Hugo Award Nomination for "Twice Upon A Time"

"Twice Upon A Time" has been nominated in the 2018 Hugo Awards in the "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form" category.

It faces some stiff competition from the highly acclaimed "Black Mirror" episode, "USS Callister" plus the "Star Trek: Discovery" episode, "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad".

The full list of nominations in the "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form" category are:

• Black Mirror: “USS Callister,” written by William Bridges and Charlie Brooker, directed by Toby Haynes (House of Tomorrow)

• “The Deep” [song], by Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes)

• Doctor Who: “Twice Upon a Time,” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay (BBC Cymru Wales)

• The Good Place: “Michael’s Gambit,” written and directed by Michael Schur (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / Universal Television)

• The Good Place: “The Trolley Problem,” written by Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan, directed by Dean Holland (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / Universal Television)

• Star Trek: Discovery: “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad,” written by Aron Eli Coleite & Jesse Alexander, directed by David M. Barrett (CBS Television Studios)

Screencaps - Doctor Who Extra - Heaven Sent & Hell Bent

A large number of screencaps from the Doctor Who Extra for episodes 11 and 12 of Series 9 - "Heaven Sent" and "Hell Bent" - have been uploaded to the Who-Natic Gallery. Samples below - right click and open in new tab/window for larger versions.  Full size (1920 x 1080 pixels) are in the Who-Natic Gallery.

More in the Who-Natic Gallery.

"Doctor Who" Receives 2016 Hugo Award Nomination

Once again, "Doctor Who" has been nominated for a Hugo Award.  This year, "Heaven Sent" has, quite rightly, been nominated in the "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form" category - and it's facing some interesting competition:

• Doctor Who: “Heaven Sent” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay (BBC Television)
• Grimm: “Headache” written by Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, directed by Jim Kouf(Universal Television; GK Productions; Hazy Mills Productions; Open 4 Business Productions; NBCUniversal Television Distribution)
• Jessica Jones: “AKA Smile” written by Scott Reynolds, Melissa Rosenberg, and Jamie King, directed by Michael Rymer (Marvel Television; ABC Studios; Tall Girls Productions;Netflix)
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: “The Cutie Map” Parts 1 and 2 written by Scott Sonneborn, M.A. Larson, and Meghan McCarthy, directed by Jayson Thiessen and Jim Miller (DHX Media/Vancouver; Hasbro Studios)
• Supernatural: “Just My Imagination” written by Jenny Klein, directed by Richard Speight Jr. (Kripke Enterprises; Wonderland Sound and Vision; Warner Bros. Television

Best of luck to Steven Moffat, Rachel Talalay and the rest of the team.

Videos - More Doctor Who Extra - "Heaven Sent"

Well, we have two more Doctor Who Extra videos for "Heaven Sent" - and "The Return of Rachel Talalay" video includes some clips of filming the "Doctor falling towards the sea" scene:

Video - Rachel Talalay on Series 9 Finale

The BBC have released a short video of Rachel Talalay talking about directing the Series 9 finale - she says that episode 11 is "one of the most complicated and different that I've ever done":