Sarah, meanwhile, discovers a force-field in place around the building, meaning that they cannot escape. As New Year's Day ticks ever closer, the Doctor's tactics will be pushed to the limit to break the loop and dodge extermination on a night where auld acquaintance can't be forgot. it was like comedy gold dust just being on set with them, they were making us laugh the whole time. I think resolutions are brilliant. She attempts to sound authoritative and order it off her property, but it pays her no heed, killing her. There was no room not to get on with each other because we were literally underground for a few weeks filming it. Doctor Who logos BBC 1969 and 2009. After that, this potential extra wrinkle companions needing to survive long enough to reach the minutes the next loop will encompass never gets mentioned again. Said Dalek arrives and they flee in to Nick's unit, which is strangely filled with several items belonging to a plethora of exes. BBC Studios In what has become the new Doctor Who tradition, we gathered around the TV on New Year's Day to watch the Doctor battle screaming pepper pots in the third and final instalment of. Intending to spend time at a beach, she, Yaz, and Dan exit in the storage facility instead. What happens in this world is you get thrown into another challenge and adventure, you meet new people, and you dust yourself off and youre back in it again. A TARDIS reboot causes an ever-shrinking temporal stutter that the Daleks exploit as an opportunity to kill the Doctor. This year, however, their night turns out to be a little different than planned.Sarah owns and runs ELF storage, and Nick is a customer who visits his unit every year on New Year's Eve. Sarah reassures him and he heads off to his unit, joking that he will see her next year. Sarah (Aisling Bea) owns and runs ELF storage, and Nick (Adjani Salmon) is a customer who visits his unit every year on New Years Eve. Not only are they stuck in a time loop, theyre being pursued by the Doctors biggest enemy, which is the Daleks. Its contained because of wheres its taking place in a warehouse in Manchester and its fun! "Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks & Legend of the Sea Devils" collects the latest two specials starring Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor. In loop five, the logic of the episode stumbles slightly. A simple 'Sarah?' All rights reserved. Spoilers abound in our review. I think the festive special is a wonderful high octane contained story, so if you havent seen the series, including the Flux, you can start this episode and be taken on a rollercoaster through a scenario where the Doctor, Yaz and Dan are stuck in a time loop. The Dalek states that 'I am not Nick', before killing her. So because you set it up, youre covering so many moments that its only slightly different. It was just bizarre. The next loop will probably start at 23:54. The episode feels a lot less cinematic and big-budget than Flux, but is no worse off for it. Subscribe and to the BBC https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSubWatch the BBC first on iPlayer https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home The Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittak. The Doctor lands the TARDIS in a place she's not expecting to land in order to reset it from the damage done to it in the Flux in . How was it working with Aisling Bea and Adjani Salmon? It was written by Chris Chibnall, and directed by Annetta Laufer. You dont always expect to get this interaction with them, its brilliant! The locations were also a challenge - especially the narrow corridors. It sounds naff but the last proper holiday we went on before lockdown was in the Maldives and theres been many a time over the last couple of years I thought Id do that again! So if I could get stuck in a time loop I wouldnt mind being in a nice hotel in the Maldives! The trio find the rejuvenated TARDIS in the wreckage, with the Doctor promising to take them to find some lost treasure while Karl Wright, unaware of the true going-ons, gleefully records the fireworks display. The Doctor, Yaz and Dan come face to fin with some of the Doctors oldest adversaries. director of photography Casting By Andy Pryor Production Design by Dafydd Shurmer Costume Design by Ray Holman Makeup Department Jay Styler . There are different ways of dying but when a Dalek exterminates you, you sort of freeze. Meanwhile the lights go completely black in Nick's storage unit. 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The Doctor lands the TARDIS in a place shes not expecting to land in order to reset it from the damage done to it in the Flux in the previous series. We haven't just been imagining it. It was just us five in this wet tunnel and we get on so well with the crew but youre in a storage unit, theres only so much space and theyve got shelves up. Later, The Doctor says the time loop is only in the building. What it was like working with them and can you tell us anything about their characters? The episode introduces a new version of the Daleks referred to as Executioner Daleks,[1] and uses the format of a time loop. If Sarah had been the one to insist on doing the saving, there would have been some emotional heft to this, but Nick ends up rescuing himself and ultimately its just a slightly odd diversion. Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan, whose true feelings for the Doctor are revealed. The episode follows the thirteenth series as a New Year's Day special. Ten minutes until midnight and the dawning of 2022. Can the Doctor and friends pull off their plan?'Eve of the Daleks' is now streaming on BBC iPlayer: htt. Happy New Year. 23:55. But that was the challenge of it, that was the delight of it and we hadnt really done an episode like this. Doctor Who: Ranking the Master Stories Which is the Best? Dan is not too pleased with their location, but the Doctor is hopeful that they will find a good party. What will your own resolution be, do you believe in them? Available to buy The cast and creator of Eve Of The Daleks reveal all about the episode, which will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 7pm on New Years Day 2022. Once again, we see that Doctor Who doesnt need a huge budget, overburdened scripts or universe-ending antimatter waves to succeed. She also had to deal with the Daleks finally learning to combat the sonic screwdriver. It felt like I was invited to someones family barbecue - everyone is welcoming and offering food and wants to show you whats happening! How are the central trio managing off the back of Flux? So we actually got so much work done. Meanwhile, the Doctor attempts to reset the TARDIS to remove the damage and anomalies caused by the Flux. It is only when the reboot started that I took more notice. Shes a very emotionally intelligent character and she always bangs on to the Doctor to talk about what she went through and open up but all the while shes been hiding this turmoil she went through when she was younger. Travel in the TARDIS with clips dating back to the Doctor's first incarnation in 1963, all the way through dozens of regenerations. Nevertheless, Nick heads off to his storage unit. He exits to find a Dalek, which promptly exterminates him. In the first loop, Sarah chastises her mother for calling at four minutes to midnight. How did Aisling Bea and Adjani Salmon come to be involved? Theres a lot of empty space being deployed, whether its framing characters in long, thin rooms so they can stand well apart or during carefully-distanced chase scenes. As part of this, Nick runs to his storage unit and constructs a box fort out of all his ex-partners belongings, leading the Daleks to believe that building bunkers is the Doctors new strategy. Before she can investigate further, the Dalek appears. 3. What was it like filming the scenes where youre exterminated? Doctor Who's Eve Of The Daleks cast and creators tease drama - BBC After all, we as an audience have barely finished unwrapping Doctor Who: Flux, which was teed up to be the biggest, most ambitious, apocalyptic magnum opus of Chris Chibnalls tenure the very definition of an overstuffed stocking. He leaves with a flashlight but is promptly killed by another Dalek. Chris had suggested Aisling Bea which I thought was a great idea. Dan decides to get out at the lobby to hopefully distract the Dalek for a while. How was it working with the Daleks this time around and what makes them so fun as a villain? To Sarah's horror, Nick is exterminated by a second Dalek. The Doctor, Yaz and Dan uncover more of Jeff's stuff in the basement, boxes of presumably illegal fireworks. Obviously with the episode where youre in a time loop and youre doing scenes in the same spaces with the same characters again and again I think they had a proper great time with it. Please enable JavaScript to take full advantage of iPlayer. Sarah seems disgusted by this, calling it extremely weird that he does this every New Year's Eve, saying that she wouldn't even be here without his patronage. My first introduction to Adjani was when we did the read through on Zoom and he was absolutely hilarious and I couldnt wait for his energy and Aislings energy, theyre so different and they complement each other so well. Dan eventually gets up close and circles the Dalek as it fires at him. What they brought to the characters and what they brought to the episode was really fun, a lot of high energy, a lot of farce, high stakes in this very groundhog, Russian Doll environment. [2], Jodie Whittaker stars as the Thirteenth Doctor, alongside Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan and John Bishop as Dan Lewis. They also find a room filled with incredibly dangerous weapons and objects that the Doctor describes as 'if I were to set this on fire, would it potentially have explosive or devastating consequences?'. 23:59. However, we do, Ive been on a really long journey with Dan in which hes seen things and emotions, a side to me he probably wouldnt have seen if we hadnt been separated from the Doctor. On the 1st floor, Nick puts a label in front of the Monopoly box in his storage unit when suddenly the lights go out. She gives the phone to the Doctor and Yaz, and flees with Nick. They head to investigate. Nick seems upset by this and leaves the unit to sacrifice himself and buy them time, accepting that it is his fault Sarah is here. Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks & Legend of the Sea Devils (BD) [Blu-ray Theres no time to sort of reflect on everything that has gone on. Terminated' before he falls to the same fate. As they start their new life together, the TARDIS flies through the sky behind them. That figure isnt just for the current series every episode since 2005 is currently available but it does suggest the important place the BBC still sees Doctor Who having in its drama lineup. Its quite common in sci-fi for people to become gradually aware of time loops over several iterations, but the story doesnt have time for that, so everyones immediately clued into whats happening and we learn some of the nuts and bolts of how the episode will work: the exit is shielded, the place is full of Jeffs random contraband, and the Dalek is predicting what their actions will be in each loop based on what they tried in the immediate past. Part of what makes Aisling Beas character so interesting is that while she doesnt intend to be cruel, shes unabashedly selfish and short-tempered, and her thoughtless actions result in genuine harm to others. Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks is available now on BBC iPlayer. Doctor Who recap: New Year's Day special, "Eve Of The Daleks" On New Year's Eve, the appearance of an executioner Dalek means Sarah and Nick's countdown to midnight will be the strangest and deadliest they have ever known. There was some social media grumbling before the show not the Daleks again! New Year, New Who. I will be watching it with my family on New Years Day which will be a lot of fun. BBC One - Doctor Who, Eve of the Daleks Eve of the Daleks On New Year's Eve, the appearance of an executioner Dalek means Sarah and Nick's countdown to midnight will be the strangest and. His body is soon found by the Doctor and friends. Yaz (Mandip Gill) has fallen in love with the Doctor! She asks if he has been practising saying that. Probably not the last weve seen of these deadly pepperpots. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! New Years Eve. The Doctor, Yaz and Dan arrive in the lobby where the Doctor attempts to use her sonic to jam it's weapons systems. REVIEW: Doctor Who - 'Eve of the Daleks' - New Year's Day Special Sarah and Nick meanwhile are about to embark on their travels around the world, arguing over whether the time loop where they were killed 8 times by alien robots was a first date or just a meet-cute. Nick is here to stow the rather weathered edition in his storage unit, but is clearly so desperate to eke out his brief time in Sarahs company that he insists on being read the full list of banned items. The actors (in the Daleks) are so great I didnt even know actors were in there! Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks and Legend of the Sea Devils Stuck in a Time Loop? | Eve of the Daleks TRAILER | Doctor Who The Doctor, Yaz and Dan await the Daleks in Jeff's living space, preparing to eat Beef'n'Beans while they watch the Hootenanny. She has to face continuously escaping Daleks in a time loop and save the lives of the two people who are there on New Years Eve. The Doctor realises that each reset shortens the time loop by one minute and speculates that the loop will collapse at midnight. Can the Doctor, Yaz and Dan save them? How has the Doctor and Yazs relationship developed since they first met each other? Hes comfortable with the Doctor and Mandip and hes a comfortable time traveller. Nick's unit is filled with items that belonged to his ex-, ELF Storage's entrance hall is adorned with, Sarah inherited ELF Storage from her deceased great-, The Doctor claims she and Yaz "would be so good on, Mary tells her daughter that New Year's Eve is the best time to meet a, One of Jeff's storage units is filled with shelves full of cans of, This episode has the longest cold opening in the franchise, running just over 00:09:10. The new Panopticon forum is now open with other boards to follow shortly! They fought the Time Lords in The Last Great Time War - a conflict so powerful and destructive that the universe was said to convulse.The Doctor first encountered the Daleks on the radiation-soaked planet of Skaro, waging war . Except its not really just once, because this is a time loop story, and so everyone finds themselves back at the beginning ready for round two. [2], The episode was watched by 3.21 million viewers overnight, becoming the sixth most-watched programme of the day. He ducks between the two Daleks targeting him, allowing them to destroy each other. They are not trying to destroy the world they are trying to destroy the Doctor in payment for what has been done to the Daleks at the end of the previous series. On New Year's Eve, the appearance of an executioner Dalek means Sarah and Nick's countdown to midnight will be the strangest and deadliest they have ever