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[gag]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Sadly it's hidden behind a paywall/subscription thing, but during an interview in The Times, Chris Chibnall confirmed that River Song, Missy, The Paternoster Gang and The Weeping Angels will not be returning. He also said that it will be some time before both the Daleks and Cyberman are featured in the show again

I think the weeping angels are one of the best of the new series , and tbh I'm glad Daleks and Cyberman won't be in because personally think there milking them and they are getting a tadge repetative and boring imo and would be nice to either bring back some other old enemies for a change or created some new ones altogether .

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by gag

I think the weeping angels are one of the best of the new series , and tbh I'm glad Daleks and Cyberman won't be in because personally think there milking them and they are getting a tadge repetative and boring imo and would be nice to either bring back some other old enemies for a change or created some new ones altogether .

Agree, was getting think of the daleks and cybermen they used to be something special but they just became overused and stale.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Cyber Controller from The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by gag

I think the weeping angels are one of the best of the new series , and tbh I'm glad Daleks and Cyberman won't be in because personally think there milking them and they are getting a tadge repetative and boring imo and would be nice to either bring back some other old enemies for a change or created some new ones altogether .

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Agree, was getting think of the daleks and cybermen they used to be something special but they just became overused and stale.

I thought the Cybermen had become scary again thanks to the Capaldi era going back to their origins.

From the Cybermen being created out of human corpses in Dark Water to the fairly horrific Cyber hospital in World Enough and Time, to me they got their fear factor back after Moffat initially used them as canon fodder in earlier stories.

[Susan Foreman]

September 9th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1924 - Salvin Stewart (Morok Guard & Morok Messenger in The Space Museum)

1935 - Nadim Sawalha (Big Finish Productions actor - Swapnil Khan in The Magic Mousetrap and the Old Man in 1001 Nights; father of Comic Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death's Julia Sawalha)
1953 - Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka [Fourth & Fifth Doctors' companion]; Herself in the 50th anniversary spoof The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot)

1955 - John Novak (Salinger in the TV Movie)
1960 - Hugh Grant (Alternative Twelfth Doctor in the Comic Relief: Red Nose Day special The Curse of Fatal Death)

1963 - Richard Gauntlett (Urak in Time and the Rani and Makra'Thon in the Big Finish audio Three's a Crowd)
1968 - Julia Sawalha (Emma in the Comic Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death)

Deaths
1974 - Jim Tyson (extra in The Chase) aged 62

1981 - Connie Georges (extra in The War Machines) aged 69
1987 - John Flint (William des Preaux in The Crusade and Captain Urquhart in Time-Flight) aged 58

Episodes
1967 - The Tomb of the Cybermen, Episode Two (BBC One): 6.4 million viewers
1978 - The Ribos Operation, Part Two (BBC One): 8.1 million viewers
2011 - Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode Ten ('The Blood Line') (STARZ)

Departures
2011 - Conclusion to the American run of the fourth series of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood

Releases
1982 - Issue 69 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1985 - The Five Doctors (VHS - edited version)

2005 - Revelation of the Daleks (DVD - region 4)
2010 - Issue 183 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2011 - Blackout (AudioGO)

2013 - Series 7 (Silva Screen Records)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 184 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Doctor Who Magazine attended a production meeting on Tooth and Claw
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish box set The Fourth Doctor Box Set took place

2016 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Before the Fall took place

[Susan Foreman]

September 10th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1940 - David Mann (cover artist for Pinnacle Books' Doctor Who novelisations, based on the Target versions)

1944 - Graham Weston (Sergeant Russell in The War Games and De Haan in Planet of Evil)

1953 - Stuart Milligan (Richard Nixon in The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon and the mini-episode prequel to The Impossible Planet, Colonel Stark in the animated special Dreamland and the Tannoy voice in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Warriors of Kudlak; Big Finish Productions actor - Anthony Chambers in The Reaping, Emerson Whytecrag III in Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge and Garundel in Black and White and Starlight Robbery; narrator of the AudioGO story Blackout)

1963 - Gary Powell (Dev Ashton in 42)

Deaths
1998 - Carl Forgione (Land in Planet of the Spiders and Nimrod in Ghost Light) aged 54

2004 - Glyn Owen (Rohm-Dutt in The Power of Kroll and Commander Harlon in the Big Finish audio Nekromanteia) aged 76

Episodes
1966 - The Smugglers, Episode One (BBC One): 4.3 million viewers
1977 - Horror of Fang Rock, Part Two (BBC One): 7.1 million viewers
1993 - The Paradise of Death, Episode Three (BBC Radio 5 live)
2008 - Torchwood: Lost Souls (BBC Radio 4)
2011 - The Girl Who Waited (BBC One): 7.6 million viewers

Documentaries
2011 - Doctor Who Confidential: What Dreams May Come (BBC Three)

Introductions
1966 - Launch of the fourth series of classic Who

Releases
1981 - Issue 57 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1987 - Issue 129 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1990 - The Web Planet and The Dominators (VHS)

2009 - Issue 132 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - About Time 7 (Mad Norwegian Press); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 31 (Big Finish)

2014 - Issue 354 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); issue 2 of Eleventh Doctor Year One (Titan Comics)
2015 - Royal Blood, Big Bang Generation and Deep Time (BBC Books); Torchwood: The Conspiracy (Big Finish); issue 6 of the relaunched Doctor Who Adventures (Panini Comics UK)

Behind-the-Scenes
1969 - Caroline John was announced as new companion Liz Shaw
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Hunters of Earth took place
2013 - The 50th anniversary story was officially announced as being titled The Day of the Doctor, as well as an official poster featuring the War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors (as well as minor clues to the story); recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the novel The English Way of Death took place

2016 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Before the Fall took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Plasmatons from the 1982 story Time-Flight.

[Susan Foreman]

Ho hum!

"K9 - UPDATE NEWS

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OMEGA will still play a part and we haven't dismissed the ideas of other characters such as The Axons, however we are very keen to establish new adversaries and alien creatures for K9 and his new associates to face.

The project will look to appeal to both new and old audiences and there will be more news in early 2019 so watch out on our social media.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Word is that Matt Smith is all but confirmed for Star Wars episode 9.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Word is that Matt Smith is all but confirmed for Star Wars episode 9.

At this point , news would be whos not going to be in it, every week some body else is announced thats going to be in it.