BBC Cymru Wales has announced that Brian Minchin is to be the new Executive Producer of Doctor Who, alongside showrunner Steven Moffat.
Brian Minchin is an Executive Producer in BBC Wales drama, currently working on The Game, a new Cold War spy thriller from Toby Whithouse for BBC One, and Wizards Vs Aliens, Russell T Davies’ hit show for CBBC. He has also worked as BBC Executive Producer on Dirk Gently and Being Human.
Brian produced the RTS award-winning and BAFTA nominated series The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as the UK sections of Torchwood: Miracle Day and was Assistant Producer on Torchwood: Children of Earth.
Brian, who grew up in Aberystwyth, joined the department in Cardiff in 2005 as a Script Editor working on BBC One Wales drama Belonging, before moving on to network dramas Doctor Who and Torchwood in the same role.
Brian says: “I’m thrilled and excited to be joining Steven Moffat on a show that has meant so much to me over the years. I’ve watched in awe as Steven has taken Doctor Who to wild and imaginative places and I can’t wait to get started on many more adventures with the Doctor.”
Faith Penhale, Head of Drama Wales, says: “I’ve no doubt Doctor Who will enjoy a very exciting time with Brian at the helm working alongside Steven. Since joining BBC Wales in 2005, he’s proved he has a fantastic eye for story and a sharp awareness of what makes a drama like Doctor Who unmissable.”
Steven Moffat, Lead Writer and Executive Producer, adds: “When I first took over Doctor Who, Brian was there as script editor, and in the most difficult time of a new Doctor and a new era, was completely brilliant. We lost him to producing The Sarah Jane Adventures at the end of our first run. Rising talent keeps rising, is how I comforted myself back then - but now I am beyond happy that Brian has risen all the way back to Doctor Who, in his new role of Executive Producer. I look forward to getting hopelessly lost in space and time with him.”
The finale story is such a fantastic idea; it’s epic and huge and filled with drama.
It was really exciting to sit down and read the script. There are little bits and pieces, which Steven planted a couple of years ago. It’s just really clever and a crucial moment in the Doctor’s life that you get to explore with the best baddies. I really think they are going to become another Moffat classic.
One of the most appealing aspects of Doctor Who is that the reality created within the show is conceptually strong enough to handle the replacement of every single actor in it. This means that fandom and appreciation can be comfortably spread over the entire 50-year run. Second Doctor fans can debate their preferences with Sixth Doctor fans, and no one can be definitively wrong or right.
That said, there are a few good reasons why Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor, often comes out as the most popular of all of the incarnations in the classic series, an affection that sometimes rivals the more recent Doctors too.
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DOCTOR WHO: The Crimson Horror - NEW May 4 BBC AMERICA Trailer
In “The Crimson Horror,” there’s something very odd about Mrs Gillyflower’s Sweetville mill, with its perfectly clean streets and beautiful people. There’s something even stranger about the bodies washing up in the river, all bright red and waxy.
When the Doctor (MATT SMITH) and Clara (JENNA-LOUISE COLEMAN, Emmerdale, Captain America: The First Avenger) go missing, it’s up to Vastra (NEVE McINTOSH), Jenny (CATRIN STEWART) and Strax (DAN STARKEY) to rescue them before they too fall victim to the Crimson Horror!
With special guests DIANA RIGG (The Avengers, Game of Thrones) and Diana’s daughter RACHAEL STIRLING (Snow White and the Huntsman, The Bletchley Circle) - appearing together on screen for the first time!Don’t miss an all new episode of DOCTOR WHO, “The Crimson Horror,” premiering Saturday May 4 at 8/7c on BBC America.
Immediately followed by an All New Episode of BBC AMERICA’s original conspiracy-thriller series ORPHAN BLACK at 9/8c and an all new episode of THE NERDIST at 10/9c.
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Oh! Hello Tumblr!
This is your Saturday afternoon announcement that we will be livetumblring tonight’s 8pm ET BBC America Premiere of Doctor Who: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS.
