Follow several Doctors across space and time as they defend their home planet from a terrible race, this is a story like no other… Time Lord Victorious is a brand-new multi-platform Doctor Who story told across audio, novels, comics, vinyl, digital, immersive theatre, escape rooms and games!
Time Lord Victorious will launch in September 2020 over twelve weeks, with products and experiences releasing from September until January 2021.
Time Lord Victorious will be set within the Dark Times at the start of the universe, when even the Eternals were young. It features the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors, travelling across Space and Time as they defend the universe from a terrible race. As well as three Doctors, companion Rose Tyler and monsters including the Daleks and the Ood will feature, plus more to be revealed over the coming months as products are announced.
001: Göteborg Film Festival
002: Göteborg Film Festival
Director, actor and ex-pop star Billie Piper thinks that life is characterized by concern and prefers unsympathetic characters. The film’s frenetic pace reflects her own experience of life’s demands, especially women.
– For me, Rare Beasts is a movie about women trying to navigate a time when everyone says we can have everything: career, family and relationships. The film explores the reality behind that message and how it affects our lives. It is not only positive. Many women feel a tremendous stress, she says, and is similar to the feeling she wants to elicit in the film with a long panic attack. – I think every day is an in-your-face experience. From waking up, I worry about what the day will contain. There is so much going on all the time, an experience that is surely enhanced by all the technology we have today.
Having previously been recognized for roles in the TV series Doctor Who, it was a natural step for Billie Piper to start directing.
– I’ve dreamed of directing since I was a kid. But it was only now that I felt I had enough self-confidence.
Acting both the lead role and the director has also been a balancing act. Billie Piper hesitates before exposing herself to the double role again.
– I wanted to be more present at the moment as a director, but I couldn’t because I had to constantly think about how I would act as an actor next. It is strange how the dual roles affect the brain. There is no room to think both acting and directing at the same time.
Before joining the acting career a few years into the 2000s, Billie Piper had a successful music career. With the song “Because we want to” in July 1998 she topped the British singles list as a 15 year old. The musical background does not go unnoticed in Rare Beasts.
– Unknowingly, I think I’ve been influenced by being in many music videos as a teenager. And because I watched music a lot when I was a kid. I think there’s a sense of movement in Rare Beasts. Almost like watching a dance.
Billie attended the BAFTA Television Awards last week, where she was nominated for ‘Supporting Actress in a TV Drama’. Sadly she didn’t win, but she seemed to have a fantastic night! 130+ HQ photos have been added to the gallery below:
Family drama Two For Joy will arrive on VOD on 25th February 2019 via The Movie Partnership.
Produced by Sadie Frost and directed by Tom Beard, Two For Joy stars Samantha Morton, Daniel Mays, Bella Ramsay, Billie Piper and Badger Skelton. It is Beard’s feature film debut.
Two For Joy is a visceral and moving exploration of one British family’s life, navigating their way through grief in the years following their father’s death. Aisha’s (Samantha Morton) struggle with mental health is making home life increasingly unmanageable for her teenage daughter Vi (Emilia Jones) and young adolescent son Troy (Badger Skelton).
Vi has been forced to grow up fast, caring for her mother whilst also trying to look after Troy. With no father figure and mother-daughter roles reversed, Troy has become a law unto himself, excluded from school he spends his days cruising the estate or fishing the reservoir.
The tension at home is palpable – something has to give. The trio decide to take a trip to their late father/husband’s idyllically placed caravan, overlooking the sea. They befriend the holiday park caretaker Lias, (Daniel Mays), his unhinged sister Lilah (Billie Piper) and her daughter Miranda (Bella Ramsey).
A family in the midst of their own drama. This is a portrait of modern Britain seen through the eyes of a family in crisis.
Two For Joy will be available on iTunes, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sony, TalkTalk, Vubiquity and BT.
Billie Piper has good cause to be frazzled. Not only is she at the end of a 14-hour day directing her first feature film, Rare Beasts, which she also stars in and wrote. Not only is she promoting a completely different film, Two For Joy, in which she plays a charming but negligent mother. She’s also in the middle of her third pregnancy.
“I’ve just stepped off the set, so I’m sorry if I make very little sense,” Piper says down the phone. Poppycock. Sure, she has done three weeks of mammoth days on Rare Beasts, with two more weeks of them to go. Yes, she’s gestating a rapidly growing human. This, though, is the middle trimester, that mythical time of blooming, nesting and heroic…
Billie continued her work on ‘Rare Beasts’ last week, HQ photos from the set have been added:
‘Two for Joy‘ will be available to watch at Everyman Cinemas and other selected screens from 28th September 2018.