Fantasy modern recast of classic Who

"[...] Despite its infrequency, Dr. WHO (as it has been commonly stylised over the years) remains one of the longest running science fiction series to be launched from Britain. In the tradition of its predecessors, Pathfinders and Dan Dare, the series was prone to taking long rests between its seasons, but never wavering in its core audience, nor its content. For the series's 2020 anniversary, there has been a desire to look back upon the many faces that have carried the series to this momentous occassion. Peter Woodward, Joanna Lumley, Richard Griffiths, Ron Moody, Edward Woodward, Brian Blessed and Geoffrey Bayldon. Each of whom the tireless writers, designers and creatives behind the scenes have been working hard to homage in this latest season of WHO.

"It's impossible to talk about the Doctor without mentioning some of the adversaries they've gone up against, isn't it?" the producer smiles. "They're practically synonymous. Graham McTavish's Black Guardian... Jean Marsh's Rani... Actually, we're trying to bring back that energy found in confrontations like that between the Fourth Doctor and the Mistress in the early 1980s. Everyone remembers Ron Moody and Pamela Salem in Colony in Space. Two figures separated by a machine bigger than Krell in Forbidden Planet. The temptation of absolute power, they both really sold it. We're trying for that. Friends, likewise, we want to develop an interesting dynamic. It's difficult not to remember Edward Woodward and Ian Ogilvy going toe-to-toe on occassion as the Doctor and Ian."

Indeed, Benedict Cumberbatch's turn as Sutekh last year delivered on one of Dr. WHO's most frightening creations to date. With Peter Woodward's noble departure under a collapsing country home, saving the life of his two young friends, it's time for a new Doctor to take the stage. The production team have only shared with us a few details. The next season will start with the return of an old enemy in Power of the Daleks and the upcoming, Highlanders, will bring aboard Sam Heughan as new companion, James Robert McCrimmon. As to the identity of the main lead, the production company have remained tight-lipped about who is to take the role.

Following the filming of Australian crime series, Harrow, popular candidate Ioan Gruffudd has so far denied rumours that he will be assuming the Eighth Doctor's place aboard the TARDIS following Woodward."