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https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-05-20-doctor-who-is-getting-a-cinematic-feature-length-vr-game-later-this-year Doctor Who gets a second VR game, this time feature length, to be released in September. Jodie Whittaker reprises her role as The Doctor. The title is The Edge of Time. The link includes a teaser video that includes glimpses of a Dalek and the Weeping Angels

https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019/05/17/bbc-launches-doctor-who-vr-experience/ Now available to those in the UK

@tv-talk with all the “cuteness” of The Master regenerating into Missy and the nonsense where Moffat went overboard with her being a woman, I so appreciate that WhitDoc didn’t do that. 13 got on with it and didn’t rail against men or whatever and only got annoyed with the woman thing when people tried to prevent her from doing something because she was female, like in Witchfinders. I hope that makes sense

It was even said in the article lol. My bad. Thanks for the correction

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8835943/doctor-who-pc-storylines-history/ Frazer Hines, the 2nd Doctor’s Companion Jamie, gets clickbaited by the Sun and their article totally twist his words. He apparently comments to someone that he prefers monsters to historicals and serials to stand alones. The Sun then turns that into him slamming the current bosses and saying the current show is too PC. Frazer comments on Twitter ( @WhoFrazer) refuting the Sun’s interpretation and saying he doesn’t even recall talking to them (he could have talked to a freelancer). The Sun and some others really seem to be against the current show and it seems to love twisting words

http://cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-who-series-12-filming-in-tenerife More foreign location shooting. Several of the cast and film crew have been spotted in or flying into Tenerife in the Canary Islands

https://www.tor.com/2019/04/02/2019-hugo-award-finalists-announced/ The 2019 Hugo Awards nominations (finalists) are out and Doctor Who received 2 nominations in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category, for the Series 11 episodes “Rosa” and “Demons of the Punjab”. Good going show, those were excellent episodes. The winners will be announced in August

http://cultbox.co.uk/news/scene-from-doctor-who-episode-rosa-shortlisted-for-bafta-must-see-moment-award Alas,Doctor Who Series 11 got only one nomination for the 2019 Bafta TV Awards, the public-voted Must See Moment, for the episode Rosa, where Rosa refuses to give up her seat. Killing Eve and Bodyguard seem to be sucking up all the nominations and awards this year

Some updates and speculation on filming: Some fan photos with the cast and fans watching filming show Tosin and Brad in tuxes and Mandip in dark clothes and possibly tux-like doing one or more scenes and at least one scene observed by a fan with Ryan and Yaz having to ditch their phones. See the link below for pictures http://cultbox.co.uk/general/doctor-who-series-12-bradley-walsh-tosin-cole-and-mandip-gill-filming-in-barry There are fan photos with Jodie and pictures of the cast for World Down Syndrome Day that suggests Jodie is currently wearing a darker costume (she wears a puffy jacket in the fan pictures that covers a lot of it, but enough peeks through), with speculation and theories that the Doctor is wearing something like a tux, possibly for just the episode they are currently filming since the rest of the cast are in tuxes. See the pictures in the links below http://cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-who-series-12-cardiff-stands-in-for-paris-for-a-night-shoot-with-jodie-whittaker https://twitter.com/shabangtheatre/status/1108314487839514625?s=21 https://twitter.com/shabangtheatre/status/1108112578276921345?s=21 There was a night shoot that suggested the area was made to look like Paris, so possibly a story is set in France. The set design in the first production block seen by fans suggested some spy or intelligence plot that might possibly be set in WWII A guest actress for the first production block (Episode 1 and possibly 5) has been identified as Molly Harris playing Suki Cheng

https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2019/03/12/david-tennant-to-host-comic-relief-2019/ David Tennant will be presenting at the upcoming Comic Relief. See article for date and time on BBC

Just to note, this will be shown at the Tribeca film festival in New York that runs from late April to early May

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/britbox-doctor-who-love-island-3666149 It looks like the Britbox streaming service is coming to the UK. The article says that British shows like Doctor Who will be made available on the service and that it’s likely previous seasons of New Who will no longer be available on Netflix UK. I’ve seen speculation that current seasons of Who could eventually be shown on Britbox first

