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Doctor Misterio to return in early 2023 on SkyShowtime

During the foreign adaptation panel at the Official Doctor Who Convention in 2021, Jamie Blanch appeared on stage with a surprise announcement. Doctor Misterio would in fact be returning more a second season in 2023, and that RTVE are not involved, as the rights have reverted back to CBS and the BBC. Blanch explained, at the time, that Paramount+ had picked up the show, and wanted to use it for their upcoming launch in Spain in 2023, as well as for Latin America audiences. Blanch said that Doctor Misterio was going to pick up many years later for El Doctor, and be startlingly different to the RTVE produced season. . Over six months later, and now filming is about to begin, and we know the show will be returning as a SkyShowtime original in early 2023. Since ODWC, Paramount made the decision to launch Paramount+ under the name SkyShowtime in much of mainland Europe, so while the show will be a Paramount+ original in most of the world, in Spain it’s going to be a SkyShowtime original. Returning to the series will be Jamie Blanch starring as El Doctor, but apart from that, the cast and crew will be almost entirely new. The biggest new addition to the cast is Unax Ugalde, who will be starring alongside Blanch as the mysterious El Desconocido. Cristóbal Garrido will serve as Showrunner, joined by Maggy Chan and Mal Young as Executive Producers. Doctor Who writer and co-showrunner of The Elysium, Toni Graphia, will work on the show as a Consulting Producer. It’s expected that the series will launch sometime early next year in conjunction with the launch of SkyShowtime in Spain, and much of mainland Europe. Viewers on SkyShowtime will also have access to the entire back catalogue of the Doctor Who franchise, in a Spanish dub, with the exception of the first 5 movies, where licence details are still being negotiated. The first season of Doctor Misterio, as well as Spanish dubs of all past seasons of all the foreign adaptations.

Doctor Who at SDCC reveal short scene from Centenary

An exclusive scene was released at San Diego Comic Con from the upcoming BBC Centenary special, for Doctor Who, The Restoration.

The panel featured Ace Bhatti, Samantha Bond, Anthony Head, Jane Espenson and Rachel Talalay. Part way through the panel, instead of releasing a trailer as expected, due to one having been released recently already as a next time trailer, Espenson screened an exclusive scene from the special.

The scene, which was released on YouTube two weeks later, showed the first meeting of the Sixteenth, Fourteenth and Eleventh Doctors. The scene began with the Sixteenth Doctor running down a street at night, and then cutting to the Eleventh and Fourteenth Doctors doing the same on other streets, before they all intersected at a crossroads and ran past each other. They all then slowly moved backward toward the crossroad looking at each other shocked. They eventually culminated in a circle as the Sixteenth Doctor went on to say “Well, I guess we should all help each other out, then”.

The scene went down extremely well in Hall H with huge applause from the audience and was well shared online in the hours following its official publication.

Doctor Who: Through Time and Space to Launch 4 September

Doctor Who's Polish Adaptation, Doctor Who: Through Time and Space, or in it's native form, Doktor –Przez Czas i Przestrzeń, will begin it's third season on 4 September on BBC Four, in the UK, and Paramount+ in the US, as well as in it's native polish on TVN in Poland. Like Season 2, the series will be presented in an English dub by the original actors.

The series will star Hanna Śleszyńska and pick up where it ended following the Christmas Special, Eve.

In a first for a foreign adaptation this season will contain 13 episodes & a special.

The Official Doctor Who Convention comes to Sydney

The annual Official Doctor Who Convention, known as ODWC, will be coming to Sydney, Australia on 25th, 26th and 27th November.

This will be the convention's second time in Sydney following the Sydney 2015 edition of the event.

Unlike 2015, it will take place at the new International Convention Centre and feature a stunning line-up of Doctor Who related cast and crew members.

Tickets are avaliable for purchase now.

The Restoration to receive London Premiere

Inexciting news, the BBC Centenary Special for Doctor Who, will recieve a big London premiere in October, which rarely happens for TV specials, and usually just reserved for movies.

All three Doctors, in the special, will be attending.