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Capaldi: “Jenna’s Exit is Sad Over a Number of Weeks”

Katie Gribble is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

The day before the latest series of Doctor Who  began, Jenna Coleman announced that her character, Clara Oswald, would be leaving the show after first appearing back in 2012 episode Asylum of the Daleks. With Steven Moffat confirming earlier this week that Clara will never return to the show, we can be certain that her exit will be quite something to behold.

In his interview with Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw on Wednesday morning (Around the 2hr 24mins mark) the Doctor himself, Peter Capaldi, admitted that he became a bit emotional while filming his last scenes with Jenna.

Capaldi announced that:

“She’s great fun and wonderful to work with. I’ve had a great time with her…I don’t usually get weepy when I’m working but I found it really sad to say goodbye to her…I still see her, so it’s not like saying goodbye to Jenna in person, but you say goodbye to the character, and it becomes the focus of your emotion and perhaps all of the things you’d like to say to that person – like how wonderful she’s been to me.”

Peter didn’t let on about what the circumstances of Clara’s departure will be, but his remarks are certainly something to be concerned about for all of Clara’s fans with Peter’s commenting: ‘It’s always clever the way these things are done on Doctor Who, so get lots of hankies ready. It’s sad over a number of weeks.’

How do you think Clara will leave? How will it affect the Doctor?

 

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The Zygon Inversion: TV Trailer and Image Gallery

Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

UNIT is neutralised, the Doctor and Osgood are looking at down the wrong end of a rocket launcher, and Clara is currently cocooned inside a Zygon pod: Can you see The Zygon Inversion coming to a happy ending for the human race?

Airing Saturday on BBC One at the slightly earlier time of 20:00, the concluding part is once again written by Peter Harness and directed by Daniel Nettheim. The episode features Ingrid Oliver’s Osgood, several of those pesky Zygons and everyone’s favourite last resort, ‘The Osgood Box’ – and judging by the images below, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (or at least one incarnation of her) is back and for a while at least, is fighting on the side of the good.

Here’s the official synopsis, which unsurprisingly, is giving nothing away:

“Shapeshifting Zygons are everywhere in the UK, and there is no way of knowing who to trust. With UNIT neutralised, only the Doctor stands in their way. But how do you stop a war? And what can the Doctor do to save his friends?”

The Zygon Inversion is on Saturday 7th November at 8pm on BBC1

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LEGO Dimensions Launches Doctor Who Level Pack

Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Toys-to-life video game LEGO Dimensions is about to dive head first into the time vortex as Doctor Who makes its debut in the launch of the second wave of add-on packs.

Staring in his own miniature adventure, the Twelfth Doctor, featuring the voice of Peter Capaldi, must prevent the Daleks from taking over London by travelling through time, space and even to the furthest extents of the galaxy, in the Doctor Who Level Pack, The Dalek Extermination of Earth – an additional mission-based Doctor Who level which comes complete with a Twelfth Doctor LEGO minifigure, TARDIS and K-9 – all playable within the game.

Players can activate the Doctor’s special Hacking, Technology, Fix-it and Doctor Regenerate option to help him solve in-game puzzles and defeat menacing enemies.  The TARDIS and K9 models can each be physically built and then rebuilt twice to do entirely different things in the digital game.

What’s more, once the level is complete, there’s still an entire free-roaming Doctor Who world to explore – it’s a giant Doctor Who toy chest complete with six different worlds to explore; not to mention some of his contemporary allies and enemies to meet and, of course, a hefty dose of nostalgia.

Plus, it’s LEGO! Look how cool the titles are! (word of warning, there’s a few spoilers in the link, courtesy of Kotaku)

Addressing one of the major criticisms of its initial launch, LEGO Dimensions has also unveiled the “Hire-a-Hero” feature update that allows players to sample a selection of Wave 1 expansion pack characters using studs collected in the game.

Rather than having to fork out £15 for each subsequent character pack – not to mention the initial expense of purchasing the game – for fans to unlock certain areas within the game, players can select the hologram minifigure near certain hint stones to unlock characters for a limited time to try out their special abilities to solve problems and complete puzzles.

The Doctor Who LEGO Dimensions level pack is available from Friday 6th November for £30 wherever video games are sold. It requires the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack to play. The Cyberman Fun Pack arrives in January.

LEGO Dimensions is now available for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systems and Nintendo´s Wii U™ system.

 

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Out Now: Titan Comics’ Eleventh Doctor #2.2 [PREVIEW]

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Run for cover if you’ve not read The Eleventh Doctor #2.1, because a spoiler is ahead…

(Ready? Yes?)

