PEARL MACKIE GIVES HER FIRST EVER INTERVIEW AS THE DOCTOR’S NEW COMPANION
MEET PEARL MACKIE THE DOCTOR’S NEW COMPANION!
BBC One today announced Pearl Mackie will join the Doctor Who cast as The Doctor’s new companion. Pearl was exclusively revealed to audiences on BBC One during half time the FA Cup semi-final on Saturday 23rd August.
On joining the cast in her first major television role, Pearl said: “I’m incredibly excited to be joining the Doctor Who family. It’s such an extraordinary British institution, I couldn’t be prouder to call the TARDIS my home!
Peter Capaldi is such a brilliant actor, and his Doctor is such a wacky and wonderful character, I can’t wait to see what adventures are in store for him and Bill throughout time and space. Reading the script at the audition I thought Bill was wicked. Fantastically written, cool, strong, sharp, a little bit vulnerable with a bit of geekiness thrown in – I can’t wait to bring her to life, and to see how she develops through the series.
I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can’t wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!
Shooting the trailer was absolutely mental, there were pyro technics and smoke and I met my first Dalek! I’m not sure it will ever become ‘the norm’ seeing crazy monsters on set, but I cannot wait to meet some more! The weirder the better, bring it on!”
Peter Capaldi said: “It is a genuine delight to welcome Pearl Mackie to Doctor Who. A fine, fine actress with a wonderful zest and charm, she’s a refreshing addition to the TARDIS and will bring a universe of exciting new possibilities to The Doctor’s adventures.”
Steven Moffat, Lead Writer and Executive Producer adds: “A new face in the TARDIS, a new voyage about to begin: welcome aboard the amazing Pearl Mackie! This is where the story really starts.”
Charlotte Moore, Acting Director of Television said: “It’s so exciting to be revealing the much anticipated new companion to the nation in such spectacular style. Pearl brings a wonderful energy and lights up the screen. She will captivate Doctor Who fans old and new across the globe.”
Brian Minchin, Executive Producer adds: “We’re utterly thrilled to have the hugely talented Pearl join Doctor Who and I can’t wait to begin her new adventures in time and space!”
After airing exclusively on BBC One, the Doctor Who trailer can now be seen on BBC iPlayer, and on BBC One and Doctor Who social media platforms.
Doctor Who is a BBC Cymru Wales produced drama and will return later this year with a Christmas Special. The new series will start on BBC One in 2017.
NEW DOCTOR WHO COMPANION TO BE REVEALED ON SATURDAY
The new Doctor Who companion will be revealed live on BBC One on Saturday night.
The announcement will be made during half time of the FA Cup semi-final Match of the Day Live: Everton versus Manchester United at around 18:00 BST.
The new companion will star alongside Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord in the 10th new season of Doctor Who.
They will replace Jenna Coleman, who played Clara Oswald, who left the show in 2015.
Coleman joined Doctor Who in 2012, and starred alongside two Doctors, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi.
She asked to be written out and left to take on the role of Queen Victoria in a major ITV drama series.
Filming for the next series of Doctor Who will start this year but will air in 2017.
In January, it was announced the head writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat, was stepping down from the show.
The next series will be his last, after which he will be replaced by Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall.
DOCTOR WHO: THE CURSE OF THE FUGUE
She’s back – and it’s about time! Sheridan Smith returns to Big Finish as Lucie Miller for a brand new Eighth Doctor Short Trip…
February 1974 is grimmer than usual for the British. Huddling together by candlelight the nation endures regular power cuts, however the situation is far worse for one old woman. Out of the dark come visitors who know of her terrible burden of wartime secrets. All she fought to save is threatened. Whom can she trust? The troubled ghosts which plague her, a young man who has befriended her, or her new carer Lucie and her strange friend, The Doctor?
Written by Alice Cavander, Doctor Who – Short Trips: The Curse of the Fugue is the long-awaited return of beloved Doctor Who companion Lucie Miller, performed by original actress Sheridan Smith. Download this website exclusive title today for just £2.99!
Lucie Miller will return in 2017 in Doctor Who: Flashpoint, a story by Andrew Smith. You can subscribe to both the 2016 and 2017 runs of the Monthly Short Trips at a considerable saving, with a new story appearing in your account every month as soon as they are released. You can also buy the entire 2015 run of Short Trips as part of a bundle, with four volumes of earlier tales still available to order on CD.
