Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

It's the return of STATS! as we ruminate over not just some frankly dismal Disney+ numbers for our beloved Doctor Who but a smattering of other genre offerings who stumbled or triumphed on the way to your eyeballs. Plus the Gallifrey One schedule is out, Blake's 7 may be coming back, Rachel Talalay continues to win YouTube with a deep dive into Peter Capaldi's "Be Kind" speech from "The Doctor Falls" in its various forms, and a.feature interview with Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White about their excellent podcast about archive UK telly, "Through the Square Window"!
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Gallifrey One schedule released
Gallifrey One Kaffeeklatsch Sign-Ups, New Guests, Schedule Updates, New Receptions & Other Events and MORE!
BBC Group and YouTube announce new strategic partnership
'Blake's 7' Reboot In The Works From Peter Hoar, Jason Haigh-Ellery, and Matthew Bouch
Disney+ Season 1 viewing figures leak
Doctor Who Magazine Special 72 – the 2026 Yearbook
Rachel Talalay: Unseen, Uncut Dailies & Edits: The Doctor Falls "Be Kind" Speech
Aliens of London, The Satan Pit, and The Time of Angels novels and audio CDs coming March 26
Alex Kingston on The Whoniverse Show
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The First Doctor Unbound: Return to Marinus out now
Big Finish: The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard – Series One released
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Lethal Progress due June 2026
Interview:
Through the Square Window
Graham Kibble-White
Samira Ahmed

Exciting Gallifrey One news this week as the one and only Freema Agyeman makes her long-awaited return to Los Angeles in February! Also, it would be remiss not to mention missives about the Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder exhibit in San Diego being extended, and CONsole Room in Minneapolis happening this coming weekend! Also Big Finish, the delightful Jodie Whittaker answering questions, but most importantly our final Miniscope on director Nick Hurran's work on The Day of the Doctor!
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Freema Agyeman Returns to Gallifrey One
Paul Kasey and Charlie Condou announced for Gally
CONsole Room: January 23-25 in MSP
Worlds of Wonder' exhibit to be extended until January 2027 at Comic-Con Museum
Jodie Whittaker answers Big Finish listeners' questions
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Ride or Die out now
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Violet Hour due March 2026
Big Finish – UNIT: Brave New World: Knightfall due Mar 2026
Derek Martin died age 92
Marcus Gilbert died age 67
Miniscope:
Nick Hurran, Part 3
The Day of the Doctor

It's another exciting week of the Doctor Who interregnum of 2026 and we have exciting Gallifrey One guest updates, another great Rachel Talalay video involving Mondasian Cybermen, Bill Potts, and mirrors, some cryptic BBC App news we don't fully understand, the usual Big Finish artwork overexamination, and the second part of our Nick Hurran Miniscope, featuring "Asylum of the Daleks" and "The Angels Take Manhattan"! 
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Ian McNeice, Kai Owen, Ricco Ross added to Gallifrey one guest list
Go behind the scenes as Fourth Doctor Tom Baker receives his MBE
Doctor Who Magazine 625
BFI Warriors of the Deep screening Feb 28, tickets on sale Jan 15
The War Between overall viewing figures
BBC Studios expands pay model to the BBC App in the US
Rachel Talalay: What to do when the plans don't work? Bill Potts-Cyberman reveal
Big Finish Audio Novellas The Time-Splitters and Dimension 13 released
Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard: Series One coming January 22
Gregory de Polney (D84 in Robots of Death) died Jan 1
Miniscope:
Nick Hurran, Part 2
Asylum of the Daleks
The Angels Take Manhattan

It's the first podcast in this, the space year 2026, and the Three Who Rule have emerged from their New Year's slumber to cogitate on new Gallifrey One announcements, recreated sets for The Feast of Steven and Rachel Talalay Youtube videos, a surfeit of Big Finish news, Toby Hadoke's annual foray into memoriam with Absent Friends, and the first of our three part Miniscope series on Doctor Who director Nick Hurran, featuring "The Girl Who Waited" and "The God Complex"! 
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Gallifrey One Guest and Programming Update
The Feast of Steven Lost Sets Recreated: Doctor Who's Missing Christmas Episode Revealed
Rachel Talalay: Bonus: Unaired footage from Director's Cut of Heaven Sent (with explanation)
Rachel Talalay: More questions and behind the scenes on my TARDIS experiences.
Sophie Aldred on Celebrity Mastermind (Specialist Subject: Sylvester McCoy)
Celebrating 25 Years of Bernice Summerfield at Big Finish
Big Finish annual Paul Spragg Memorial winner "The Wednesday that Wasn't" available free
Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Zygon Century: Transformation due Apr 2026
Toby Hadoke's Absent Friends 2025 – The 7th Dimension – Part 1
Toby Hadoke's Absent Friends 2025 – The 7th Dimension – Part 2
Toby Hadoke's In Memoriam video
Miniscope:
Nick Hurran, Part 1
The Girl Who Waited
The God Complex

The Three Who Rule closes out 2025 with a diverting left turn into camp with a commentary for the Blake's 7 episode "Gambit", possibly the most outrageous sci-fi production the BBC produced in the 1970s. And who else to join us on this journey than Sarah and Sam of the Is It Camp?! podcast, where we ask the question: is this camp? (Spoilers: yes.)
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Blake's 7 "Gambit"
Is It Camp?!