The Doctor Who publicity machine is slipping into second gear with Gatwa and Gibson making the rounds of a BBC premiere, chat shows, Variety Magazine, and more, but that doesn’t stop the Three Who Rule from marinating in questionable nostalgia as they recall viewing The Phantom Menace for the first time 25 years ago, aka the Dawn of Anticipointment. Plus we issue an all hands on deck alert for next week’s Gallifrey One Hotelmageddon, and Warren emerges from the Metaverse to give his take on the just released PS VR2 version of The Edge of Time! Don your own Helmet of Pretend and join us!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One 2025 hotel block on sale May 3
• BBC Press Launch of Season 1
• Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on The One Show on April 26
• Variety: Doctor Who Regenerates
• Doctor Who Magazine #603
• Doctor Who Magazine Special: 50 Years of the Fourth Doctor coming May 2
• “The Church on Ruby Road” will be under Season 1 on Disney+ starting May 10
• Doctor Who Season 1 to be released on Blu-ray in the UK on August 12
• Doctor Who Prom coming August 26; tickets on sale May 17
• Doctor Who: The Edge of Time now on Playstation VR2
• Film is Fabulous pilot study reveals previously missing BBC treasures
• Big Finish: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Star-Crossed due May 2024
• Big Finish: The Trials of a Time Lord due August 2024
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: The Great Beyond due September 2024
• Big Finish Torchwood due July – October 2024

The hype train has left the station for Doctor Who as Entertainment Weekly, SFX, Attitude, and other pulp-based data products celebrate the impending Full-On Ncuti Gatwa Era along with the BBC and Disney+ releasing promo illustrations, and most importantly of all the release of Movellan action dollies, which caused spontaneous disco-infused celebrations across the United Kingdom. There’s also the quite suspicious timing of a restored Let It Be hitting Disney+ two days before the two-part premiere of Doctor Who, and most exciting of all, Episode Four of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One 2025 Tickets Now Available; Hotel Reservations on May 3
• New BBC promo image promoting Doctor who launch
• New Disney+ promo image promoting Doctor who launch
• Entertainment Weekly: A new (re)generation: Inside Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who
• Entertainment Weekly: Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa Breaks Down Every Doctor in the Show’s History
• Doctor Who Season 1 preview in SFX Magazine
• Ncuti Gatwa on the cover of the 30th anniversary issue of Attitude magazine
• Disney+ streaming the original “Let It Be” on May 8, two days before The Devil’s Chord
• Doctor Who Ruins of Skaro Collector Figure Set
• Character Options Ruins of Skaro reveal video
• The Prisoner Retro Style Action Figures Wave 2 Kickstarter
• BBC Books to publish three original Doctor Who novels featuring Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The First Doctor Unbound begins September 2025
• The Game of Rassilon finale being released April 24

Commentary:

• Terror of the Autons Episode 4

We’re less than a month away from new Doctior Who on Disney+ and the BBC and to help us navigate this stormy sea of streaming madness is professor, media expert, and all-around lovely fellow Derek Kompare as we look into the BBC’s inevitable admission that Varada Sethu is joining the cast of the show, a fascinating Beatles-centric (or lack thereof) interview in Empire Magazine with Ncuti Gatwa and one Russell T. Davies, archive film musings, Chicago TARDIS news, and a very important televisual anniversary! Plus Episode Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who – First Look at Ncuti Gatwa with Varada Sethu and Millie Gibson ahead of Season Two
• Empire Magazine Interview with Russell T Davies and Ncuti Gatwa
• Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, Russell T Davies in the Radio Times TV 100 list
• The Celestial Toymaker to be released June 10/11 in the UK, North America
• The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Hartnell Years available soon
• Film is Fabulous! Pilot Study: Documenting Private Film Collections
• Chicago TARDIS adds Jo Martin to guest list with Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann
• Big Finish: Torchwood: The Restoration of Catherine coming June 2024
• Twelfth Doctor, Cyberman ornaments coming from Hallmark for Christmas 2024
• Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street (April 12, 1973)

Commentary:

• Terror of the Autons Episode 3

Chris is a wandering vagabond this week, trolling both the Internet and ourselves with images of the real Magna Carta, but the real highlight of this week is the appearance of one Kyle Anderson of Nerdist fame for his thoughts on Doctor Who trailers, the current media landscape, and more! Plus we have news of one Dr. Who in Roblox form, the release of the Companions of Doctor Who on April 10, and River Song is back in Big Finish’s “Death and Life of River Song: Last Words”! Plus Past Chris returns in Episode Two of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• BBC launches new Wonder Chase experience on Roblox
• The Companions of Doctor Who Available April 10
• Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: Last Words coming August 2024
• Doctor Who’s WEIRD History of Regeneration

