Two Physician Who legends from Matt Smith’s period because the Eleventh Physician will reunite for a particular challenge. Underneath former showrunner Steven Moffat’s reign, Eleven was joined by Karen Gillan’s Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill’s Rory Williams. Amy and Rory shortly turned a fan-favorite married companion duo, till their devastating exit from the present within the season 7 NuWho episode “The Angels Take Manhattan.”
Now, 13 years after leaving the sequence and the Physician behind, Gillan and Darvill will return to rewatch and reminisce about their time as Smith’s companions in a brand new Physician Who-themed podcast. Darvill shared the information with RadioTimes.com, revealing that the challenge can be known as The Pondcast. The star additionally defined that it is an opportunity for him and Gillan to “look again and have fun” their time on the enduring British sequence.
“I’ve not seen half of it, so we’ll rewatch it and speak about it. We have recorded a couple of episodes already and it is actually enjoyable. It’s simply me and Karen messing round, so I am not fairly positive what number of new info you will get, nevertheless it’s very nice to type of return and reminisce about it,” Darvill defined.
It will not simply be Gillan and Darvill remembering their time on the sequence. The Physician Who and Legends of Tomorrow star additionally confirmed that Steven Moffat joined the duo as a visitor for one of many recorded episodes, doubtlessly opening the door for different stars and creatives from that period to hitch them for the podcast, too.
Each Gillan and Darvill have beforehand spoken about their willingness to return to Physician Who, with Gillan stipulating that she would solely accomplish that if Smith and Darvill joined her (through RadioTimes.com). Darvill added that he’d be blissful to return to the present as effectively, although he revealed that the trio felt otherwise once they initially completed filming.
“Yeah, if the scripts have been proper – it was so humorous once we left, all of us have been like, ‘No, by no means going again. It was too good. We do not wish to spoil it.’ However now I feel we have type of gone off and finished our personal issues. And reminiscing is harmful at instances, however you type of look again and go, effectively, it was actually formative, and essentially the most enjoyable I’ve had on nearly something, actually. I feel it will be foolish to rule it out.”
TV rewatch podcasts have confirmed to be a well-liked method. The Workplace’s Jenna Fischer and Angela Kingsley launched Workplace Women. Glee stars Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale hosted a podcast known as And That is What You REALLY Missed. Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Charisma Carpenter just lately launched her podcast, The Bitch is Again, the place she’ll be watching each episode of Buffy for the primary time.
“I like the concept that once we’re actually outdated we’ll return. I presume it should go on endlessly,” Darvill informed RadioTimes. Whereas Physician Who‘s future has been unsure these previous couple of months — it is lastly been confirmed that the BBC will push on with its flagship present, even with out Disney’s involvement — initiatives like Gillan’s and Darvill’s show simply how lasting this wibbly wobbly, timey wimey present’s legacy actually is.
Pondcast doesn’t but have a set launch date.
- Launch Date
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2005 – 2021-00-00
- Administrators
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Graeme Harper, Euros Lyn, Douglas Mackinnon, Jamie Magnus Stone, Charles Palmer, Rachel Talalay, Joe Ahearne, James Sturdy, Jamie Childs, Saul Metzstein, Toby Haynes, Wayne Che Yip, Nick Hurran, Richard Clark, James Hawes, Daniel Nettheim, Colin Teague, Keith Boak, Azhur Saleem, Adam Smith, Andrew Gunn, Nida Manzoor, Lawrence Gough, Paul Murphy
- Writers
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Steven Moffat, Russell T. Davies
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Jodie Whittaker
The Physician
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