Yes, but as I mentioned, when they became important characters, they ended up having lived on Earth long enough to become familiar with contemporary times. Even Nardole, who spent fifty years living at the university with Twelve.
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Oh, I didn't realize that many of them came from different planet and/or eras. The only ones I knew of for sure Susan, Leela, K9 and the Romanas. I've episodes with a few of the other companions, but I wasn't familiar with their origins.
I forgot about Kamelion, but I've never seen any episode with him.
According to "Bad Wolf's" Jane Tranter, we will have a bit of a wait until season 2. "Another year or so"
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I'd hope they were taking a hard look at what they shot to see how they can make it more appealing to people but I doubt it.
What impact will this have on the finale, which is supposedly set on a specific date in May 2025 which happens to be a Saturday?
Yeah, I didn't think it usually took them so long to do post production on a show like this.
The post-production can be time-consuming (they originally hoped to have the 2024 series air earlier in the year, much closer to “The Church on Ruby Road,” but the effects weren’t ready), but I don’t think Tranter’s wording really supports the level of specificity people are reading into it.
To be fair, May 2025 is in another year so I don't think there's anything terribly revelatory by her comment.
I don’t think unfinished FX are why the show didn’t start earlier in the year like RTD wanted.
A couple of mentions of overseas shooting in the new DWM, though they seem to be for establishing shots / background plates for effects rather than with any cast.
And while they were in New York shooting for TWB... they also took the opportunity to do ADR work with a S2 guest star. I'm guessing it's Jonathan Groff since he's busy on Broadway every night currently.
And while they were in New York shooting for TWB... they also took the opportunity to do ADR work with a S2 guest star. I'm guessing it's Jonathan Groff since he's busy on Broadway every night currently.
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I don't think anyone has mentioned this...
www.bbc.co.uk
Broadcast live on Monday, 26th August, 19:00, BBC Radio 3 (and, likely, BBC Sounds too).
As usual, it's also being filmed for TV, which will follow some time later in the year.
Prom 48: Doctor Who Prom
Doctor Who makes its much-anticipated return to the Proms with a brand-new show celebrating the Doctor’s latest adventures. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and a host of special guests present a concert like no other in all of space and time…
www.bbc.co.uk
Broadcast live on Monday, 26th August, 19:00, BBC Radio 3 (and, likely, BBC Sounds too).
As usual, it's also being filmed for TV, which will follow some time later in the year.
I'm listening to it now.I don't think anyone has mentioned this...
Prom 48: Doctor Who Prom
Doctor Who makes its much-anticipated return to the Proms with a brand-new show celebrating the Doctor’s latest adventures. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and a host of special guests present a concert like no other in all of space and time…
Broadcast live on Monday, 26th August, 19:00, BBC Radio 3 (and, likely, BBC Sounds too).
As usual, it's also being filmed for TV, which will follow some time later in the year.
Is it just me, or it time to retire Nick Briggs as the voice of the Daleks? I don't hear Daleks when I hear Daleks anymore. I hear Nick Briggs doing Dalek voices. After twenty-five years of Briggs doing Daleks in Big Finish and on television, his voice is too familiar.
It probably depends on whether you ask someone who started watching the show pre- or post-2005. Classic series Daleks varied a lot, but for newer fans, his consistency is what they're used to.
That's fair. Maybe it was just the way his Dalek at the Proms sounded, which really just sounded like Briggs through a voice modulator.
I didn't think a lot of the Proms made sense on the radio (well, the BBC Radio 3 stream), because there was clearly a visual component to it all, and I was disappointed how much of Murray Gold's music sounds like temp track music in isolation. (Well, it is, because that's the way RTD and Moffat used it.) "A Good Man?" is stirring and epic, but at its core it's a temp track.
I don't think anyone has mentioned this...
Prom 48: Doctor Who Prom
Doctor Who makes its much-anticipated return to the Proms with a brand-new show celebrating the Doctor’s latest adventures. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and a host of special guests present a concert like no other in all of space and time…
Broadcast live on Monday, 26th August, 19:00, BBC Radio 3 (and, likely, BBC Sounds too).
As usual, it's also being filmed for TV, which will follow some time later in the year.
Apparently Ncuti was booed at the proms when his video links came up and Catherine Tate fumbled a lot of her lines and pronounced names wrong, including Capaldi's!
Jinx Monsoon returned as The Maestrond received a bigger ovation than Ncuti, also Vlinx showed up to provide exposition. The audience participation is what defeats Maestro (a lot of clapping)
I've been thinking the last few days that it would have been fun -- though very unlikely -- had Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr had come out for "Twist at the End." Which isn't very Beatle-ish, frankly, and something John Lennon would have said after writing, "This is fooking shite, we'll give it to Billy" [J. Kramer] "or Peter and Gordon."
Stick a fork in the series ass and turn it over, it's done.
As per the fat Welsh git in the new SFX.
"It’s an industry decision, it's like any business – these things take time. I think the decision will come after the transmission of season two. That's what we're expecting, that's what we've always been heading towards."
Given pre-production time even if it happens it won't be broadcast until late 2026/ early 2027. So much for "A series a year, every year".
Also a couple of months back he was claiming they were planning to start shooting next February, so he's a fucking liar.
As per the fat Welsh git in the new SFX.
"It’s an industry decision, it's like any business – these things take time. I think the decision will come after the transmission of season two. That's what we're expecting, that's what we've always been heading towards."
Given pre-production time even if it happens it won't be broadcast until late 2026/ early 2027. So much for "A series a year, every year".
Also a couple of months back he was claiming they were planning to start shooting next February, so he's a fucking liar.
Oh, good. Here we go with idle speculation that the show is ending based on...who (just an insult, lovely!)? Not even a linked source?
Get back to me when Radio Times says something like this.
Get back to me when Radio Times says something like this.
