Reality Bomb

On the seventy-fourth edition of Reality Bomb, Joy Piedmont is talking to Heather Berberet and Rachel Donner about the brand-new trailer for Series 12, what they’re excited about, how it stacks up against past trailers and how it feels to have your favourite TV program ghost you for almost a year. Meanwhile, Graeme Burk talks to Sage Young and Den of Geek’s Lacy Baugher about the slate of new and returning writers and directors. And a surprise guest (well to some people, anyway) comes to the Gallery of the Underrated with The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People. All this… plus the game show every Doctor Who fan has been playing this past year!

We’re so thrilled with the generosity of our fans, participants and Doctor Who community as we work together to raise money to support educational access around the world. 

Over the course of the #WhoForSchools campaign, some generous fans and participants have offered special giveaways & experiences to donors toward the initiative! (more…)

Next week, we will be releasing 19 commentaries of the 14 episodes of Season 26 — the final season of the classic series of Doctor Who. Over 50 Doctor Who writers, artists, showrunners, podcasters and fans are participating in this project including Sophie Aldred, who played Ace, series 11 writer Vinay Patel, McCoy-era script editor Andrew Cartmel, and modern series writers Paul Cornell and Peter Harness.

The commentaries are moderated by Joy Piedmont, Sage Young (Bustle movies editor), Shannon Dohar (Deeper Cuts podcast), Drew Meyer (Who and Company) and Graeme Burk.

We are pleased to announce the lineup for these commentaries now… (more…)

#WhoForSchools is pleased to announce two more bonus commentaries for episodes from Season 26 with some very special guests. Joining us for a commentary of Battlefield episode one is the writer of the series 11 story Demons of the Punjab, Vinay Patel. And joining us for a commentary for Survival episode three is the script editor for Season 26 (and the Sylvester McCoy era of Doctor Who), Andrew Cartmel.

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On the seventy-third edition of Reality Bomb we have a special live episode recorded at the Stone Creek Bar and Lounge in New York with Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont. First, we bring together NPR Books editor Petra Mayer, Marvel Comics writer Dan Slott and Bustle’s movies editor Sage Young to discuss where things go from here with Doctor Who series 12. Then we subject Nick Abadzis, Shannon Dohar and Chip Sudderth to our fiendishly hard music quiz. And we talk with The Moment’s Tom Dickinson about the end of Whofaldi and the Hybrid as he brings Hell Bent into the Gallery of the Underrated. Plus we have a bonus quiz with Rachel Donner and Edie Nugent and a double shot of comedy with Kim Rogers, Adrienne Enderle, Edie Nugent, Chip Sudderth, Jason Miller, Shannon Dohar and Tom Dickinson! 

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We are pleased to announce that a Doctor Who companion is joining us in the #WhoForSchools commentaries! Sophie Aldred, who played Ace on the program  from 1987-89, will be joining us for a bonus commentary on an episode from Season 26!

Sophie’s commentary will be full of behind the scenes content and much more. To get it, as well as the commentaries from over 50 Doctor Who podcasters, writers and fans for all 14 episodes, all you have to do is make a donation to one of the charities listed here. Then send a copy of your receipt to gallifreystands@realitybombpodcast.com, and you will be able to download the exclusive podcast commentaries of Season 26 later in October.

For more information visit the #WhoForSchools webpage.

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If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Doctor Who, it’s that education matters. Access to a quality education makes a difference in every aspect of someone’s life. It can be the determining factor between despair and hope, poverty and stability, even death and life.

Doctor Who fans can help change this. This October, representatives from your favourite Doctor Who podcasts and some very special guests are coming together to record podcast commentaries for the stories of Season 26: the final season of the Classic Series of Doctor Who. That’s 14 episodes of classic Who, with more than 50 podcasters, authors and fans participating. Anyone who donates $10 or more to the The Malala Fund or any of our recommended organizations can have access to them. (more…)

On the seventy-second edition of Reality Bomb, we remember to Doctor Who writer, script editor, author and legend Terrance Dicks with a special tribute from Martin Belam, Nick Abadzis, Lisa Gledhill, Jon Arnold, Jason A. Miller and Bill Evenson. YouTuber, fan and Doctor Who Magazine Time Team member Claudia Boleyn uncouples Utopia from the series 3 finale and brings it to the Gallery of the Underrated. And the craze sweeping the fandom is back as Is This Rumour Hot or Not? returns with emeritus producer Alex Kennard and Kim Rogers. All this plus a poem in honour of Terrance Dicks by Chris Fosten, and we blow wide the conspiracy behind what’s going on with Doctor Who in Cardiff.

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We were all saddened today at the news of the passing of Doctor Who writer, script editor and novelist Terrance Dicks. Terrance Dicks was a monumental talent, who helped define the Doctor Who we know and love today. We will be paying tribute to Terrance in an upcoming episode of Reality Bomb.

But in the meantime, we wanted to share with you a tribute we did to Terrance from five years ago. Back in 2014, we offered a comedy sketch in episode 010 which riffed on the idea of Terrance performing his best-loved convention anecdotes in a stadium rock concert. Here’s that sketch (which features Jeff Elston as the announcer).

We will miss those wonderful anecdotes and stories in future. Farewell, Terrance.

On the seventy-first edition of Reality Bomb, we’ve given over the entire episode to a special report on convention safety. We’re doing a 90-minute deep dive on the topic on harassment at conventions and what convention organizers need to do to make cons safer.

We talk to outside resources and experts as well as people in fandom and survivors including Christine Chapman of Uplift, an organization which has a special outreach program that creates codes of conduct for conventions and trains volunteer staff. We talk to Trickssi of the Cosplayer Survivor Support Network, an organization supporting survivors of abuse at cons. And we talk to Doctor Who fans Sage Young and Felicity Kuzinitz about their perspective within Doctor Who fandom about con safety. We also talk to regular contributor Heather Berberet, who offers her insight as a psychologist on the issues of harassment. Finally, we offer the stories of survivors of harassment at conventions.

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