Planet Gallifrey: Doctor Who filming, 29.04.09

Wednesday, April 29

Doctor Who filming, 29.04.09

Looks like this finale is shaping up to be as mental as the last one :P

Filming took place today on the upstairs floor of Tiger Tiger, so as usual there wont be any images from inside (although it was used in the Torchwood episode 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang')

And who was there? Well according to all the fantastic people who stood outside for hours on end:
  • Tennant in his brown suit
  • Barrowman in dark blue shirt
  • Jimmy Vee as a Graske
  • A slitheen
  • Monks
  • Mysterious women
  • Red & white aliens
The CGI people were there as well, so perhaps there'll be some CGI aliens?

AND apparently Russel Tovey (Midshipman Frame) was there as well in a black military-style uniform and short hair.

Photos courtesy of Scooty:


The monks also seem link they're the same ones that were filming inside the caves recently... Time Lordy perhaps?


And the red and white aliens look similar to background characters seen in New Earth (in the hospital) and in Gridlock (in separate cars)


So its all insane! Goodness knows whats going on. Theres speculation that this might be for a scene that was cut from 'The Stolen Earth' where almost all the aliens from New Who where in the Shadow Proclaimation and Midshipman Frame was a soldier for them. It was mentioned in The Writers Tale by RTD and in a commentry DT said he wanted the scene to appear in one of the specials.


You can see more amazing photos here:
Alun.vega's Flickr
Scooty's Photobucket

A HUGE thanks to Scooty, Alun.vega and everyone else who covered todays filming :)

41 comments:

Anonymous said...

yasssssssss, first comment, lol, looks great, well now we know catherine tate, elizabteh sladen and now john barrowman is back for david tennants farewell :( i wonder will billie or freema, we will just have to wait and see, ahhh :O It looks so amazing though! I am trying to come up with an idea in my head about what this fantastic two-parter is going to be about. Im guessing that a powerful evil person is involved( possible the master) and everyone in the universe is goin crazy and coming to earth( or somewhere else) PLEASE SUGGEST YOUR IDEAS'S, WE NEED TO FILL THE TIME BETWEEN NOW AND XMAS!(still excited for water of mars though in november!)

Casa said...

as long as the master doesnt "die" at the end ill be ok, to many people die and then come back with crappy excuses, have him escape as the doc regenerates

Anonymous said...

These episodes are going to to be sooo great, I'm hoping they'll fill in some background!

Unknown said...

Looking at that woman in the white robes...i know this is very out there and there have only been references to them in A.O.G (Void/The Howling) & in T.S.C (They banished the Carrionites), and with all these aliens coming together, maybe something that bad/controversial has happened that it has caught the attention of The Eternals? Theres a thing on wikipedia about something RTD said in the Doctor Who Annual 2006. Stated that during the Last Great Time War, the Eternals were so affected by the violence and the damage to space and time that they left the mainstream five-dimensional universe completely, never to be seen again...

...or where they?

Look at what they did with the Shadow Proclamation, slight references, then they were finally shown...

Is this a bit too out there to possibly have some truth in it???

Anonymous said...

hello, I want to contact with Jess, but I don't know how. I went into the profile, and found an email address, but i'm not sure if it's right. is it j.neale@hotmail.com?
because i've sent an email there, and i really really really hope to contact with her.
so, please, jess. if you read this please email to
lucipucy12@naver.com
or you could just check your mailbox and reply(if I used the right address)
-omgiloveDW

Name said...

She can take a while to reply to emails.

I Barrowman looks pissed off.

Jess said...

Haha, yeah I'm utterly rubbish at emails :)

But I checked my inbox and I never got an email from you... I think there might be someone else with the same or a very similar one since sometimes I don't get messages (or get ones that are addressed to someone else)

Hmmm, I guess you can try sending the email again and if it doesn't work a second time then I'll sort something out :)

Hope this helps!

Anonymous said...

Those monks are definitely not "Time Lordy". Look at this extract from the originally scripted Shadow Proclamation scene in The Stolen Earth-

FX: Wide shot. Big, white open smart-sci-fi-building. Filled with crowd multiplication Judoon, crowd multiplication Slitheen, a few Hath, two helmeted Sycorax, and crowd multiplication space-extras: some in big opera cloaks; Sisters of the Wicker Place Mat from 1.2; plus a lot of monks and nuns.

daleshrimpton said...

i suppose its too far fetched to assume that this was a wrap party?

Joy said...

Can't be - filming doesn't finish for another month! (May 22 or 24)

Anonymous said...

Perhaps dreams of the Doctor's past are a theme here, because his time is coming to an end. The monks could be from "Tooth and Claw".

Anonymous said...

http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/04/23/the-most-surprising-doctor-who-news-ive-heard-today/

rani?

Anonymous said...

David, I don't recall any of the Eternals in Enlightenment looking like that.

Anonymous said...

Lord help me, if the next person says "Rani", I'll kick their teeth in

She was in three very badly written serials. GET OVER HER

flying girl said...

Well, here's my crackpot theory or idea :) based on ... pretty much nothing.

Remember, it was mentioned by RTD that 'Waters of Mars' is going to have some connection to the finale? And there was a scene shot in 'Waters of Mars' where Doctor comes out of the Tardis, looks at something and is completely horrified? Well, what if he sees Gallifrey on the sky (I know, I know written in big, burning letters :) Maybe he recognizes it as his home world?

