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Andrea Laford

Doctor Who: Flux – the prosthetics designer

The UK’s first female-run hair, make-up and prosthetics company was hired to work on the six-part Doctor Who Series 13 story Flux. After hiring Neill Gorton’s Millennium FX for Doctor Who Series 11 and Robert Allsopp & Associates for Doctor Who Series 12, Square Peg Studios, a company run by Danny Marie Elias, became Doctor … >

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Russell T Davies back

Russell T Davies gives an update on Doctor Who

In an interview with the Guardian, Russell T Davies, the former and future showrunner of Doctor Who, gave an update on his progress writing and casting the 60th anniversary special and future series. “I’ve already written some of the episodes. The first will go out in November 2023 – that’s the 60th anniversary of the … >

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Doctor Who New Year special ‘Eve of the Daleks’ was written “in a little over a fortnight”

According to Aisling Bea in an interview in Radio Times magazine, It took showrunner Chris Chibnall just over two weeks to write the Doctor Who New Year’s special Eve of the Daleks. “Holy moly, that man’s a machine,” Bea marvelled about the inspired speed of Chris Chibnall’s writing in the RT interview. The actress explained … >

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Doctor Who 2022 Specials: news, writers and directors

Three Doctor Who specials featuring the thirteenth Doctor are planned for New Year’s Day, spring and autumn of 2022. New Year’s Day special Eve of the Daleks Written by Chris Chibnall directed by Annetta Laufer. Sarah (Aisling Bea) owns and runs ELF STORAGE and is working at the facility – again, on New Year’s Eve. … >

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Doctor Who: Hornet's Nest

Fourth Doctor audio adventure to be released on vinyl

Long before the Tenth Doctor’s adventure in The Unicorn and the Wasp, the Doctor encountered alien Vespids in Hornet’s Nest, a fourth Doctor audio adventure recorded in 2010. The unique audio was Tom Baker’s remarkable first return to the role of the Doctor since his television departure. In May of 2022, Hornet’s Nest will be … >

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