'Doctor Who Unleashed' Season 2 International Release Enacted

Behind-the-scenes access isn’t exclusive to its home audience anymore

International Doctor Who fans, everything is coming together. Just about a month ago, on March 10, the BBC began bringing the first spinoff of this third era of the franchise, the half-hour behind-the-scenes series Doctor Who: Unleashed, to international audiences for the first time. It came 16 months after the series premiered with its episode covering the main show’s first 60th anniversary special, “The Star Beast” which aired November 25, 2023. The episodes for the two other specials “Wild Blue Yonder” and “The Giggle” followed that day, but all episodes that were companions to Fifteenth Doctor episodes rolled out daily thereafter so in under two weeks, the postings were complete. But season 2 was right around the corner with the next series coming on April 12. In the days leading up, listings for domestic airings and even its iPlayer posting time would be discovered. But what about American international audiences? Surely we weren’t going to have to wait two and a half to sixteen months for such simple methods as putting Unleashed on YouTube.

For the record, the “The Robot Revolution” Unleashed episode was posted to iPlayer at 8:45 AM GMT, which telegraphed immediacy upon the earliest a viewer can finish watching the episode, rounded. This is in line with running on BBC Three after the episode ends linearly on BBC One, which it is scheduled to do still. 17 hours before the season premiere, the franchise socials posted “UNLEASHED on the whole world! 📽️ You can now go further behind-the-scenes than ever before, watch #DoctorWho: Unleashed weekly on BBC iPlayer in the UK and on the Doctor Who YouTube channel in the rest of the world 📺” This confirmed that international audiences would be getting Unleashed every week alongside that week’s episode. But it didn’t tell exactly when. That was until I managed to stay up long enough to find out. Doctor Who: Unleashed’s episode for “The Robot Revolution” went up at 4:15 AM Eastern and therefore follows the same principle: the postings on YouTube come at the earliest the domestic audience is able to complete the episode on iPlayer.

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When the series was announced, it was described as bringing “unmissable insight into the world of the long-running sci-fi series.” Host Steffan Powell takes viewers on a journey with exclusive on-set interviews with the cast and crew. It brings back a format that the first six series of the revival, from Christopher Eccleston’s only season to the end of the second for Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor, had, called Doctor Who Confidential, with the same airing habits, at least the applicable linear ones for a 2005-2011 show. Instead of an on-set personality, there was simply a narrator. The primary narrators were guest star “The Long Game” guest star Simon Pegg, writer Mark Gatiss, “School Reunion” guest star Anthony Head, “The Vampires of Venice” guest star Alex Price, and “Voyage of the Damned” guest star Russell Tovey. In fact it is Tovey who will star in the one spinoff Disney is co-producing, The War Between The Land and the Sea, starring Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and her UNIT team, along with him and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in new roles. Officially announced in July, it will apparently premiere in the latter part of the year.

Because I waited, you can watch the season premiere of Doctor Who: Unleashed below.

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Source: Doctor Who on Twitter