Doctor Who – John Barrowman on the Reappearance Fans Have Been Waiting For

Doctor Who – John Barrowman on the Reappearance Fans Have Been Waiting For

Following Sunday’s shocking episode of Doctor Who, featuring the introduction of a new Doctor played by Jo Martin and the return of the iconic Captain Jack (John Barrowman), BBC AMERICA has made the episode available to watch on BBCAmerica.com and the app (No authentication required).

Episode 5 – “Fugitive of the Judoon” – Now Streaming FREE on BBCAmerica.com and the App (Aired Sunday, January 26^th at 8/7c)

Ko Sho Blo! Trigger-happy space police, the Judoon, are targeting 21^st century Gloucester. The Doctor, Yaz, Ryan and Graham race back to Earth in order to prevent them doing too much damage to the cathedral city. But who are they looking for? And what did they do to incur the wrath of the Judoon?

Guest starring: Neil Stuke, Jo Martin and Ritu Arya

Written by: Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall

Directed by: Nida Manzoor

Plus, if you are already in Captain Jack withdrawal, tune in to BBC AMERICA on Friday, January 31^st at 8am ET/PT for a whole day marathon of Jack’s (John Barrowman) greatest Doctor Who episodes!

John Barrowman, on keeping his return to Doctor Who a secret:

“I did have to keep it a secret for quite a while! This is what’s funny, when I came back to Cardiff to do the filming I had to find an excuse in order to throw people off. So I started doing videos online about renovating my flat in Cardiff, and funnily enough, I actually did do the renovations but it was all to throw off why I was really there. I was being driven into Bristol, where we were filming at a Cathedral, I was covered in black cloth in the car, when I got to set I was taken out of the car with umbrellas around me so nobody could see.

In the reveal when Captain Jack said about being the ‘Face of Bo’, I didn’t tell anyone about that, and I didn’t tell anybody about this because I want to feel the excitement myself when it airs and everybody is watching it – their jaws are going to drop when Jack returns to the screen.”

On his favorite thing about being part of Doctor Who:

“My favorite thing about being part of “Doctor Who” is playing a character that changed the face of television. Also, because I was the first openly gay man to play an omnisexual hero on television and nobody cared – in a good way, no one made an issue out of it. Some of the young people who watched “Doctor Who” and are now in their twenties said “because of Captain Jack, I was able to be honest with myself and truthful to my family about who I was” and that to me is the biggest gift that we can give as people who are in the industry. And just for me, selfishly, it was a lifelong dream to be part of the TARDIS team and I never thought as a little boy, what I watched Jon Pertwee and Colin Baker as the Doctor that I would ever be a part of that. To be part of that and to be in the TARDIS and one of the companions was just amazing.”

Interview with John Barrowman:

A new episode of Doctor Who airs Sunday, February 2 at 8/7C PM on BBC AMERICA.

Episode 6 – “Praxeus”

What connects a missing astronaut, birds behaving strangely in Peru and a US naval officer who washes up on a Madagascan beach? The Doctor, Yaz, Ryan and Graham split up to investigate mysterious events across 21st century planet Earth. As the mystery deepens, and lives are put at risk, the TARDIS team faces a deadly race against time to save humanity.

Guest starring: Warren Brown, Matthew McNulty, Molly Harris

Written by: Pete McTighe and Chris Chibnall

Directed by: Jamie Stone

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