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Month: January 2022

The Latest Titles From Candy Jar Books.

The Latest Titles From Candy Jar Books.

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UNIT: OPERATION WILDCAT Candy Jar is adding a further four stories to the line-up in the previously announced UNIT Files: Operation Wildcat and Other Stories. Range Editor, Tim Gambrell, has recruited some tried and tested hands, in John Peel and Chris Lynch, as well as two writers new to Candy Jar. Tim explains the thinking behind the changes: “I love situations like this, because they focus everyone’s creative energies. It started with a quick conversation with Shaun Russell just before…

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The One Show viewers award Doctor Who Silver as their most loved BBC TV programme in BBC 100 vote

The One Show viewers award Doctor Who Silver as their most loved BBC TV programme in BBC 100 vote

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The One Show asked a panel of experts to help whittle down all the classic BBC TV Shows from across the years to a shortlist of 50 for viewers to vote on. The final 50 included everything from drama to comedy to entertainment to factual and natural history. The panel was comprised of Sara Wallis, Mirror TV Columnist, David Butcher, Radio Times’ Choices Editor, Dick Fiddy, BFI Archive TV Programmer and Hanna Flint, Freelance Critic and MTV Movies Host. Alex…

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A new Target novel collection is coming July 2022

A new Target novel collection is coming July 2022

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Penned by the original scriptwriter the late David Fisher and adapted from his 2011 and 2014 audio novelisations, The Stones of Blood, and The Androids of Tara are now being released as two glorious Target books for fans to add to their collections. These will be accompanied by a Target edition of The Fires of Pompeii by James Moran, as well as The Eaters of Light by Rona Munro and The Zygon Invasion by Peter Harness. For Doctor Who fans,…

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Phil Collinson is back as producer alongside Russell T Davies!

Phil Collinson is back as producer alongside Russell T Davies!

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Doctor Who season 14 will reunite producer Phil Collinson with showrunner Russell T Davies, after they worked together on the sci-fi series between 2005 and 2008. Although no official announcement has been made yet, Collinson is credited as part of the reshuffled Who team on an Independent Talent profile. He and Davies most recently collaborated on Channel 4’s It’s a Sin. Whovians have been aware of Davies’ return since September, when out of the blue it was confirmed that he’d…

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Season 22 heading to Blu-ray Soon

Season 22 heading to Blu-ray Soon

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Across an action-packed season of double-length episodes, Colin Baker’s Doctor and companion Peri (Nicola Bryant) face off against a host of classic monsters and villains, including Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Davros (Terry Molloy) and The Master (Anthony Ainley) – as well as introducing new female nemesis The Rani (Kate O’Mara) and the villainous slug-like Sil (Nabil Shaban). Also returning is Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, and his companion Jamie (Frazer Hines). ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN VENGEANCE ON VAROS THE MARK…

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The Fifth Doctor celebrates 40 years, the Doctors return to Peladon …

The Fifth Doctor celebrates 40 years, the Doctors return to Peladon …

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January sees the release of a range of brand-new audio adventures from Big Finish. Here’s a roundup of what’s available to buy on CD and download this month. Forty years of the Fifth Doctor This audio boxset celebrates four decades since the debut of Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor with stories from across his timeline: Secrets of Telos by Matt Fitton and God of War by Sarah Grochala. Get Forty here The Eighth Doctor’s Edwardian adventuress friend returns! Four new adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte…

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Season 14 will be re-issued in The Collection Blu-Ray standard packaging

Season 14 will be re-issued in The Collection Blu-Ray standard packaging

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Season 14 of Doctor Who: The Collection is the next Blu-ray title to be re-issued in standard packaging after Season 26. In 1976, Doctor Who took a dramatic new turn, electrifying audiences with changes in format, companion and appearance of the TARDIS. Season 14 saw the departure of the Fourth Doctor’s long-term companion Sarah Jane Smith, and the introduction of Leela. The season contains some of Tom Baker’s most iconic serials, with intrepid investigations in Victorian London, deadly robots in…

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Doctor Who animations of lost episodes ‘cancelled’

Doctor Who animations of lost episodes ‘cancelled’

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The Abominable Snowmen could be the final animated offering? The remaining Doctor Who animated specials, which have been restoring lost episodes for a new generation, have reportedly been scrapped by the BBC. The latest entries in the series of releases include last year’s The Evil of the Daleks and Galaxy 4, following Patrick Troughton’s Second Doctor and William Hartnell’s First Doctor respectively. The collaborative project between BBC Studios and BBC America had made much progress towards giving die-hard Whovians a complete library of…

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Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 573

Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 573

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This month’s Doctor Who Magazine investigates how digital technology transformed Doctor Who. DWM charts the history of digital effects in Doctor Who from the 1970s to the most recent episodes. Plus interviews with costume designer @HolmanRay and composer @segunakinola, tributes to Chris Achilléos and Bob Baker, and much more! DWM 573 is on sale Thursday 6 January. pic.twitter.com/Z7je4r0iY3 — Doctor Who Magazine (@DWMtweets) January 3, 2022 Highlights of the new issue include: DWM charts the history of digital effects in Doctor Who from the…

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The John Nathan Turner Production Diary 1979-1990

The John Nathan Turner Production Diary 1979-1990

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BREAKING NEWS FROM TELOS PUBLISHING. If you thought everything was known about the production of DOCTOR WHO in the eighties?.. think again! The John Nathan Turner Production Diary 1979-1990 – Written by Richard Molesworth. This book draws on documentation from the late John Nathan-Turner’s personal archive to present virtually a day by day breakdown of what the Producer was doing, who he met, where he went and why and putting it all in the context of the show at the…

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