Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[Jayson1]

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.

Don't forget Jack Harkness was from the future and he was a companion for a short bit. Also is RIver Song considered a companion?

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

After a while, it seems like some fans who don't like what R2D does and just want him and the show to fail.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Fans cannot make the show fail no matter how much they wish it, only the people running it can do that.

 

[The Wormhole]

Don't forget Jack Harkness was from the future and he was a companion for a short bit. Also is RIver Song considered a companion?

Though as has been pointed out before when Jack and River got prominent roles in the franchise, their backstories were adjusted so that they have lived on modern Earth for long enough that they could be considered contemporary people anyway.

 

[JD]

I forgot about Jack, but I didn't think River actually traveled with the Doctor regularly at any point. I've only watched everything after Tennant was the 10th Doctor once, so my memory of those seasons isn't very good.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I forgot about Jack, but I didn't think River actually traveled with the Doctor regularly at any point. I've only watched everything after Tennant was the 10th Doctor once, so my memory of those seasons isn't very good.

FWIW, I think of River as a companion, and she's shown herself familiar enough with how to fly the TARDIS that I feel she did travel regularly with the Doctor at an earlier point in her life, probably in the two hundred year gap in the eleventh Doctor's life.

 

[Samurai8472]

Information comes from someone who correctly leaked 60th anniversary spoilers last year...he's shown up on GB for the first time since November

-Ncuti isn't going anywhere
-Series 3 still being planned to air 2026
-IF Gatwa decides to leave, there will be one or two specials shot for 2026
-War Between will be a week-long five-day event, at least that's what the BBC want to do with it. Not sure if Disney feel the same.
-Considerably 'darker' than Nu Who
-Sea Devils have been redesigned
-If the series is successful, it might get a second shot, though it is described as quite standalone/self-contained and will need a whole different story if it's renewed

 

[Steve Roby]

-If the series is successful, it might get a second shot, though it is described as quite standalone/self-contained and will need a whole different story if it's renewed

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you can tell different stories about UNIT with or even without the Sea Devils. They don't have to keep the title the same.

 

[matthunter]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you can tell different stories about UNIT with or even without the Sea Devils. They don't have to keep the title the same.

If they want name continuity, retroactively rename this series "The UNIT Files: The War Between The Land And The Sea" and then do the same for each storyline going forward.

 

[JD]

Yeah, something like that sounds like a good idea to me. If the plan is for it to focus on the UNIT team, then that is a pretty open ended premise that they could do tons of different things with.

 

[Orac]

It's okay, but I think it needs more colons: how about:

The UNIT Files: The War Between The Land And The Sea: Episode 1: To Live and Die in Starlight

 

[Steve Roby]

Doctor Who Presents: Whoniverse: The UNIT Files: The War Between The Land And The Sea: Episode 1: To Live and Die in Starlight

 

[matthunter]

(Guest Starring Alexander Armstrong)

 

[Nerys Myk]

Doctor Who Presents: Whoniverse: The UNIT Files: The War Between The Land And The Sea: Episode 1: To Live and Die in Starlight: Part I

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Disney+ Presents: The BBC Production: Doctor Who: Whoniverse: The UNIT Files: The War Between the Land and the Sea: Episode 1: To Live and Die in Starlight: Part I

 

[Turtletrekker]

Steven Moffat: 'I was vilified endlessly as Doctor Who showrunner'

The screenwriter was left puzzled and frustrated by "omni-bigot" accusations.

www.radiotimes.com

 

[The Wormhole]

The bit in that article where he claims he was labeled an "omni-bigot" with everyone accusing him of being everything from sexist to homophobic and everything in between actually reminds me of the fact that back in 2005 someone actually accused RTD of being homophobic(!) all because Rose said "that's so gay" in Aliens of London.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, toxic fandom is pretty awful. I don't blame Moffat for feeling frustrated by it and it's no wonder he stays far away from social media (except that brief time when he came back during the Lockdown marathons).

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Deadline reports that the terrific Archie Panjabi (Life on Mars, Run, Snowpiercer, apparently also The Good Wife but I never watched it) will appear as a villain next season.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Deadline reports that the terrific Archie Panjabi (Life on Mars, Run, Snowpiercer, apparently also The Good Wife but I never watched it) will appear as a villain next season.

She was great in TGW.

A friend of mine was an extra in The Fall, in which she appeared, and said that she was really down to earth and friendly, FWIW.