February 19th, 2015
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Michelle Gomez (Missy) returns to Doctor Who!
Did you miss her? Michelle Gomez returns to Doctor Who!
Michelle Gomez is back as Missy and you won’t believe how she announces her return!
From the Official site…
Michelle Gomez arrives in Cardiff this week to re-join the Doctor Who cast and reclaim the role of ‘Missy’ for series 9. She joins Peter Capaldi (the Doctor) and Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) for the opening episode of the series.
Speaking in Cardiff, Michelle Gomez said:
“Things have been a little beige since I left Missy behind, so I’m delighted to be putting my Lippie back on. I’m positively dying to see the Doctor again!”
The second two-part adventure to be filmed, ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’ and ‘The Witch’s Familiar’, is written by the show’s lead writer Steven Moffat, produced by Peter Bennett and directed by Hettie Macdonald (Blink, the Hugo Award-winning Doctor Who episode).
Steven Moffat, lead writer and Executive Producer, said:
“Everybody hide – Michelle Gomez as Missy was an instant hit last year, so she’s straight back to plague the Doctor and Clara in the series opener. But what brings her back into their lives is the last thing they’d expect.”
Having filmed ‘The Day of the Doctor’ in the series’ 50th anniversary special and ‘Dark Water’ and ‘Death in Heaven’ in series 8, Jemma Redgrave returns to the guest cast for series 9, alongside the Laurence Olivier Award nominee and film, television, radio and stage actress Kelly Hunter.
A familiar theatre and television actress and one of the UK’s most proficient performers, Clare Higgins also joins the guest cast for the opening of the series. Jaye Griffiths has been gracing our screens in some of the nation’s favourite TV programmes such as Silent Witness and Casualty and also takes up a guest role in the opening episode.
Other guest stars confirmed for the new series include Daniel Hoffmann-Gill, Jami Reid-Quarrell, Aaron Neil, India Ria Amarteifio, Joey Price, Dasharn Anderson, Harki Bhambra, Demi Papaminas.
Doctor Who is a BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC One and will be back on-air this Autumn.
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matt9982
February 20th, 2015 - 9:26pmSo there will be Episode 1+2 as a Two partner as well as 3+4 and the finale?
CJ
February 20th, 2015 - 8:02pmMaybe The Mistress?
yognot
February 20th, 2015 - 6:14pmYou are right though. She is definitely gorgeously evil.
yognot
February 20th, 2015 - 6:13pmBut Master is for a man…. That would be kinda awkward…
yognot
February 20th, 2015 - 6:13pmOne does not simply call Delgado ‘dull’
CJ
February 20th, 2015 - 6:11pmWhat about Eric Roberts and Derek Jacobi?
47
February 20th, 2015 - 5:47pmI would be extremely happy if the ridiculous ‘Missy’ title was dumped, it was o’k before the reveal, but as now we know she is ‘The Master’, it would be great to go back to that .
Anonymous
February 20th, 2015 - 3:47pmFinally! I’ve always been afraid to mention how much I disliked the Master. Don’t get me wrong…all great actors but such a boring character. I agree, Michelle Gomez has finally made the Master interesting.
TheWhomobile
February 20th, 2015 - 3:11pmIt seems difficult to accept Missy as the Master when she’s describing the Doctor as her boyfriend and kissing him. I see ,any people describing her as the best Master since Roger Delgado, but these are not even remotely close to traits the character ever had. Just because Moff changed him into a woman doesn’t mean that suddenly the character has to behave in that manner towards the Doctor.
Dalek The Supreme
February 20th, 2015 - 2:10pmI’m okay with the Master regenerating into a woman. Heck, I’d be okay if the Doctor regenerated into a woman. The problem I have is that they should actually ACT like the character they regenerated from.
Dalek The Supreme
February 20th, 2015 - 2:08pmHopefully, she’ll actually ACT like the Master this time. Last time, we got one shot where she truly felt like the Master, and for the rest of the episode, she was, for all intents and purposes, an evil Tasha Lem. I don’t mind the Master being female, but for God’s sake, make her act like the Master!
