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”!

Links:

• 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”!

Links:

• 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