Lungbarrow, conversely, doesn’t fall into these pitfalls. It hints at more whilst not altering the entity known as the Doctor. It’s a distinct if subtle difference. It refuses to make the Doctor a special one or a God figure from the very beginning. It largely adds, not re-works the history of Gallifrey. It increases interest in the lore, rather than dispenses with it. Don't get me wrong, the other stories were great. Most of them. But each of the companions' stories, whether they were classic or not, involved the Doctor which I found somehow disappointing. I was hoping that their lives were more than their relationship with the Doctor, that we would get to see where they had gotten their values, how they resembled or not, the older version that we've seen on tv. And I didn't feel like we got that. The end of the book, from Clara's story to Missy's, somehow disappointed me, despite featuring some of my favourite characters. It just didn't feel like them. I found their stories underwhelming and after a while, the mind-wipe trope gets old. Due partly to budget restrictions at the BBC, the expected 2012 series, Smith's third, was split into 5 episodes transmitted from September 2012 and a further 8 transmitted from April 2013, with the now traditional Christmas special between these 2 groups of episodes. Gillan and Darvill departed from the show at the end of the first group of episodes; new companion Clara Oswald debuted in the 2012 Christmas special, played by Jenna Coleman. The Other is one of the founding fathers of Time Lord society – along with the more familiar Rassilon and Omega. The Other had a – if you pardon the pun – hand in creating the Hand of Omega. The stellar manipulator that helped Gallifrey gain access to time travel. On 29 July 2021, Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall announced that they would both step down as The Doctor and showrunner respectively, after the thirteenth series in 2021 and a trio of specials in 2022. [50]

Entertainment | Doctor Who is Saturday night hit". BBC News. 27 March 2005 . Retrieved 18 November 2013.But hang on, what about that . . . thing in there? And the wind and everything? And what’s happened to Mr Michaels?’

The Timeless Children gave Doctor Who an origin, of sorts, but did so in a way that felt ham-fisted.

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No regular episodes were broadcast throughout 2019. Series 12 was commissioned for another ten-episode run in 2020, with all the main cast from the previous series returning. Rather than having a dedicated Christmas or New Years special, 1 January 2020 instead saw the broadcast of the series premiere " Spyfall, Part 1"; the series then took up its regular timeslot on 5 January with "Spyfall, Part 2". The series concluded with " The Timeless Children", which saw the Doctor learning of her true origins as an alien lifeform from another universe, rather than a Time Lord as she had always believed. The episode received 4.69 million views upon its airing, the lowest view count of any episode in the modern series. [48] It was followed by the special " Revolution of the Daleks", which was broadcast on New Years Day 2021, and was the second episode produced in 4K Ultra HD, alongside Twice Upon a Time. [49]

It’s a novel that introduces and expands a lot of material pertaining to the Doctor’s life and Time Lord history in general – layering Gallifrey with further detail and mystique. For those unfamiliar, I’ll swiftly rundown the core elements. Although, strictly speaking,’ the teacher went on, ‘it’s actually the beginning. Of everything. Of the future you. Or is it the past? It’s so confusing sometimes. Time is a many-splendoured thing when you really stop and take a look.’ Fancy coming to the club tonight? There’s a new bloke in charge, apparently, and he’s doing some self-defence stuff. Doesn’t sound too shabby.’I think there’s something so beautiful, touching and mysterious about the story of Doctor Who. It’s about someone who isn’t innately special. It’s the trials and tribulations, joys and discoveries of a renegade who just wanted to explore. Sherwin stayed only to oversee the first story of the seventh season. Spearhead from Space was the first Doctor Who story to be made in colour and – due to industrial action in the electronic studios – the only example of the original series to be made entirely on film. Thereafter, he moved on to work on the series Paul Temple, and was replaced by director Barry Letts after another regular director on the show, Douglas Camfield, had turned down the job.

Over the prevailing years, we began to unpeel some of the otherworldly layers. We were introduced to his species, his planet, and regeneration. Gallifreyan history became a vast tapestry and we gained insight into various parts of it.

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This article contains weasel words: vague phrasing that often accompanies biased or unverifiable information. Such statements should be clarified or removed. ( September 2017) Little happened at the BBC regarding new Doctor Who production until the following year, when producer Mal Young arrived at the corporation's in-house production arm as Head of Continuing Drama Series. Young was keen on reviving the programme, and this interest was shared by the then controller of BBC One, Peter Salmon. Tony Wood, a producer in Young's department, who previously worked at Granada Television, recalled his former colleague Russell T Davies' enthusiasm for the programme and recommended him to Young as someone who might make a good writer of a new version. Davies had recently written for the Granada dramas The Grand and Touching Evil for the ITV network, and earlier in the decade had worked for the BBC, writing the well-received children's science fiction serials Century Falls and Dark Season, which itself contained many Doctor Who-influenced themes.