Radio Free Skaro #1047 – Turf and Surf, The Third

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(Our review of The War Between The Land and The Sea episode 5 is from 4:28 – 1:00:35)

It’s the final episode of The War Between The Land and the Sea and with it our final review of this clash between Dirt and Wet for the future of…Doctor Who? Thrill to our musings along with David Tennant appearing on the Whoniverse Show, more Rachel Talalay video fun on the making of The Star Beast, Film is Fabulous hinting at new old things returning, upcoming Big Finish releases, and more!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Review: The War Between the Land and the Sea, Part Five
• Interview with Gugu Mbatha-Raw about becoming Salt
• ‘The War Between the Land and the Sea’ coming to UK Blu-ray on Feb 23
• Blue Zoo Animation Studio wins pitch to produce Doctor Who CBeebies animation
• Interview with composer Lorne Balfe
• New episode of The Whoniverse Show with David Tennant
• Rachel Talalay: Part 2: Original footage and details on the ‘impossible’ shot
• Doctor Who: A trio of mysteries in The Ice Warriors
• Film is Fabulous to catalogue three more collections in 2026
• Most of the Matt Smith era era now on Hoopla
• Doctor Who: Stormcage due Feb 12
• Big Finish The Lost Stories: The Collected Sixth Doctor 1 due Feb 2026
• Big Finish UNIT Eras due Apr 2026
• Amanda Brotchie died
• Gil Gerard died

#80 #AlexKingston #AmandaBrotchie #BigFinish #BluRay #CBeebies #doctorWho #FilmIsFabulous #GilGerard #GuguMbathaRaw #Hoopla #LorneBalfe #MattSmith #Obituary #RachelTalalay #TheIceWarriors #TheStarBeast #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #TheWhoniverseShow

Radio Free Skaro #1043 – Tip Toe and Son

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It’s a veritable tsunami of The War Between the Land and the Sea news this week, including a trailer, a new episode of the Whoniverse Show, Turf and Surf behind the scenes VAM, a reassurance from RTD that yes, he will eventually write a 2026 Xmas special, deleted scenes, dollies, figurines, AND part the fourth of our retrospective of Children of Earth! Have a listen, and then take a nap!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• New trailer for The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Behind the Scenes of The War Between The Land And The Sea
• The Whoniverse episode on The War Between
• Titles and synopses for The War Between Episodes 1-4 released
• Title and synopsis of The War Between Episode 5
• The War Between soundtrack releases digitally December 5
• Doctor Who Series 10 soundtrack releases on Dec 12
• Russell T Davies has plot of 2026 Christmas Special worked out, will write script early next year
• Season 2 Deleted Scenes
• Season 2 scripts added to the BBC Writers Room
• Character Options Doctor Who Constable Zreeg and Sergeant Zogroth Wrarth Warrior Set
• Panini Doctor Who: UNIT Declassified due Dec 4
• Doctor Who – The Early Years bookazine from The Radio Times
• Doctor Who Series 1-4 + some specials now on Hoopla is some areas
• TARDIS Display Case with Figurines of 17 Doctors coming Spring 2026
• Rachel Talalay: Tenth Anniversary of Heaven Sent
• Big Finish Torchwood: The Flawless Man released
• Big Finish Short Trips: Impeccable and Other Stories due Feb 2026

Review:

• Torchwood: Children of Earth, Day Four
• Children of Earth scripts on BBC Writer’s Room
• Radio Free Skaro Wednesday Cutaway – The Ballad of Jack and Ianto
• Radio Free Skaro presents Bridging the Rift

#bigFinish #bridgingTheRift #characterOptions #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #heavenSent #hoopla #merchandise #rachelTalalay #radioFreeSkaro #radioTimes #russellTDavies #season2 #series10 #series9 #theStarBeast #theWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #theWhoniverseShow #torchwoodChildrenOfEarth

One definition of insanity frequently shared on social media is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, and that is basically me with watching episodes of nu-Who. This post brought to you by my watching the shouting and the alternation between lamer comedy and lamer emo moments of the recent "The Star Beast", interspersed with occasional bursts of bombast.

#DoctorWho #TheStarBeast

#DoctorWho’s #CatherineTate ‘#honoured’ to play #mother of a #trans #child: ‘I’m all your #mamas’

Tate briefly revived her #role as the #Doctor’s #companion, #DonnaNoble, in “#TheStarBeast”, the first of the three 60th #anniversary #special #episodes last November.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TV #Representation #Culture

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/08/doctor-who-catherine-tate-trans-rose-noble-yasmin-finney/

Book Review: Doctor Who: The Star Beast by Gary Russell
#ReaderCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookCommunity #Reading #Books #BookReview #Review #DoctorWho #60thAnniversary #TheStarBeast #DonnaNoble #Anniversary #BBC #Novelisation #Novelization

http://georgelthomas.com/2024/04/12/book-review-doctor-who-the-star-beast-by-gary-russell/

I watched an episode of Doctor Who tonight. The Star Beast with The bloody Meep.

It was interesting.

However, I'm not going to make this a habit. Yes, way back when, I watched every episode I could lay my hands on. I even bought some episodes on VHS. (I no longer have them.)

Those times are over.

#DoctorWho #TheStarBeast #TheMeep

Finally catching up on #DoctorWho, and sharing some thoughts. #TheStarBeast was very silly fun. Has this show always been this silly?

What I found a bit annoying is its wokeness. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for LGBTQI+ representation but it felt very in my face in this episode. Look, a trans character! Did we mention she's trans? Look, look, look!

NuWho always had great LGBTQI+ chars, but they were always just there, and a normal part of the story, and that was awesome and how it should be.

I'm starting to figure out a bit of a #HeadCanon involving why #UNIT is suddenly so public with their own Avengers tower-style base as shown in #TheStarBeast in #doctorwho60. I think the Flux and the Dalek security drone incident having happened after the shutting down of UNIT may have caused more widespread demand for such an organization to be "out in the open, defending the Earth" as I think 14 put it.

#DoctorWho