So, it's the Master (or insert your favorite villain) who undid a Time War and brought it back at the expense of lots of other worlds. And so, all the aliens complain about their worlds disappearing, so Doctor tries to save them, realizes he has to destroy Gallifrey all over again, and there's a RTD favorite 'I-like-to-torture-the-Doctor' heart-wrenching story. Wouldn't put it past RTD. (or maybe it'll be the other way around, Doctor finds a way to bring Gallifrey back, but has to sacrifice himself for that).

Like I said, based on nothing, just bouncing ideas off the wall :)

Anonymous said...

I will say it again-


***********************************

FX: Wide shot. Big, white open smart-sci-fi-building. Filled with crowd multiplication Judoon, crowd multiplication Slitheen, a few Hath, two helmeted Sycorax, and crowd multiplication space-extras: some in big opera cloaks; Sisters of the Wicker Place Mat from 1.2; plus a lot of monks and nuns.

**********************************

"PLUS A LOT OF MONKS!" Is this not getting through to people?
They're not Time Lords or part of a flashback from Tooth and Claw, they are just members of the Shadow Proclamation.

the person who sent jess an email said...

Hello,,, i'm the person who sent you the email. i just sent you two more, on the same email address. if it dosent work, then i could just post it here, but anyway. if you DO get it, reply to me.
oh, and since you have a hotmail account, i tried to search you on the website(sorry if it disturbs u) and i came up with 5 jess neales. your name is jess neale, right? (nice name. jess. neale. I like it!) and i was just wondering which one you were. there was a person from cardiff, canada,.. umm.. oh, and there was someone with no profiles, no nothing. i took a random guess that that's you since u said u don't check emails often. so, try searching your name on hotmail. just for fun. i tried my name and came up with only one- me.(my name's korean so it's.. kind of unique.)

SO!! the point is, check you email, please, reply if you get it, if you don't tell me(write a comment here like u did last time) and if u don't get it, i'll just post it here.

(my, that's long) -cya!!
---omgiloveDW

Anonymous said...

Excuse me anonymous

"
***********************************

FX: Wide shot. Big, white open smart-sci-fi-building. Filled with crowd multiplication Judoon, crowd multiplication Slitheen, a few Hath, two helmeted Sycorax, and crowd multiplication space-extras: some in big opera cloaks; Sisters of the Wicker Place Mat from 1.2; plus a lot of monks and nuns.

**********************************

"PLUS A LOT OF MONKS!" Is this not getting through to people?
They're not Time Lords or part of a flashback from Tooth and Claw, they are just members of the Shadow Proclamation."

WHAT makes you so sure that what they are filming is that scene? not saying that they are timelords but seeing as this is a completely different story this might not even be the shadow proclamation.

Casa said...

RTD and DT have said they really wanted to do the scene in one of the specials

Anonymous said...

that doesnt mean that the scene hasnt been altered?

Anonymous said...

Not Wanting To Put A Dampener On The Theory of The Monks Being TL's But Coudln't They Just Be The Kingdom Of The Wolf Monks
(or whatever they where)
Last Seen In Tooth And Claw?

Anonymous said...

There the monks from the Mars Bar commerical

Anonymous said...

OK I need clarity please. I thought at the end of planet of the dead the trailer for Waters of Mars indicated THAT would be the next special we will see. But RTD says that is scheduled for "Novemberish". Someone on another post told me that there will be others inbetween now and Waters. So if that is the case then why show a trailer for waters if that isn't the next special?

How many more trailers are left this year? Anyone have a concrete number?

Joy Fleisig said...

There may be smaller things like the Children in Need Special - and there are now serious reports that David Tennant will be starring in an animated adventure along the lines of "The Infinite Quest".

But there are three more main Specials - "The Waters of Mars" and the two-part finale.

TheBastard said...

I saw Simon Pegg in a black suit on one of your previous pages, what role is he playing?

Jess said...

I dont think that was Simon Pegg, as far as I'm aware that was John Simm.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if the white and red things are "watchers"?

Tiffany said...

Yes!! Barrowman's Back!! I knew it!! Yes! Jack! I'm lovin it! Whoop! Jack and ten together! Should be fab! Hope Torchwood make another appearence. The doctor and torchwood...what a great ending!

Tom said...

glad to see jack's back. but i don't think the slitheen and graske should be in the finale, it doesn't seem right. I think they should give david what he wants for his last episode, and give him the zygons he wanted.

Anonymous said...

>So if that is the case then why show a trailer for waters if that isn't the next special<

"WATERS" IS THE NEXT SPECIAL YOU MORON.

Anonymous said...

Red and White Aliens? Sounds a bit Alice In Wonderland to me.

Tom said...

is that Russell Tovey in the first picture? ( behind jack and he guy in the green jacket ). matches the description given, short hair and black uniform.

Tom said...

hang on, no sorry it isn't. if you look at the pic below it's the same guy and it isn't russell. ah well.

Anonymous said...

The first one of Captain Jack was super imposed. He said so himself on an interview with DS

Jess said...

I kinda got the impression that he was making that up, trying not to let on he was in the finale type thing :)

Anonymous said...

this is possibly a tie in with the tonight's the night competition, that will be unveiled this Saturday

Anonymous said...

anyone notice that the red and white guys appear briefly in the second series at the hospital on new earth?

Ethan said...

The white character looks remarkably similar to The Watcher in "Logopolis" that followed Tom Bakers final adventure, and then reappeared at the moment of his regeneration into Davison.

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