Now that Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin have signed up to star in their own Doctor Who audio drama serials for Big Finish, the field is set for them to produce more team-up stories featuring both of them banding together Both Doctors are already quite popular and many fans feel they never got their due[...]
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British toymaker Character Option, who are behind the majority of Doctor Who toys in the UK, announced this week that they were at last releasing an online exclusive collector's edition action figure of The Fugitive Doctor, played by Jo Martin during Jodie Whittaker's second series back in 2020 They even released a video of Jo[...]
It's the storyline that would also introduce Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor, who we learn is one of the original regenerations that was wiped from the Doctor's (the "Timeless Child") mind – leaving the Doctor believing that their origin was the one that viewers had come to know Of course, Chibnall's new take on the Doctor's[...]
The problem being that he didn't really come up with anything new, so much as old ideas in new bottles – bottles that can easily break.
Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin in "Doctor Who", BBC Studios
"Doctor Who" Without a Plan
It's especially interesting to consider this season of Doctor Who after Chibnall admitted that he didn't exactly[...]
Instead, he gave one to the Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin), a previously unknown – and new – Doctor It's a classic superhero crossover moment like The Flash of Earth-1 meeting the original Golden Age Flash of Earth-2 Two Doctors meeting for the first time and discovering they're the same is a classic superhero trope "I[...]
That's fifteen canonical Doctors now, not including John Hurt as the War Doctor and Jo Martin as a "lost" incarnation of the Doctor in a hidden part of their history The thing about Doctor Who and the actors who play them is they never really leave There is always an option for them to come[...]
It featured the promised return of Jo Martin's "lost" Doctor and completely wastes her in the most boring flashback sequence possible.
Still from "Doctor Who: Flux", BBC
Doctor Who: Flux has been an utter waste of resources, of everything, of both Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin Chibnall had two fantastic actors who are The Doctor and does[...]
He never had a crossover episode except perhaps for an upcoming Big Finish audio where he teamed up with the late David Warner.
Anyway, there's "Fugitive of the Judoon" where the Thirteenth (Jodie Whittaker) meets a forgotten incarnation (Jo Martin) in what is perhaps the best moment in showrunner Chris Chibnall's entire run The triumph is in[...]
The most significant thing Chibnall did was introduce Jo Martin as a surprise incarnation of the Doctor Martin's Doctor was introduced in "Fugitive of the Judoon" as a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor that the current doctor (Jodie Whittaker) can't remember being This led to the reveal of the Doctor as The Timeless Child[...]
It will preview the launch of a new series from Titan Comics called Doctor Who Origins, beginning with a story of the earliest days of The Fugitive Doctor, as portrayed by Jo Martin in Doctor Who, this Doctor comes from a time before the person we knew as The First Doctor… the new comic is[...]
The BBC released a short compilation video of the latest and most unexpected of them all, played by Jo Martin.
Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin in "Doctor Who", BBC Studios
The Fugitive Doctor suddenly popped up in Series 12 as a previous reincarnation that the Doctor doesn't remember being She's a result of showrunner Chris Chibnall's tendency[...]
Without giving away too many spoilers, this past weekend's chapter of the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux (check out Rich Johnston's thoughts on "Once, Upon Time" here), Jodie Whittaker's Doctor, Yaz (Mandip Gill) & Dan's (John Bishop) battle with Swarm and the Flux got a big boost (and a whole ton of new questions) with the[...]
Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe revealed the 1976 “Morbius Doctors” scene ("Timeless Child" storyline) was supposed to be a throwaway.
The world may be ready for a black Doctor, an Asian Doctor, a female Doctor, but an American or Australian Doctor is beyond the pale.
The usual tabloid names are being thrown around as usual including, Kris Marshall, Michael Sheen, Richard Ayoade, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Coleman, and Helena Bonham Carter with new entrants Vicky McClure, Kelly MacDonald,[...]