CJ
February 20th, 2015 - 1:50pmGreat
TrueWhovian17
February 20th, 2015 - 12:21pmyay
MrHaloWho
February 20th, 2015 - 11:44amSeries 7:
nobody saw the Whispermen coming
nobody saw the return of the Great Intelligence coming
nobody saw River’s return coming
There was a cliff-hanger and an explosing – all in the Name Of The Doctor
Series 8:
nobody saw Missy coming
nobody saw CyberDanny coming
nobody saw CyberBrig coming
There was an explosion – all of this in the 2 part finale
My point is, when Moffat says you won’t see something coming, he means
“Rory will return…. as a woman”
or “River Song will marry Missy”
or “Clara and Danny return and are absorbed by a deadly blob… only to escape with the aid of a metal dog”
or possibly “The Master returns as a Scottish woman who wants to kiss the Doctor.2
MrHaloWho
February 20th, 2015 - 11:39amI think you’ve confused the Internet. Try sticking with one.
MrHaloWho
February 20th, 2015 - 11:35amThat was the initial idea of Series 8, but with its ending of the Doctor killing the TARDIS, it looks unlikely.
Anonymous
February 20th, 2015 - 11:33amThat’s never stopped him.
the astronaut of death
February 20th, 2015 - 11:26amYep
CJ
February 20th, 2015 - 9:06amIs Episode 3 & 4 still a two parter?
CJ
February 20th, 2015 - 9:02amOrson Pink is supposed to come back
CJ
February 20th, 2015 - 9:00amWell I think Missy plays an outstanding Master but I don’t think the Doctor will ever turn female, No way will he! I like to think that when the Master was escaping Gallifrey, maybe he had to pick a female regeneration cycle or a male one and so he chose the female one so the Doctor wouldn’t find or know who he was I don’t know but that is what I like to think. Anyway I was shocked she was actually the Master last year, I was expecting it to be someone new or possibly the Rani
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 20th, 2015 - 7:08amTo quote McCoy off Star Trek – “His dead Jim !”.
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 20th, 2015 - 7:06amYour are not alone, she was utterly a boring and meaningless character during series 8 which I’ve just re-watched all week on DVD.
And as far as I’m concerned – SHE IS NOT THE MASTER.
No explanation was really given to confirm she was in the first place, and IF she was him, then the whole thing just smacked of desperation for fan’s who are so desperate for a female Doctor so badly which should never happen because the Doctor would do what any guy would do if he sudden had a female body which would be to explore the ‘new features’ and then have some serious ‘fun’ with those new features if you get what I mean, wink wink 😉 😉
Think of Joanna Lumley’s version of the Doctor in ‘The Curse of Fatal Death’, getting all excited by having ‘Dalek Bumps’ on her chest, that will give you a clue why a female Doctor originally being a man for so long would be a bad thing indeed.
Even Peter Davison and his daughter Georgia recently said a few weeks back they don’t like the idea of a female Doctor either.
Anonymous
February 20th, 2015 - 12:11amAll Time Agents had these things, it wasn’t a gadget exclusive to Capt Jack….she could have got one from anywhere.
TheWhomobile
February 20th, 2015 - 12:09amFeel I’m the only one who is highly disappointed by this news. I loved the Master of the classic series but I just didn’t enjoy watching Missy last year 🙁
Jay
February 19th, 2015 - 9:45pmAutumn is too long to wait. I liked Danny and his love story with Clara. I hope he does come back in some way.
The Dark Doctor
February 19th, 2015 - 7:20pmGreat think mate, would make one hell of an episode!
The Dark Doctor
February 19th, 2015 - 7:20pmAs long as Danny Pink doesn’t come back!
Doyouhearthem?
February 19th, 2015 - 6:50pmIn C.S. Lewis’ first Narnia masterpiece (The Magician’s Nephew *ahem*), the apple is of high significance. If I remember rightly, the lead character travels between other worlds (or universes) of different spacio-time properties using different rings(or wristwatches!) and the apples are capable of healing, which is why the lead character needs to take one home for his mother.
Fanboys, fangirls, to me; do your work!
CJ
February 19th, 2015 - 6:48pmLol! It be good if they did a River Song/Captain Jack spin-off