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This week’s episode of Doctor Who saw the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and companion Bill (Pearl Mackie) head back in time to 1814’s great frost fair on the frozen river Thames, and viewers were loving the period setting. https://twitter.com/MorgulVortex/status/858402012282671104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiotimes.com%2Fnews%2F2017-04-30%2F11-tweets-that-perfectly-sum-up-the-reaction-to-this-weeks-doctor-who https://twitter.com/lastjellybaby/status/858402491637125120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiotimes.com%2Fnews%2F2017-04-30%2F11-tweets-that-perfectly-sum-up-the-reaction-to-this-weeks-doctor-who Especially if it means getting Peter Capaldi into the most appropriate of headgear… No oneNotAbe LincolnFred AstaireDuke EllingtonMarc Bolan No oneLooks better in a top hat Than The Doctor#Capaldi@snazdoll pic.twitter.com/2U1R3VgfXa — Frank Cottrell-Boyce (@frankcottrell_b) April 29, 2017 The Doctor and Bill…

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Doctor Who – Thin Ice had an overnight viewing audience of 3.76 million viewers, a share of 20.4% of the total TV audience, according to unofficial figures. Top for the day was ITV’s Britains’s Got Talent, which had 8.27 million watching. Top on BBC One was the comedy series All Round to Mrs Brown’s with 4.74 million viewers. Casualty just edged ahead of Doctor Who with 3.90 million, puushing Doctor Who into fourth place for the day, just ahead of…

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This week’s instalment of Doctor Who: The Fan Show – The Aftershow goes behind the scenes of the latest Series 10 episode, Thin Ice, with its writer Sarah Dollard and Costume Designer Hayley Nebauer. Dollard, who also penned 2015’s Face The Raven, spoke about female representation on television, stating that it is “hugely important” both in front of and behind the camera. The writer adds: “It’s important to have female voices in every department on the show. It should reflect…

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Deploy top hats, tail-coats and ye olde trappings. The Tardis landed in Regency London, where something was stirring beneath the frozen Thames and fun-seekers were mysteriously disappearing. Here’s all the talking points from episode three, titled “Thin Ice”… Frost Fair elephant wasn’t fictional An elephant walking across the frozen Thames. The stuff of fantasy, right? No, actually. Between 1400 and the removal of the medieval London Bridge in 1835, there were 24 winters when temperatures in London plummeted so severely…

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Sir Steve Redgrave may have won gold medals at five Olympics in a row but now he might face an entirely different challenge – battling Daleks and Cybermen on Doctor Who. Yep, the sports legend has revealed that he is ready to star in Doctor Who after years of pestering by BBC bosses. ‘I have been offered [to appear] a few times before to do a walk-on part for Doctor Who,’ said Steve, before admitting that he reckons now is the time. ‘I…

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Doctor Who series 10 episode 3 sees the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and new companion Bill (Pearl Mackie) take their first journey back in time together, visiting Regency London at the time of the last great Frost Fair and meeting a giant fish for an adventure called Thin Ice. However, it’s not all fun and games, with mixed-race character Bill concerned about how her ethnicity will affect historical figures’ reactions to her (especially considering slavery is “still totally a thing”, in…

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If you’ve ever watched Doctor Who spin-off Class and wondered why there’s no real adult supervision for the collection of good-looking teenagers and verbally abusive teacher fighting nasty aliens, then you’re in luck – because it turns out that at least Ofsted have their eyes on Coal Hill Academy. “Unprovoked rudeness and grossly offensive behaviour…” Miss Quill’s Ofsted report tells it like it is!#ClassDW pic.twitter.com/o065T8lau0 — Class (@bbcclass) November 9, 2016 A picture released on the official Class twitter account,…

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Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord sure is fond of his guitar. He’s whipped it out on more than one occasion, playing to a roaring crowd during series nine’s The Magician’s Apprentice and regaling us with Beethoven’s 5th in Before The Flood, but did you know he was supposed to do it all over again in series 10 opener The Pilot? Director Lawrence Gough sat down for a chat with Den of Geek and revealed that Capaldi had actually filmed a mini gig…

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