This weeks sees more filming with Peter Capaldi having some wacky escapades as he shoots his first story as The Doctor.
There is the usual blanket of silence about what is going on with the season as filming progresses, but this will change as the production team yes deeper into filming.
Steven Moffat has had a busy week with interviews and Big Finish has some new releases!
SEASON EIGHT NEWS
Peter Capaldi was seen on set wearing Victorian era pajamas as timing continues for the his first episode. This week Capadli and Dan Starkey (Strax) were each seen riding horseback during location shooting.
Filming has taken place this week at the BBC Studios in Cardiff as well as in Bristol, Mount Stuart Square and again in Merthyr Mawr.
Here is a recap of what we know about the season so far.
Episode One
Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Ben Wheatley. Strax, Jenny and Vastra all return. Paul Hickey has been named as a guest star playing a character named Inspector Gregson.
Episode Two
Phil Ford returns with another script for the series with Wheatley again directing. Some location filming has been set for Horton Primary School in Barry in late February. Could it be we see Clara teaching again? Will we see the rumored return of her fellow teacher Tom?
Episode Three
A new script from Luther writer/creator Neil Cross. Paul Murphy directs.
Episode Four
This story features the first series script from Jack Lothian. It is directed by Douglas Mackinnon.
Episode Five
Douglas Mackinnon again directs an episode.
Episode Six
This episode marks Paul Murphy’s second stint as a director for the season.
Episode Twelve
This very well could be Moffat’s last episode as a show runner as rumors circulate that he could be leaving. He wrote this episode.
There has also been rumors that The Ice Warriors could return in a new Mark Gatiss script.
The return of The Master has also been rumored but if it happens it will most likely be with a new actor in the role.
PHIL FORD TALKS EPISODE TWO-SORT OF
Phil Ford was recently interviewed by Doctor Who TV discussing writing for Doctor Who in Season Eight.
Ford, who wrote stories for The Sarah Jane Adventures and co-wrote the Tennant era story, Waters of Mars, is excited to be writing for the Twelfth Doctor. Ford also was a writer for Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.
He didn’t give much away, but he is happy about the opportunity.
I’m over the moon in a TARDIS! And I don’t know how I’ve managed to keep quiet about it for so long! It’s a huge honour to write for Doctor Who at any time, to be writing Peter Capaldi’s second adventure is that to infinity! I can’t wait to get on to set!
TALES OF TRENZALORE
If you want even more Matt Smith adventures you can check out the new BBC Digital e-book, Tales of Trenzalore, scheduled for release on February 27th.
Each of the are four stories in the collection features The Doctor fighting different baddies as he boldly protects a besieged Trenzalore.
Here is a list of the stories in the collection:
Let it Snow by Justin Richards,
An Apple a Day by George Mann,
Strangers in the Outland by Paul Filch
The Dreaming by Mark Morris
Synopsis
As it had been foretold, the armies of the Universe gathered at Trenzalore. Only one thing stood between the planet and destruction – the Doctor. For nine hundred years, he defended the planet, and the tiny town of Christmas, against the forces that would destroy it.
He never knew how long he could keep the peace. He never knew what creatures would emerge from the snowy night to threaten him next. He knew only that at the end he would die on Trenzalore.
Some of what happened during those terrible years is well documented. But most of it remains shrouded in mystery and darkness….Until now.
This is a glimpse of just some of the terrors the people faced, the monstrous threats the Doctor defeated. These are the tales of the monsters who found themselves afraid – and of the one man who was not.
INTO THE NOWHERE
Into The Nowhere is the second e-book in the Doctor Who Time Trips series from BBC Books. This downloadable story is set between The Day of the Doctor and The Time of the Doctor.
Penned by popular women’s novelist Jenny T. Colgan, who has returned to the series again, this Eleventh Doctor and Clara adventure is the latest in BBC Books monthly range of Doctor Who ebooks.
Synopsis
The Eleventh Doctor and Clara land on an unknown alien planet. To the Doctor’s delight and Clara’s astonishment, it really is unknown. It’s a planet the Doctor has never seen. It’s not on any maps, it’s not referenced on any star charts or in the TARDIS databanks. It doesn’t even have a name. What could be so terrible that its existence has been erased?
February 8th sees the release of the next e-book in the series, Keeping Up with The Joneses by Nick Harkaway.
MOFFAT ON BBC RADIO 2
Steven Moffat was a guest on Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2. He talked Sherlock and answered his critics who have offered criticisms of his plot holes.
I think people have come to think a plot hole is something which isn’t explained on-screen. A plot hole is actually something that can’t be explained.
Sometimes you expect the audience to put two and two together for themselves. For Sherlock, and indeed Doctor Who, I’ve always made the assumption that the audience is clever.
Hear the interview: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01pcgbq
MOFFAT ON PETER CUSHING
In a perfect world Steven Moffat would like to have included Peter Cushing in the recent 50th Anniversary Special.
Cushing played The Doctor in two feature films, Dr. Who and the Daleks in 1965 and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 in 1966. These films were produced for theatrical release.
Moffat spoke about it in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine.