Still to come in 2016, Peter Purves performs May’s Doctor Who: This Sporting Life, followed in June by Anneke Wills’ reading of Doctor Who: Lost and Found. July sees the release of the first ‘Short Trip Special’ Doctor Who: The Blame Game, read by Rufus Houndas the Meddling Monk. The series continues with new stories for the Third Doctor (Tim Treloar), Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) and Peri (Nicola Bryant): click here for full details.
For extra adventures, you can subscribe to the Doctor Who Main Range, where every three months an exclusive Short Trip is added to your account – including Doctor Who: The Monkey House by Nic Ford, a new story for the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough available with subscriptions containing Doctor Who: The Two Masters.
BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP 21
Various Artists – BBC Radiophonic Workshop – 21
In 1958 the BBC Radiophonic Workshop opened with the aim to enhance in the main, drama output on the Third Programme (now Radio 3) following the development of new electronic music techniques emanating from Europe. Their work expanded across the BBC to take in TV drama (especially sci-fi), schools programmes and themes. The latter being their most celebrated and well known work, Delia Derbyshire’s treatment of Ron Grainer’s theme for Doctor Who. This collection, originally released by BBC Records in 1979 to celebrate 21 years of the workshop appears for the first time in its full original form on CD. From The Goons (Bloodnocks Stomach) to the Interval Signal to Doctor Who and Great Zoos Of The World this is a fascinating chronicle of some of the most innovative music ever made. These ground-breaking compositions providing a major influence on music from The Beatles and Pink Floyd and onwards into the contemporary world of Aphex Twin, Orbital and The Chemical Brothers. “The Radiophonic Workshop, I loved all that, it fascinated me, and still does”. – Paul McCartney. Pre Order now from Silva Screen Records as a CD or MP3 download. This record is out from April 22nd 2016
Track listing
CD Album (SILCD1503)
1. Desmond Briscoe – Quatermass & the Pit (Effects)
2. Dick Mills – Bloodnok’s Stomach
3. Desmond Briscoe – Outside
4. Phil Young – Science and Industry
5. Phil Young – The Artist Speaks
6. Phil Young – The Splendour That Was Rome
7. Maddalena Fagandini – Interval Signal
8. Desmond Briscoe – Phra the Phoenician
9. Desmond Briscoe – Full Circle – The Stick Up
10. Maddalena Fagandini – Time Beat
11. Maddalena Fagandini – Ideal Home Exhibition
12. Delia Derbyshire – Time On Our Hands
13. Delia Derbyshire – Arabic Science and Industry
14. Maddalena Fagandini – The Chem Lab Mystery
15. Delia Derbyshire – Know Your Car (Get Out and Get Under)
16. Delia Derbyshire – Dr. Who
17. Brian Hodgson – TARDIS
18. John Baker – Choice
19. John Baker – Hard Luck Hall
20. Delia Derbyshire – Talk Out
21. Delia Derbyshire – Science and Health
22. Tony Askew – Secrets of the Chasm
23. Keith Salmon – Westminster at Work
24. Delia Derbyshire – A New View of Politics
25. Delia Derbyshire – Environmental Studies
26. Delia Derbyshire – Chronicle
27. Delia Derbyshire – Great Zoos of the World
28. Dudley Simpson – Minds of Evil
29. Dick Mills – Fanfare
30. Paddy Kingsland – Broken Biscuit Club
31. Roger Limb – The Plunderers
32. Richard Yeoman-Clark – Mysterioso
33. Peter Howell – Greenwich Chorus
34. Malcolm Clarke – Hurdy Gurdy
35. Dick Mills – Martian March Past
36. Paddy Kingsland – A Whisper from Space
37. Roger Limb – Swirley
38. Peter Howell – Merry-Go-Round
39. Malcolm Clarke – BBC2 Serial
40. Roger Limb – Quirky
41. Paddy Kingsland – Newton
42. Peter Howell – The Secret War
43. Dick Mills – Thomas the Rhymer
44. Malcolm Clarke – Contact
45. Roger Limb – For Love or Money
DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE SPECIAL: SPECIAL EFFECTS
FIND OUT ABOUT DOCTOR WHO’S RICH HISTORY OF SPECIAL EFFECTS!
