Gallifrey Guardian
Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie record scenes for Episode 8 on Thursday 26 January.
Nice jacket, Peter! The Doctor sports a new look for 2017
Peter and Pearl chat to Matt Lucas during a break in the recording of Episode 1, A Star in Her Eye, recorded back in June last year
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The new series of Doctor Who the third to star Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and 36th season in total since 1963 is now just a couple of months away.
The 12-part series has been recording since June 2016, and a trailer including clips from many of the forthcoming episodes was seen at the end of the recent Christmas Special, The Return of Doctor Mysterio. (For trivia fans, the Christmas episode itself was made as Block Three of the series, after the first four episodes of this year’s run.)
Over the page, DWM runs through what we know about the upcoming episodes so far, as we get ready to find out what will happen when the Doctor and Nardole meet Bill Potts…
EPISODE 1
■ Written by Steven Moffat
■ Directed by Lawrence Gough
“I’m Bill. I serve chips. He’s a professor. Or a lecturer. Or as I call him… Doctor what?! And now we go everywhere!”
■ In the first episode, Bill Potts meets the Doctor and Nardole… and her life will never be the same again!
The season-opener which has previously been announced as being called A Star in Her Eye was recorded alongside Episode 2 in the first production block. The director is a newcomer to Doctor Who Lawrence Gough, whose previous TV work has included episodes of Misfits, Atlantis and Endeavour. Shooting began in June 2016 at Cathays Park in Cardiff, with scenes recorded at Cardiff University.