"What an awful lot of people, is there anything else interesting on?" Colin Baker to the #gally1 audience
"They were very sneaky about that... we did it the year before it was shown!" Colin Baker on returning for The Power of the Doctor #gally1
"The chance to meet my favorite Doctor... I think it's quite important you find the Doctor attractive, I've struggled with that before, but not anymore... I think she's lovely." Colin Baker on returning to be with Jodie at #gally1
"She's the boss."
"Do you know I haven't watched it yet." Colin Baker on Power of the Doctor.
His Sky recording box broke before he could.
"Everyone else tells me it's... quite layered and hard to follow." #gally1
"Both [Sacha] and Jodie are really... when someone's good, you want not to like them a bit... both he and Jodie are some of the nicest people I've met in this business. The other one being David Tennant!" Colin Baker on returning for Power of the Doctor #gally1
"I'm sitting in a room with you guys and you're interested in what I have to say!" Colin Baker on the joys of fandom #gally1
Next up, Sophie Aldred and Janet Fielding! #gally1
"Someone just said to me don't sit on the crack, so I'm going to do it and see what happens!" Sophie Aldred planning to fall into the couch.
Janet has worn the coat, shirt, and jeans she wore in Power of The Doctor, but not the shoes, they were uncomfortable. #gally1
"I think it would be really good to show that women of a certain age can still jump and be physical" Aldred on asking Chris Chibnall for action bits.
Janet had "very Australian words" for her about that after some strenuous action takes. #gally1
"There is just no need for the secret service. Just subcontract to the fans." Janet Fielding on the inevitability of fans breaking through filming secrecy #gally1
"I finished the call and I burst into tears. And my husband asked 'What's the matter?' and I said 'Andy Pryor's just been on for an availability check and we all know what that means!'" Aldred on the call for returning #gally1
"It's the first time anyone's listened to me and actually written what I wanted!" Aldred on her call with Chris Chibnall about what she would want to do in a return in Power of the Doctor #gally1
"No, because we had input on where they were going apart from anything else, so we knew the research." Fielding on whether it was hard to return to the character. She also mentions regularly doing Big Finish. "What really pleased me was that Tegan. Hasn't. Mellowed."
Director Jamie Magnus Stone and production designer Dafydd Shurmer up next #gally1
"They got me to shoot little bits and bobs with Cybermen heads falling off for Nightmare in Silver." Says series 12 and 13 lead director Jamie Magnus Stone on his early career. "First thing I got paid for out of film school." #gally1
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Noonan, Troughton, and Treloar will reprise their First, Second, and Third Doctors for Once and Future alongside Warner's final performance. Missy, Liv, Jenny (daughter), Christina, Jackie, Vastra, Jenny, Strax, Sarah, Harry, the General, and Veklin return. Plus more!
Valentine, Goss, Morris, McMullin, Barnes, McMullin, Fitton, Foley for the writer lineup to Once and Future.
Bonnie shares an adorable story about a kid so scared by Colin's villain in their first panto performance together that they called the theater and Colin tried to talk the kid down.
"But apparently he was still scared." Bonnie.
"I think he's still in Arkham even now." Colin.
"I think it's the height of rudeness" to phone in performances in theaters, says Bonnie. If they've paid to see you, "you give them everything." #gally1
Drama around the Target Storybook's production made for one of the most encouraging moments of the year for me in 2019. Let's see if the book itself can be a bright way into 2020.
So Gatecrashers is already extremely charming. I love mundane concepts and stakes like space pizza delivery, and I love characters like Yaz seeing through it to the real human stakes. Hooked.
Ooh! A #DoctorWho book about privilege dynamics, refugees, and police brutality, and it's by...
Oh.
It's time to read Tragedy Day, the 24th Virgin New Adventure, by a certain G Roberts.
Without whom I'd not have had a career? Without whom I'd not have bridges to burn? Without whom there'd be nobody to vague about my 90s drug habits in vengeance for my bigotry? Inquiring minds want to know.