{"id":53012,"date":"2024-06-10T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2054306"},"modified":"2024-06-10T23:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:15:18","slug":"doctor-who-director-teases-movie-style-finale-people-are-going-to-be-shocked","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/doctor-who-director-teases-movie-style-finale-people-are-going-to-be-shocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who director teases movie-style finale: \u201cPeople are going to be shocked\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We want to end on a bang like we\u2019ve never seen.” <\/p>

By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 10 June 2024 at 20:00 PM<\/p>

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Excitement is building rapidly for this week\u2019s episode of Doctor Who<\/a>, The Legend of Ruby Sunday, which forms the first part of a two-part season finale.<\/p>\n

Showrunner Russell T Davies has spent plenty of time hyping up the story, calling it \u201cthe biggest finale ever\u201d<\/a> and stressing that fans \u201cwill be screaming\u201d<\/a> when they see it.<\/p>\n

Now, director Jamie Donoughue has added to that chorus, stressing the scale and scope of the finale which he says will leave fans shocked.<\/p>\n

Speaking in this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, he said: \u201cWe want to end on a bang like we\u2019ve never seen. This finale is like a huge feature film. I think a lot of people are going to be shocked \u2013 if I can pull it off. Hopefully, I will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lenny Rush who plays new character Morris Gibbons<\/a> teased \u201can action scene where prop guns were used and fake bullets\u201d, and returning star Bonnie Langford, who plays Mel, said the now-famous scene<\/a> of her riding \u201ca Vespa through London\u201d is about all she can tell us ahead of time.<\/p>\n

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Alexander Devrient as Colonel Ibrahim, Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Lenny Rush as Morris Gibbons in Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday.<\/span><\/figcaption> Alistair Heap\/Bad Wolf\/BBC Studios<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Speaking exclusively with Radio Times<\/strong>, Langford did however offer some additional information, saying: \u201cMel now has been basically spying in another job to gain information about an organisation that UNIT is quite worried about. And then the Doctor arrives because, you know, he\u2019s heard about things as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it all then literally cranks up very quickly. So Mel is able to, having infiltrated this area, offer up all that information and support and basically takes the Doctor on a Vespa. I know (laughs), it\u2019s camp as hell \u2013 it is brilliant!<\/p>\n

\u201cMel will go to the end of the Earth for the Doctor. She knows his history and also his love for the planet, the universe and everything involved is so genuine \u2013 it\u2019s so authentic \u2013 and she\u2019s just thrilled to be beside him again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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