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Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board for today? Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard, Elon Musk/BBC, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Paramount+'s Fatal Attraction, TNT's AEW Rampage/Battle of the Belts, Disney+'s Tales of the Jedi, Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lucasfilm "Star Wars" films, NBC's The Blacklist, Netflix's One Piece, Disney+'s The Acolyte, Disney+'s Ahsoka, HBO Max's Young Justice,[...]

Following up on NPR being hit with the same designation for no reason other than utter pettiness that can only be measured in billions of dollars in lost Twitter value, Musk's Twitter is now labeling the official BBC account as "government funded." Does it deserve the tag? No, but neither did NPR – and if[...]

Even though the BBC, Disney+ & showrunner Russell T Davies have some big plans for the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who hitting this November, Big Finish Productions is getting the party started early How? With a look at the trailer for the first of the eight-episode full-cast audio drama adventure Doctor Who – Once and[...]

Ah, the evils of Capitalism. Industry is created, written, and executive produced by former finance insiders Mickey Down and Konrad Kay. The series is a Bad Wolf Production for HBO/BBC and is executive produced by Jane Tranter, Kate Crowther, and Ryan Rasmussen for Bad Wolf, and Rebecca Ferguson for BBC Bad Wolf also produces Doctor Who. Last summer,[...]

BBC's Doctor Who was always both ahead of the times and keeping up with it Donald Trump is one of the most divisive historical figures whose story hasn't yet reached its endgame, but his impact on history and culture can't be denied And back when he was still President, the series already had a character[...]

"I'm honored, thrilled, and utterly excited to join 'Doctor Who!' Russell T Davies is a visionary and a brilliant writer — I can't wait to get into the weeds with him and the crew! I hope there's room in the TARDIS for my luggage," Monsoon added. Image: BBC/EW YouTube Screencap Here's a look at the teaser tweet[...]

Davies, Charlotte Moore, CCO, BBC TV & Radio; and others – including Gatwa himself Now, we're hearing who he would like to make a cameo when Gatwa & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) new series of adventures hit our screens – a visit that would find this actor making the jump from the "Star Wars" universe[...]

With a lot of our Doctor Who attention span being preoccupied with the BBC's upcoming 60th-anniversary special event & Christmas Special, it's nice to be able to take a break to focus a little further into the future And what better occasion to have as an excuse to see how showrunner Russell T Davies, new[...]

First up, script editor Scott Handcock dropped an interesting tease about the Christmas Special in his production diary. "As we get into the second week of our Christmas Special shoot [written in February], a guest star from 2005 returns; one of our writers delivers their fourth draft of a script for Block Three; a hero prop gets[...]

Less than a day after the BBC revealed that it would be slashing 1,000 show programming hours in an effort to gather hundreds of millions of pounds in overall financial savings, the hit series Ghosts confirmed that it would be ending its hugely successful & popular run with the upcoming fifth season "After five incredible[...]

Davies] flexing his muscles and showing all the different things 'Doctor Who' can do," Kingsley shared – a sentiment shared by all three directors. Image: BBC Kingsley Discusses "Absolute Nightmare" Episode, Teases "Aliens" & "The Thing" Comparison: "I opened mine and just tore through it Even as a reading experience, it was so exciting But I kind[...]

Speaking with Doctor Who Magazine #589 (which you can order here), executive producer Phil Collinson shares how much the long-running series appreciates being associated with such a worthy & charitable cause – but even they were surprised by just how much of the Doctor that Tennant ended up showing off. Image: BBC Screencap "A lot of people[...]

Speaking with Doctor Who Magazine #587 back in February of this year, EP Joel Collins has some interesting things to share about another important player in the BBC, Disney+ & Showrunner Russell T Davies's Doctor Who Universe… the TARDIS Because you didn't really think we were going to get a new Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and[...]

The latest Doctor Who compilation video highlights The Thirteenth Doctor's (Jodie Whittaker) companion Yasmin's (Mandip Gil) greatest hits, which features clips from "Flux" all the way to the finale of this Doctor and showrunner Chris Chibnall's run "The Power of the Doctor." What it really highlights is "Thasmin," which ended up saving the series from[...]

Vigil, the BBC murder mystery on a British Navy nuclear submarine starring Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie, will return for a second series with new cast members, including Romola Garai and Dougray Scott The second series will feature a brand-new investigation that takes Amy Silva (Jones) and Kirsten Longacre (Leslie) into the world of the[...]

