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The brilliant Jodie Whittaker is about to appear on the big screen again in Paddy Considine’s new movie, Journeyman. As such, she’s been doing some interview work to promote the movie. The subject of Doctor Who has come up in the midst of that. Whittaker is currently filming Doctor Who series 11, of course, and she’s been chatting to the Sunday Times about how things have been going. “People have been absolutely lovely so far”, she said. “The other week in Cardiff I could see…

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After recently claiming he was “blacklisted” by the BBC after leaving Doctor Who, former Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston has now revealed more about the tensions he felt on set during filming for the sci-fi series. “My relationship with my three immediate superiors – the showrunner, the producer and co-producer – broke down irreparably during the first block of filming and it never recovered,” Eccleston says in the latest issue of Radio Times. “They lost trust in me, and I lost faith and…

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TV and film star Alan Cumming is coming (sorry) to Doctor Who. The actor revealed that he’s set to appear in a future episode of the BBC1 sci-fi series alongside Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor, with the Scottish actor playing a similarly Scottish monarch – James I. “I’m about to go and do an episode of Doctor Who,” Cumming revealed on Will Young and Chris Sweeney’s podcast Homo Sapiens. “I’m so excited! I’ve never been in it.” Asked if he was playing…

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