Damn, should’ve called this one that
The Roman Empire has a new official assassin. Lethal, cunning, and utterly unsuited to the job. Can Rory Williams succeed at assassination without actually killing anyone?
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[pedant mode] I think you’ll find it’s just City of Death - no definite article [/pedant mode]
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That is just the Zygon movie.
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Nah that’s Torchwood
Zygon: When Being You Just Isn’t Enough is turning Doctor Who down to 3% and adding sex
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You’re speaking my language. Now I have to watch it.
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I have and trust me, you really don’t
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Me too! Perhaps I’ll torture myself with it after I finish K9…
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You really dont!!
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I actually don’t find it that bad. It is not great but it has some fun moments
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I think that you would like it.
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Zygon movie club?? 
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No-one deserves that
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Is/was it a relatively simple process to get the rights to DW characters? I ask because there’s a good number of amateur (I say this with the utmost kindness) content on this site that obviously obtained the rights to make their work official, and likewise back in the Wilderness years when fans were producing their own DW media.
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This is something I’ve been wondering about a lot as well.
I’m curious to know how these companies go about getting the rights to these characters.
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At least 3. Likely more /joke
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Everything not BBC produced obtained the rights from the writers who created the characters being used. So BBV got the rights to the Sontarans, Zygons etc from the writers - or the writer’s estates - such as Robert Holmes or Robert Banks Stewart. These writers all own the copyright to their specific creations even though they were used in Doctor Who. Same goes for characters like the Rani.
BBV got into trouble in the early days for their thinly veiled Ace/Doctor substitutes which is why that series branches away from making them obviously the same. Likewise the Stranger which after the first three with the Stranger and Miss Brown heads off in a completely different direction.
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In other words, I could go to an writer who created a character and say, “Hi, do you approve of my writing this story”, they can sign off on it, and just like that I can start touting my work as official?
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Yep - as long as you weren’t infringing anything that was copyright to the BBC and weren’t calling it ‘official’ Doctor Who.
All the Cutaway Comics are official because Stephen Wyatt etc are involved.
Hell, even K9 is official because the character of K9 was owned by Bob Baker.
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All the New Who characters are BBC owned aren’t they…
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