Both 73 Yards and Dot and Bubble have been nominated for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form at this year’s Hugo Awards
Doctor Who has received two nominations for this year’s Hugo Awards. The prestigious science fiction awards recognize the best in SF literature, film, TV, art and journalism every year. Doctor Who’s nominations, both in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category, are for the episodes 73 Yards and Dot and Bubble.
The unsettling and deliberately opaque 73 Yards sees Ruby Sunday living out a life without the Doctor, continually stalked by a mysterious woman. Always exactly 73 yards away, Ruby doesn’t know what the woman wants. But whomever approaches her hears her whisper terrible things about Ruby. Things that slowly destroy Ruby’s world as everyone she knows abandon her.
Meanwhile, Dot and Bubble takes place in the city of Finetime, on a moon of a colony world in the far future. Everyone of Finetime is young, privileged, and eternally consumed with the Bubble social media app. However, everyone in Finetime is in danger of being consumed by something else, as giant slugs spread across the city. Notable for its shocking twist in the closing scene, Dot and Bubble forces the Doctor into a unique no-win scenario.
These are Doctor Who’s 35th and 36th Hugo nominations. In fact, the show has had at least one nomination almost every single year since 2006, with 2022 and 2023 the only exceptions. However, it’s most recent win was for The Doctor’s Wife at the 2012 awards.
The two Doctor Who episodes will face stiff competition in their category. Star Trek: Lower Decks also has two nominations, for the final two episodes of the series. The junior lieutenants of the USS Cerritos must finally come into their own as they deal with a multiversal threat endangering every reality everywhere. Also nominated are the premiere episode of video game adaptation Fallout and Agatha All Along episode Death’s Hand in Mine.
The winners will be announced at the Hugo Awards ceremony in Seattle on the 16th of August.
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
- Fallout: The Beginning written by Gursimran Sandhu, directed by Wayne Che Yip (Amazon Prime Video)
- Agatha All Along: Death’s Hand in Mine written by Gia King & Cameron Squires, directed by Jac Schaeffer (Marvel, Disney+)
- Doctor Who: Dot and Bubble written by Russell T Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams (BBC, Disney+)
- Star Trek: Lower Decks: Fissure Quest created by Mike McMahan and written by Lauren McGuire based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Brandon Williams (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)
- Star Trek: Lower Decks: The New Next Generation created and written by Mike McMahan, based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Megan Lloyd (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)
- Doctor Who: 73 Yards written by Russell T Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams (BBC, Disney+)
