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Doctor Who Am I documentary on Paul McGann TV movie gets new release date

Doctor Who Am I documentary on Paul McGann TV movie gets new release date

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Doctor Who - Paul McGann
Doctor Who – Paul McGann

Doctor Who Am I, the upcoming documentary exploring the legacy of the 1996 Paul McGann-starring Doctor Who TV movie, has had its UK release delayed – but not by long.

While the film was originally slated for a cinema release on Thursday 13th October, followed by a DVD and digital launch on Monday 7th November, this has now all been shifted back slightly.

This means the film will now debut in select UK cinemas on Thursday 27th October, and will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download from 28th November.

The 80-minute film has been co-directed by Vanessa Yuille and Matthew Jacobs, with Yuille saying: “We’re a small movie with a big heart, and [distributor] Kaleidoscope saw that right away.

Paul McGann in Doctor Who Am I
Paul McGann in Doctor Who Am I. Kaleidoscope Entertainment

“Teaming up with Kaleidoscope is a perfect match for us because even though we’re an American movie, they understand the Doctor Who franchise and the global reach of the fandom. They can bring our documentary from the Whoniverse to the Universe.”

Jacobs added: “Now, more than ever, we need a positive movie about Doctor Who fandom as we move towards the show’s 60th anniversary. We’re so excited Kaleidoscope, like audiences have, recognise that.”

Doctor Who Am I follows the screenwriter of the Eighth Doctor film, Matthew Jacobs, as he drags himself back into the sci-fi show’s fanbase despite the disapproval that fans expressed when it was first released.

It’s set to feature interviews and segments with the original cast of the 1996 film, including McGann, Eric Roberts, who played The Master, and Daphne Ashbrook, who played Dr Grace Holloway.

Doctor Who Am I is released in UK cinemas on 27th October, and on Blu-ray, DVD & digital download from 28th November.

Eric Roberts plays Doctor Who villain The Master in live-action for first time in 24 years

Eric Roberts plays Doctor Who villain The Master in live-action for first time in 24 years

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Roberts returns in a spooky new teaser, playing the Doctor’s nemesis on-screen again after more than two decades.

Eric Roberts - The Master in Doctor Who

He’s back! More than two decades on from his clash with Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor, Eric Roberts’ incarnation of Doctor Who villain the Master has returned in live-action.

Roberts appears in a spooky new teaser posted by audio drama producers Big Finish – making reference to being trapped (presumably within the Eye of Harmony, where he ended up at the climax of Doctor Who’s 1996 TV movie), he muses on the Earth celebration known as Halloween, “when dark spirits abound and children learn to reveal in the things that scare them”, and vows to escape his confinement.

Though he’s been lending his voice to Big Finish’s range of Doctor Who audio dramas since 2018, this teaser is the first time that Roberts has played the Master in live-action since the 1996 TV movie.

Roberts is getting his own spin-off series of audio plays from Big Finish – entitled simply Master! – in March 2021.

In this new series, this version of the Time Lord villain has escaped the Time Vortex to wreak havoc upon the universe.

Along the way, he’ll meet old enemies, new companions and the universe’s most glamorous and dangerous bounty hunter, Vienna Salvatori (Chase Masterson).

A synopsis for the series reads:

Abandoned in the Vortex, the Master’s lost incarnation is about to be thrown a lifeline.

Earth rebuilds in the aftermath of invasion, and power rests with those who innovate. Genius Lila Kreeg makes a deal with the devil to see her dreams fulfilled.

As the Master returns, there are those – like Vienna Salvatori – who wish to hunt him, and those upon whom he wishes vengeance himself…

Roberts will also appear alongside John Simm, Michelle Gomez and Derek Jacobi in the multi-Master release Masterful, set to be released by Big Finish in January next year.

Both releases can be pre-ordered now via bigfinish.com.

Doctor Who starring Jodie Whittaker will return to BBC One for festive special Revolution of the Daleks this festive season.