The Zygon Isolation (webcast)

The Zygon Isolation was a Doctor Who: Lockdown! webcast set in the Doctor Who universe. It was created to accompany the watchalong of Peter Harness's two-parter The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion, serving as a loose sequel by returning to the characters of the two Osgoods.

The webcast tied in more literally than most with the COVID-19 crisis, as it featured the Osgoods communicating via Zoom whilst themselves in self-isolation. The Thirteenth Doctor was a part of the plot, influencing it in real time, but appeared only via a series of text messages sent to the Osgoods.

Plot
Osgood contacts Osgood for a zoom meeting so they can catch up on each other's alter-ego and how well they are each coping in self-isolation. After they begin exchanging news, one of the Osgoods begins getting text messages from the Thirteenth Doctor on her phone. The Doctor claims to be trapped in a time eddy from which she has managed to contact them, a sort of time loop with an eerie resemblance to the repetitive lives in which the citizens of Earth are trapped so long as lockdown lasts. Eventually, as their conversation winds down, the two Osgoods decide to watch some television "together", in sync; after some wavering, they decide on a show whose topic they know very well...

Cast

 * Osgood - Ingrid Oliver
 * Osgood - Ingrid Oliver

Crew

 * Written by - Peter Harness
 * Directed by - Emily Cook and Michael Williams
 * Edited by - Michael Williams
 * With Thanks To - Steven Moffat, James Jarvis
 * Produced by - Emily Cook

Production errors

 * The desktop, while clearly made to look like Petronella Osgood's, does still show some signs of the real world "prop" of sorts, one instance being that the name that the iPlayer account is registered under is "Mikey".

Continuity

 * One of the Osgoods mentions the ravens in the Tower of London. (TV: The Power of Three, The Day of the Doctor)
 * The Osgoods are aware that the Doctor is now a woman. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
 * The human Osgood is still alive (and suffering asthma) in 2020, confirming that the Osgood which had been killed by Missy was the Zygon one. (TV: Death in Heaven, The Zygon Inversion, AUDIO: Narcissus)
 * Osgood is interested in cosplay. (AUDIO: Tidal Wave, TV: The Day of the Doctor, et al.)