It's about Class Conflict, which makes it a uniquely British perspective. Still from "Doctor Who", BBC The latest themed Doctor Who video compilation runs 45 minutes to feature the series' trips to the future It even features clips for two stories in the classic show, namely the Fifth Doctor's (Peter Davison) big Cybermen story and the Fourth[...]

Set to launch later this year, Kempner serves as the face & voice of the assassin-on-the-run, and a number of other familiar faces are expected to appear over the course of the story. Image: BBC "'Doom's Day' is a huge new adventure for the whole 'Doctor Who' universe – starring the brilliant and hilarious Sooz Kempner as[...]

But that was the teaser that fans of the BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who were faced with on Sunday, leaving open a world of possibilities Our top thought? That it's somehow tied into what Big Finish Productions has going on for the 60th-anniversary on the audio drama side, with "Once and Future." But with everything[...]

Along with all of the news buzzing around November's 60th-anniversary event, December's Christmas Special, and the next series of adventures, BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies isn't exactly having a boring time of things That's because, along with his focus on the long-running series, Davies is also looking at a shared "WHO-niverse" of[...]

On Friday evening, the BBC & BBC iPlayer aired Red Nose Day 2023, with hosts David Tennant (yup, our Fourteenth Doctor), Paddy McGuinness, Zoe Ball, Joel Dommett, and AJ Odudu And over the course of three hours, viewers were treated to a televised charity event that included sketches involving a number of familiar shows &[...]

So you know what he needs to do… right? Yup… run! Image: BBC/Red Nose Day Screencap Here's a look at the complete sketch, followed by some additional looks at Tennant & Henry in action: And here's a look back at the two previously released teasers featuring Tennant & Henry offering a rundown of the event: "If you thought the[...]

And for an event as important as Red Nose Day, it's only appropriate that the show has an impressive name joining the gang – global superstar Kylie Minogue! GHOSTS (Image: BBC/Red Nose Day 2023) In the following sketch, Minogue (playing a wonderfully hyper-version of herself)  and her manager (Tanya Moodie) meet with Alsion (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike[...]

East Coast Time) on BBC One & BBC iPlayer Your hosts? Why, none other than David Tennant, Paddy McGuinness, Zoe Ball, Joel Dommett, and AJ Odudu! Over the course of three hours, viewers will be treated to hilarious sketches, live performances, amazing musical acts – and maybe even a surprise or two And the best[...]

Between confirmed news, sourced rumors & random speculation, BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies has done an amazing job of keeping the long-running series on everyone's minds ahead of this November's 60th-anniversary event and December's Christmas Special Just recently, Davies teased that an upcoming series episode ranks high on his list of[...]

Earlier this week, BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies dropped a ten-ton tease about the fourth episode of Series 14 being "one of the greatest things I've ever made in my life" (and confirmed by episode director Dylan Holmes Williams) Now, we're learning more about the greater "WHO-niverse" that Davies has envisioned[...]

It's a good thing that the BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies plans on sticking around for a while because he's got a lot of things going on a whole lot of fronts The end of this year sees the three-episode 60th-anniversary event and the return of the Christmas Special[...]

Since we already have Tennant in full-on "Doctor Who" mode and we know Henry's past connections with the long-running BBC series, how can we not hope for a 60th-anniversary sketch starring the pair? We know that they've appeared together in a series of promo images for the event – is that foreshadowing of something more?[...]

Heading into the weekend, we passed along all of the intel that you would need to know about Red Nose Day, set to hit BBC screens on Friday, March 17th (more on that below) And when we learned that David Tennant would be joining co-hosts Paddy McGuinness, Zoe Ball, Joel Dommett, and AJ Odudu, you[...]

In fact, it's given us a chance to make the case that the best of these storylines work because they keep things simple. Still from "Doctor Who: Blink," BBC When you have a show like Doctor Who that's entirely based on time travel, it follows that sooner or later, the writers will start getting creative with playing[...]

Seriously. Key art, BBC Here's their direct quote: "Rob Grant and Doug Naylor are delighted to announce that the ongoing dispute over the Red Dwarf rights has been resolved Moving onwards and upwards Rob and Doug hope to launch separate iterations of Red Dwarf across various media, working again with the cast and other valued partners, and wish[...]