SPACE AND TIME NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF DOCTOR WHO
Final 28-day figures for the 60th anniversary specials saw viewing numbers at 8.36M for “The Star Beast”, 8.30M for “Wild Blue Yonder” and 7.91M for “The Giggle”, ranking 10th, 4th and 6th for each week respectively. Final figures for “The Church On Ruby Road” were not available at time of going to press.
Filming for series two – due to air in 2025 – recently took place at Penarth’s Pier Pavilion and the OK Diner in Leominster, Herefordshire, with Ncuti Gatwa and Andor actress Varada Sethu. Radio Times also reported that West End actor Lewis Cornay had been present for filming.
Character Options released a website exclusive set of Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor, with her TARDIS and gun. Demand crashed the website!
Prototypes of further figures from Character Options were on display at London’s Toy Fair in January. These included the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby
Sunday in their costumes from “The Church
On Ruby Road” and a Wrarth Warrior from “The Star Beast”. A Fifteenth Doctor’s sonic screwdriver and plush Meep were also spotted.
New releases from Big Finish have been announced for March. Jacob Dudman performs in The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles: You Only Die Twice, alongside Bhavnisha Parmar (who played Yaz’s sister Sonya Khan) as companion Keira Sanstrom. The third part of Sontarans Vs Rutans sees Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor alongside India Fisher as Charley Pollard in Born To Die.
Marking 40 years of Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, a six-part box set, The Quin
Dilemma, will also be released in March. It will reunite Baker with Nicola Bryant (Peri), Bonnie Langford (Mel), Miranda Raison (Constance) and Lisa Greenwood (Flip).
The Doctor Who Novel Adaptations return in July with Goth Opera. The Virgin Missing Adventure, published in 1993, has been adapted by Lizbeth Myles into a three-part audio play starring Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton.
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