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Doctor Who: Tom Baker’s Debut “Robot” Get a Supercut Video
"Robot" also leans way into the slapstick humour of the 4th Doctor, introducing his offer of jelly babies to everyone and his use of the sonic screwdriver, the latter Davies pushed during his run and which subsequent showrunners like Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall leaned on too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlsv9gh2uDYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Robot:[...]
Doctor Who: The Next Doctors Should be Women
When The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) next hit our screens this spring with "Legend of the Sea Devils," Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall will be two-thirds of the way through their final run of Doctor Who specials From there, Russell T Davies returns as showrunner with a new Doctor for[...]
Doctor Who: The Next Doctors Should be Women
With The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) next set to hit our screens this spring with "Legend of the Sea Devils," thoughts are turning towards the final episodes that remain in Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's run before Russell T Davies returns as showrunner with a new Doctor Now we're[...]
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But since we have a few months to kill, the BBC is taking viewers behind the scenes to offer some insight into the special's unique take on one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest foes. Image: Screencap In the following featurette, Whittaker, Gill, Bishop, showrunner Chris Chibnall, and executive producer Matt Strevens discuss the creation of the[...]
Doctor Who: Team TARDIS Returns
With today bringing the "Eve of the Daleks" down upon The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop), fans were already looking ahead to see what they would learn about the second of Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's final three specials After that, Russell T Davies returns as showrunner with a new[...]
Doctor Who: BBC Tortures Cast by Making Them Play Maze Game
Your lack of imagination fails the show again, Chris Chibnall! Maybe Whittaker will race through that maze to the TARDIS to discover her choice for Doctor Who successor Lydia West waiting inside. Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks premieres on New Year's Day on the BBC and BBC America. Doctor Who has loaded up on a whole bunch[...]
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With only a little more than three weeks to go until the first of star Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's final three feature-length special episodes hits our screens, viewers are learning a bit more about what they can expect from the New Year's Day special "Eve of the Daleks." Previously, we learned that Aisling[...]
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Doctor Who: Flux is mercifully over, and the BBC has released a 15-minute video featuring showrunner Chris Chibnall explaining the entire season to us, possibly because the whole season has been utter gibberish It's always worth listening to writers, especially showrunners explain their process One way or another, it's educational, even when the showrunner has[...]
Doctor Who: Flux – Additional Thoughts on That Awful Series 13 Mess
You just wish she had scripts by Davies or Steven Moffat instead of Chris Chibnall This finale gives Whittaker's Doctor more to say and do than her entire previous run of episodes put together It's like Chibnall finally remembered a show called "Doctor Who" should actually be about the Doctor. A whole species of Lupar, those[...]
Doctor Who Goes "Groundhog Day" on New Year's Day: "Eve of the Daleks"
Late last month, Doctor Who fans learned that the first of star Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's final three feature-length special episodes before their exits was set to be part of the BBC's Christmas Eve/Day & New Year's Eve/Day programming line-up, with New Year's Day the official start of the beginning of the end[...]
Doctor Who: A Video Compilation of the 13th Doctor’s Monsters
If nothing else, it proves that showrunner Chris Chibnall knows how to come up with decent monsters That's a job requirement for writing and running Doctor Who. Ashad the Lone Cyberman in "Doctor Who", BBC So of course there's a Dalek variation: the Recon Dalek or, as we prefer to call it, the DIY Dalek[...]
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Even with two more chapters in Doctor Who: Flux left to go, the BBC confirmed last week that Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's final of three special episodes before their exits would be happening during Fall 2022 as part of the upcoming BBC Centenary celebration On Monday, the BBC also confirmed when the first[...]
Doctor Who: Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor is the One We Want Next
She's a result of showrunner Chris Chibnall's tendency to throw in twists and surprises to keep the pace going and hoping something would stick This version is one of the few welcome twists in his run, made memorable by Martin's performance Previously hiding undercover as a human named Ruth in 21st Century Gloucester, this Doctor[...]
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Even with three more episodes left in Jodie Whittaker's Doctor, Yaz (Mandip Gill) & Dan's (John Bishop) adventures in BBC's Doctor Who: Flux, it's hard to not already start thinking about Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's final run of three special in 2022 to wrap up their run on the long-running show On Wednesday, more[...]
Doctor Who: “Best of Yaz” Compilation Video Lets Yaz Down
It's like a summation of the Chris Chibnall era – the title character ends up sidelined in her own program!! The clips focus more on plot than the actual character the video is supposed to be about! Did Chibnall oversee the compilation? Even the Steampunk Dalek shows up and overshadows everyone! Why show the "Timeless[...]
