Doctor Who- Unleashed - Season 2 Episode 06- The Interstellar Song Contest
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00:01In this episode
00:05The stars are out and shining bright.
00:08Oh my god, it's the actual tardio.
00:10I think I'm going to collapse. I think I'm going to collapse.
00:12What do you think of this?
00:14It says backing dance.
00:17I get to direct 100 aliens on my work experience.
00:21You can move your mouths and make as much noise as you can without actually making any noise.
00:25We lift the lid on an absolute howler of a new worm.
00:30I'm wiping my hands off Doctor Who. It has nothing to do with me.
00:35And spoiler alert, we've got an exclusive clip from the next episode of Doctor Who.
00:40Hi! Isn't this fantastic? Look at you! Don't you look fantastic? Hey!
00:45And welcome to Doctor Who Unleashed! Yes!
00:55Oh, good evening Harmony Arena!
01:00Welcome, bienvenu, willkommen a croeso.
01:04This is Doctor Who Unleashed, your personal portal to all things Who.
01:09It can be.
01:10In this episode, we'll be defrosting...
01:12The 803rd Interstellar Song Contest!
01:16I think it's a marvelously mad episode.
01:22The Eurovision Song Contest meets Die Hard.
01:25And here's Bruce Willis.
01:26Ba-ba-ba, you'd like to think.
01:29This is the dream, Brie.
01:31I attend Eurovision regularly, so I'm a proper fan.
01:35If you cut me through the middle, it's just Eurovision and sugar.
01:38And try to stay calm.
01:40Oh, my God! I'm so pleased to meet you!
01:42There's Rowland!
01:43As we're going to pop the top on this explosive episode.
01:48Let's start the show!
01:57One of the many iconic things about the Hooniverse are the stellar guests
02:01who pop in and deliver memorable cameo roles.
02:04But who else had a hologram of this fella?
02:08Hello, I'm Graeme Norton.
02:10No way!
02:11On their bingo card.
02:13Poor old planet Earth died many years ago.
02:16It is said the planet disintegrated into rock and dust and ashes.
02:21Graeme, can I start by saying, what do you think of this?
02:23Would it fit in, well, Eurovision or also the Interstellar Song Contest?
02:27What are you thinking?
02:28It says backing dancer.
02:30Is that what?
02:32Or backing singer.
02:33I don't think you're the act.
02:35Oh, Graeme.
02:37Sad face.
02:38How did this happen then?
02:40How did you end up here?
02:41Listen, they asked me if I wanted to be in episode of Doctor Who
02:44and of course I said yes.
02:46And also it was very easy.
02:47I'm just here for like half a day, so it's easy.
02:49Have you ever thought of yourself as a hologram before?
02:51No, I have not.
02:52But I like the idea.
02:53I like that it seems like very easy work.
02:55X-ray 231 takes seven.
02:57Now there's a bit of sort of history with you and Doctor Who, isn't there,
03:00from back in the day.
03:01This is my first time officially being in Doctor Who.
03:05Yes.
03:06I've ruined a couple of episodes.
03:08The first one could have gone so wrong because it was my very, very first live appearance on BBC One.
03:14Yeah.
03:15We came off air into the first episode of the revamped Doctor Who.
03:20Yeah.
03:21And I don't know who messed up, but we were doing a trail for the next week and somebody brought my microphone up and broadcast it during Doctor Who.
03:32So they were going through a basement and people thought, oh, that's clever.
03:35You know, Billy Piper is listening to Graham Morton in the basement.
03:39And then they realised it was just me wanging on.
03:41I could have so easily sworn, said something terrible, you know, yeah, we got away with it.
03:47But it's a full circle moment.
03:48Here you are.
03:49It is.
03:50I'm meant to be here, everyone.
03:51I'm meant to be here.
03:52Yeah.
03:53The star power in this episode was doubled up by cryogenic co-host, Ryland.
03:59I'm literally, I've been here now for a couple of days and I'm just still pinching myself every time I walk into these studios.
04:05Yeah.
04:06I got to go into the TARDIS yesterday.
04:08Oh my God, it's the actual TARDIS.
04:11I think I'm going to collapse.
04:13I actually think I'm going to collapse.
04:14So are you much of a Doctor Who fan before this?
04:16Massive Doctor Who fan.
