"Shawn Pegg vehicle Run, Fatboy, Run"? Simon, surely?

I'm curious to see how this ties into the rumours of there not being a full series of Doctor Who in 2016. If it's true this makes sense as a way to tide fans over, keep the crew in Cardiff and working, and hand off control to another writer so that Steven Moffat can focus on Sherlock for a bit, before getting back to…

As far as I can tell Patrick Ness has written the entire eight-episode series, but I could be wrong. He's definitely the one helming it, though. Steven Moffat's the executive producer because he's in charge of the mothership, in much the same way Russell T Davies exec-produced Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures…

Patrick Ness tweeted that he couldn't reveal much about the series, but one thing he did say was Clara isn't involved.

Yeah, one Doctor Who writer—I have a feeling it was Steven Moffat, but I'm not 100% certain—said that writing a good Doctor Who story meant taking an idea that could work as a feature film and compressing it into a forty-five minute episode, then doing that over and over again until you had enough stories to fill a…

No idea about that song specifically, but when talking about changes required when adapting a musical to the screen Tim Burton said:

Yeah, he was meant to be part of a chorus of ghosts of Todd's victims, along with Christopher Lee and various others, who sang The Ballad of Sweeney Todd. The song was recorded by the cast and intended to be shot but Johnny Depp's daughter fell ill during filming so they halted production for a while to allow him to…

It's apparently traditional for the few remaining support staff and scientists at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica to watch all three versions of The Thing after the last flight leaves for the winter, when the crew are almost completely cut off from the outside world for over half a year in…

Yeah, I've heard people suggest The Evil of the Daleks—which ends with the destruction of the Dalek Emperor—as their definitive end, with others suggesting that the destruction of their leader is actually why the Daleks in The Daleks can't leave their city on Skaro and have "devolved" into running on static…

I think at this point there have been, like, four different Skaros. It was introduced in The Daleks (1) and eventually destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks, but then it was back again in The Movie (2) only for the Daleks to claim it was destroyed during the Time War and now gone in Daleks in Manhattan, then the…

The Doctor met Oswin on the Dalek Asylum, which is a completely separate planet to Skaro, although Asylum of the Daleks is the last time we saw Skaro and it was mostly in ruins.

Colony Sarff (I'd have had no idea what they were actually saying if it weren't for the credits) is an entirely new character, so feel free to speculate wildly as to what their background is. An experiment would definitely make sense, but Skaro in general is just full to the bursting with strange creatures and…

I know it's not the episode itself, but the prequel, The Doctor's Meditation, only portrayed the people the Doctor spent those three weeks with (including Bors) as totally normal human beings. I thought that Bors only became a Dalek puppet after he was bitten by that snake, and he was the only one, but maybe that's a…

It doesn't excuse or alleviate the grossness of the whole thing at all, but the character was stating to be born in 1987, so she wasn't intended to be (or portrayed by) a minor. I haven't watched the show in a long time, but I don't think it was ever supposed to be anything other than horrifying, although the show's…

That's a little dark.

I'm curious to see Whovian's reaction to the episode, partly to find out what the protocol is for references to hashtags within an episode itself. What's the TV equivalent of downvoting?

The Mill, who did the CGI visual effects on the show from Rose onwards, shut down its TV department in 2013. Milk VFX have been handling it since The Day of the Doctor and there's been a marked increase in quality since then, despite sharing a number of staff members.

It was filmed at the Cardiff University's School of Optometry in The Stolen Earth, which was also used in an episode of Torchwood (Dead Man Walking) as a hospital—that staircase is really recognisable so I looked it up. I wouldn't be surprised if the Temple of Peace was used in this episode, it's a favourite location…

It wasn't anything revolutionary! I said basically the same thing as davidcgc, probably not quite as concisely or eloquently, but also mentioned that Delgado's incarnation of the Master was very much cut from the same cloth as Pertwee's Doctor, rooting the parallel in the very earliest appearance of the character. I…

Russell T Davies wasn't as heavily involved with Torchwood after the first episode until Children of Earth which didn't have any of the same "adult" problems, although he did oversee it so I'm not excusing him entirely. I put much more of the blame on Chris Chibnall for the overall tone of the first two series, he was…