Gallifrey One In 35 Millimetre Review Part Three of two Three
Sunday morning started with the Steve Moffat interview. Steve Moffat is one of my writing gurus (I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy!). He has written over 50 episodes for Doctor Who, starting before being the showrunner. The original run of Doctor Who made you scared of monsters like the Daleks, the Cybermen and the Sontarans. Steve made us afraid of common things like stone statues, dust, shadows and water.
At one point he was recanting how for the 50th anniversary year of Doctor Who he was the showrunner, producing the two-hour 50th anniversary special – which was in theaters and he wrote – and was also the showrunner for Sherlock Holmes. Someone asked him how he could handle all that work. He responded with something I found profound. At that time, he had the whole series (or season in America) arc in his head. He had to be ready to answer questions from people working on preproduction, production and post production on different episodes. And he was working on Sherlock and writing at the same time. Aside from being totally mad, he said he would just concentrate on what he had to do that day. That might include sitting in on dallies, checking out a new set and writing five pages of script. Whatever he had to finish before going to bed that day, that’s what he would concentrate on. Everything else could wait.
For the next couple of hours, we strolled around the dealer’s room, bought another box of Girl Scout cookies and hung out with friends. Kris also collected her unsold art pieces from the art show. All together she sold six out of eleven pieces and made $265.00.
Later we saw the Jenna Coleman interview.
She talked about how she got the part of Doctor Who companion Clara Oswald. Casting for the Doctors and his companions are always very secretive. She was told to go down to the basement, say a secret phrase to the guard and she would be let into a meeting with Steve Moffat and Matt Smith.
At that point, they brought someone else who was also there for the interview – Steve Moffat. Jenna commented how she was nervous at the interview and afterwards. She was pacing outside the BBC building wondering if she had gotten the part. 
Steve lamented how he doesn’t understand why they make actors wait a day before telling them if they got the part or not. He said before she had left the building, they had already decided she got the part.
Next was the Year In Review – different clips from TV interviews of the stars of Doctor Who and promo pieces.
And then, the closing ceremonies. It’s always sad when our favorite convention comes to an end, but we take away great memories and get excited for next year, which will be…
Shaun Lyon, the founder came out and spoke of what they are planning.
And then, the bombshell:
Gallifrey One 38 will be the last Gallifrey. The audience had a collective gasp. No one expected this. I had just been joking with Kris about waiting for number 144, A Gross of Gallifrey One. It was obvious that Shaun was very emotional about making this announcement. Co-founder, Robbie Bourget, came out to help him though this. He didn’t give much detail at the time, but he said something else was already being planned, and that they wanted to give fans three years to get used to the idea instead of springing it on everybody at the last convention.
On February 23rd, Gallifrey One released the following article, https://www.gallifreyone.com/2028finale/ In short, A new convention will appear run by Showmaster Events from the U.K. They have been partnering with Gallifrey One for the past ten year and have been responsible for bringing such major guests over as Sir John Hurt and Jodie Whittaker. They will continue in the spirit of Gallifrey One so that the fandom may continue.
But no more Gallifrey One.
I guess that was the twist at the end.
Dennis
259th blog completed.
Second Steampunk screenplay: 157 pages.
Second Steampunk novel: 783 words.
First Steampunk screenplay: Updated with notes from the novelization.
First Steampunk novel: 77,546 words. Completed until editor reviews it.
Third Steampunk screenplay: 38 pages.
A weeping angel’s arm from the set that was donated by the BBC for the charity auction.
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