04:17I've been a massive Doctor Who fan my entire life.
04:19Oh my God.
04:20I won't press any buttons because I want to end up in the future.
04:25So who was your first Doctor?
04:27My first Doctor that I really got into was Christopher Eccleston.
04:30Yeah.
04:31So when it came back, The Requival, that's when I really got into it.
04:34Yeah.
04:35And I just remember being obsessed with that series so much, like the Game Station and Saturday Night 5 and all of that.
04:40Yeah.
04:41And because obviously I loved Big Brother as well at the same time, so when like Game Station came in.
04:45Yeah.
04:46And it was like a crossover of all the shows, I was like, oh my God, this is the best episode I've ever seen in my life.
04:49Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:50Right.
04:51So for every Whovian out there, I swear to you, it is everything you want it to be and more.
04:58It is so gorgeous.
05:00Your Venn diagram, this is bang.
05:02This episode has been written for Ryland.
05:04Yeah.
05:05And I will own that.
05:06I'm so thrilled.
05:07Thank you so much for letting me do this.
05:09Can I just like live here?
05:11Is this slightly different, obviously, to maybe the stuff you've done before?
05:14Because there's obviously more acting rather than presenting?
05:16Yeah, I mean, I was a little bit nervous to be fair.
05:18I've done some acting in the past, but like nothing like Doctor Who.
05:22Yeah, yeah.
05:23But obviously I'm playing Ryland, but I'm not playing real Ryland.
05:26Yeah.
05:27So like there's things in the script where it's like, I don't know what I'm doing.
05:30Like as in like, oh, something's going wrong in my ear.
05:32Yeah.
05:33Whereas in real life, I'll just carry on.
05:34Absolutely.
05:35Ignore it.
05:36He's a pro.
05:37He's a pro.
05:38Come on.
05:39So yeah, it's just getting it all right.
05:40But like, you know, it's just been so lovely.
05:41Like everyone's amazing.
05:42The crew are fantastic.
05:43Because you never get to really see all what goes on behind the scenes.
05:46Yeah.
05:47Apart from when you watch this.
05:48Thank you very much.
05:50Which I am a fan of, the team name.
05:52I didn't pay him to say that.
05:53Yeah, it's just so lovely.
05:54It just feels like real like family vibes.
05:55Yeah.
05:56Everyone's just here because they want to make it a great show.
05:58And this episode especially is very glossy.
06:02It's very glitzy.
06:03It's very glam.
06:04And I love it.
06:13Of course, the Interstellar Song Contest is a super-sized Eurovision.
06:18Which means the episode needed some Eurovision-style songs.
06:22Songs with that certain je ne sais quoi that land you...
06:26Two points, Doctor.
06:28Mm-hmm.
06:29I wanted to kind of capture how mad some Eurovision Song Contest songs are
06:33without taking the mickey out of it.
06:35But sometimes songs are just odd.
06:37My big feet, my big feet, I talk in deep with my big feet.
06:41The past few days I just keep singing My Big Feet.
06:44Which is a mad, mad lyric.
06:46I'm so lonely on my feet, but my dancing's pretty sweet.
06:51Russell enlisted Who composer Murray Gold and scriptwriter Juno Dawson
06:56to help out on the Euro songs.
06:58I left the gaps in the script.
07:00And then Russell was like, no, we need to do some lyrics.
07:03So Russell wrote some lyrics, I wrote some lyrics.
07:06It went to Murray and it came back as songs.
07:09I love you, but my heart says no.
07:11Songs like Liz Lizardine's I love you, but my heart says no.
07:16I love you, but my heart says no.
07:20And Cora's Aria.
07:22I'm the real star.
07:24Were you relieved when you got sent the song?
07:26I'm assuming that you liked it.
07:27I did, I know.
07:28Because you could have been sent one and you thought,
07:30oh, you know what, it doesn't vibe with me.
07:32Because not every song does vibe with you or speak it to you.
07:34True, true.
07:35No, yeah, I loved it.
07:36I heard it and I was like, wow.
07:38I can see this filling the auditorium.
07:44I love that it's a different language
07:45because I've often listened to songs in a different language
07:48and I feel it.
07:49I go on that journey and I don't know what they're saying,
07:51but I feel what they're saying.
