Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[Captaindemotion]

Il

They're definitely missing the point. Clearly it doesn't align with the anti BBC narrative being peddled here.

I notice also that nobody has mentioned his friendship with the royals or his honorary papal knighthood either

 

[Starkers]

Il

I notice also that nobody has mentioned his friendship with the royals or his honorary papal knighthood either

Amongst others...

 

[jaime]

Pretty much covered how much I don’t and didn’t pay much attention to scumbag Savile, so no, shockingly I don’t know about his stamp collection either. Never liked the bloke, even when he was the darling of BBC TV, and all things considered, I’m pretty glad Jim never fixed it for me.

As to Whitehouse, she was a general moral campaigner on the state of TV — basically the same thing we have these days, just from a different set of ethical or moral beliefs. And like hers, people may or may not agree with them.

 

[jaime]

Amongst others...

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Looks like assault.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^^But which monster is assulting which monster. Ha

 

[Rich Watson]

So is 'Space Babies' going to turn out to be the most important episode of this two season story arc? That would be hilarious.

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I already knew they had been seen on location for the finale but wasn't expecting this week's appearance.

 

[jaime]

So is 'Space Babies' going to turn out to be the most important episode of this two season story arc? That would be hilarious.

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I already knew they had been seen on location for the finale but wasn't expecting this week's appearance.

Unless it’s retconning them in as the Fugitive Doctor, I hope not. Some Who I miss and plan to get around to one day. Other times,I miss it, and am glad to have dodged the bullet. Space Babies is in the latter category.

 

[Rich Watson]

The official description for the finale reads.

“The Doctor is doomed, Belinda is lost, Ruby is trapped, UNIT is powerless, the Unholy Trinity rule supreme and the Underverse is rising."

The Underverse was another thing that was mentioned in the big leak from months ago which has turned out to be correct. So I fear it's unlikely that the remaining claims will turn out to be false.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Eh, empty doomsaying. I'll wait and see how the episode actually turns out.

 

[Starkers]

Eh, empty doomsaying. I'll wait and see how the episode actually turns out.

What a novel approach

 

[JD]

Just because some of the stuff in the leak is true, doesn't mean it all is.

 

[Mr Awe]

I'm just going to stay as oblivious to the leaks as I can. You only get to enjoy it for the first once, unless you ruin that chance. But agreed, just because some leaks came true doesn't necessarily mean they're all true.

 

[The Wormhole]

Honestly, after looking over the leaks that I was aware of, most are related to the finale anyway so we won't know if they're true or not for another few weeks. The only non-finale spoilers that were in the leak I knew of have been proven true (Doctor lite episode focusing on Ruby and UNIT, Eurovision in space) but that's not really enough to convince me the stuff leaked about the finale is true.

 

[jaime]

Honestly, after looking over the leaks that I was aware of, most are related to the finale anyway so we won't know if they're true or not for another few weeks. The only non-finale spoilers that were in the leak I knew of have been proven true (Doctor lite episode focusing on Ruby and UNIT, Eurovision in space) but that's not really enough to convince me the stuff leaked about the finale is true.

There’s older leaks - Ruby having a boyfriends that’s more interested in the Doctor, for example. Turned out to be true, just not in the way people thought. Basically, there’s a massive hit ratio for the leaks, and if you really don’t want spoilers it’s still best to avoid.

 

[Rich Watson]

Honestly, after looking over the leaks that I was aware of, most are related to the finale anyway so we won't know if they're true or not for another few weeks. The only non-finale spoilers that were in the leak I knew of have been proven true (Doctor lite episode focusing on Ruby and UNIT, Eurovision in space) but that's not really enough to convince me the stuff leaked about the finale is true.

The main leak contained:

Pretty much the entire plot of The Robot Revolution.
Doctor Who fans appearing in Lux.
The Well being a sequel to Midnight.
Most of the plot of Lucky Day.
Jo Martin appearing in last week's episode.
The return of the Space Babies.

Which leaves us with

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Mrs Flood being a bi-regenerated Rani. The other one being played by Archie Panjabi.
The return of Susan.
The return of Omega.
A very brief return by Jodie Whitaker.

 

[Daedalus]

This hit rate has been better than the old GB poster 'doctorwho'. He was everywhere at one point. I still wish that old rumour about Charles Dance ended up being true, he'd have been fantastic in the show.

 

[Rich Watson]

Not worth a thread of its own but there's another bunch of novelisations coming next January, all untitled currently but one of them is by Matt Jones, so we can probably guess what that is.

(In) Famously the TV versions were a 100% rewtrite, so I wonder if this will actually be using the original scripts?

 

[Samurai8472]

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[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Spoiler: Spoiler

Chimes of Midnight, hm?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chimes_of_Midnight

 

[jaime]

Spoiler: Spoiler

Chimes of Midnight, hm?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chimes_of_Midnight

I was thinking that. And interesting note about the novelisation…

Maybe they’re crunching all the media timelines together, and the end of this season is basically akin to The Gallifrey Chronicles that finished up the EDA range?