known. Signed [9] On Rotten Tomatoes, another aggregator, 82% of 11 critics gave the episode a positive review, with an average rating of 7.20 out of 10. The entire Doctor Who clique is like a family and a unit. Interviews with Series 13's directors, Jamie Magnus Stone and Azhur Saleem. Just this once, everybody dies! Why is an Executioner Dalek targeting these two people, in this place, on this night? Its a nice idea, but Sarah herself is gunned down almost immediately in loop six and yet shes alive and well next time around. At the same time, they are just thrown into a new adventure and they dont have time to think about the gravitas of the Flux at that point. Aisling Bea and Adjani Salmon join Doctor Who for a time loop action Sarah is working - again. What was your biggest surprise filming Doctor Who, apart from actors being inside the Daleks? What is the Flux? This episode is all about time loops, if you had to repeat any day from your own life on a loop what would it be? "Eve of the Daleks" has been teased by Chibnall as a "time loop romantic comedy." In the ELF storage facility, owner Sarah (Aisling Bea) and regular customer Nick (Adjani Salmon) find themselves trapped in a deadly time loop with The Doctor, Yaz, Dan, and multiple rogue Daleks as they find themselves exterminated over and over again. The most evil creature in the universe has successfully vanquished an old door. What I want the audience to take away with them is a feeling of happiness and a warm glow inside. As the forces of evil mass, the Doctor, Yaz and Dan face. Same old same old. The continuing references to rivalries between Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield might be baffling to the international audience, but when Yaz said there was to be no dissing of her mate, because that was her job, you could feel an evolved relationship. In the first instalment of a two-part feature, costume designer Ray . He jokes that there better be another loop for him to come back to. They all convene on the 1st floor, where Sarah suspects that the Dalek belongs to the Doctor as she knows it's name. Mixed by Goetz Botzenhardt Subscribe and to the BBC https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSubWatch the BBC first on iPlayer https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home The Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and friends will kick-start 2022 with an action-packed spectacular episode on New Years Day. Doctor Who: Flux might be over, but the adventure continues on New Year's Day for the TARDIS team - and for the first time, the BBC has . An exclusive preview of Eve of the Daleks, with contributions from Chris Chibnall, John Bishop, Mandip Gill and director Annetta Laufer. The site's consensus reads "Doctor Who scales back and is all the better for it with a New Year's special that finds fresh notes within a self-contained yarn. Triggered by hearing Sarah's mother calling her phone, the Daleks shoot the trap and ignite the fireworks, which causes the facility to explode and bury the Daleks underneath. 23:58. Having him there for the Thirteenth Doctors final adventure would have made for quite the narrative bookend. Indeed, at times (while trying to assemble the means to escape from the junk lying around ELF storage) Bea must have felt as if she was back on Taskmaster. Yaz calls them back to the basement, as the Daleks realise that the Doctor has misdirected them. Time resets again to 23:53 and Nick has already gone to his unit. While Jodie Whittaker's immense talent still isn't being put to proper use, standout performances from Mandip Gill and John Bishop make Eve of the Daleks a gratifying special and a. The Daleks have been around quite a few times since Ive been in Doctor Who but every time you become more familiar with them. One of the Doctor's most feared nemeses will be back on our screens this New Year's Day as Doctor Who returns for a special episode entitled Eve of the Daleks. Warning: this review contains spoilers for Doctor Who Eve of the Daleks, You go through all those presents and right at the end, tucked away at the bottom, theres always one stupid old satsuma. In the New Year's Day special we are in a storage facility in Manchester and ten minutes to midnight on New Year's Eve and it's a time travel loop romantic comedy with Daleks, Aisling Bea and Adjani Salmon. Aisling Bea, Mandip Gill, Jodie Whittaker and John Bishop in Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks. 18:41 Doctor Who Reaction - Eve of the Daleks AlicePlays Reactions 0:48 Doctor Who: Eve Of The Daleks Trailer - BBC National World - Film & TV Clips & Trailers 0:50 Doctor Who : bande-annonce pour le special du Nouvel An 2022, Eve of the Daleks (VO) PremiereFR 0:37 Doctor Who (2005) Episode spcial "Eve of the Daleks" Teaser VO Allocin 58:14 What's coming up in 'Eve of the Daleks'? - Doctor Who Its fast-paced, because its a loop the narrative keeps changing so its a fast pace, its got to start and restart itself a lot throughout the episode. Reviews Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks Review There's