Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

Do you want to hear about MRAHHH BUSINESS regarding BBC Studios and the BBC's annual report for the better part of an hour? Well, you're going to, along with keen insights into the NHK man prowling Tokyo looking for license fee avoiders, James Bond musings, the continued myth of Christopher Nolan films having minimal CGI and more! Plus exciting Jo Martin sonic screwdriver news, more Big Finish analysis, and the exciting second part of our "Warriors of the Deep" Special Edition Classic Series Commentary with a new, pizazz-filled Myrka!
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BBC Studios Boss Confirms It Will Compete To Become The Next Producer Of 'Doctor Who'
Broadcast: BBC Studios revenues stable as profits rise
BBC Boss Says 'Doctor Who' Disruption Is Opportunity For Creative Regeneration
BBC 2026 Annual Report released
BBC License Fee Payers Plummet By Half A Million
How BBC Studios' CEO Thinks About Mega-Mergers Reshaping the Media Landscape
New Fugitive Doctor sonic scredriver unveiled, will debut in "The Kaleidoscope" book
Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker producer confirms why Fugitive Doctor has a sonic screwdriver after fan confusion
Circuit Breaker #1 on Hoopla
Doctor Who on Pop Culture Jeopardy
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: The Second Death released
Big Finish: Doctor Who – Rutans vs Sontarans: Peace at Last released
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill due August 2026
Commentary
Warriors of the Deep Part Two

The UK is awash in televisual Mrrahhh Business this week as Sky is set to purchase ITV for $2.13 billion and what better "experts" to weigh in on the subject than three Canadians with a passing familiarity with the industry? Plus a surfeit of Troughton-era goodness in the form of a massive production diary of the era by author David Brunt and a Doctor Who: Legends special featuring Ol' Two himself. We also have blatant foreign election interference as we endorse Count Binface and poorly explain what Ceefax is to the younger generations who do not in any way care! All this AND part one of our Classic Series Commentary for the newly released special edition of "Warriors Of The Deep"!!
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'Doomsday' 20 years on – remembering the final adventure of the Doctor and Rose
Sky acquires ITV for $2.13 billion
BBC "Discussing" Partnership With Channel 4 in Streaming Race for Scale
Doctor Who: Legends – Patrick Troughton available July 16
The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Troughton Years available August 14
Dalek 63-88: How One Director Made '60s Doctor Who Look Like Cinema
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers available now
Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master – Part One released
Commentary
Warriors of the Deep Part One

We're Breaking Circuits over here at Radio Free Skaro Towers, with a web-based UNIT story setting up the whole shebang and a new Titan Comics adventure (which we have read in preview form) soon to come! While TWBLATS has yet to grace North American bandwidth via Disney+, the BBC Writers Room site has provided scripts for you to peruse! Plus Steven Moffat continues his unofficial Doctor Who appreciation tour with a guest appearance on Peter Purves' podcast, Blake's 7 Series C Blu-Ray available for preorder in the US, and the conclusion of our Classic Series Commentary for part four of Spearhead From Space!
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Circuit Breaker: An Introduction
Doctor Who Circuit Break #1 available July 8 from Titan Comics
Doctor Who: 20 Years On – The Tenth Doctor BFI event Aug 15, tickets on sale July 9
The War Between the Land and the Sea scripts available on the BBC Writers Room site
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O'Clock released
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides due August 2026
Steven Moffat on Peter Purves' podcast
Target Book Club 2026 happening October 24 in London
Blake's 7 Season C available for US preorder, quotes Dec 1 release
Blake's 7: Revenge of the Mutoes & Other Stories audiobook coming July 23
Justin Richards obituary
Big Finish tribute to Justin Richards
Commentary
Spearhead From Space, Episode 4

It's a bumper crop of news this week despite a complete lack of Doctor Who…except for Circuit Breaker, which begins by way of an online game where you join UNIT! Plus a fine interview with Steven Moffat on the Whoniverse Show, some fine Big Finish Zaprudering, and some truly insane talk about both a possible (but thankfully never followed up on) Doctor Who-Star Trek crossover and a deep investigation into the Happy Days animated universe! Don a leather jacket and say "Wonzie" with us!
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Bad Wolf producing The Other Bennet Sister Christmas special in July
There were ideas for a Doctor Who/Strange New Worlds crossover
Doctor Who Magazine #631
Jo Martin DWM interview excerpt
Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker begins
Steven Moffat on The Whoniverse Show
Steven Moffat improvs a Doctor Who story
Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Gallifrey: War Room: Loyalties available now
Big Finish: Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon released
Big Finish: Torchwood: Legacy due Sep/Oct 2026
David Daker died April 30
Whocast (German Doctor Who podcast) celebrates 20 years on July 3
Simon Guerrier delivered a talk about David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks at the York Festival of Ideas

If you thought a complete vacuum of Doctor Who news would stop the Three Who Rule from prognostication based on the vapours and some recent UK media podcast analysis about the BBC tendering process, boy howdy you would be wrong! Thrill to our educated guesses as to where we go from here in a fractured media landscape! Puzzle over the tender process! Draw no real conclusions! Plus part the third of our Spearhead from Space Classic Series Commentary!
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The Rest is Entertainment podcast on the Doctor Who farrago
The War Between not in the Disney+ schedule for July
How I Filmed This – Rachel Talalay – Regenerating Doctor 12 to Doctor 13
First Doctor Who Collect & Build Set to be released June 29
Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks – Part Three released
Commentary:
Spearhead From Space, Episode 3