For a show that hasn't been on the air (minus "Revolution of the Daleks") for nearly a year, BBC's Doctor Who always seems to find a way to stay in the headlines. From saying hello and goodbye to John Barrowman and Captain Jack to really saying goodbye to Graham (Bradley Walsh) and Ryan (Tosin Cole) and offering […]
For viewers of the BBC One drama Peaky Blinders got a bit of good news and bad news on Monday On the good news side, the show has now kicked off production on the sixth series The bad news? The sixth series will also serve as the final run for Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and[...]
So with that in mind, our year-end countdown continues with BBC One and Amazon Prime Video's Small Axe.[caption id="attachment_1313678" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Small Axe from BBC and Amazon Prime (Image: Amazon screencap)[/caption]Created and directed by Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Widows), the award-winning, critically-acclaimed British anthology film Small Axe tells five distinct, powerful, and thought-provoking[...]
Following up an earlier release of some interesting preview images, the BBC has been teasing fans all week about what they can expect from the Doctor Who Festive Special "Revolution of the Daleks"- including the return of a familiar face and a different take on an all-too-familiar enemy. The adventure finds the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) […]
The latest entry in this fascinating new cultural phenomenon is Staged, a BBC One sitcom that reunites Michael Sheen and David Tennant for the first time since the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens.[caption id="attachment_1219336" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Programme Name: Staged - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No n/a) - Picture Shows: David Tennant, Michael[...]
The BBC announced on Friday that the duo is set for new home lockdown comedy Staged, airing on BBC One from Infinity Hill and GCB Films In the series, Tennant and Sheen are members of a cast who find themselves furloughed when their West End production is shuttered Considered the cream of the crop of[...]
Nearly two weeks after BBC Studios announced the massive multi-platform event "Time Lord Victorious" would be launching in September 2020, BBC Books announced their contributions to the 12-week immersive experience. October 2020 brings the release of the novel The Knight, The Fool and The Dead by Steve Cole, followed in December 2020 with Una McCormack's […]
Doctor Who Magazine writer and BBC Radio producer Emily Cook was back on Wednesday with another edition of Doctor Who Lockdown, putting the 10th Doctor's modern classic episode, "The Girl in the Fireplace". In the episode, the Doctor met Madame de Pompadour in pre-revolutionary France and what resulted was an adventure quite unlike any we've seen […]
At a time when productions across the pop culture landscape have been shuttered and millions find themselves at home in social distancing, self-isolating situations. It hasn't been the easiest time for a whole lot of folks, but if you're a Doctor Who fan then you know there's been a steady flow of "geek relief" that's […]
Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell kicked off the global rewatch and live-tweet of "Human Nature" and "Family of Blood" by penning and posting a new introduction to the two-part adventure entitled "Shadow of a Doubt" that also brought back Lisa Bowerman's Bernice Summerfield. From there, Cornell joined Doctor Who Magazine writer and BBC Radio producer […]
On Thursday night UK time, Doctors past and present from Doctor Who will join together to support our real-life heroes during The Big Night In, airing on BBC One at 7 pm BST Actors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker, and Jo Martin[...]
Doctor Who fans have been getting some serious help dealing with being in home lockdown and Doctor Who Monthly magazine's Emily Cook has been the main ringmaster making all of these online rewatch sessions and live-tweeting runs possible. With this weekend marking David Tennant's birthday and Sunday, April 19, marking the anniversary of Elisabeth Sladen's […]
The flow of fresh, original content from a bevy of Doctor Who pros continues this week, with writer Paul Cornell ("Father's Day," "The Family of Blood," "Human Nature") penning a new short story released by the BBC. Following Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, and Pete McTighe's online tales, Cornell's "The Shadow Passes" finds […]
The BBC and Doctor Who Magazine writer Emily Cook are back this weekend with another live-tweet rewatch of an important DW episode, and they're bringing another impressive line-up of guests to join along. This time, viewers will be screening the fourth episode of Series 6, "The Doctor's Wife" with episode scribe Neil Gaiman, actor Michael […]
This felt inevitable. The makers of Doctor Who just released a new video. This one is a quick and cheerful compilation of the emotional, serious and happy moments of Series 12. Well, surely this is everything that's in any story, but I think they mean the cool emotional moments of the season. And yes, the […]
The full list of broadcasters set to simulcast the event includes BBC One, Bravo, E!, MSNBC, NBCSN, NBC News, NBC News on YouTube, Peacock, SYFY, USA, ABC News, ABC News Live, Freeform, and Nat Geo In addition, UK's Channel 5, Australia's Network Ten, Argentina's Telefe, BET and MTV globally across more than 180 countries, CMT,[...]
Doctor Who fans aren't the kind of folks to let self-quarantining and social distancing keep them from showing their love and appreciation for the series. What's really added to that sense of "global community" is how the writers, producers, actors, and others have joined in on the festivities – from live-tweet rewatches with the likes […]
Following up on Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker offering some timely advice and showrunner Chris Chibnall posting an original short story involving the 13th Doctor's regneration, Russell T Davies penned and posted a prequel to "Rose" – the episode that marked the series. What we weren't expecting was for Davies to post a sequel to […]
Following up on Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker offering some timely advice and showrunner Chris Chibnall posting an original short story involving the 13th Doctor's regneration, Russell T Davies has penned and posted a prequel to "Rose" – the episode that marked the series. In the following intro, Davies retraces the steps that lead to […]
During this time of social distancing and self-quarantining, a message of hope from the Doctor is exactly the kind of thing we need right now – and that's exactly what Jodie Whittaker and the fine folks at BBC's Doctor Who had to offer us earlier this week. In the clip, Whittaker's Doctor offered a hopeful […]