With previews underway on Immersive Everywhere's West End production Doctor Who: Time Fracture ahead of its summer run, fans of the long-running BBC series already know that there's a crisis of such universal consequence ahead that it will take the combined efforts of David Bradley, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Jo Martin,[...]
The London Film And Comic Con may have done similar and this may be the latest example of that – or he may have withdrawn from the event himself.
Jo Martin from LFCC
But the London Film And Comic Con does have another Who-related guest to replace Clarke, Jo Martin who played The Fugitive Doctor iteration of[...]
And why does the Doctor always need to be male?
"Doctor Who": Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin, BBC Studios
Let's face it, the men have had their turn We've had 12 male Doctors – 14 if you count John Hurt and Peter Cushing from the non-canonical movies And each actor played the character as a different archetype:[...]
Series 12 of Doctor Who was a season of big surprises: the return of The Master (Sacha Dawan), the return of the Judoon, the return of Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), and biggest of all, the reveal of a hitherto unknown Doctor, played by Jo Martin before the revelation of the Timeless Child It turns[...]
No, not Jodie Whittaker (though there's no such thing as too much of her Doctor, either)- we're talking Jo Martin's Doctor, a canon-crushing incarnation of the Doctor who may very well tear up and throw out everything we thought we knew about the Doctor, the Time Lords, and Gallifrey.
Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor, Jo Martin[...]
Always did.
Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin in Doctor Who, BBC Studios
The Doctor Stays A Woman
We've already had over 53 years of a male Doctor The Doctor can be a woman for the foreseeable future because the future is female Suck it, sexists! I would have Jo Martin return as the regular Doctor once Jodie Whittaker[...]
Actors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker, and Jo Martin have recorded a special message for not only the NHS but also for all frontline workers in what is an unprecedented reunion for the long-running series.
Ten Doctors are set to reunite for The[...]
I wouldn't put it past Doctor Who.
Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor, Bradley Walsh as Graham, Mandip Gill as Yaz, Tosin Cole as Ryan – Doctor Who _ Season 12, Episode 9 – Photo Credit: Ben Blackall/BBC Studios/BBC America
And then of course there's the real highlights of the season: the return of Captain Jack Harkness (John[...]
That the Ruth Doctor (Jo Martin) is a black woman on the run from The Division, a brutal agency that forces her to do their bidding, also adds to this This overturns the Doctor's 50-plus year history as a white patriarchal authority figure She's an underdog again.
Now We Know Why The Doctor Ran Away From[...]
She comes from a time before Gallifrey was destroyed.
BBCJo Martin, a series regular on the BBC's hospital drama Holby City, took to the role like she was always the Doctor She exuded authority, command, and a no-nonsense ruthlessness that shocked even the 13th Doctor Fans loved her and took to her immediately.
This Doctor might just[...]
Well... that was no Robots of Sherwood. We've all just seen the Doctor Who finale, The Timeless Children, over in the UK. And let's say, while it answered
It is also notable that showrunner Chris Chibnall has gone out of his way to successfully keep some stuff secret this season, including the return of the Master and the identity of the Sacha Dhawan playing him, the return of John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, the appearance of the Jo Martin Fugitive Doctor –[...]
You would think the return of Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) would be more than enough to elevate the season's status – but why rest there? Not when you can introduce another Doctor in the form of Jo Martin, who appears to pre-date Whittaker's.
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As we head into seventh episode "Can You Hear Me?", you'd think[...]
Little did we know that Chibnall was just getting warmed up – as fans found out in a big way with "Fugitive of the Judoon".
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You would think that the return of Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) would be more than enough for the episode to earn some major headlines, but why stop there when[...]
Talking to the Daily Mirror in the UK, Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall stated that the Doctor, as portrayed by Jo Martin in this weekend's episode Fugitive Of The Judoon, is not a parallel universe version of the Doctor, as some – including us at Bleeding Cool – had been leaning towards She's the Doctor[...]