07:53So they always said that music is a universal language.
07:55So I really think that's really powerful in this episode to show that.
07:58And like any Eurovision worth its salt,
08:02there was one song in particular that split opinions.
08:05So what is it, Dugadoo?
08:06It's going to go on stage in a minute.
08:08And it's got an amazing song,
08:11which I think is going to be Christmas number one.
08:14And action!
08:21Worthy of the dreaded nil point.
08:23Let's see what Shuti and Varada make of Dugadoo.
08:26Dugadoo.
08:27Oh, wow.
08:29There is Dugadoo.
08:30I'm wiping my hands of Dugadoo.
08:32It has nothing to do with me.
08:33Dugadoo is entirely of Murray Gould's creation.
08:37There was no point in the script where I said,
08:39a funny little alien sings a song called Dugadoo.
08:42It just landed in the inbox.
08:47Oh, my God.
08:48Mercifully, in the end, you don't hear it much.
08:52Actually, you don't see much of the Dugadoo song.
08:54If you isolate that, it'll drive you mad.
08:56It'll drive you absolutely mad.
08:58I think Unleashed is the place to actually show properly Dugadoo.
09:03Dugadoo.
09:04La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
09:07You actually, you, I thought you, that was not the reaction I was expecting.
09:11No, I think that's, that's the number one hit.
09:13You were vibing with that?
09:14Right there.
09:15I was vibing with that.
09:16I think that's nice.
09:17The beautiful Murray Gould with some fantastic work there.
09:19That's not Murray, is it?
09:20That's Murray Gould.
09:21Oh, my God!
09:23From the sublime to the ridiculous, what can't that man do?
09:28That is the gem of your career, Murray.
09:33Wow.
09:37Now I could say this every time I'm on set on Doctor Who,
09:40but today it really is a special day,
09:43because if you follow me this way,
09:45last time this happened, it was a gloriously sunny day,
09:48we were outside, and we got to see a bi-generation
09:51where we are now seeing another one.
09:53Only the second time it's happened,
09:55and it's happening right there.
09:57Today the Who crew are filming the huge plot twist
10:00at the end of the episode that reveals
10:02not only is the mysterious Mrs. Flood the Rani,
10:05but that she also bi-generates.
10:08It feels totally different to when David and Shooty split,
10:11because it was outside and sunny,
10:13and here we're inside in a very green screen sort of area.
10:16There's a lot, it's very technical,
10:18because they've got to move at the same time
10:21and end up in the same place,
10:23and they've got a little green,
10:24if you come this way, look,
10:25if you have a little look over there,
10:26there's a little green cross
10:28that they've got to look at for eyeline,
10:30so that the bi-generation thing works.
10:32It's all very busy, all very technical,
10:34and all very important.
10:37When I read that there was a bi-generation in my script,
10:39the first thing I did was watch Doctor Who Unleashed,
10:41because it's the best document to show how to do it,
10:45and so we as the programme makers watched the behind-the-scenes
10:48from the old special to learn how to do it.
10:50You want to get this right, don't you,
10:51because this is like a big moment,
10:53not just for your episode,
10:54but also in the sort of Doctor Who pantheon of stories,
10:57if you will.
10:58Yeah, yeah, it's not lost on us how significant a moment this is.
11:02What we have had to be really careful about is shoulder pads.
11:06She's got some amazing shoulder pads.
11:09Yeah.
11:10When someone bi-generates, the clothes that they're wearing
11:13get shared between the two resulting people.
11:16I hadn't even thought about that.
11:17So, in the original bi-generation,
11:20Shuti took some of David's costume.
11:22Yeah.
11:23In this case, Anita is giving some of her costume to Archie.
11:27If we're doing like that, and my shoulder goes in front of you,
11:30then it's game over.
11:31Yeah.
11:32Shoulder pads aligned and unleashed study notes memorised.
11:36It's time for Ben and the team to get this bi-generation done.
11:40Let battle begin.
11:46Oh, must we? How inelegant.
11:48Oh, I'm ever so sorry, ma'am.
11:55And while we're here, finally, Russell.
11:58Finally, we found out who Mrs. Blood is.
12:00I think ever since Mrs. Blood appeared, people have been saying she's the Rani.
12:03And sometimes you just want to deliver what people expect.
