Doctor Who fans are in for a treat this Sunday, 23rd July 2017, a
preview of the Christmas episode will be shown at the San Diego
Comic-Con.
Episode director Rachel Talalay has shed some more light on what fans can expect from the event, suggesting that the 'sneak-peak' will be comprised of a teaser trailer or fottage from the as yet unnamed special. And in more good news, Talalay suggested that the footage would be
released online after the panel – not always a guarantee at San Diego
Comic-con, as proven when the trailer from 2013 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor was withheld from non-attendees.
This Christmas, the Doctor teams up with a comic-book superhero in New York for a heroic special titled, The Return of Doctor Mysterio.
We also have a brand new image and a behind-the-scenes trailer to share.
The Return of Doctor Mysterio sees the Twelfth Doctor, as played by Peter Capaldi, teaming up with an investigative journalist, played by Charity Wakefield (Wolf Hall), and a superhero to save New York from a deadly alien threat.
The new Doctor Who companion has been cast – and according to Peter
Capaldi, Jenna Coleman's replacement could be announced very soon...
"There will be a new companion, along any minute," said Capaldi,
"which I'm very excited about, 'cause obviously I know who that is and
we've been doing a bit of work together already and it's very exciting.
Because it's a very different sort of take on it."
Capaldi added that, unlike Coleman's Clara Oswald, the new arrival will know "very little about the Doctor".
"Clara had prior knowledge of the Doctor," Capaldi told Brazilian website Omelete.
"It was conceived as a human connected to your timeline, and so had
access to the cosmic nature of the Doctor. She understood a little about
how he was. And as she was already with [Eleventh Doctor] Matt [Smith],
she knew the Daleks and the TARDIS. Now we have someone who knows very
little about the Doctor."
Peter Capaldi has said he would happily make more episodes of Doctor Who each year, if he was allowed.
Speaking in the new issue of DWM #494 : “I’m shocked at the speed at which it’s going. I’ve done 26 episodes already, and I don’t know how that happened".
“I’m amazed that people ask me all the time, when I am going? It
makes you feel very unwelcome! ‘Please, when are you leaving?’
Or…someone said this morning, ‘You’re only doing six episodes next year
because you’re too tired?’ I don’t know where they’ve made this stuff up
from. Six episodes?! That’s not what I’m contracted to do. And I would do 20 episodes if they let me. I could do Doctor Who all the year round, quite happily.”
Peter Capaldi recently visited a young Doctor Who fan in his hospital room dressed as The Doctor and remained in charcter the whole time.
14 year old Danny, who is a bit of a Whovian, missed the Doctor Who Festival in November; was taken by surprise when the Doctor turned up for one of his consultations.
The BBC have released a couple of images featuring Matt Lucas (Nardole) and Greg Davies (King Hydroflax), who guest-star in this year's hour long Christmas special,The Husbands of River Song. The episode will air on BBC One at 5.15pm
A finale four-and-a-half billion years in the making, Steven Moffat says
that "Hell Bent will push the Doctor further than he's ever been pushed
before, turning him into a, "mad, bad, dangerous bastard."
The final episode continues the story on from Face The Raven and Heaven
Sent, the two episodes in which the Doctor lost companion Clara Oswald,
was betrayed by immortal frenemy Ashildr and was then teleported to
a labyrinthian castle, where he only managed to escape by tunnelling
through a wall four hundred times harder than diamond over the course of
four-and-a-half billion years. It's a long story. And on the other side
of the wall? His home planet of Gallifrey – revealing that it was all a
scheme by the Time Lords. Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Moffat says, "I think we probably take the
Doctor right to the very end of his tether. I've toyed with it in the
past but never really gone the whole hog. What would happen if you
really, really, really pissed him off? If you took everything from him,
broke his heart, kicked the crap out of him and he got up again – what
would you be facing then? It's called Hell Bent for a reason. As has
been threatened occasionally in the series, what happens when he gets
really mad? Well, this is it. Yes, he goes back to Gallifrey, and he
goes back in a very bad mood. " "It took a long time to kind of figure out what it'd be like if he went
back there. You've seen him go back – I'm going to talk like a tragic
fanboy now – in The War Games and he's obviously a bit sheepish; in
Deadly Assassin, he's a bit of a bad boy. But now he's the guy who won
the Time War. And they'd be terrified if he showed up. He becomes a badass Doctor, and that's always fun as he doesn't do
badass very often. He's too nice. But if you push him far enough – and
by god, we push him in episode 11 – it all gets a bit Clint Eastwood."
Alex Kingston returns to Cardiff
to reclaim her role as Professor River Song for the highly anticipated
2015 Doctor Who Christmas special, part of BBC One’s essential seasonal
viewing.
It’s Christmas Day in the future and the TARDIS is parked on a snowy
village street, covered in icicles, awaiting its next adventure. Time
traveller River Song meets her husband’s new incarnation, in the form of
Peter Capaldi, for the first time this Christmas.
