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Doctor Who Series 12
The twelfth series of the British television, British science fiction on television, science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'' premiered on 1 January 2020 and aired until 1 March 2020. It is the second series to be led by Chris Chibnall as head writer and executive producer, alongside executive producer Matt Strevens, the twelfth to air after the programme's revival in 2005, and the thirty-eighth season overall. The twelfth series was broadcast on Sundays, except for the premiere episode, continuing the trend from the Doctor Who (series 11), eleventh series. Prior to the eleventh series, regular episodes of the revived era were commonly broadcast on Saturdays. The series was followed by the 2021 New Year's Day special, "Revolution of the Daleks". Jodie Whittaker returns for her second series as the Thirteenth Doctor, an incarnation of The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in her TARDIS, which appears from the outsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham O'Brien
Graham O'Brien is a fictional character created by Chris Chibnall and portrayed by Bradley Walsh in the long-running British sci-fi television series ''Doctor Who''. A retired bus driver from Essex who is in remission from cancer, the character is portrayed as an everyman. In the show's eleventh series, starting with the first episode, he served as a companion of the thirteenth incarnation of the alien time traveller known as the Doctor (portrayed by Jodie Whittaker) until the 2021 New Year's Special " Revolution of the Daleks". Character biography Early life Graham was born in Essex, during either the late 1950s or early 1960s, saying he was "only a toddler" in 1962. As a child, Graham attended Sunday School in Chingford, and sometimes spent summer holidays at Margate and Whistable. After his mother passed away, Graham's father "got rid of all her things super quick", unable to keep hold of them, telling Graham that "she's gone now and that's the end of it". Graham wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Chibnall
Christopher Antony Chibnall (born 21 March 1970) is an English television writer and producer, best known as the creator and writer of the award-winning ITV (TV network), ITV mystery-crime drama ''Broadchurch'' (2013-17) and as the third showrunner of the 2005 revival of the BBC sci-fi series ''Doctor Who'' (2018–22). Chibnall wrote five episodes of the series under previous showrunners Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, and he was also the head writer for the first two series of the spinoff ''Torchwood'' (2006-08). Early life and career Chibnall was brought up in Formby, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Sefton, Merseyside. He studied drama at St Mary's University, Twickenham, subsequently gaining an MA in Theatre and Film from the University of Sheffield. His early career included work as a Association football, football archivist and floor manager for Sky Sports, before leaving to work as an administrator for various theatre companies. From 1996 to 1999 he worked as admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Alderton
Maxine Alderton is a British screenwriter, best known for her work on the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Career Beginning as a script editor in the mid 2000s, Alderton graduated to writing for the long-running ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'', writing over 124 episodes since 2013. She won Best Writer at the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Awards in 2017. She has also written for the first two series of ''The Worst Witch'', and in 2020, contributed the eighth episode of the twelfth series of ''Doctor Who'', " The Haunting of Villa Diodati." The episode was set on the night Mary Shelley was inspired to write ''Frankenstein''. She returned to co-write the fourth episode, " Village of the Angels," with Chris Chibnall for the thirteenth series (known as ''Flux''). The episode saw the return of recurring villains, the Weeping Angels. It is the only episode of ''Flux'' to be written by someone other than showrunner Chibnall. The episode also featured a mid-credit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Metivier
Nina Metivier is a British screenwriter, best known for co-creating the teen thriller '' The A List''. Early life and education Metivier was educated at Stockport Grammar School. Metivier credited Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' trilogy for inspiring her to write. Career Metivier began her career in children's television, working as a script editor and development executive at Kindle Entertainment. She began a running collaboration with Dan Berlinka in 2014, co-creating and writing the children's mystery series '' Dixi'' for CBBC Online. It won the BAFTA award for Original Interactive Show in 2014. In 2018, she would reteam with Berlinka for ''The A List'', which released on BBC iPlayer on 25 October 2018. The series would move to Netflix for the second season, which she also co-wrote. She continued script editing on ''The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby'' and the eleventh series of ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinay Patel
Vinay Sunilkumar Patel (born 1986) is a British-Indian screenwriter and playwright. He is best known for writing the BBC drama '' Murdered by My Father''. Early life Patel was born in Sidcup, South East London. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from the University of Exeter. Before writing, Patel worked as a corporate filmmaker and then a technician at the London-based Met Film School. In 2011, Patel graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama with an MA in writing. Career In 2014, he wrote ''True Brits'', a play juxtaposing the news of the London 2012 Olympics, with the 7 July 2005 London bombings. This led to his selection for the Bush/Kudos TV writing scheme and an original short commission for BBC iPlayer. In 2018, he wrote ''An Adventure'', inspired by his grandparents, for the Bush Theatre. Patel contributed ''Death is a Many Headed Monster'' to the BAME essay anthology '' The Good Immigrant''. In June 2018, Patel was elected a Fellow of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete McTighe