I wouldn’t care one way or the other as long as it doesn’t hurt ratings and BBC America shows it the same day as the UK. The funny thing is, Saturdays in the US is terrible for ratings for scripted shows, where for the UK, they seem to still be pretty decent

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6749705/Doctor-set-MAJOR-shake-ahead-Series-12.html The Daily Mail is claiming the BBC is considering moving the show back to its old Saturday slot for Series 12 in a bid to retain younger viewers. Given it’s the Daily Mail and it’s still pretty early, I would consider this strictly rumor at this point. Plus their article title way overstates things with “set for major shakeup”

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/tv-on-video-chart/ For the week Feb 24, Series 11 New Year special DVD/Blu Ray release entered at #1 on the UK video chart. Series 11 reentered the Top 10 at 9th after spending a week at 12th

I don't like much the little-too-short pants either (or the suspenders for that matter). Either have pull up socks or boots like you say. Yes, I know the pants are culottes and it's supposed to be that way, but I personally don't like the length Love the coat though and I like the t-shirts. The only time I thought the t-shirt didn't look good was in Rosa, where it looked like an ill-fit, like it was too snug and it had been over-stretched

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=thirteenth-doctor-waxwork-launches-at-madame-tussauds-blackpool 13th Doctor waxwork launches at Madame Tussaud’s Blackpool

There are rumors that there are some changes to the Doctor’s costume for Series 12. The first is the coat is now gray (though the current one looks gray to me), with one person saying it’s because Jodie was too cold in the first one and this one is warmer. The person also said they saw it being sold at Amazon. Whether by accident or at the UK or US store, I don’t know. The second is there will be some different t-shirts, though I don’t recall if it’s in place of or in addition to the previous t-shirts

Except according to the plot summary on Wikipedia, she seemed to die though came back alive, but the Doctor thinks she’s dead

As part of Comic Relief, a UK resident can enter to win a breakfast and set tour with Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill http://cultbox.co.uk/news/win-a-breakfast-and-set-tour-with-jodie-whittaker-and-mandip-gill

I haven’t seen that episode yet. She was a clone of the Doctor, right? But did they ever consider themselves family or have a real relationship?

FYI More on remaking this lost episode https://doctorwhowatch.com/2019/02/20/doctor-who-mission-unknown-remake/

According to reports from people seeing the show filming in Cardiff, it appears actor Stephen Fry will be making a guest appearance in an episode of Series 12. Update: More about his appearance and who he is http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/stephen-fry-reportedly-starring-in-doctor-who-series-12-90558.htm

I can understand not wanting it to take over the show; I wouldn’t want that either. But if it could be small parts of episodes or every few episodes, I wouldn’t mind that. I just want the Doctor to be happy and not alone and maybe start another family. But I guess there would also be the fear it would take away from the Doctor’s adventuring or have people wondering if the Doctor should be spending more time with family and not putting their life in danger so much

I don’t particularly like the Doctor being romantically involved with a human who is pretty young, like in their early 20s at best, so I wasn’t really thrilled with the Doctor/Rose relationship (or the Doctor/Clara relationship but that was a weird case). It would be the same reason I wouldn’t be for a 13/Yaz relationship, given Yaz is 19/20 at this point, along with barely knowing this 2000+ year alien. Which is why I would prefer an older, more experienced partner for the Doctor, like River was (but she also was a special case) For me, I don’t see it any different than the New Who male doctors who had romances (long or short), except I don’t want to see 13 with a young Companion I’ve seen some fans say they don’t want to see the Doctor (any incarnation) in any kind of romance or relationship. My question is why? I can see not wanting it to be with a Companion, especially a young one, but why not a relationship in general? The Doctor is clearly lonely and is clearly capable of love. Just because they are a powerful alien doesn’t mean they don’t deserve or shouldn’t have fun or have a long term partner. Is it the fear it would take over the show and be too soapy or something else?