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Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 7 Review – ‘The Pyramid At The End Of The World’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 7: The Pyramid At The End Of The World…Directed by: Daniel NettheimWritten by: Peter Harness & Steven MoffatDoctor – “What do you depend on?”Nardole – “Air, Water, Food, Beer.”Following on from last week’s rather excellent Extremis – in which we discovered that not only was virtually the entire episode a simulation for […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 6 Review – ‘Extremis’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 6: Extremis…Directed by: Daniel NettheimWritten by: Steven MoffatDoctor – “Truth at the heart of heresy”Cardinal Angelo – “…and death at the heart of truth.”Nardole – “You’d be wizard at writing Christmas crackers you two.”Answers are given in Extremis.  Why Nardole is shadowing the Doctor, who or what is contained within the Vault and […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 5 Review – ‘Oxygen’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 5: Oxygen…Directed by: Charles PalmerWritten by: Jamie MathiesonDoctor – “Oh look Bill it’s Nardole! What a lovely surprise! I thought I sent you to Birmingham for a packet of crisps!?”Nardole – “Yes I saw through your cunning ruse”Doctor – “Yes well if you will go thinking for yourself.”In this week’s episode of Doctor […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 4 Review – ‘Knock, Knock’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 4: Knock, Knock…Directed by: Bill AndersonWritten by: Mike BartlettBill – “He’s My Grandad”Doctor – “Ahhh, come on! Father at least”Bill – “Alright, Grandfather!”When Doctor Who aims to frighten you, it really knows where those dark corners are in your mind, where you keep those little things you don’t like in […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 3 Review – ‘Thin Ice’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 3: Thin Ice…Directed by: Bill AndersonWritten by: Sarah DollardDoctor – “I’m two-thousand years old and I have never had the time for the luxury of outrage.”Doctor Who has been rather good at bringing a number of things to our screens – history, morality, ethical questioning, life and death and humour & sadness.  […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 2 Review – ‘Smile’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 2: Smile…Directed by: Lawrence GoughWritten by: Frank Cottrell-BoyceDoctor – “We’re in the utopia of vacuous teens!” In “Smile”, our second episode of Doctor Who Series 10 (written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce who also wrote “In the Forest of the Night” from Series 8) we are taken to one of Earth’s first colonies which […]

Mondasian Cyberman returning to Doctor Who for series 10 finale

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Peter Capaldi’s Doctor is going to find himself going up against one of his oldest foes in the upcoming tenth series of Doctor Who, with the BBC announcing that the original Mondasian Cybermen are returning to the show for an appearance in the two-part series finale. The Mondasian Cybermen made their debut in ‘The Tenth […]

Olivia Colman the bookies’ favourite to succeed Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who

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Earlier in the week Peter Capaldi announced that he will be calling time on his stint as the Doctor in this year’s Christmas Special, and now bookmakers William Hill has released its odds for the thirteenth incarnation of the Time Lord in Doctor Who, with Broadchurch star Olivia Colman leading the pack with odds of […]

BBC announces start of production on Doctor Who series 9, guest stars revealed

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The BBC has announced that the new series of Doctor Who has begun filming ready for its return to the small screen this autumn. In addition, they have also revealed a selection of guest stars who will feature in the two-part opening episode. Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones) is one of those guests involved, and […]