Pete McTighe is a British screenwriter and executive producer. He wrote several episodes of '' Wentworth'', an Australian prison drama series that won Most Outstanding and Most Popular Drama at the Logie Awards. He is the creator and writer of the BBC1 mystery thriller series '' The Pact'' and has written various television productions in the UK and internationally including ''Doctor Who'', '' The Rising'', ''Glitch'', ''Nowhere Boys'' and '' A Discovery of Witches''. McTighe has received five Australian Writers Guild Award and one Welsh BAFTA nomination for his work. Career Early work McTighe was born in the United Kingdom. He moved to Australia to study in Melbourne and was invited to join the writing team at ''Neighbours'' in 2006. His contributions to the series included the show's 6000th episode, which aired as part of the 25th anniversary on 27 August 2010. In 2012, he was nominated for his first Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) in the category of Best Television Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Hime
Ed Hime (born 1978), is a British screenwriter and playwright, best known for his work with the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Career Hime was born in 1978 in London. He was a fan of ''Doctor Who'' in his youth. He began his career as a playwright in 1998, releasing the play ''About the Boy'' that same year. Other plays he had written included ''Small Hours'' (at Hampstead Theatre), as well ''London Falls'' and ''London Tongue'' at the Old Red Lion Theatre. He also worked in radio, winning the 2007 Prix Italia award for Best Original Radio Drama for his radio play, ''The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body''.Prix Italia, Winners 1949 – 2010, RAI On television, Hime has written for the fourth and fifth series of the teen drama '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nida Manzoor
Nida Manzoor is a British writer and director. She is best known for creating the Channel 4/Peacock comedy show '' We Are Lady Parts'', for which she won the 2021 Rose d'Or Emerging Talent Award and the 2022 BAFTA for TV Comedy Screenwriting. The series has also won her two Peabody Awards. She released her debut feature film '' Polite Society'' in 2023, which earned her the 2023 British Independent Film Award for Debut Screenwriting. Early life and education Nida Manzoor grew up in a Pakistani Muslim family. Her family lived in Singapore until she was 10, later moving to London. She was raised in a musical household, and was bought her first guitar by her father when she was eight. Manzoor has described music as her "first passion", and is quoted as saying "I wanted to be a brown girl Bob Dylan before I wanted to do screenwriting." She also started writing at a young age. Manzoor describes being encouraged by her grandfather, who kept anything she wrote in a file. Manzoor's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Magnus Stone
Jamie Magnus Stone (born 15 December 1985) is a Scottish film director and animator, who studied at the National Film and Television School. He is the son of Sally Magnusson and grandson of Magnus Magnusson and Mamie Baird. Career Stone studied film and television at the Edinburgh College of Art where he made his first films; ''Flights'', about an old man and his flight of stairs, and the Scottish BAFTA nominated ''Fritz'' about a German Spy who lives under a boy's bed. Whilst directing fiction films, he also developed his skills in sand animation and won the MacLaren Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Best Animation at BAFTA Scotland in 2008 for his series of Three Minute Wonders, ''The World According To'', produced by Anders Jedenfors. Stone enrolled at the National Film and Television School in 2010. He was interviewed by ''The Guardian'' in 2010 after making his first year film, ''Far Removed''. In August 2014, Stone was nominated for a BAFTA for his short film ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cybermen
The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. The Cybermen are a species of space-faring cyborgs who often forcefully and painfully convert human beings (or other similar species) into more Cybermen in order to populate their ranks while also removing their emotions and personalities. They were conceived by writer Kit Pedler (who was also the unofficial scientific advisor to the series) and story editor Gerry Davis, and first appeared in the 1966 ''Doctor Who'' serial '' The Tenth Planet''. The Cybermen have seen many redesigns and costume changes over ''Doctor Who''s long run, as well as a number of varying origin stories. In their first appearance, '' The Tenth Planet'' (1966), they are humans from Earth's nearly identical "twin planet" of Mondas who upgraded themselves into cyborgs in a bid for self-preservation. Forty years later, the two-part story, " Rise of the Cybermen" and " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Harkness
Captain Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-off series, '' Torchwood''. The character first appears in the 2005 ''Doctor Who'' episode " The Empty Child" and subsequently features in the remaining episodes of the first series (2005) as a companion to the series' protagonist, the Doctor. Subsequent to this, Jack became the central character in the adult-themed ''Torchwood'', which aired from 2006 to 2011. Barrowman reprised the role for appearances in ''Doctor Who'' in its third, fourth, and twelfth series, as well as specials " The End of Time", and " Revolution of the Daleks". In contrast to The Doctor, Jack is more of a conventional action hero, as well as outwardly flirtatious and capable of acts which The Doctor would view as less than noble. In the programme's narrative, Jack begins as a time traveller and con man from the 51st century, who comes to travel with the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallifrey
The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Time Lords are so named for their command of time travel technology and their non-linear perception of time. Originally, they were described as a powerful and wise race from the planet Gallifrey, from which the Doctor was a renegade; details beyond this were very limited for the first decade of the series. They later became integral to many episodes and stories as their role in the universe developed. For the first eight years after the series resumed in 2005, the Time Lords were said to have been destroyed during the Last Great Time War at some point in the show's continuity between the television movie in 1996 and the show's revival. In 2013, the 50th anniversary special " The Day of the Doctor" concerned this supposed destruction and their eventual survival. They developed a culture of custodianship and time-related technologies base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