When I started writing The Day of the Doctor I knew I wanted every Doctor to make some sort of appearance… But what about Peter Cushing? Now I love those movies… but they don’t exactly fit with the rest of the show, do they? … You remember that line, in the Black Archive, when Kate is explaining about the need to screen the Doctor’s known associates… She wasn’t supposed to be looking at the Vortex Manipulator – originally she was walking past the posters for the two Peter Cushing movies. In my head, in the Doctor’s universe those films exist as distorted accounts of his adventures… Sadly we couldn’t afford the rights to the posters.
DARK EYES 2
Paul McGann returns to Big Finish in February with another installment of the Dark Eyes series. Written by Nicholas Briggs, Alan Barnes and Matt Fitton with direction from Briggs this epic tale is told in four parts and features both The Daleks and The Master in an epic drama through time and space. Joining McGann are Ruth Bradley, Nicola Walker, Alex MacQueen, David Sibley with Nicholas Briggs voicing the Daleks.
Synopsis
When the Doctor defeated the Dalek Time Controller and its Time Lord ally, the timelines shifted and events changed… but the danger is far from over. And new threats to the continued safety of the universe are emerging.
Molly O’Sullivan carried on with her life as a nursing assistant in World War One. She probably thought she would never see the Doctor in his ‘Tardy-box’ again…
From the Dalek occupied planet Nixyce VII through Earth’s history and to the very edge of the universe, the Doctor’s footprints across eternity are being tracked by foes old and new. But when did it all begin and when will it end? Living his life through the complexities of time travel, the Doctor can never be quite sure if he’s experiencing his life in the most helpful order. The only certainty appears to be the advance of the powers of evil and the oncoming threat of a fight to the death against forces that would destroy everything the Doctor holds dear.
Dark Eyes 3 is due out in November.
Link: http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/dark-eyes-2-978
THE KING OF SONTAR
Tom Baker and Louise Jameson are back in a new Fourth Doctor and Leela Big Finish audio.The King Of Sontar was written by John Dorney and directed by Nicholas Briggs. Dan Starkey guest stars as Strang, David Collings appears as Rosato.
Synopsis
Dowcra base. The third Elite Sontaran Assassination Squad closes in on its target. A dozen trained killers, but even they will be unable to bring down the invincible Strang…
Manipulated by the Time Lords, the TARDIS also arrives on Dowcra. And the Doctor is set to encounter the greatest Sontaran ever cloned…
Link: http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-king-of-sontar-798
MOONFLESH
Big Finish has announced that Peter Davison will be back in a new audio adventure this April along with Sarah Sutton as Nyssa. The audio, Moonflesh, is written by Mark Morris and directed by Ken Bentley.
Guest stars include Tim Bentinck, Rosanna Miles , John Banks, Francesca Hunt, Hugh Fraser and Geoffrey Breton.
Synopsis
One wouldn’t normally expect to find elephants, gorillas and rhinoceroses roaming free in Suffolk in the year 1911. One wouldn’t normally expect to find an extra-dimensional police box at the same time/space location either. Two aliens, named the Doctor and Nyssa, exit said box, only to find themselves pursued by a hungry lioness – for they’ve landed in the private hunting grounds of the famous explorer Nathaniel Whitlock, who’s brought together a motley group of friends and acquaintances for a weekend’s shooting.
But one of Whitlock’s guests isn’t all they seem. One of them wants the secrets of the Moonflesh, the mystic mineral looked after by Whitlock’s retainer, a Native American known as Silver Crow. Because the Moonflesh is reputed to have the power to call down spirits from another realm…
…and soon, the hunters will become the hunted.
Link: http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/moonflesh-826
RIP: ROGER LLOYD PACK
The great character actor Roger Lloyd Pack has died at the age of sixty-nine. Pack is best known to Who fans as John Lumic in 2006’s Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel.
Throughout his career Pack created many rich and loved British TV characters including Trigger Ball in Only Fools And Horses and Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley.
He appeared in both TV versions of The Survivors, Doc Martin, Mr. Bean, The Catherine Tate Show, The Professionals. In 1965 he had an uncredited part in The Avengers episode, The Town Of No Return. He also starred in the comedy The Old Boys.
Classically trained at RADA he also appeared in productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III at Shakespeare’s Globe.On the big screen he also is known for playing Barty Crouch SR. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He also appeared in Interview With A Vampire, 1984, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Vanity Fair.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=gplus
SIMM TABBED FOR INTRUDERS
John Simm (The Master) is back on TV as the lead role in BBC America’s new show, Intruders, written by Glen Morgan and produced by former Doctor Who producers Julie Gardner and Jane Trnater.
Intruders is an eight part miniseries based on Michael Marshall Smith’s gripping 2007 novel about a LA cop named Jack Whelan, whose search for his missing wife leads him down a dark path.
Simm commented on his new role.
After reading Glen Morgan’s brilliant script, I knew I couldn’t pass up the chance to play this complex character…It is also a great opportunity to reunite with Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner, and with BBC America.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25713249
Next time..News, Season Eight, Big Finish, The Moonbase and more!
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