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Doctor Who 2023 Specials
The 2023 specials of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' are three special episodes that aired between 25 November and 9 December 2023, to celebrate the programme's 60th anniversary. They were written by Russell T Davies and marked the start of his second tenure as showrunner, having served in the role from the start of ''Doctor Who''s revival in 2005 until leaving in 2010. The specials were broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and on Disney+ internationally. David Tennant and Catherine Tate returned to the series as part of the 60th anniversary. Tennant starred as the Fourteenth Doctor for the first time, having previously portrayed the Tenth Doctor, while Tate reprised her role as Donna Noble. Miriam Margolyes and Neil Patrick Harris guest starred as the voice of the Meep and the Toymaker, respectively, alongside returning cast members Jacqueline King, Karl Collins, Bernard Cribbins (in his final role), Jemma Redgrave, and Bonnie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell T Davies
Stephen Russell Davies ( ; born 27 April 1963), known professionally as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for being the original showrunner and head writer of the revival of the BBC sci-fi series ''Doctor Who'', from 2005 to 2010 and again since 2023. His other notable works include creating the series ''Queer as Folk (British TV series), Queer as Folk'' (1999–2000), ''Bob & Rose'' (2001), ''The Second Coming (TV serial), The Second Coming'' (2003), ''Casanova (2005 TV serial), Casanova'' (2005), ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs ''Torchwood'' (2006–2011), ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' (2007–2011), and ''The War Between the Land and the Sea'' (expected 2025), ''Cucumber (British TV series), Cucumber'' (2015), ''A Very English Scandal (TV series), A Very English Scandal'' (2018), ''Years and Years (TV series), Years and Years'' (2019), ''It's a Sin (TV series), It's a Sin'' (2021) and ''Nolly (TV series), Nolly'' (2023). Born in Swa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Celestial Toymaker
''The Celestial Toymaker'' is the mostly missing seventh serial of the third season in the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 2 to 23 April 1966. In this serial, the alien time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet ( Jackie Lane) are pitted against a powerful adversary called The Toymaker ( Michael Gough). The Toymaker separates the Doctor from his companions to play the Trilogic Game, while Steven and Dodo are forced to win a series of seemingly childish but deadly games before they can be reunited with the Doctor and return to the TARDIS. Only the last episode of this story, "The Final Test", is held in the BBC archives; the other three remain missing. "The Final Test" has been released on VHS and DVD, and the story has been novelised. A fully animated version was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2024. Plot An ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roath Lock Studios
BBC Roath Lock Studios is a television production studio in Cardiff, Wales. The facility houses BBC drama productions that include () ''Doctor Who'', ''Casualty'', and ''Pobol y Cwm''. The centre topped out on 20 February 2011 and filming for such productions commenced in autumn of the same year. The facility is located on a development site known as Porth Teigr, which included a proposed digital media centre, and between 2012 and 2017 hosted an interactive ''Doctor Who'' exhibition titled the Doctor Who Experience. The facility was built to accommodate 500 to 600 people working on site. Design The successful planning application sought permission for a long, building housing studios and offices with a distinctive façade and repeating motifs. It will also have a gothic-style entrance inspired by some of William Burges' designs at Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch. The planning application showed the building would face the National Assembly's Tŷ Hywel building and the Atrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanya Button
Chanya Joyce Dorothy Button (born 25 December 1986) is an English director and screenwriter. After studying at RADA and learning the ropes in the assistant directors' department on the ''Harry Potter'' franchise, she directed two feature films, ''Burn Burn Burn'' (2015) and ''Vita & Virginia'' (2018), the latter of which she also co-wrote. She then moved on to television, directing the 2019 period dramas ''World on Fire'' and ''The Spanish Princess'', as well as the final 60th anniversary special episode of ''Doctor Who'', "The Giggle" (2023). Early life and education Button was born in London on 25 December 1986. Her father is Roy Button, former executive vice-president and managing director of Warner Bros. Productions in the UK, who has worked behind the camera on over 300 films and was awarded an OBE in 2009 for services to the film industry. She therefore grew up on film sets and her earliest memories are of "wandering through elaborate film sets, spending whole we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Kingsley
Tom Kingsley is an English television and film director. He is best known for directing the three-time BAFTA-winning Channel 4 sitcom ''Stath Lets Flats'' (2018-2021), and the comedy series ''Ghosts'' (2019-2023). His debut feature film, '' Black Pond'' (2011), co-directed with Will Sharpe, was nominated for several awards. Including a BAFTA for Best British Debut. Early life and education Tom Kingsley was educated at Eton College, a boarding independent school for boys in Eton in Berkshire, followed by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied English. He was a member of the comedy group Footlights at Cambridge, directing the Footlights Revue "Wham Bam" at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe. Career In 2008, Kingsley worked as a runner at Blink, the Soho-based production company, after sending them a DVD containing several of his short films. Over the next year, he began directing music videos and commercials. In 2011 Kingsley and Will Sharpe released their low-budget f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Talalay
Rachel Talalay (born July 16, 1958) is an American filmmaker and producer best known for directing films such as ''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' (1991), ''Ghost in the Machine (film), Ghost in the Machine'' (1993), and ''Tank Girl (film), Tank Girl'' (1995). Her television credits include episodes of ''Ally McBeal'', ''Supernatural (American TV series), Supernatural'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Sherlock (TV series), Sherlock'', ''Riverdale (American TV series), Riverdale'', ''Doom Patrol (TV series), Doom Patrol'', ''Superman & Lois'' and ''Quantum Leap (2022 TV series), Quantum Leap''. Talalay is also a professor at the University of British Columbia. Early life and education Talalay was born in Chicago. Her father Paul Talalay was a pharmacologist, born in Berlin to a Belarusian Jewish family, and her mother Pamela is an English biochemist. She has two sisters and a brother. She was raised mostly in Baltimore, with two years of her childhood in Britain. Talalay attended Yale Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who (series 14)
The fourteenth series of the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'' premiered on 11 May 2024, and aired through to 22 June. The series is also known as "Season One" following the production changes and the acquisition of ''Doctor Who''s international broadcasting rights by Disney+. It is the fifth series led by Russell T Davies as head writer and executive producer and the first since his return to the show, having previously worked on it from 2005 to 2010. This series is the fourteenth to air since the programme's revival in 2005, and the fortieth season overall. The fourteenth series was announced with Davies' return for its 60th anniversary in 2023 and beyond, with Bad Wolf becoming a co-producer. The series is the first to star Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, a new incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box from the outside. The Fifteenth Doctor was intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
