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Production has begun on Best Interests, a new four-part BBC drama written by Jack Thorne (writer of Help, His Dark Materials) starring Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan as parents faced with an agonizing decision It's the story of a family driven apart by having to make choices no parent would ever want to make Horgan[...]

Catherine Tate just popped up on the BBC's The One Show to promote a couple of things, the upcoming film The Nan Movie to be released on Friday, featuring her as her Catherine Tate Show character of the same name As well as a new sketch show launching on Netflix next month But because this[...]

As we reach "The Ides of March," thoughts begin turning more and more to what lies ahead for the BBC's Doctor Who It looks pretty certain that Easter weekend will bring back The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) for "Legend of the Sea Devils," the second of Whittaker and showrunner[...]

Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was for BBC Radio, and there was more than one Many people remember the critically-acclaimed 1981 BBC Radio 4 version but there was actually an earlier version that Tolkien scripted back in the 1950s The audio recordings were believed erased and lost forever, but Tolkien's original scripts have been[...]

This was the season where BBC America began to get involved with the show in helping co-fund and promote it to an already huge fanbase It had its first big fan event in New York City prior to the season premiere where Moffat, Smith, Karen Gillen, and Alex Kingston showed up for a red carpet[...]

The BBC's annual Red Nose Day is set to return to BBC One screens on Friday, March 18, starting at 7 pm GMT (2 pm EST) And just like it's done in past years, the televised fundraising event continues to find ways to one-up what was an impressive outing the year First up, Sir Lenny[...]

Reportedly, the upcoming Easter weekend could bring the second of the final three adventures for The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) in "Legend of the Sea Devils," the second of Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's final three specials before they wrap their run on the BBC's Doctor Who From there, Russell[...]

That's the beauty of Doctor Who – the basic premise of the show remains the same, but each new Doctor and cast let the showrunner make a completely new show in their own image. Doctor Who Season 8 image: BBC America It's a flawed season, to be quite frank For all the interesting experiments like the one[...]

Were they running out of subjects to cut long compilation videos out of, that it made sense to focus on Amy's second season? Well, let's take a look, shall we? Karen Gillen as Amy Pond in "Doctor Who", image: BBC Amy was the longest-serving companion on the new show, lasting three whole seasons Her creator and showrunner[...]

The writer is acclaimed playwright & screenwriter Ella Road and Haolu Wang, the first Chinese-born female director to helm an episode of Doctor Who. "Doctor Who: Legend of the Sea Devils" image: BBC Of course, Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, and John Bishop are back, and the episode also stars Crystal Yu, Arthur Lee and Marlowe Chan-Reeves –[...]

Rejoice, strange people! The Outlaws, Stephen Merchant's shaggy dog BBC caper comedy that stars him and… yes… Christopher Walken… is coming to Amazon Prime on April 1st! The comedy, co-created by Merchant and Elgin James, co-creator of FX' Mayans M.C., features the expected bunch of diverse lawbreakers who hate each other forced to do community[...]

Mastermind is a long-running BBC television quiz show for the BBC, currently presented by Clive Myrie It has run for 42 series after being initially broadcast in 1972, with a few gaps in between along the way. Famously the show's creator, Bill Wright, drew inspiration from his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World[...]

The BBC released a supercut of The Master over the decades, the Joker to The Doctor's Batman. Photo Credit: Ben Blackall/BBC Studios/BBC America The Master is a product of the James Bond and Avengers Cool Sixties genre trend Like The Doctor, The Master changes with the times The first Master, as played by Roger Delgado, set the[...]

As the Doctor Who drought continues, we have to rely on the compilation videos posted by the BBC on YouTube This week, it's a supercut of the 10th series of the new show, the Twelfth Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) final series. Image: BBC This was the Twelfth Doctor's best season, a "return to basics" approach that showrunner Steven[...]

It's one down and two to go for The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) as this spring brings "Legend of the Sea Devils," the second of Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's final three specials before they wrap their run on the BBC's Doctor Who From there, Russell T Davies returns[...]

