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Production is underway on Doctor Who series 11 at the moment, with the first block of episodes for Jodie Whittaker’s opening series of the Doctor filmed. The identity of the writing staff for Doctor Who series 11 remains a secret, though, outside of incoming showrunner Chris Chibnall and his team. But according to Mark Gatiss, we’re set to get “all new people” writing the episodes. Gatiss revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he was actually asked to return to write for the…

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The Doctor Who special will be the first screening at Bradford’s disused Odeon cinema for 17 years. The Doctor Who Christmas special, Twice Upon a Time, stars Peter Capaldi with David Bradley as the First Doctor. The old cinema will host two separate showings exclusively for fans who won tickets in a BBC ballot. Film expert David Wison, of Bradford Unesco City of Film, said Friday’s screening would be a “big day for the building”. He said the Doctor Who…

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This year’s Doctor Who Christmas special is a particularly momentous episode, serving as the goodbye for Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor as well as the introduction for Jodie Whittaker’s new Thirteenth Doctor. So it’s no surprise to learn that Capaldi himself was very keen to get his character’s exit just right – even if that meant forcing some very last minute changes. “We’re all very concerned about how the Twelfth Doctor leaves us,” Capaldi told BBC presenter Jo Whiley in a…

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Pearl Mackie has said she wept when she saw her final episode of Doctor Who. The actor will make her last appearance as the Time Lord’s companion, Bill Potts, in the Christmas special when she bows out alongside Peter Capaldi’s Doctor and show-runner Steven Moffat. She told BBC Breakfast: “I spent so long saying to people: ‘Oh just be prepared. It’s quite an emotional episode. It’s Peter’s last episode, my last episode. Bring some tissues,’ and I was watching it…

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We’re entering the last week where we can call Peter Capaldi the incumbent Doctor in Doctor Who. As of next Monday – Christmas Day – the mantle will be passed over to Jodie Whittaker in this year’s Christmas special, Twice Upon A Time. It’s writer and showrunner Steven Moffat’s final Doctor Who too, and he’s been chatting about the tone of the episode in a new interview issued by the BBC. “This episode is somewhere between a coda and drumroll….

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The magical final chapter of the Twelfth Doctor’s journey sees the Time Lord team up with his former self, the first ever Doctor (David Bradley – Harry Potter; Game Of Thrones) and a returning Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie), for one last adventure. Two Doctors stranded in an arctic snowscape, refusing to face regeneration. Enchanted Glass People, stealing their victims from frozen time. And a World War One Captain destined to die on the battlefield, but taken from the trenches to…

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