Abslom Daak, the comic book Dalek hunter, is back, his trusty rusty chainsaw at his side. Courtesy of writer, Simon Spurrier and Rob Williams, the killer is seemingly facing off against the Eleventh Doctor and Alice Obiefune in Year Two of Titan Comics’ ongoing series. Issue 2 is out today, and here’s what’s in store:

DISCOVER THE TRUTH — ON THE RUN!

The breathless chase through time and space continues, with the Doctor and Alice on the run over a crime committed by one of his previous incarnations! This issue – things get complicated, quick, as a chainsword-wielding freelancer boards the TARDIS. Is he friend, foe, or something even worse?! With only minutes left before the implant in Alice’s head gives their location away to the transtemporal bounty hunters on their tail, the Doctor won’t have time to weigh his options – and the consequences will be heavy!

Intrigued? Good. If you’re not 100% completely sold, though, we’ve got some interior art for you to feast your eyes upon…

With art by Simon Fraser and a main cover by Alex Ronald, The Eleventh Doctor  #2.2 is out now (4th November), priced $3.99.

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Moffat: Christmas Special ‘A Big Fun Chase’

Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

With all the attention on Clara’s departure, when and what form Series 10 will take, all this talk of ‘Hybrids’ and just what’s going to happen with the Zygons; you might have forgotten about the small matter of the Christmas Special.

So what do we know so far? Well, Alex Kingston is set to once again return as Professor River Song, in what’s promised to be an episode filled with ‘humour’ and ‘surprise guest castings’ by the actress herself; with the mystery of just how River can return to the show, being that the last time we saw her, she was a ghost, set to be front and centre of the yuletide fun.

Speaking to The Observer, Steven Moffat sounded decidedly pleased with the pairing:

“That’s been a riot to do. That’s been sort of a big fun chase episode, really. Just Mr and Mrs Who battling their way past nonsense and that’s been great fun. Alex [Kingston] is always great value. It’s time we saw her back being a kick ass hero instead of playing mums and sisters and all that. It’s a waste of her.”

Whether or not they’ll be any hangover from the departure of Clara; the episode sounds like a romp – although, now with her story apparently told and the timeline effectively caught up, it makes you wonder just how River will fit into events – and who will have the upper hand in their marriage.

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Doctor Who UK Festival Adds Jenna Coleman

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

When the line-up for this month’s UK Doctor Who Festival was announced, there was a notable omission: a certain Ms Coleman. Fortunately, the BBC has just announced that Jenna will be at the event, in fact completing the guest list!

Though she won’t be there on Friday 13th November, she’ll attend the ExCel, London, on the Saturday and Sunday, with photo sessions also available (on a first-come-first-served basis) now. These are £30 and are likely to sell out fast, just as opportunities with Peter Capaldi did.

Further guests include Ingrid Oliver (Osgood); writer, Mark Gatiss; Michelle Gomez aka Missy; Nick Briggs (voice of many aliens, but particularly the Daleks and Cybermen); Danny Hargreaves, SFX supervisor; and further writers including Sarah Dollard (Face the Raven), Jamie Mathieson (Mummy on the Orient Express), and Toby Whithouse (The God Complex).

Sadly, tickets for Saturday have now sold out, but you can still book for Friday and Sunday! Each day, you’ll get virtually the same content – although writers attending will vary. Gatiss will be there every day, however, so that gets a big thumbs-up from me!

Are you going to the Festival? And are you doing any photo sessions?

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Out This Week: Doctor Who Adventures #8

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

The new issue of Doctor Who Adventures is out this Thursday, with great features focusing on Series 9, and fun free gifts too.

Drawn by Russ Leach and coloured by John Burns, the latest comic strip, Time and PR in Space sees the Twelfth Doctor getting a bit of a make-over, written by Kieron Moore.

Next, we access the UNIT Archive to find out all about Colony Sarff, the slithery assistant of Davros in the opener, The Magician’s Apprentice/ The Witch’s Familiar, before turning our attention to ‘Clara’s Craft Studio’, in which the Doctor’s companion shows you how to make your very own Davros Secret Storage pot, ideal for keeping all your special knick-knacks safe and sound.

In the latest Paternoster Gang Investigates, Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart), and Strax (Dan Starkey) investigate ghostly goings-on at their central London residence.

Then in ‘Tough, Wild, and Unpredictable,’ we take a look at some of the women in the Doctor’s life, including, of course, Ms Oswald, Ashildr/ Me (played by Maisie Williams in The Girl Who Died, and The Woman Who Lived), and River Song (Alex Kingston) – just in time for her return at Christmas!

