Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

The UK is awash in televisual Mrrahhh Business this week as Sky is set to purchase ITV for $2.13 billion and what better "experts" to weigh in on the subject than three Canadians with a passing familiarity with the industry? Plus a surfeit of Troughton-era goodness in the form of a massive production diary of the era by author David Brunt and a Doctor Who: Legends special featuring Ol' Two himself. We also have blatant foreign election interference as we endorse Count Binface and poorly explain what Ceefax is to the younger generations who do not in any way care! All this AND part one of our Classic Series Commentary for the newly released special edition of "Warriors Of The Deep"!!
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'Doomsday' 20 years on – remembering the final adventure of the Doctor and Rose
Sky acquires ITV for $2.13 billion
BBC "Discussing" Partnership With Channel 4 in Streaming Race for Scale
Doctor Who: Legends – Patrick Troughton available July 16
The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Troughton Years available August 14
Dalek 63-88: How One Director Made '60s Doctor Who Look Like Cinema
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers available now
Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master – Part One released
Commentary
Warriors of the Deep Part One

We're Breaking Circuits over here at Radio Free Skaro Towers, with a web-based UNIT story setting up the whole shebang and a new Titan Comics adventure (which we have read in preview form) soon to come! While TWBLATS has yet to grace North American bandwidth via Disney+, the BBC Writers Room site has provided scripts for you to peruse! Plus Steven Moffat continues his unofficial Doctor Who appreciation tour with a guest appearance on Peter Purves' podcast, Blake's 7 Series C Blu-Ray available for preorder in the US, and the conclusion of our Classic Series Commentary for part four of Spearhead From Space!
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Circuit Breaker: An Introduction
Doctor Who Circuit Break #1 available July 8 from Titan Comics
Doctor Who: 20 Years On – The Tenth Doctor BFI event Aug 15, tickets on sale July 9
The War Between the Land and the Sea scripts available on the BBC Writers Room site
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O'Clock released
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides due August 2026
Steven Moffat on Peter Purves' podcast
Target Book Club 2026 happening October 24 in London
Blake's 7 Season C available for US preorder, quotes Dec 1 release
Blake's 7: Revenge of the Mutoes & Other Stories audiobook coming July 23
Justin Richards obituary
Big Finish tribute to Justin Richards
Commentary
Spearhead From Space, Episode 4

It's a bumper crop of news this week despite a complete lack of Doctor Who…except for Circuit Breaker, which begins by way of an online game where you join UNIT! Plus a fine interview with Steven Moffat on the Whoniverse Show, some fine Big Finish Zaprudering, and some truly insane talk about both a possible (but thankfully never followed up on) Doctor Who-Star Trek crossover and a deep investigation into the Happy Days animated universe! Don a leather jacket and say "Wonzie" with us!
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Bad Wolf producing The Other Bennet Sister Christmas special in July
There were ideas for a Doctor Who/Strange New Worlds crossover
Doctor Who Magazine #631
Jo Martin DWM interview excerpt
Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker begins
Steven Moffat on The Whoniverse Show
Steven Moffat improvs a Doctor Who story
Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Gallifrey: War Room: Loyalties available now
Big Finish: Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon released
Big Finish: Torchwood: Legacy due Sep/Oct 2026
David Daker died April 30
Whocast (German Doctor Who podcast) celebrates 20 years on July 3
Simon Guerrier delivered a talk about David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks at the York Festival of Ideas

If you thought a complete vacuum of Doctor Who news would stop the Three Who Rule from prognostication based on the vapours and some recent UK media podcast analysis about the BBC tendering process, boy howdy you would be wrong! Thrill to our educated guesses as to where we go from here in a fractured media landscape! Puzzle over the tender process! Draw no real conclusions! Plus part the third of our Spearhead from Space Classic Series Commentary!
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The Rest is Entertainment podcast on the Doctor Who farrago
The War Between not in the Disney+ schedule for July
How I Filmed This – Rachel Talalay – Regenerating Doctor 12 to Doctor 13
First Doctor Who Collect & Build Set to be released June 29
Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks – Part Three released
Commentary:
Spearhead From Space, Episode 3

It's (not) the end, but the moment has been prepared for! Well, not as such but a press release from the BBC confirms what we long suspected: there will not be a Christmas special nor were plans for one ever seriously pursued. Sad news to be sure, but we've cobbled together industry and wider fan reaction along with our own lengthy takes tinged with what we'd like to think is both optimism and realism. More importantly, we have former Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury to give us his rather more informed take on the whole situation. Brave Heart, Tegan, after all somewhere the tea is getting cold. 
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An update on the future of Doctor Who
'Doctor Who' Set To Be Off Air For Years Amid A Creative Regeneration That's Failing To Spark Enthusiasm Among Producers
Russell T Davies on Instagram: "For the record, there was no script"
Russell T Davies: Doctor Who hasn't been cancelled
Bad Wolf Studios post on Instagram
Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who news
Andy Pryor also leaving Doctor Who
Variety: 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Not Going Forward as Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf Exit Series
'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Canceled, As Russell T Davies & Bad Wolf Exit BBC Sci-Fi Series
Vinay Patel on the stress of making Doctor Who
BBC tendering process explained
Doctor Who's Billie Piper Stunt Was Never Going to Pay Off by Kyle Anderson
Doctor Who premiered on AMC+ in the US only
Recovered: Doctor Who Special with Film Is Fabulous in Leicester Aug 15
The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television by Russell T Davies due Oct 8
Big Finish: Planet Krynoid – Survivors released
Big Finish: The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Reunion due Aug 2026
Big Finish: The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill due August 2026
Nicola Bryant did the narration for The Ultimate Evil
Lifelong Doctor Who collection fetches £49,000
Sir Sherlock – The Sickle and the Sea Kickstarter, fully funded in less than a day
Michael Keating obituary by Toby Hadoke
Gene Shalit died
Interview:
Tom Spilsbury