The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine, published today, features my interview with esteemed casting director Andy Pryor, who has worked on every single episode of Doctor Who since the show’s return in 2005. He says:
“One of the things that makes my job easier is, I don’t get particularly starstruck. I’m hugely impressed by someone if they’re good and if they’re cast well, and I have great respect for what actors do, but I’m not really interested in celebrity. I don’t care what parties they’ve been to, or what they’re wearing, or who’s dating who…”
Also in DWM 449, Jonathan Morris looks at the growing pains of a TV legend in 49 Up; The Fact of Fiction investigates 2005′s triumphant return for the Doctor’s deadliest enemy, Dalek (with exclusive new revelations from the writer of that episode, Robert Shearman); the Time Team has a devil of a time watching 2006 two-parter The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit; TV Dalek Nicholas Pegg reveals the arcane secrets of compiling production subtitles on the Doctor Who DVDs; Chris Chibnall drops hints about his two scripts for the forthcoming season, in Production Notes; Toby Hadoke and Johnny Candon consider which classic creature should return next; Amy has been hijacked in the second part of The Cornucopia Caper, a new comic strip adventure written by Scott Gray with art by Dan McDaid… and all the latest news, reviews, previews, and competitions.
Doctor Who Magazine is available from all good newsagents.
