Russel T Davies teases Physician Who sixtieth anniversary and 2025 Sequence information

In Physician Who Journal 596, Russell T Davies equipped just a few hints relating to upcoming Physician Who episodes.

Davies shared particular dates related to anticipating followers.

“November 1 [when all Doctor Who content is available on iPlayer], November 17 [Children in Need], November 23 [60th anniversary of the first Doctor Who broadcast]. And none of these is the date of the Specials’ transmission!”

Since there’s a Physician Who watch-along introduced for Saturday, November 4 and the sixtieth anniversary falls on Thursday, November 23, we speculate the transmission dates of the three sixtieth anniversary specials are the next Saturdays in November:

November 11: The Star Beast
November 18: Wild Blue Yonder
November 25: The Giggle

The anniversary specials will function “two superstar historic figures” and a “real in-universe crossover” with Davies’ biographical miniseries on Noele Gordon Nolly. One of many historic figures is rumoured to be Scottish tv pioneer John Logie Baird.

Davies additionally hinted {that a} particular temporary episode of Physician Who: Unleashed can be shared earlier than the primary sixtieth anniversary particular airs.

He revealed that some thrilling extra sixtieth anniversary content material was lately filmed at Wolf Studios Wales.

“…because the summer time started, I used to be occupied with the sixtieth and questioned, have we executed sufficient? So I had an thought on July 5, despatched a proper proposal to the staff on July 20, then three scriptwriters set to work, and now, simply two months later, within the second half of September, we’re about to embark on a 6-day studio shoot of brand name new materials that may make you FIZZ! I promise!”

Davies shared information for individuals unable to journey to have fun the sixtieth anniversary.

“…we don’t have any stay occasions deliberate. Sorry! We concentrated our hearth on issues everybody can see.”

With the 2024 collection already filmed, Davies shared some 2025 collection information, vowing to provide Physician Who “yearly”.

“…in the meantime, we’re filming the precise present! Again on the streets of Cardiff, to shoot the NEXT collection. 5 of the subsequent 9 scripts, completed and deliberate.”

In one other DWM column, some 2025 collection administrators had been introduced. Alex Pillai directs of Block One and Peter Hoar (who has already directed a scene with Daleks in Davies’ It’s a Sin) directs Block Two.

Physician Who will return in November 2023 with three sixtieth anniversary specials starring David Tennant because the Fourteenth Physician and Catherine Tate as companion Donna Noble titled The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle.

Ncuti Gatwa will star in his first full Physician Who episode because the Fifteenth Physician within the Physician Who Christmas particular alongside Millie Gibson as companion Ruby Sunday in December 2023.

A brand new 8-episode Physician Who collection starring Ncuti Gatwa because the Physician and Millie Gibson as Ruby will debut in Spring of 2024.

Physician Who Journal 596 is obtainable from Panini and WH Smith and as a digital version from Pocketmags.