We’ll be online from 8/7c (well, all day, actually) until the end of the broadcast to reblog your gifs and fan art and reactions off of the ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS’ tags on Tumblr.
For those of you who have never been to a livetumblring before, it’s where we post moments from the episode to the blog just as they’re happening on the broadcast.
And we’re sorry, we’re so sorry but because we’re livetumblring in real time — there is no way for us to avoid posting spoilers.
If you’re going to be liveposting (or if you’ve just finished watching the episode in the UK) be sure to tag your posts ‘spoilers’. We’ll be using the tags ‘spoilers’ ‘dw spoilers’ and ‘Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS’ so install Tumblr Savior if you can.
If you’re browsing your dashboard on your mobile or if you don’t understand the Tumblr Savior stuff, you can also unfollow us and then refollow us after the episode.
After Doctor Who, you can watch a new episode of Orphan Black on both BBC America and SPACE, and then on BBC America, Chris Hardwick’s guests on The Nerdist are Jospeh Gordon Levitt and Gillian Jacobs.
We are super excited that we get to explore a bit more of the TARDIS in tonight’s episode so we started a thing asking you to share what room you think would be in the TARDIS.
There are huuuuuuunnnnnndreds of posts already on the ‘My TARDIS’ tag and we’re blown away by how imaginative and brilliant and clever you all are.
We highly suggest giving the tag page a look see to see what your fellow Whovians are imagining. We’ll be reblogging a bunch of them throughout the weekend.
April 27th is also the birthdays of a certain actor named Jenna Louise Coleman (hence all the Jenna gifs) and a certain producer/director/writer/creator named Russell T. Davies (hence the entire Doctor Who series we all have been enjoying since 2005.) Happy birthday to the both of you!
And Happy Saturday to everyone else! We’ll see you at 8/7c for tonight’s all new episode of Doctor Who on BBC America!
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS begins at BBC One at 6.30pm.
Discussing the episode and how it opens up the TARDIS as never before, Matt Smith commented ,‘I think all of us who are fans have always wanted to see what is beyond…’ and this ambitious adventure certainly delivers on that score!
The BBC Doctor Who site has a nice writeup of what to expect for the day so you can give it a gander right here.
For the US and Canada, your journey begins tonight at 8/7c on BBC America and 8p ET on Space Channel.
And on Sunday April 28, you can watch Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS on ABC (Australia) at 7.30pm, on BBC Entertainment South Africa at 7pm, and on BBC Entertainment Poland at 6pm.
Everyone be sure to tag your spoilers!
We’ll be back in a bit with more reblogs of rooms you think you’d find in the TARDIS from the ‘My TARDIS’ tag and we’ll also do this week’s livetumblring announcement…
… and we just got a new box from the BBCAmericaShop that we haven’t opened yet so we think we’ll do a new giveaway for those in the U.S.
Need to catch up on the current season of Doctor Who?
KAREN GILLAN for z’Ombéal: Outtakes and Bloopers - The Nerdist on BBC America
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Watch Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, the new Doctor Who adventure, on:
Saturday 27th April
BBC One — 6.30pm
BBC America — 8/7c
Space (Canada) — 8/5e
Sunday 28th April
ABC (Australia) — 7.30pm
BBC Entertainment (South Africa) — 7pm
BBC Entertainment (Poland) — 6pm
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Had a great time with the brilliant #DoctorWho composer, Murray Gold and @MTVGeek. #MadManwithaBox
Watch Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, the new Doctor Who adventure, on:
BBC One on Saturday 27th April at 6.30pm
Saturday 27th April
BBC America — 8/7c
Space (Canada) — 8/5e
Sunday 28th April
ABC (Australia) — 7.30pm
BBC Entertainment (South Africa) — 7pm
BBC Entertainment (Poland) — 6pm
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There’s some great info in this week’s Doctor Who’s Day Roundup from Anglophenia.
Go give it a read.
For the full galleries visit BBCAmerica.com and BBC.co.uk.
We’ve updated our blog header accordingly. Find a high res version of this art in our imgur gallery for Doctor Who Series 7.2.