12:05I mean, yes, she's a time lady.
12:07Yes, she is the Rani.
12:08And yes, she's bi-generated.
12:10Now she's Mrs. Flood and Archie Punjabi as the Rani, which is so exciting.
12:15It was kind of the plan always from the beginning.
12:17I always thought she was the Rani, which actually is a very old Doctor Who villain
12:22who's never been brought back since the show came back in 2005.
12:26She's kind of been waiting in the wings and the time has come right.
12:28The Rani is a renegade time lord and nemesis of the Doctor who hasn't appeared on screen since the early 1990s.
12:36We'll have more of a deep dive on the Rani in the next episode of Unleashed.
12:40Meanwhile, I've been trying to get to the bottom of Mrs. Flood's mystery since she first turned up in 2023.
12:48Despite numerous appearances, Anita's resolutely refused to give me a scoop.
12:54Anything you can share with us about what's going on?
12:57No.
12:59Surely by now there must be something.
13:01Yeah, you're trying it on again, you're trying.
13:03This is why I love you, though. You never give up.
13:06But now, finally, Anita, some answers.
13:10After all this time dodging my questions, ducking and diving, here we are.
13:14You did well, though.
13:15You did really well. You did so well.
13:17Often I would go home and I'd curse Anita Dobson's name because you wouldn't tell me anything.
13:22My heart's broken.
13:24So you're holding, inside Mrs. Flood all this time, one of the most famous, iconic Doctor Who villains of all time.
13:30We think, I don't know how long she's been in there, but she's certainly out and running now, yeah.
13:36Are you happy with what Mrs. Flood has ended up becoming?
13:39Oh, yeah. I mean, how many people get the chance to split in half and give birth to the Rani?
13:47I mean, yeah, I'm made up about the whole thing.
13:50Yeah.
13:51My whole journey's been unusual and really exciting.
13:55Well, congratulations on one becoming two and for being very good with secrets.
14:00If you need any secrets kept at home, Anita Dobson is your woman.
14:03But don't tell him.
14:04Don't tell me you're part of me.
14:09Hi.
14:10Still to come on Doctor Who Unleashed.
14:12Hello, Doctor Who Unleashed.
14:14We go behind the screens, behind the scenes.
14:17There's so many looking off the screen.
14:20We find out what drove the return of a Who legend.
14:23I think it was fan power.
14:25I think fans have been saying, where is she? What's happening to her?
14:29Are we going to see her again?
14:31And spoiler alert, we've got an exclusive clip from the next Doctor Who episode.
14:37But first.
14:38In the script for the Interstellar Song Contest, the Harmony Arena is packed with 100,000 spectators from all across the Hooniverse.
14:52But in reality, it would be impossible to fill the studio with 100,000 people.
14:57Instead, around 100 supporting artists filled all the roles.
15:02So how would you turn 100 into 100,000?
15:05Well, there's lots of different ways you can do it.
15:08Yeah.
15:09The way that we're picking is that we're starting with a number of SA's who are going to be real life people in the frame.
15:16Yeah.
15:17And they provide the sort of front layer that you'll see.
15:19And then we're going to use things called Digi Doubles, which is digital mannequins of people that you program in movement.
15:26And then you just times them, in our case, by 100,000 and fill your digital set with them.
15:31Right.
15:32And we do that by scanning the extras that we've got here today, but also just designing them on a computer.
15:37Yeah.
15:38And giving them movements and then letting them, in our case, have a big party in the background of that shot.
15:43Yeah.
15:44Let's roll, please.
15:46If you think of the Eurovision Song Contest, you've got Hungary and you've got Sweden.
15:49Well, we've got Planet Zorg and Planet Watch and all.
15:52So we've got bulbous Ed men.
15:54We've got vultures.
15:55We've got wrinkly, scaly faces.
15:57We've got pigs.
15:58And, yes, they've been dancing around a lot for the last four days.
16:01Sweating and having lots of fun.
16:04And Jen Day, my third day up on stage, she's been bossing them around for the last couple of days.
16:10So hopefully they've enjoyed it.
16:12But they look great.
16:14Unlucky for Jen, though, those 100 people she has to look after today has turned into 101.
16:20Morning.
16:21Yeah, morning.
16:22As I'm going to be joining her for some work experience.
