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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jeff kammes
April 6th, 2015 - 1:09amDONT KILL HER OFF AGAIN we need the Master \Mistress!!!
The Ninth Doctor
March 26th, 2015 - 9:29pmI see your point Ainley is a great master as is Jacobi and Simm no offence but Roberts not so much
T4RD1S
March 24th, 2015 - 7:53pmWell the finale could be a dream, when the doctor woke up in LC he was in this volcano thing where clara dropped the tardis keys so maybe
Anonymous
March 23rd, 2015 - 8:17amWhat about ainley?
CJ
March 22nd, 2015 - 7:29amThat was me, forgot to put my name and email
Anonymous
March 22nd, 2015 - 7:28amGreat theory but in the first year of the Time War, the Doctor thought Davros was killed as his command ship flew into the Nightmare Child but he was actually saved by Dalek Caan from the future and was taken out of the Time War, so Davros couldn’t of possibly been with the Daleks when Gallifrey was saved.
The Dark Doctor
March 21st, 2015 - 10:26pmTHEORY!
Missy seems intent on helping the Doctor, why?
Perhaps following on from the End of Time parts 1 and 2 and Gallifrey being saved by the Doctor, Missy (the Master) attempted to take control of Gallifrey and shape the planets future. But, evidently there would have been Daleks on Gallifrey when it was saved and so perhaps it is the Daleks (and possibly Davros) who have gained control of Gallifrey.
Missy could be trying to get the Doctor to defeat the Daleks, bring Gallifrey into this universe where she will then take control and prevent the Doctor from going there.
Perhaps the Daleks could even invade Earth and threaten to destroy both worlds, leaving the Doctor with a very big desicion to make.
Missy
March 21st, 2015 - 9:35pmThe master Returns?
yognot
March 20th, 2015 - 2:37pmSpoilers: everything was just one of Barabara’s dreams!
Dalek The Supreme
March 19th, 2015 - 2:49pmThat just makes Last Christmas all the more confusing to me.
The Fourth Doctor
March 16th, 2015 - 5:00pmYes yes yes !!! Michelle Gomez is my favourite master apart from Delgado obviously 🙂 🙂 🙂
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March 16th, 2015 - 6:12amVery good article. Thank you for sharing such a useful info.
Exterminator
March 15th, 2015 - 11:11amWhat was missy reading on world book day?
http://youtu.be/0gf3my8Eg4k
yognot
March 2nd, 2015 - 3:52pmAnd Danny never died? Maybe the entire finale was a dream.
The Moffat Paradox
March 2nd, 2015 - 12:11pmHow about something here as a little tribute to the passing of Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy?
Although obviously nothing directly to do with Doctor Who his passing is surely worth acknowledging as a BIG LANDMARK in the end of an era in popular Sci-Fi that most of us who comment here are fans of. We are all part of the same family in that sense.
Just a thought.
The Surgeon
March 2nd, 2015 - 7:59amMy plan:
At end of DiH Doctor sees Santa so he must be dreaming? SO Missy is never killed? And the Doctor never doesn’t find Gallifrey?
h
February 28th, 2015 - 4:56pmi know wat hpnz in finale
clara xterminated
Doctordredd67
February 24th, 2015 - 8:52pmI hope this is where the doctor starts to look for Gallifrey.
Alexia
February 24th, 2015 - 10:54amI absolutely love Missy, i’m literally shaking with excitement. I’m definitely watching season 9!
CJ
February 22nd, 2015 - 11:01pmMaybe but that sounds more like a man, maybe The Mistress
Harold Saxon
February 22nd, 2015 - 10:21pmI am delighted missy will be back,i would like to see her referred to as the master more often,it’s who she is?
Peking Homunculus
February 21st, 2015 - 5:57pmAlmost positive Danny will return, possibly as ‘the witch’s familiar’ being brought back by Missy and manipulated as an “evil” counterpart to Clara ‘the magician’s apprentice’
Peking Homunculus
February 21st, 2015 - 5:52pmJacks deaths, that is
Peking Homunculus
February 21st, 2015 - 5:51pmRiver bought her vortex manipulator from Dorium Maldovar. The one in The Day of the Doctor was bequeathed to UNIT on the occasion of one of his deaths
TheExtremeBlueTARDIS
February 21st, 2015 - 1:23pm*Screams with delight*
Please be for more than one story.
The Temporal Jelly Baby
February 21st, 2015 - 12:25pmWhy should ‘The Master’ only be for a man? I would be happy with both Mistress and Master, which are both preferable to Missy, but Missy is okay.
The Thirteenth Doctor
February 21st, 2015 - 8:10amThey find Gallifrey, *crosses fingers, thumbs, hair, toes, arms* They find Gallifrey
CJ
February 21st, 2015 - 7:54amYeah
Dalek The Supreme
February 20th, 2015 - 11:34pmShe was different, but she didn’t even act remotely like the Master. An evil Time Lord who can match wits with the Doctor, that I find interesting, if used sparingly. I’m not saying she’s a bad character at all, I’m just saying she doesn’t really act like the Master.
matt9982
February 20th, 2015 - 9:26pm*parter