'Doctor Who' Brings Two 'Space Babies' Clips To 'Good Morning America'
'Doctor Who' Brings Two 'Space Babies' Clips To 'Good Morning America'
The longest-running sci-fi show ever comes from across the pond for an American press tour. Hijinks ensue.
Doctor Who has been on an absolute media blitz this past week, whether it was Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson being on The One Show or Gatwa alone on Top of the Match and Late Night with Seth Meyers. They both made it out to New York, subways decorated and all. However, when it came to stateside joint interviews promoting the BBC sci-fi series that’s made its home on Disney+ everywhere internationally, they kept it to Disney-owned ABC News, including Good Morning America and its afternoon third hour GMA3: What You Need to Know. Of course they brought clips, and what was probably the spoiler-safest from episode 1 of the new season, “Space Babies”.
The first clip was the Doctor and Ruby’s trip to prehistory, the time of the dinosaurs, where the butterfly effect is comedically explored. Ruby steps out of the TARDIS, amazed at the prehistoric sight, and the Doctor explains that when the TARDIS travels through space and time, that includes one Earth location to another. Truly an attempt to draw in viewers from middle America, as they specifically land in prehistoric Green River, Wyoming, everyone’s favorite and most exciting state. Ruby’s roaming doesn’t last long before she literally steps on a butterfly and transforms into a very insectoid Rubathon Blue of the 57th hemisphere hatchlings. She asks if she did anything wrong because she does not do wrong things, increasingly indignant and aggressive, as the false accusation warrants his murder. We’ll have to see how he gets out of it.
The second clip is about Ruby’s first time in space, learning that the beauty of the universe is the Doctor’s biggest motivation given his situation is the beauty of the universe. He’s got nothing holding him down. He likes his freedom, even without a purpose or a mission, and gets great joy out of his companions experiencing the universe so freshly. Together, they discover they’re orbiting Pacifico del Rio, at least, that how it sounds to her, and thus she gets her lessons about Time Lord technology like translation circuits and perception filters.
Frankly, the interviews themselves are pretty groan worthy. Very basic, so it’s probably best to spare. And that’s why it took so long to write this article. The official Doctor Who YouTube channel uploaded the episode clips on their own on Saturday and Sunday, it made the most sense to use those uploads instead of film-the-TV uploads. The new season series begins on Friday, May 10 at 7 pm Eastern as part of a global simulcast on Disney+ everywhere but the UK with its 12 am Saturday, May 11 GMT release on BBC iPlayer which is the equivalent time in their time zone. Not only will “Space Babies” release at that time, but the second episode “The Devil’s Chord” and they will both air linearly on BBC One. According to RadioTimes, they have 6:20 and 7:05 PM timeslots. The eight-episode season continues weekly in that release format, though that people needed such reported probably means the timeslot might be one or the other going forward and hasn’t been regular enough lately for assurance. Ah well.
Source: RadioTimes