Day one of filming the eleventh Doctor Who Christmas special starts
this week and is written by Lead Writer and Executive Producer, Steven
Moffat, produced by Nikki Wilson and directed by Douglas Mackinnon
(Doctor Who, Sherlock).
River Song made her first Doctor Who appearance in 2008 in ‘Silence
in the Library’ and ‘Forest of the Dead’ and has appeared in 15 episodes
to date.
Award winning Alex Kingston comments on her reappearance, “To be
honest, I did not know whether River would ever return to the show, but
here she is, back with the Doctor for the Christmas special. Steven
Moffat is on glittering form, giving us an episode filled with humour
and surprise guest castings. I met Peter for the first time at Monday’s
read through, we had a laugh, and I am now excited and ready to start
filming with him and the Doctor Who team. Christmas in September? Why
not!”
Steven Moffat, Lead Writer and Executive Producer, adds, “Another
Christmas, another special for Doctor Who - and what could be more
special than the return of Alex Kingston as Professor River Song? The
last time the Doctor saw her she was a ghost. The first time he met her,
she died. So how can he be seeing her again? As ever, with the most
complicated relationship in the universe, it’s a matter of time...”
Steven explains when the meeting of River Song and the Twelfth Doctor takes place:
"It's immediatetly after The Angels Take Manhatten (2012). River’s just seen Matt Smith’s Doctor lose Amy and Rory, and obviously
before The Name of the Doctor [2013] because she’s dead in that.”
Speaking of ending things, Steven Moffat also revealed that this might have been his last ever Doctor Who episode: “We’ve just lost Clara, so I didn’t want to go straight into a new
companion. I’ll be honest, I brought River Song back in
because I thought there was a possibility I’d never write for Doctor Who again so that’d be my goodbye.”
Joining Peter Capaldi and Alex Kingston in this year's Christmas adventure arecomedians Matt Lucas and Greg Davies.
A short synopsis reads as:
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding
from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship
calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River
Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy.
King Hydroflax (Greg Davies) is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard
is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole (Matt Lucas)
survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is?
“All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains
and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.
The BBC Cymru Wales produced drama will return to BBC One on
Saturday, 19 September with a 12 episode series, followed by the
Christmas special on Friday 25 December.
Steven Moffat has revealed that Doctor Who's next companion doesn't even have a name yet - but told Digital Spythat the new character will fundamentally change the series.
Moffat explained that the character is in "quite early stages" - but
that he has already pitched the companion and the arc of series 10 to
the BBC.
Jenna Coleman's time on Doctor Who ebbs ever closer and her character Clara is expected to leave the Doctor's side in Saturday's episode Face The Raven. Jenna has played Clara (Oswin) Oswald since 2012 when she appeared in the Series 7 opener Assylum Of The Daleks.
On her reaction to the exit, Jenna said: "I’m very satisfied. It was a
surprise when I read the script, as it always is with Steven’s scripts. It did not go in the direction I thought it was going to go in – which
did not surprise me at all. But it’s really cool and different, and
good, I think. I hope people will be pleased with it, because it was
very fun to play. And sad."
However, there is a glimmer of hope that Jenna may return to the BBC sci-fi show; "Once you’ve built up to an exit – and we’ve been
talking about when Clara would leave for quite a while – I think you’d
have to be very careful about when and how to do it. But
I mean, I’ve got such a fond and special relationship with the Doctor,
if it was the right nature of the story, then I would love to. But we
shall see."
Peter Capaldi interviewed by Nick Grimshaw on Radio 1's Breakfast Show. Wednesday, 4th November 2015
"I found it really sad to say goodbye to her. I don't want to go into what happens, because it's really clever what happes in it, but it's very sad. It's really sad."
“I
found it really sad to say goodbye to her … I don’t want to go into
what happens, because it’s very clever what happens in it, but it’s very
sad. It’s really sad.” - See more at:
http://www.combom.co.uk/#sthash.ii2BoxT0.dpuf
Recent interviews with Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi and Sherlock’s Mark
Gatiss have revealed that the Time Lord may tackle controversial
Earthly gas-mining procedures in the future. Talking to assembled press, Gatiss (whose next episode of Doctor Who
airs Nov 14 on BBC One) discussed new ideas for future stories.
Confessing he would like to do a modern issues story to ‘warn about
the future’ (much like Doctor Who in the 70s), the writer said:
‘What I’d love to do a story about is fracking. When I first heard about it I thought this seems like an incredibly
Doctor Who-y idea. Because it’s obviously a bad idea, no matter what the
supposed rewards.’
When presented with the idea, Peter Capaldi lit up,
exclaiming: ‘Absolutely! That would be great, I’d love to do a fracking
episode. I’d get to use the word “frack” a lot. Frack the frack off, or frack the frack in! Can I say that? Fracking, that’s good. I don’t know what we’d find – Silurians of some description I would imagine?’
Mark Gatiss added, ‘To me it's got that whole Jaws scenario, with lots of people saying, "It'll be fine." And actually, as well as shale gas and everything, maybe there;s something else lurking under there. I'd like to do that one, it;s called ‘‘Frakk off and Die’’(Laughs)
