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Minor (from my foreigner POV that is) award news. The Eastern Eye ACTA Awards (awards British Asian talent in the arts) awarded Vinay Patel Best Screenwriter for Demons of the Punjab and Mandip Gill for the fan-voted People's Choice Award in acting Also, the Gold Derby TV Awards (https://www.goldderby.com/) nominations long list is out and you can vote for Doctor Who in various categories, though you need an account. Categories: Supporting Actor - Drama (Bradley), Drama Actress (Jodie), Drama Series and Drama Episode (Rosa)

https://cultbox.co.uk/features/doctor-who-series-12-episode-2-features-french-resistance-heroine Cultbox believes Episode 2 will feature World War 2 British war heroine Noor Inayat Khan, who was executed by the Nazis for her work with the French Resistance

Announcement of Season 23 Blu Ray collection More info on the Season 23 Blu Ray release and its special features https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=the-collection-season-23-announcement

http://reviews.doctorwhonews.net/2019/06/doctor_who_at_the_bfi_planet_of_the_daleks_q_and_a_.html There was a BFI screening Saturday for the special edition of the Pertwee era "Planet of the Daleks" story and it was announced the next Blu-ray box set would be announced on Tuesday

Anything is possible but no idea. I'm sure John Barrowman would be up for it though

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/us-british-shows-dominate-banff-rockie-award-prize-giving-1217339 Doctor Who has won a Rockie Award for Best Sci-fi and Genre based series given by the Banff World Media Festival. It does not appear the show has won before in a competition that’s been ongoing since 2016

https://cultbox.co.uk/general/doctor-who-series-12-new-director-actor-character-discovered Additional director and actor/character uncovered for Series 12. The director seems to have directed the Judoon episode so far

There was further filming with the cast and the Judoon in Cardiff (not sure if today or yesterday)

According to the Big Finish Twitter account, Nicholas Briggs will return to Doctor Who as the voice of the Judoon

The Judoon episode is reportedly to be Episode 6 but that could change of course A lot of outside filming today with the Judoon caught by fans, which is probably why the BBC released the news. You can check the Twitter account @doctorwhopn for pointers to a lot of them. The main cast will reportedly film inside the cathedral tomorrow

More like, they let it be known early that one was back. They did have a Dalek in Resolution after all and they kept that secret until a week or two before it aired. Seems Twitter Who fans are happy and abuzz about this news I’ve only seen the Judoon so far in their debut episode. I’m currently working my way through NewWho in order, currently in Tennant’s 3rd series

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/ This should be fun. For those who don’t know the history and can’t access the Facebook link (if not, see the second link from Doctorwhonews) the Judoon are part of the intergalactic police and a little rough

http://cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-who-series-12-new-directors-discovered More directors uncovered. Jamie Stone, who was previously revealed as director of Block 1 (filmed in South Africa), said to consist of Episodes 1 and 5, will also direct the last block, Block 5, said to be Episodes 9 and 10. Lee Haven Jones is reportedly directing Block 2, said to be Episodes 2 and 3 and filmed in the Canary Islands. Emma Sullivan will reportedly direct Block 4

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