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Great, right? Except, there's the matter of when it drops. When BBC iPlayer drops the first two episodes at 00:00 on Saturday, May 11th, Disney+ will also stream those episodes – at 7 pm ET on Friday, May 10th Meanwhile, BBC One will air the episodes later in the day on May 11th – paired up[...]
Doctor Who: The Doctor and Donna Was Always The Right Endgame
Donna's arc has been the fullest. "Doctor Who": BBC Unlike Rose or Martha (Freema Agyeman), Donna was not in love with The Doctor She was a woman in her thirties, not one at the beginning of her life as an adult trying to find her way in the world  The Doctor's companions tended to be lonely orphans[...]
Sorry, Doctor Who Fans: The Times They Are A-Changin' (Thankfully)
In fact, BBC iPlayer will be dropping two new episodes and BBC One is pairing up the premiere with the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final But it's the timing that's become an issue When BBC iPlayer drops the first two episodes at 00:00 on Saturday, May 11th, Disney+ will also stream the first episode –[...]
Doctor Who Returns May 10th on Disney+; May 11th on BBC One, iPlayer
Following that, two episodes will premiere on BBC iPlayer at 00:00 on Saturday, May 11th – with the show arriving on BBC One later that day (right before the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final) "At last, it's my great delight to unleash a whole new season of the Doctor and Ruby's adventures together Monsters! Chases![...]
BBC Gets Over 1,000 Lost Radio Plays, Including from Major Writers
Before television, before podcasts, there were radio plays produced by the BBC The broadcaster transmitted their first play in 1924, which means they've been making radio plays for over 100 years now, and have broadcast radio dramas every day of the week ever since The US has only just rediscovered audio drama in the 2000s[...]
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It was back in February 2023 when Steven Moffat shared his thoughts on the BBC, Disney+ & showrunner Russell T Davies's upcoming new seris of Doctor Who – with Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday) – during the Radio Times Covers Party Making it clear that he knew way more about Davies's[...]
The Traitors: The Movie Coming to BBC's  Comic Relief Red Nose Day
It caught the nation's imagination, spawned a US version on Peacock, and now a cast of award-winning actors and comedians have signed up to play some of the most iconic characters from series two of The Traitors in a spoof movie version of the hit BBC One show Admit it, you always wanted the show[...]
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There's nothing like the Academy Awards when it comes to get famous faces to talk about interesting things that we like to cover – for example, the BBC & Showrunner Russell T Davies's upcoming new series of Doctor Who Checking in with Variety on the red carpet, Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) shared how "surreal" it's been[...]
Doctor Who: Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT Still Have the Same Flaws
Anyway, UNIT was brought back in the modern version of the series led by Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, daughter of the original Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, as an organization that's supposed to be hipper, smarter, and more savvy since she's a scientist, not a soldier whose first impulse is to shoot anything that looks weird. Gemma Redgrave in "Doctor[...]
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Is it something for the first two seasons? Possibly a "Whoniverse" project? Damn you, RTD! You win again! Image: BBC Screencap Here's a look at RTD's Instagram post from earlier, followed by a lot of what we know about the upcoming series – including a teaser as well as behind-the-scenes featurettes offering viewers a chance to get[...]
Doctor Who: Redeeming Mel, One of the Most Unappreciated Companions
She might be the most underrated and under-appreciated companion of the classic series. Bonnie Langford as Mel Bush in "Doctor Who", still: BBC Doctor Who Used to be Bad for Companions Mel was introduced in what turned out to be Baker's final season as a replacement for Peri (Nicola Bryant), who had probably the worst and most unceremonious[...]
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It was a great delight for me to work with Genesis on an ITV series called 'You and Me' in 2023, and so much fun to work with her again, so soon, in a very different role." In addition, we also learned that Gwïon Morris Jones (The Winter King) had joined the cast. Image: BBC/YouTube/Netflix And here's[...]
Doctor Who: BBC Making Sure BFF Disney+ Knows Who's The Boss?
Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who – we've reached that point when "The Mouse" is going to be letting the world know that it's the exclusive streaming home to the long-running show for a good chunk of the globe (minus BBC and BBC iPlayer, of course) We saw some[...]
Doctor Who: Doom’s Day Keeps Show's Goofy, Silly British Sci-Fi Vibe
Davies and the BBC liked her YouTube videos taking the piss out of disgraced Tory MP Nadine Dorries In case you don't know, Dorries is the most pathologically delusional of Boris Johnson groupies, and it's not hard to make fun of her, but it takes someone with talent to really draw out the madness for[...]