The latest Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition celebrates the series’ greatest special effects and meets the people who created them. From the trailblazers of the 1960s to the digital artists of today, this is the story of Doctor Who’s journeys into the impossible. Highlights include:
Interviews with visual effects designers Peter Day (Fury from the Deep, The Dæmons, Genesis of the Daleks), Tony Harding (The Invisible Enemy, The Awakening),Mat Irvine (The Face of Evil, Warriors’ Gate), Peter Logan (Destiny of the Daleks, Kinda), Colin Mapson (Image of the Fendahl, Time and the Rani) and Eric Alba(the TV Movie) plus crew members Ian Gosling (The Curse of Peladon, The Green Death) and George Reed (The Seeds of Doom, The Talons of Weng-Chiang).
Rare and previously unseen images from the scrapbooks of visual effects designer Ian Scoones (Pyramids of Mars, City of Death).
Guides to techniques by BAFTA-winning visual effects designer Mike Tucker.
Visual effects producers Will Cohen and Dave Houghton reveal the stories behind Doctor Who’s adoption of twenty-first century effects.
Inside the making of Heaven Sent with the teams from BBC Wales, Milk VFX and Millennium FX.
Grant Hewlett of axisVFX on the making of Flatline and The Husbands of River Song.
Afterword by Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin (Inception, Interstellar).
This lavish 100-page Special is edited by Marcus Hearn. “Doctor Who has been pioneering television visual effects for more than 50 years,” he says. “It was our aim to cover as much of that incredible legacy as possible. In many ways it’s an alternative history of the series itself, brought to life by some amazing photographs, designs and sketches.”
Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: Special Effects is on sale now at WH Smith and all good newsagents, price £5.99 (UK) and $11.99 (US).
RESTORATION TEAM: SITE UPDATE
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The Doctor Who Restoration Team have updated their website to include details of the restoration work which took place on the final set of Doctor Who classic era DVD releases.
The Restoration team was formed in 1992, consisting of a small group of Doctor Who fans within the television industry who were dedicated to restoring archive episodes of Doctor Who to the best possible quality ready for rebroadcast or release on Video or later on DVD.
The painstaking work has been documented on the team’s website by Steve Roberts, a former BBC post production engineer and key member of the restoration team.
The site, which was last updated in 2013, has now been expanded to include details of the work undertaken for The Underwater Menace, The Web of Fear, The Moonbase, The Enemy of the World, The Tenth Planet, Terror of the Zygons and The Ice Warriors as well as the special edition of The Green Death.
DOCTOR WHO: NIGHTSHADE
Mark Gatiss’ classic novel comes to life in a brand new full-cast adaptation starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
Available to buy on both CD and download today, Doctor Who: Nightshade is a brand new adaptation of the first Doctor Who story by long-term series contributor Mark Gatiss (writer of eight TV episodes, including The Unquiet Dead, The Idiot’s Lantern, Cold War and The Crimson Horror, and the Big Finish audio plays Doctor Who: Phantasmagoria and Doctor Who: Invaders from Mars).
Adapted by Kyle C Szikora and starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor andSophie Aldred as Ace, this dramatisation of the classic Virgin New Adventure finds the Doctor on the verge of retirement, while a malevolent alien force menaces the village of Crook Marsham.
DOCTOR WHO: LEGACY OF DEATH
A vicious temporal war grips the planet Aoris – can the Doctor save both the past and future from each other? The Fourth Doctor Adventures continue…
Our fifth series of brand new audios starring Tom Baker, Lalla Ward and John Leeson continues today with Doctor Who: Legacy of Death; where the battles on the planet Aoris take a turn for the worse after the events of Doctor Who.
DOCTOR WHO: AND YOU WILL OBEY ME
This summer’s biggest blockbuster starts here! Peter Davison and Geoffrey Beevers star in the first instalment of the Two Masters trilogy…
The Doctor Who Main Range brings you a new full-cast adventure every month, starring one of the original actors to play the Doctor on television! Featuring fantastic new creations or the best-loved monsters from the past of the series, these stories are perfect for Doctor Who fans young and old.
Our 211th Main Range release begins a breathtaking new trilogy that pits the Doctor against his arch-enemy. Doctor Who: And You Will Obey Me sees Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor take on Geoffrey Beevers as the Master, in the first part of Big Finish’s Two Masters trilogy.