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Doctor Who & Broadchurch star David Tennant threw his support behind the campaign to renationalize Britain’s National Health Service (NHS).

With the special kicking off Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's final run on the BBC series, viewers should expect some major twists and turns along the way In fact, episode director Annetta Laufer revealed one of those twists recently, explaining to the Radio Times the twist that Chibnall has added to the "time loop" concept. Image:[...]

Romantic comedies are about the conflicts that might keep the lovers from getting together. "Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song" key art, BBC Screwball comedies are about the conflicts that force two people together and keep them stuck together until they fall in love The beauty of Doctor Who is it's a flexible enough format to[...]

Earlier this month, fans of Toast of London were treated to a quick preview of the next chapter in Steven Toast's (Matt Berry) rise to the top of the acting world with a look at the BBC's six-part Toast of Tinseltown Written and created by Arthur Mathews & Berry and produced by Objective Fiction in[...]

First, we're covering The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan's (John Bishop) New Year's Day return with "Eve of the Daleks," which serves as the beginning of the end of Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's runs on the BBC series Then we have new/returning showrunner Russell T Davies dropping some intel on Series[...]

When The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) return on New Year's Day for "Eve of the Daleks," it serves as the beginning of the end for Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's runs on the BBC series After three specials, Russell T Davies returns as showrunner with a new Doctor And[...]

Thankfully, Davies was in a sharing mood when he spoke with The Guardian in honor of Davies' It's A Sin! topping their list of best 2021 television series. Image: BBC When asked about his future projects- and in particular, his return to Doctor Who after an 11-year hiatus- Davies gave a pretty definitive response: "Because I love[...]

So what better way could there be for The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) to spend New Year's Day than trapped in an ELF storage unit and stuck in a terrifying time loop with some unexpected guests? How about the big bads mentioned in the title of the BBC's upcoming New[...]

Doctor Who: Last Christmas is the other 20-minute compilation video the BBC released on their YouTube channel in the run-up to Christmas This is a whole lot better than the new videos that are still trying to cram Flux down our throats when we're all trying to forget it ever happened "Last Christmas" is Moffat's[...]

In two weeks, The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) find themselves trapped in an ELF storage unit and stuck in a terrifying time loop with some unexpected guests when the BBC's upcoming New Year's Day special "Eve of the Daleks" debuts And from the title, we think you can figure[...]

With the big day coming up, the BBC has cut together 21-minute videos of some of them This one is of Moffat's first special, "A Christmas Carol" from 2010. "Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol" still, BBC Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol is Moffat at his most shamelessly mawkish and manipulative It feels like he was throwing as[...]

And on Sunday, the BBC will be broadcasting a radio adaptation of Starship Titanic that will star yet another Python, by Michael Palin. It has been adapted by Ian Billings, produced and directed by Dirk Maggs Maggs created radio adaptations of Superman and Batman back in the nineties, the more recent Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy[...]

With less than three weeks to go, viewers are getting the first set of preview images from both the BBC and BBC America (unfortunately, the same four images), three that appear to be happening within the context of the special and one that looks more like a behind-the-scenes look: Image: BBC America Image: BBC America Image: BBC America Image:[...]

Following that, fans should expect the second special in Spring/Summer 2022 (while the date is still not known as of this writing if we had to guess we would say May or June), with the third & final special (when Whittaker regenerates into the new & still unannounced as of this writing Doctor) airing Autumn[...]

Having had his run on Channel 4 for three series from 2013 and 2015 with Toast of London, Matt Berry's (What We Do in the Shadows) Steven Toast is officially making the move to the BBC on January 4 with the six-part Toast of Tinseltown And as you can tell from the title, he's also[...]

Following the New Year's Day special, fans should expect the second special in Spring 2022 (date still not known as of this writing), with the third & final special (when Whittaker regenerates into the new & still unannounced as of this writing Doctor) airing Autumn 2022 as part of the BBC's Centenary celebrations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB2F7Oc5T_sVideo can't be[...]