Doctor Who and Other BBC Scripts Are Free For Educational Purposes
The original scripts for Doctor Who, including for the recent 60th Anniversary Specials, and many more, are now available to download for free as an educational resource on the BBC Writers Room site This includes the scripts for the hilarious 5-minute "Children in Need" mini-episode and the 5-minute script that showrunner Russell T Davies wrote[...]
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Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who set to kick off a new era of adventuring across time & space this May, the BBC Scripts Library (along with a whole bunch of other "Who" and non-"Who"-related scripts) is now the official home for the RTD-penned eight-page "The Fifteenth Doctor Audition[...]
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Cleese then minced no words in replying, also on social media and thus in public, that "We always loathed and despised each other." Monty Python in the old days, but they weren't necessarily happier then – Photo: BBC It all began when Idle lamented that he still couldn't retire at 80 years old and still had to[...]
Gavin and Stacey Returning for a Christmas Special in 2024
Eastenders is always on anyway, and the best anyone can hope for is another big murder on that show. "Gavin and Stacey" cast from the 2019 Christmas Special: BBC In case you don't know, Gavin and Stacey was the highest-rated comedy series in the UK in the 2000s, about the love story between Essex boy Gavin, played[...]
Doctor Who: the Doctor is Incomplete Without the TARDIS
But bringing Tennant back wasn't just some nostalgic cash-in to boost ratings, no – though, of course, it was! – Davies is a savvy writer who knows the story needs to matter, and he turned the Fourteenth into the saddest Doctor with the greatest air of tragedy. "Doctor Who" still: BBC Tennant was barely 30 when he[...]
Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker Joins The Great Celebrity Bake-Off 2024!
That would include the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker)!  So what would Whittaker be doing now, freed from the burdens of saving the universeall the time? Why, live her best life and join The Great Celebrity Bake-Off 2024, of course! Doctor Who no more? Jodie Whittaker in "The Great Celebrity Bake-Off 2024": Channel Four Yeah, yeah, The Great[...]
And Those Feet… with Alan Partridge: Steve Coogan's BBC Comedy Series
Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan's iconic, seemingly never-dying, hapless media presenter comedy character, will be returning in a new BBC series, And Did Those Feet.. with Alan Partridge The six-part show will follow the cluelessly out-of-touch host as he reintegrates into life in Britain after a year of living in Saudi Arabia Or tries to anyway[...]
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Though his special edition of "Letter from the Showrunner" was written at the beginning of the new year – meaning that things have progressed production-wise since then – RTD offers an excellent "jumping-off" for fans looking to get a better sense of just how far ahead the team is with the two seasons and Christmas[...]
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In addition, the reports and images/video from filming seem to confirm actress Varada Seethu (Andor, Strike Back) as the Fifteenth Doctor's next companion. But let's shift our focus back to the here and now – and with that in mind, who better to drop a few teases about what's to come than Gibson? During an interview[...]
Fawlty Towers: John Cleese' Classic Sitcom Becomes West End Play
Hemi Yeroham will star as the hapless waiter Manuel and Victoria Fox has the role of hotel maid Polly, whose unwavering loyalty to the awful Basil and efforts to save his bacon can only be explained by the idea that she was in love with him, a thread never confronted during the original run of[...]
Doctor Who: the Doctor is Incomplete Without the TARDIS
It's a metaphor for the show itself: a seemingly mundane thing that hides infinite imagination. "Doctor Who" still: BBC It's funny to consider that the original TARDIS was quickly cobbled together on a tiny budget that evolved into an increasingly elaborate and baroque design that never strayed from its original – unintended – metaphor for both its[...]
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Reportedly, Corney has been cast in the role of Logan Cheever – with Amanda Brotchie (Gentleman Jack) directing. Image: BBC Screencap Doctor Who: Did Millie Gibson Signal Being Done After Series 2? "It was so much fun! I think there were days where we got used to the madness of the job, and then when other people came in[...]
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Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who hits BBC One, BBC iPlayer & Disney+ screens, rumblings are beginning to get louder regarding the immediate future of the long-running show Earlier this month, Gibson gave an interview where she covered a number of Doctor Who-related topics, from what it was like[...]
Doctor Who EP to Fans: RTD Will Save You From The Big, Bad Disney
When the word first came down that Disney+ would be the streaming home for the BBC & Showrunner Russell T Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Rudy Sunday)-starring Doctor Who, it might not be surprising to know that quite a few fans were a bit nervous over what influence "The Mouse" might have on[...]