This eighth issue of the relaunched DWA title also comes with free Daleks and Cybermen patrols, so you can finally find out for yourselves who would win as you stage your own battles! All this and much, much more!

Doctor Who Adventures #8 is on sale this Thursday 5th November.

 

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Moffat: Sherlock Will End When Benedict Cumberbatch Leaves

Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Unlike a certain Time Lord, who can swap faces every time he happens to fall from the gantry of a radio telescope, Sherlock – despite having a neat side line in his own brand of resurrection, is very much dependant on the whim of its star Benedict Cumberbatch.

Which is why co-creator/writer Steven Moffat told Variety that once its star leaves the show, that’s it.

“Once Benedict Cumberbatch gives up Sherlock what are we going to do? We are going to stop, that’s what we are going to do.”

Sherlock, which is one of the BBC’s biggest exports around the world and will go before the cameras for its fourth series later this year, is back for a one-off special set during the Victorian era on New Year’s Day.

Comparing the format to that other show, Doctor something or other, Moffat added:

“Most shows have a built-in mortality. But here is a show that sheds us all like scales; a show that can make you feel everything except indispensable. It will carry on forever, because you can replace every part of it.

“Doctor Who is the all-time perfectly evolved television show. It’s a television predator designed to survive any environment because you can replace absolutely everybody. Most shows you can’t do that with.”

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride airs January 1st 2016.

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UNIT: Extinction Interior Art Revealed

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

UNIT: Extinction, the first NuWho release from Big Finish, is released on Monday, and the audio company has revealed a brief look at the set’s interior art.

The four-story boxset sees Kate Stewart and Osgood (Jemma Redgrave and Ingrid Oliver returning to their respective roles) come up against the Nestene Consciousness and, by natural extension, the Autons – aliens who we first encountered in 1970’s Spearhead from Space.

So what do the covers tell us? Well, uhm, sadly not much!

We can presume that the middle two stories focus on Osgood, while the bookending tales are centred more on Kate. Guest stars, including Warren Brown (Luther) and Steve John Shepherd (EastEnders – and rumoured to have been in the running for the role of the Twelfth Doctor!), also take to the stage on these covers. And it seems that the stories will be:

1. Vanguard by Matt Fitton
2. Earthfall by Andrew Smith
3. Bridgehead by Andrew Smith
4. Armageddon by Matt Fitton

Fitton is a regular writer for Big Finish; so too is Smith, although most will recognise his name from his sole TV script for the series, Full Circle (1980).

Does this mean we’re in for four separate stories? Or interlinked ones? We’ll find out on Monday 9th November, of course, which is also the perfect time for the audio adventures, the most recent UNIT story, The Zygon Invasion/ The Zygon Inversion, having just concluded!

UNIT: Extinction is available for pre-order for £20.

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Moffat: Clara Will Never Return

Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

When Clara departs the TARDIS, they’ll be no coming back.

That’s the verdict of showrunner Steven Moffat who told fans gather in the medieval town of Lucca over the weekend for the Lucca Comics & Games Convention, just how they’ll react to the moment when Clara and Jenna Coleman says goodbye.

“Clara is gone and will never return,” he said. “I will not reveal any forecast about her fate. I can only say that what will happen will shock, terrify and surprise. Strictly in that order.”

While that doesn’t sound like a particularly heart-breaking departure – although that’s not to say we won’t get an emotional goodbye; it’s just strange that none of the words used here sound particular heart-rending – Moffat does have previous when it comes to separating the Doctor from his companions.

In The Angels Take Manhattan, Amy and Rory were cast back into a time period that is now permanently off-limits for the TARDIS thanks to alone Weeping Angel breaking through a time paradox caused by their own suicide.

And then there’s Dark Water/Death in Heaven, where Danny Pink – it’s open to debate if you would class him as a full blown companion –  who, after being killed in a collision with a car, has his consciousness stolen by Missy and her artificial afterlife, the Nethersphere; where, confronted with his guilt over the accidental death of an innocent boy during a tour in Afghanistan, he deletes all his emotions. That now emotionless consciousness wides up back inside his body which has now been harvested into a Cyberman.

Sheesh! So no, things don’t usually end well for Moffat’s companions.

Throwing this open to wide speculation, and being that the theme of this year has been ‘hybrids’, just what fate do we think will befall Clara? Who do and don’t you want to see happen to a companion, who it’s fair to say, has evolved and developed over the course of her time in the TARDIS into one of the most resilient and challenging the Doctor has ever invited aboard. Do you think she deserves a happy ending? Or do you think after saving the Doctor in the past, the Doctor just might fail to save her when it comes to her final moments?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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