He talked about how Pandemonium is based on Milton's Paradise Lost, a tome he wrote his dissertation on at university but realised that the literary analysis life was not for him when he noticed the opening stanza could be sung to the theme of the Flintstones… "Man's first disobedience, And the fruit of that forbidden[...]

Doctor Who: Flux is mercifully over, and the BBC has released a 15-minute video featuring showrunner Chris Chibnall explaining the entire season to us, possibly because the whole season has been utter gibberish It's always worth listening to writers, especially showrunners explain their process One way or another, it's educational, even when the showrunner has[...]

Now that the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux has wrapped up its run, all eyes are focused on New Year's Day Because that's when the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) return with the first of Whittaker's final three adventures, "Eve of the Daleks." Team TARDIS finds themselves trapped in ELF storage[...]

The BBC's Doctor Who: Flux is over, and how many of us are feeling relieved? Is this the first time watching a season of Doctor Who feels like a chore? It's like an obligation while we wait for Russell T Davies to come back and right the ship. "Doctor Who: Flux", image: BBC These are my final[...]

Another week and back on the right timezone, welcome to Ten Thoughts about the Doctor Who Flux Finale, The Vanquishers, just aired on BBC COne and BBC America Spoilers of course, what else would you expect? 1 The Floor Is Lava! There's a danger behind every door, thanks to Steve Oram's Joseph Williamson Who doesn't see the[...]

Late last month, Doctor Who fans learned that the first of star Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall's final three feature-length special episodes before their exits was set to be part of the BBC's Christmas Eve/Day & New Year's Eve/Day programming line-up, with New Year's Day the official start of the beginning of the end[...]

Naturally, the BBC would release a compilation video of Kate Stuart's scenes from the show And once again, the video ends up neglecting its subject. Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart in "Doctor Who", BBC Kate Stewart is the daughter of fan favourite supporting character Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, played by the late Nicholas Courtney, who had been in[...]

Thankfully, the fine folks over at the BBC have you covered with the following two featurettes. Image: Screencaps First up, the trio competes in "The DIY TARDIS Challenge" to see how well they can work together to build their own "big blue box" and how fast they can get the job done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0hyf7PbjLcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript[...]

Vigil, the BBC's highest-rated crime drama this year after Line of Duty, has been picked up to stream in the US on Peacock starting on December 23rd The 6-part series stars Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie as cops assigned to investigate a homicide on a British nuclear submarine, with one of them having to go[...]

Following a segment on last night's episode of AEW Dynamite, and based on his long history of reinventing his character, a fan theorized that wrestling legend Chris Jericho could secretly be a Time Lord, a member of the time-traveling alien race from the BBC television show Doctor Who. Could Chris Jericho be the next Doctor Who? It[...]

The first season just finished its run on the BBC in the UK and is about to debut on Amazon Prime in the US And in what is clearly a good early sign for the series, Amazon has renewed The Outlaws before its U.S series premiere in 2022. "The Outlaws" image courtesy of BBC The comedy-thriller from Merchant[...]

Around the World in 80 Days, the classic Jules Verne travel fantasy novel from the late 1800s is getting a new BBC and PBS adaptation starring David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, and Leonie Benesch The series will premiere on the BBC in the UK on December 26th and January 2nd on PBS in the US. "Around the[...]

Now, the BBC and BBC America have released a handful of images that definitely signal some desperate times ahead for our heroes. Image: BBC Image: BBC Image: BBC Image: BBC And just in case you need a reminder of the ten-ton cliffhanger at the end of "Survivors of the Flux" (check out our thoughts on it here), here's a look[...]

One brilliantly-executed thought process during this past weekend's episode of the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux "Chapter 5: Survivors of the Flux" (check out our thoughts here) was one that we can't quite understand why other big bads didn't try in the past The penultimate Series 13 episode for Jodie Whittaker's The Doctor, Mandip Gill's Yaz,[...]