I've been holding off on doing blogs for Doctor Who because I wanted to make sure there was some tantalising stuff to talk about and in the last few weeks, more things have come to light.
Remember a few years ago when the show ventured into a multi platform concept with telling a story over a variety of different media, including Big Finish? Well, clearly the BBC liked the idea so much with Time Lord Victorious that for the 60th anniversary they're doing again with a multimedia event titled, Doom's Day.
Focusing on an intergalactic assassin named Doom, played by Sooz Kempner, the event plays around with the character of Doom having twenty four hours to find the Doctor while also bumping into other characters along the way. Given that this will be a multi platform event, I think it's a safe assumption that Doom will likely appear in the main series itself too for good measure.
Meanwhile filming for the main series has continued to film with both Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson having recently filmed the upcoming Christmas special that will debut the 15th Doctor and Ruby Sunday respectively. Filming for the Christmas special also revealed a new look for Gatwa's Doctor and I think it might be his best look so far for the series.
In terms of filming blocks, the first block consisted of the fourth and fifth episodes of Series 14 and were directed by Dylan Holmes Williams with Russell T. Davies confirmed to have written the fourth episode. The second block was the Christmas special, directed by Mark Tonderai. Julie Ann Robinson will direct the third block while Ben Chessell will direct the fourth block.
As for David Tennant, we might be a few months away from his brief return as the 14th Doctor but we did get to see Lenny Henry regenerate into him for a scene during Red Nose Day last Friday, which was rather amusing along with a Dalek trying out for Eurovision.
In terms of more casting news for the upcoming series, Jack-Forsyth Noble will play a character named Will while Lois Drage will played a Finetime character. Anita Dobson has confirmed her character will be called Mrs Flood. Meanwhile there are rumours that former showrunner Steven Moffat might be writing an episode for the new series but outside of Russell T. Davies, no other writers have been confirmed for Series 14 yet.
Elsewhere while spin-offs have been rumoured for a while now with the new era of the show well underway, last week the tabloids and even some US publications were reporting that Jemma Redgrave's Kate Stewart will leading a UNIT based. Redgrave, who is currently doing this through Big Finish is poised to return in Series 14 (and possibly the 60th anniversary) and while the BBC have yet to confirm either way, this feels plausible enough to report on. I'm down for a UNIT spin off.
Last but not least, a second series of audio series Doctor Who: Redacted has been commissioned with James Goss taking over from Ella Watts.
Doctor Who continues to film and will air on BBC1 and stream on Disney+ from November.
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