The news continues to roll along at FX Networks' Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press event on Thursday, Following up on news that Noah Hawley would be returning with a fifth season of Fargo, it looks like FX and the BBC are teaming for a limited series adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations[...]

It's Valentine's Day, and of course, there's a Doctor Who compilation video for that! That's the thing about Doctor Who – it's a show that can encompass literally everything, all of Space and Time, so it's not hard for the editing wizards on the BBC's YouTube channel to find Doctor Who scenes for every occasion[...]

And let's just say that it lives up to the claims of a "bold" direction that the BBC made previously And who do we have to thank for it? Why none other than… Sesame Street?! Consider our official "WE'RE JUST HAVING FUN SO THIS ISN'T REALLY A 'SPOILERS WARNING'" sign on and our official not-really-a-spoiler[...]

Sometimes the BBC is too good to us "Castrovalva" was the first story of Davison's first season, and is a direct continuation from Tom Baker's final story the previous season, which saw the Fourth Doctor ignominiously fall from the top of a radio tower and shatter his body on the ground below He generates into[...]

You never know what compilation video the BBC will put out next for Doctor Who This time, we're getting a half-hour compilation of "Robot", Tom Baker's debut story as the 4th Doctor To see it now in light of the show's return in 2005 and how far it's come throws up some surprises. "Doctor Who" still[...]

Now, outgoing executive producer Matt Strevens is offering fans the heads-up that "all the specials are locked." "Doctor Who": Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin, BBC Studios Speaking with Doctor Who Magazine earlier this year, Strevens offered a status update that shows the end is very much near "I'm still around I'll probably pop back for a bit[...]

That referred to The Three Doctors, the 1973 story where the First, Second, and Third Doctors teamed up for the show's tenth anniversary, in which Omega kidnapped the whole of UNIT, though Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart insisted they had been transported not to an alien planet but to the British seaside resort of Cromer. The Three Doctors[...]

Revealing that they've been "editing it over the last few months" with "a little bit more to do in the edit" followed by "lots of work, and lots of things," before its fall debut, Stone revealed what it was like filming the special (and in particular, Whittaker's final day of filming) during an extended interview[...]

Now it's Donna Noble's (Catherine Tate) turn! Donna Noble and the 10th Doctor, "Doctor Who", BBC Donna Noble is the best companion Bridezilla Mean Girl Accidental alien abductee Time Lord meta-crisis! Saviour of the world! Donna's been all of them! That's more changes than any other companion's been through She's also the one companion who acts closest[...]

David Tennant? Okay, the rumour, I repeat, started on Facebook by someone claiming what they had heard from the BBC And then made it onto the front page of The Sun newspaper And also, for some reason, the Plymouth Herald That, as well as Russell T Davies returning to Doctor Who for the character's 60th[...]

That's because they have a friend in pop culture icon Mark Hamill (if we have to list his credentials then we're not sure why you're reading this), who took to Twitter to celebrate the "wonderful surprise." But before anyone asks or starts wagging a finger at him, Hamill also made sure to check out and[...]

The Responder is the latest BBC One cop drama that stands out from the others this year It stars Martin Freeman as a veteran first responder cop and Adelayo Adedayo as his new rookie partner as they navigate the nightly beat that takes them into the darkest parts of life in Liverpool The series is[...]

Doctor Who Target novelisations of the TV series used to be a regular event for fans of the show from 1969 to 1989 where nearly every story got a book adaptation, including all the lost episodes whose tapes the BBC erased They were written either by the stories' original writers or regular series story editor[...]

The BBC knows fans love that stuff and packs the releases with them One new feature is a new mini-episode featuring a former companion from that era in a sort of epilogue to their story years, even decades after they left the show This time, "The Eternal Mystery" features Peri (Nicola Bryant) to promote the[...]

Also returning is Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, and his companion Jamie (Frazer Hines). The episodes for Series 22 are: "ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN" "VENGEANCE ON VAROS" "THE MARK OF THE RANI" "THE TWO DOCTORS" "TIMELASH" "REVELATION OF THE DALEKS" "Doctor Who" Blu-Ray cover art courtesy of BBC With all episodes newly remastered from the best available sources, this Blu-ray box set also contains[...]