16:29Jen.
16:30Hi.
16:31You have drawn the short straw today.
16:32Haven't I?
16:33So what are you up to today and how can I help you?
16:35So the Crown Third is sort of in charge of placing the background.
16:39Yeah.
16:40Dressing them to shots.
16:41Not with their clothes, but into the frame.
16:44Yeah.
16:45Sort of giving them directions.
16:46But, yeah, make sure they look good on screen.
16:48OK.
16:49Right, let's go and do that then.
16:50Yeah, let's do it.
16:51Let's watch a take.
16:52First task, we need to closely watch a take of the scene being filmed.
16:55Turning!
16:56As third ADs, we specifically need to keep our eyes on the essays in the background, taking note of their performances.
17:05The scene being shot is Cora's emotional big finale towards the end of the episode.
17:10Cut!
17:11On both sides.
17:12Cut!
17:13On both sides.
17:14Cut!
17:15Lovely blurs in the background.
17:16Good blurs.
17:17Do you have any notes?
17:18Not really.
17:19I reckon the lights could get up earlier.
17:22Yeah.
17:23Maybe.
17:24Get them up earlier.
17:25Get them waving in the air a bit more.
17:26Yeah.
17:27Because they're pretty in there.
17:28Shall we do it?
17:29Yeah, let's do it.
17:30As we know between takes, we can pass on directions to the essays.
17:34In this case, I've got a note about the LED wristbands some of them are wearing.
17:39Passing notes!
17:40So, hiya, I'm helping today.
17:42If you've got a bracelet on, can we get those slightly up earlier, right?
17:46Just like 30 seconds or so earlier towards the end of the song, because they look lovely in the background.
17:50All twinkly.
17:51Yeah, that's when you get the bracelets in the air.
17:53Lovely.
17:54Wave them around a bit.
17:56Great.
17:58Thank you very much, gang.
17:59Cheers.
18:01Is this always what you wanted to do?
18:02Did you fall into it?
18:03How did you end up here doing this?
18:04I was always interested in making films.
18:06But my sister did costume.
18:08So, she got me on set as an extra one day on Gavin and Stacey.
18:11Yeah.
18:12And I was just like, this is awesome.
18:13So much fun.
18:14So then I did some extra work, some essay work.
18:16And...
18:17Oh, so that's why you're good with the essays?
18:19Because this was, that was you, they're your people.
18:22Yeah.
18:23Yeah, basically.
18:24And I just thought like, that'd be amazing to like, be able to direct the essays.
18:28So I was like, yeah, I want a third.
18:30And now it's like, yeah, I want to direct.
18:32So yeah.
18:33And then how easy was it to get your first job, like job?
18:36Did you start as a runner?
18:38I did, yeah.
18:39So I did, erm, I became a regular extra and then got to know the second AD.
18:44And I was like, please can I have some work experience?
18:46And then got to run a job from then on.
18:48And then went my way up.
18:49So basically once you get your foot in the door, then work hard from there.
18:51Exactly, yeah.
18:52And here you are in charge of a hundred aliens.
18:53Here we are.
18:54Yeah.
18:55Pretty surreal.
18:56Next task is a bit of a challenge.
18:58Picking up on a scene that is already half shot.
19:01We did this yesterday.
19:03So we have to match, so the same people have the same props.
19:06They're stood in the same place.
19:07But now we're moving on to a later scene where they start dancing to the song.
19:11Right.
19:12Yeah.
19:13Continuity nightmare.
19:14Absolutely.
19:15So I've got photos of where everyone was stood.
19:18Yeah.
19:19The props team are giving out the same props to the same people yesterday.
19:22So if you had like a, if you had a fluorescent popcorn cap yesterday,
19:24you've got one backing into it.
19:25Yeah.
19:26Yeah.
19:27And a flag.
19:28And a flag.
19:29Yeah.
19:30Yeah.
19:31As I direct the essays into the right place with the right props.
19:33Oh, perfection.
19:34And take a half a step to your right.
19:36Jen gets some notes from director Ben to pass on to the crowd.
19:39Mute, mute, mute, mute.
19:40Mute.
19:41Mute, mute, mute, mute.
19:42So what was Ben telling you then?
19:43Mute, so more noise.
19:44Yes.
19:45So no noise so we can record the dialogue for the actors.