Commentary:

• Terror of the Autons Episode 2

Another new Doctor Who trailer! New episode titles unveiled! Golda Rosheuvel is in Episode 1! All this and more in a timey-wimey episode of the podcast, which contains much Mrrahh Business, more cast announcements, a light dusting of contempt for AI, a Steven Moffat conversation on Youtube, and Episode One of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who – Golda Rosheuvel jumps aboard the TARDIS as episode titles are revealed
• New BBC Doctor Who Trailer
• Doctor Who Magazine 602
• Two Doctor Who episodes nominated for Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
• Doctor Who 2024: BBC Confirms 4K For The Full Series
• BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints
• BBC Director General nevertheless revealed there are bold plans for AI going forward
• Russell T Davies says end of BBC is ‘undoubtedly on its way’
• BBC looks for commercial deals as it faces potential end of licence fee
• Doctor Who cited as evolution of of how funding for high-end scripted drama could evolve in the UK
• BBC must spend more on TV in Wales, says report
• Steven Moffat in conversation at Glasgow University
• Doctor Who: I, TARDIS: Memoirs of an Impossible Blue Box Hardcover due July 11
• Doctor Who: I, TARDIS: Memoirs of an Impossible Blue Box Audio CD due July 11
• Big Finish – The War Doctor Rises begins August 2024
• Big Finish – Torchwood: Disco coming May 2024

Commentary:

• Terror of the Autons Episode 1

In an exciting adventure in time and mostly space, Chris joins Warren in Vancouver for a very special episode of Radio Free Skaro where we look at a new Disney+ Doctor Who trailer featuring dinosaurs, Ruby Sunday stepping on a butterfly, glimpses of upcoming mysteries, and clearly a whole lot of Disney+ money. Plus confirmation Steven Moffat is back for at least one Season 1 episode, Russell T Davies using a Canadian emoji to not only tease the audience but also confound us, Big Finish celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a very special day, some MRAHHH BUSINESS from Doctor Who producer Jane Tranter ,and our Miniscope examining the work of Thirteenth Doctor-era director Jamie Childs!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• New Disney+ Trailer
• Steven Moffat writes episode for new season of Doctor Who with Julie-Anne Robinson directing
• RTD uses 🇨🇦 emoji on his Instagram post about Moffat
• First Big Finish Day 2024 guests announced
• I, TARDIS coming from BBC Books July 18
• Pre-orders are up for Titan Comics’ Fifteenth Doctor Issue #1
• ‘Doctor Who’ Producer Jane Tranter Says British TV Tax Credits Must Be Updated

Miniscope:

• Doctor Who director Jamie Childs
• Jamie Childs on Radio Free Skaro #676

After a long and punishing era of North America tapping its toes and drumming its fingers waiting for the adventures of Doctor Who on their televisual devices, Disney+ has upended the universe with a global release on its streaming service with the result that North Americans will see the show Friday afternoon and the UK will suffer the INDIGNITY of having their beloved Gallifreyan arrive at midnight, a crime as monumental as the United States seceding from the Commonwealth. We also have Steven Moffat allegedly writing the 2024 Xmas special, man about town and Nerdist scribe Kyle Anderson’s look at regenerations, and an interview with Chris Chapman about his Graham Williams documentary on said collection,”Darkness and Light: The Life of Graham Williams”!

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who Returns May 10/11, Premiering on iPlayer/Disney+ at Midnight UK Time
• BBC Press Release on Doctor Who Premiere
• Radio Times: Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat ‘returns to write 2024 Christmas special’
• Alison Sterling’s CV said Steven Moffat is writing the 2024 Christmas Special (directed by Alex Pillai)
• From Nerdist: Doctor Who’s Regeneration Has NEVER Made Sense w/Kyle Anderson
• Philip Hinchcliffe – the DNA of Doctor Who Vol 1 due June 1
• Doctor Who The Adventures Before due Oct 3
• Doctor Who: In Wonderland
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Star-Crossed due May 2024
• Titan Comics reveals artwork for Fifteenth Doctor’s debut issue
• Season 15 Collection Launch Trailer
• Richard Bignell’s List of PDF archive material on the Season 15 Collection

Interview:

• Chris Chapman
• Graham Williams documentary on the Season 15 Collection