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DESIGNING DOCTOR WHO

I’ve come up through the ranks of the Doctor Who art department. I started off as an art department runner, then became a standby props person, then a standby art director, then a supervising art director, and now I’m designing. I’ve been very fortunate to work on quite a lot of things, but this programme is so varied. It’s a really hard beast to control, because every other episode it’s on another planet, so we end up having to build so much. We’re limited to our studio space, and we’re limited to our budget, so it’s a really difficult job to schedule it well and get ahead of the game!

GALLIFREY IN RUINS

Episode 12.10, “The Timeless Children”

In some of his texts, Chris [Chibnall] mentioned the Panopticon, the

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