who: The Collection will be the tenth anniversary series of advantures, starring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor:

In 1973, Doctor Who celebrated its tenth anniversary with a very special story reuniting the first two Doctors – William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton – with Jon Pertwee’s then-current Doctor. The Three Doctors kicks off an explosive, colourful series of adventures across all of time and space as the Doctor and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) encounter the rogue Time Lord Omega, the terrifying Drashigs, the noble Draconians, fearsome Ogrons, deadly Daleks and slithering giant maggots. Season 10 also includes the final appearance of Roger Delgado as the Doctor’s arch nemesis The Master, plus adventures alongside Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) and UNIT.

The six disc Blu-ray collection includes all five of the stories comprising this season, plus a bonus disc of extras. As well as features previously available on the DVD releases, the set will include:

• A brand new feature-length documentary examining the Third Doctor’s Era, with archival contributions from Jon Pertwee, Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks plus all-new interviews with Katy Manning, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, presented by Matthew Sweet.
• Updated special effects and surround sound mix for Planet of the Daleks.
• Five new instalments of Behind the Sofa, featuring Katy Manning, Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) and John Levene (Sergeant Benton), along with 21st century Doctor Who panel Phil Collinson (Producer/Executive Producer), Pete McTighe (Writer) and Joy Wilkinson (Writer).
• Looking for Lennie, a documentary investigating the life of director Lennie Mayne.
• Keeping up with the Jones’, which sees Katy Manning with Stewart Bevan (Cliff Jones) pay a return visit to the Welsh locations from The Green Death.
• Plus: a repeat omnibus of The Green Death unseen since Christmas 1973, rare Panopticon convention footage, Blu-ray trailer, HD photo galleries plus scripts, production files and rare documentation provided as PDFs.

The set will also include Death Of The Doctor, which featured Katy Manning reprising her role as Jo in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Doctor Who: The Collection: Season Ten is due to be released on Monday 8th July 2019 (the day after what would have been Jon Pertwee's 100th birthday), and is available to pre-order in the UK from our Amazon Shop.

[Alan]

Doctor Who: The Runaway - trailer released
Monday, 15 April, 2019 - Reported by Chuck Foster

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/04...419210008.html

BBC Digital have released a trailer for their forthcoming virtual reality film, Doctor Who: The Runaway:

Watch the trailer on YouTube

You’ve been in a collision. You wake inside the TARDIS. The Doctor introduces you to the person, or thing, you collided with. He’s a strange and magnificent ball of living energy called Volta. Part surly teenager, part bomb, Volta is very unstable. In fact, he’s primed to explode. Big time. Unless he can be returned to his home planet, sharpish. The problem is, a squad of galactic busybodies has other plans for Volta. Bad ones. Drawn into a frantic chase, you become the Doctor’s unlikely assistant as she races against time to get Volta home to his parents. Armed with a sonic screwdriver, it is down to you to help the Doctor as she faces the forces of evil, and teenage angst, in this animated 13-minute VR adventure from the team behind Doctor Who Series 11.

The film will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next week, and will be coming to UK audiences in the near future.

[cosmichobo]

That trailer leaves me 100% cold.

[DigiFluid]

Not totally sure what the point is of doing a VR project, in 2019, that looks like it could've been done in Super Mario 64 (1996!).

[Alan]

Return of the Judoon
Tuesday, 21 May, 2019 - Reported by Marcus

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/05...of-judoon.html

When Jodie Whittaker returns to Doctor Who next series, the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends won’t be the only familiar faces. The show, currently filming, is set to welcome back The Judoon as one of the Doctor’s fearsome adversaries.

More than twelve years after they stampeded onto screens to terrorise the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones on the moon in 2007’s “Smith and Jones", the rhino-headed, brutish intergalactic police are returning to cause havoc and thrill children and adults alike.

These ruthless enforcers are on a deadly mission: but what for? And why has it brought them to present-day Gloucester?

The episode will also star acclaimed actor Neil Stuke.

Stuke has an established career on stage, television and films, and is a two times BAFTA nominee. Stuke’s recent credits include Doctor Foster, Silk and Silent Witness.

Chris Chibnall, Showrunner said

No! Sho! Blo! The Judoon are storming back into Doctor Who in full force, and the streets of Gloucester aren’t safe. If anyone has anything to hide, confess now. The Judoon are taking no prisoners, and will stop at nothing to fulfil their mission! The whole team on Doctor Who are delighted and scared in equal measure to welcome them back: one of many treats we’ve got in store for viewers next series. And we’re over the moon (with Judoon), to be welcoming the wondrous Neil Stuke as guest star. We can’t wait to show you what happens when his path crosses with the Thirteenth Doctor.

[cosmichobo]

Perhaps they will use the amazing return of the Judoon to add some depth to the characters that really thus far have had absolutely no importance to anything they have appeared in... other than to be "guards/police".

Can't say this news was the least big exciting...

[DigiFluid]

I thought it was fun news. Not Earth-shaking or anything, but fun.

[Teddybrown]

Thought the news front had been a bit quiet...

[DigiFluid]

Stephen Thorne has passed away

https://twitter.com/TheLisaBowerman/...17179793428480

[cosmichobo]

Truly one of the greatest voices from early WHO!

His Omega was supreme.

[Alan]

Doctor Who Magazine - Issue 539
Wednesday, 29 May, 2019 - Reported by Marcus

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/05...issue-539.html

Issue 539 of Doctor Who Magazine includes an exclusive interview with Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker.

This issue also includes:

• The latest Production Notes from showrunner Chris Chibnall.
• Former Doctor David Tennant discusses Jodie Whittaker.
• Howard Burden recalls designing costumes for three different Doctors.
• The second part of a candid interview with 1980s script editor Eric Saward.
• What topped the DWM season poll? We reveal the results!
• We talk to the team behind the Blu-ray special edition of 1973’s Planet of the Daleks.
• The Fact of Fiction explores the 2005 story The Long Game.
• Eric Saward previews his novelisations of Resurrection and Revelation of the Daleks.
• Is Doctor Who a kids’ show? The Time Team decides.
• How to recreate the Second Doctor’s ‘cosmic hobo’ style.
• The final part of Herald of Madness, a comic strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
• The Blogs of Doom, audio reviews, previews, news, prize-winning competitions and much, much more!

DWM 539 is on sale from 30 May, priced £5.99.

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DWM 539 is also available as a strictly limited Deluxe Edition, exclusive to WH Smith and store.panini.co.uk priced £9.99.

In addition to the latest issue of DWM, the Deluxe Edition includes:

• An exclusive vinyl EP featuring rare and bonus tracks from The Evil of the Daleks.
• A 28-page supplement about the making of the Thirteenth Doctor’s episodes, packed full of new information and previously unseen pictures.
• Downloads from BBC Audio and Big Finish.
• A Doctor Who bookmark.

And more.