19:48So they've got to wave but not make any sound.
19:50Yeah.
19:51But they can still move their mouths.
19:52Just there.
19:53Love that.
19:54Like that.
19:55Okay, and from the beginning.
19:56From the beginning, yeah.
19:57Yeah.
19:58Should we go up on the stage and tell them?
19:59Yeah, we should do that.
20:00Yeah, let's do it.
20:01Hello everyone, how's it going?
20:02I'm Stefan.
20:03Just going to let you know some notes for this take if that's okay.
20:05Do you mind, as soon as you say action, we need to be excited from the get go.
20:09So get those flags up waving.
20:11Really excited.
20:12You can move your mouths and make as much noise as you can without actually making any noise.
20:16I'm quite enjoying this one because in a strange way, when you're talking to lots of people,
20:21it's easier than talking to one person.
20:23Do you know what I mean?
20:24I know that sounds a bit odd but it is.
20:26So we need it mute and excited right from the kickoff.
20:29Is that okay?
20:30Perfect, look at that.
20:31Love that.
20:32Energy, please.
20:33Fantastic.
20:34And it's fun because you're looking out for little details in the background and it's
20:37tough because your eye always gets drawn to the main performers but actually you've got
20:40to see past them.
20:41They're not important.
20:42Look at the other people.
20:43So no, it's good.
20:44It's good.
20:45A lot to take in mind.
20:46It's not going on.
20:47I don't want to get in a position whereby on the day when this is on the telly, I think
20:52that background performer's gone a bit early on that flag waving.
20:55You know?
20:56It's a lot of pressure.
20:57Where's Jen gone?
21:02Now we've had the Rani, we've had Rylan and Graham Norton.
21:08Surely there's no space for any more legends in this episode.
21:12Well, this being Doctor Who, there's always time and space for one more.
21:17This particular legend had the TARDIS buzzing with excitement.
21:21I can't believe it.
21:23She first appeared in Doctor Who 62 years ago.
21:27She hasn't been on the screen in over 30 years.
21:30But here she is, the Doctor's granddaughter.
21:33His very first companion, Susan Foreman.
21:37Played by Carol Ann Ford.
21:41At that extreme moment in the Doctor's life where he's frozen in space and could be dying,
21:46I wanted something extraordinary to bring him back.
21:48It was a great moment sitting with Juno, who wrote that script to say,
21:51Please can you put in Susan?
21:53Please can Susan appear to him and pull him out of his deep freeze?
21:57Go back.
21:59Grandfather.
22:00Go back.
22:02She was like, wow.
22:03Will I do that or what?
22:04And then along she came, Carol Ann Ford came to studio.
22:07Top secrecy.
22:08Everything closed down.
22:10Everyone signing NDAs.
22:11Brought in onto the TARDIS.
22:13I think Ben directed that beautifully as well.
22:15When you're working with someone who's as experienced as that,
22:18the temptation is to just let them do their thing.
22:21But I learnt very quickly with Carol Ann Ford that she is a sharp and thriving actor
22:27who really relished direction.
22:29And even though she might be in her 80s,
22:32she was as present and as energetic as an actor who's just starting out.
22:38Last seen in 1993 in Dimensions in Time, a Children in Need special,
22:44Susan's name has popped up in a number of episodes since.
22:47And she's featured in books and audio dramas.
22:50But this is her first on-screen appearance in 32 years.
22:56Grandfather, go back.
22:58So why is Susan back now?
23:00Well, I think it was fan power.
23:03I think fans have been saying,
23:05where is she? What's happening to her?
23:07Are we going to see her again?
23:08And Russell and I hadn't met.
23:12And we had both been hoping to meet.
23:16And we went to a party.
23:18It was the screening of Star Beast.
23:21And so we met there and it was big screams and hugs.
23:25And, you know, at last we meet sort of thing.
23:28And while we were hugging, Russell said to me, would you like to come back?
23:32And I said, yes, of course I'd like to come back.
23:34And he said, oh, that's good because you're coming back.
23:37And now that Carol-Anne is back, how does today's TARDIS compare with her own?
23:43There's no comparison.
23:45I could almost put my arms around the console of the TARDIS that we were in.
23:49I certainly can't do that with the one we've got here.