Doctor Who: BBC Releases Incomplete Sontarans Compilation Video
Chris Chibnall wants to restore their menace as an army in "The War of the Sontarans", even ordering a new variation on their design to make them look more classically menacing, though they still look like turds with faces At least we got to see dying Sontaran in the clip from "The Sontaran Experiment" where[...]
Doctor Who: Whoops! "Flux" Episode 1 No Ratings Apocalypse After All
Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone and written by Chris Chibnall. Joining Jacob Anderson's (Game of Thrones) Vinder in the cast are Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet, Toast Of London, Downton Abbey), Thaddea Graham (The Irregulars, Us), Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners, A Very English Scandal, World On Fire), Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean, Designated Survivor, Downton Abbey), Craig Parkinson[...]
Doctor Who: Flux Lets Chibnall Be Chibnall; We Want to Party with BBCA
Doctor Who: Flux is the most Chris Chibnall of his entire run You have to think about how in many ways Chibnall is the ultimate old-school TV writer: his approach to storytelling is to pile PLOT upon PLOT upon PLOT to keep the viewer on their toes and constantly paying attention There is no chance[...]
Doctor Who Cast's "Trick or Treat" Challenge; Whittaker on Halloween
Showrunner Chris Chibnall penned all six episodes, with Maxine Alderton (Series 12 "The Haunting of Villa Diodati") co-writing Episode 4 with Chibnall Jamie Magnus Stone (Series 12 "Spyfall: Part One" & "Ascension of the Cybermen" / "The Timeless Children") directed episodes one, two & four; with Azhur Saleem (Amazon & Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys adaptation)[...]
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Here's a look at Moffat offering his heartfelt apology for the big spoiler, but we're not sure if all of the praise for the trailer and having watched it 413 times will be enough to save him an "upset" current showrunner Chris Chibnall (relax, this is all in fun) Though Moffat doesn't seem too concerned[...]
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Showrunner Chris Chibnall is writing all six episodes, with Maxine Alderton (Series 12 "The Haunting of Villa Diodati") co-writing Episode 4 with Chibnall Jamie Magnus Stone (Series 12 "Spyfall: Part One" & "Ascension of the Cybermen" / "The Timeless Children") will direct episodes one, two & four; with Azhur Saleem (Amazon & Neil Gaiman's Anansi[...]
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But after that, the biggest changes will happen behind the scenes as Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall prepare to depart before Series 14 (with Russell T Davies returning as showrunner) Whittaker and Chibnall will be a part of three feature-length specials in 2022- with the final special also marking the end of Whittaker's run (and[...]
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In an interview with showrunner Chris Chibnall, costume designer Ray Holman, and prosthetics expert Danny Marie Elias in the current issue of Doctor Who Magazine, the trio explains why the Sontarans are returning as well as the design viewers can expect. Image: Screencap As for why the warrior race will be part of The Flux's plan, Chibnall[...]
The Fourteenth Doctor And More Changes Coming For Doctor Who
Davies will return to the show after Chris Chibnall leaves For the BBC, it means the show is back in safe hands, especially with Bad Wolf Productions onboard as partners, bringing Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner, Davies' original producers from his run, back in the game For fans, it's a huge sigh of relief and[...]
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Before the end of this year, Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, and showrunner Chris Chibnall will be hitting our screens with a one-story Series 13 and Jacob Anderson (Broadchuch, Game of Thrones) joining the cast as Vinder Following that, Whittaker and Chibnall wrap up their runs on the long-running show by the end of[...]
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Thanks to Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill & John Bishop, and showrunner Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who fans learned last month that Series 13 would be hitting screens in 2021, be a one-story season, and find Jacob Anderson (Broadchuch, Game of Thrones) joining the cast as Vinder In a way, that was meant to soften the blow[...]
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First, Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill & John Bishop, and showrunner Chris Chibnall confirmed at Comic-Con@Home that Series 13 would arrive in 2021, and revealed that Series 13 would be a one-story season with Jacob Anderson (Broadchuch, Game of Thrones) joining as Vinder Then the other shoe dropped with the news that Whittaker and Chibnall would[...]
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As Bleeding Cool's television editor, this is when I'm supposed to come up with something cute or funny or snarky as a segue into the point I'm trying to make, but this is something that's been bugging me since it was announced that Doctor Who actor Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall would be leaving[...]