an unexpected festive treat left to unwrap as this New Year's offering delivers the goods. It was Nancy Wilsons 1963 recording of What Are You Doing New Years Eve? Its this unpredictability and a sense that the mutant is really savouring its mission that makes this one of the most chilling uses of a Dalek since, well, Dalek. Beep | on Twitter: "Eve of the Daleks (2/2): - TW// but after i found I was like, Can I be Kimberley because shes really northern? and she let me do that bit which was really nice of her! Who wants a satsuma? As it turns out, Doctor, I did. Im thinking could I go back and do something better? The answer is probably no. Whats also interesting is how well this could have served as a regeneration story if the final few minutes had played out differently. Time resets, with Sarah and Nick both trying to save the other, but failing and dying upon seeing the Dalek again. Weirdly we sort of forget about the emotional turmoil that weve all been through, to some degree. What would Yazs New Years resolution be at this point in the story? "Eve of the Daleks" is the first of the 2022 specials of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was broadcast on BBC One on 1 January 2022. Dan reveals to the Doctor that Yaz likes her, and asks the Doctor to stop pretending that she doesn't understand. Nick (Briggs) who actually speaks, speaks live and you hear him live as well. The relationship between Aisling (Bea) and Adjani (Salmon) is great - there are some ad libs they dropped in which Chris kept in as they are great comic actors and both very funny. Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks episodes (1) 1 Eve of the Daleks 1/1/22 Season-only New Year's Eve. The New Years special is a standalone episode so its a really easy access point for anyone that perhaps didnt watch the series or has never watched Doctor Who. Theres an unexpected festive treat left to unwrap as this New Years offering delivers the goods. Weve heard this is a very fun special, with a comedy element in there too? Dan reveals to Yaz that he knows how she feels about the Doctor, surprising Yaz as she has not even fully admitted it to herself. Theyre very funny people. It brings us an adventure suffused with humour, which still maintains the severity of the threat faced by the characters. However, her face turns when she discovers a time disturbance two floors up. Anything to do with something as iconic as the Daleks is bound to be fun but this is a massive step up, from my point of view as anyone who gets a part in Doctor Who hopes there may be a scene with the Daleks. The Daleks reveal they have detected the TARDIS' energy signature and have come to execute the Doctor for her actions in "The Vanquishers". I talked to her very early on, wed wanted her in the show, we thought about this story and I spoke to her and said this is what were thinking of doing and would you be up for it? She was great, she was really super positive and amazing as she is, and she agreed to do it! Hes definitely enjoying it and has got confidence to contribute to what is going on. Nicholas Briggs has been providing the Dalek voices since 2005. What do the Daleks want? They head to the basement while the TARDIS team head to the 5th floor in the lift. The episode features guest stars Aisling Bea and Adjani Salmon, and also features Pauline McLynn. Sarah owns and runs ELF storage, and Nick is a customer who visits his unit every year on New Year's Eve. The atmosphere was amazing. But also there was just five of us the entire time and that was so much fun. Stuck in a time loop, the Daleks finally get to exterminate the Doctor again and again! Sarah owns and runs ELF storage, and Nick is a customer who visits his unit every year on New Year's Eve. In that regard, its similar to his first-ever Doctor Who episode, 42. The TARDIS team arrive in the lobby to find Nick's dead body and the forcefield, seeing Sarah's corpse on the security footage of the 5th floor. Every time they come in they create chaos and turmoil, sometimes we beat them and sometimes we havent. A regular customer, Nick, arrives asking to access his storage unit, asking Sarah to run through the list of items that cannot be stored. 2022 arrives, the TARDIS is fixed and Sarah leaves with Nick to go and see the world. Episode 1 Eve of the Daleks On New Year's Eve, the appearance of an executioner Dalek means Sarah and Nick's countdown to midnight will be the strangest and deadliest they have ever known. They similarly experience dja vu, and the TARDIS cracks behind them like before. On New Years Eve, the appearance of an executioner Dalek means Sarah and Nicks countdown to midnight will be the strangest and deadliest they have ever known. Except this year, their countdown to midnight will be the strangest and deadliest they have ever known. We laughed A LOT! "[8], "Eve of the Daleks" and "Legend of the Sea Devils" received a joint DVD and Blu-ray release in Region 2/B on 23 May 2022,[18] in Region 1/A on 28 June 2022,[19] and in Region 4/B on 13 July 2022.

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