23:52Ours was maybe ten steps across.
23:55You'd have to take about a thousand steps, I think, to go up and around to get across to the other side of this.
24:00I mean, this is, like, universal of its own.
24:03It's stunning.
24:04It's amazing.
24:05And I feel very honoured to be here.
24:07It's extraordinary.
24:12Right, everyone, here we go.
24:13Bit of focus, please.
24:15Tighter on Ryland.
24:17Music laid out.
24:18Steady on 26th.
24:20Every multi-camera event, be it Eurovision, a Premier League match or the news, has a broadcast gallery with multiple screens.
24:28And cue Confetti Canon.
24:30This broadcast gallery is the control room for every image, beamed to the three trillion viewers tuning in to the Interstellar Song Contest.
24:40But this is no ordinary set-up, and these are no ordinary camera feeds.
24:44Time to go behind the screens, behind the scenes.
24:47I mean, this is a TV gallery set, and there are close to 16 screens, all of which we've had to make content for to make it look like a real-life gallery.
24:59So, yeah, that's what's been really unusual about this episode, that we've had to move heaven and earth to get everything ready to go on these screens.
25:06Because it's not just we need one video, we need upwards of 20 videos ready, all playing at once, on screen, in the background.
25:15The majority of the footage on the screens, including the shots of Rylan and Sabine, aren't live.
25:21They were shot 10 days previously, with a full cast and crew.
25:25So, in some cases, we need 12 angles of scenes that we've shot with Rylan and Sabine.
25:31And it's just meant that we've had to be really on top of getting the coverage we need, and then handing it over to our amazing colleagues at Paint and Practice, led by Erica McKeown, who's just done all of this and turned it into a realistic, futuristic TV gallery. It's crazy.
25:45So, often you have a lot of graphics and cameras, quite a normal thing, but to be able to get footage that we've shot within the same shooting block into camera is really unusual, and it takes a huge amount.
25:57Military precision coordination, and it's been really hard, but to have this many pieces, and multi-camera as well, it's quite a miracle that we actually got it all.
26:05It's matte, yeah. Like, we're looking at stuff here that we shot less than a week ago, in some cases, and it's here in multi-camera form, and it's just so convincing.
26:13And it's just those extra lengths that you can go to, to make the set feel real, to make the actors feel more immersed, and crucially, it means that we're not having to replace screens in the background, which I think always looks a little bit fake.
26:26Not only move, this gallery is mine.
26:28To be on set, and it actually physically be there, so much easier than having it all in your head all at once. So, that's been an absolute delight.
26:38On top of the footage, Erica had to also create bespoke graphics, music videos, and even Hellion language feeds.
26:48Then there was the small matter of making sure the right image was on the right screen, at the right time.
26:53These scenes in the gallery are being intercut with shots of Rylan and Sabine on stage doing their thing.
27:00So, we need to make sure that whatever's going on behind them on the screens, which we've already shot, matches what we're going to be intercutting with.
27:07If we're cutting into a scene where Rylan and Sabine are already talking to the audience, we can't be sharing a clip of Rylan walking up on stage, because that's already happened and the audience have already seen it.
27:18And the same for the autocue. The words have to be matching what they're doing and what we're seeing Rylan and Sabine saying when we're cutting in between, if that makes sense.
27:28We're working with Ben, the director, who obviously is all over what is happening in the episode and performances and what we're going to be seeing at any one time.
27:37I'm working with Brad.
27:38There are so many looking at all the screens.
27:41Our wonderful art director, who is all over the visuals and the set and props on what we can see and not see at any given time.
27:48Working with Erica from the visual effects team, who's making sure that the screens are all in order.
27:53There are so many marvellous people doing a marvellous job to keep things running.
27:57It's not all just the continuity. It's a great battle.
27:59See you. Come with it.
28:05On the next episode of Doctor Who.
28:07Many years ago, when Gallifrey was young, the Doctor and the Time Lady had been terrible enemies.
28:13They had fought over all sorts of irrelevant things, but the Time Lady knew they could be great friends.
28:23We've had a plan for a while.
28:24We could do a while.
28:25We've had a plan for them to be great friends, but we had a plan for them to be great friends.
28:27We've had a plan for you.
28:29We've had a plan for you to probably take care of them.
28:30We've had a plan for you.
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