London – London (AP) – “Doctor Who” and Eurovision Unite for a night of music and intergalactic adventure on Saturday, all thanks to Russell T Davies.
Before fans tune in the annual song contest, they can enjoy Gatwa’s friend Belinda Chandra de Doctor y Varada Sethu attending the contest of interstellar songs in an episode of the science fiction series.
In real life, the Eurovision song contest It is an annual event of musical and television competition that sees 37 countries compete for a glass microphone trophy in a four -hour live broadcast. In the interstellar version, the aliens of 40 different worlds compete to win, also when singing.
Davies says it took three years to get him out of the double game because they had to work with the BBC to establish the schedule and stone stories to guarantee a perfect alignment.
Sam Ryder de Great Britain took a “space man” to Eurovision before, in 2022. Now, Gatwa will read the jury scores of the United Kingdom during the grand final of the song contest, held this year In Basel, Switzerland.
Speaking with Associated Press, Davies says that both Eurovision and “Doctor Who” share the DNA of old television on Saturday night, which makes the combination “irresistible.”
This conversation has been edited by clarity and brevity.
Davies: I almost believe that every episode of “Doctor Who” is a great celebration, type of noise, color and show, and that also summarizes Eurovision. By launching this to Disney+ it is also like, “Look, we are going out in 60 of your territories” and Eurovision itself has a visualization figure that some years are larger than the Super Bowl. There are not many programs that can say that on planet Earth.
Davies: It’s greatly fun. You could say that if you have never seen a single Eurovision contest in your life, you can still come and see this. Anyway, it is the kind of things we would have composed for a “Doctor Who” story.
One day I will do that “Abba Voyage” History where holograms come alive and begin to kill people. That is the best idea. We have to do that then. Can you imagine? That would simply be incredible. I think there could be some copyright problems with that, but we would overcome them.
The real launch for the story to Juno (Dawson), who wrote it, was Eurovision that meets “Die Hard”. So, as you will see, at the time you start, there are problems, someone is out of sabotaging it. There are villains behind the scene trying to interrupt the program. All chaos is released and the rest of the episode is spent saving people’s lives after that.
Davies: I think there are four songs in total (by Murray Gold). Obviously, we did not reach 40 planets with their songs, but it was a very large production. We had to place this in their own production unit. There are scenes in the television gallery, where 40 different monitors have an exit of 40 different screens. And all that has been fed live. That is not done with the green screen later, that’s all they had already filmed. Crowds, acts, essays, behind the stage, presenters, all those things, playing in that set, so it is terribly complicated.
Davies: Frankly, they are all expensive. It was a lot, yes. It had to be planned very much, with more than anyone. Once you plan something carefully, then it costs less just because you are not looking for. We assign every story more or less the same amount of money. So I think he ends up costing as much as the others, but he looks very good because they had a lot of time to plan it.
Davies: We never say that. I don’t know why, but we just never do it. I don’t think they tell me. I passed out.
Davies: Yes, I will be. This will be a great night. I always feel and see “Doctor Who”, I am outdated, in its old transmission of the BBC One at 7 o’clock at night.
I know people who have Eurovision parties, which I have never really gone. Look at my life, it is dedicated to television. I can’t bear that other people talk about that. That would be just a nightmare. So I will be sitting. I will have a good dinner. I will be a very happy man.
Davies: I would like to go to an appointment with the Chipre man (Theo Evan). It’s lovely. I like the entrance of the United Kingdom this year (“What the hell has just passed?” For remember Monday). I have a theory that is underestimating in Britain. Just because we are so used to losing. We have won five times, all. But this country becomes a bit cynical on the Eurovision sometimes. But I love our song. I think it has a very memorable choir.
