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We'll leave star – and potential next Doctor Who or companion – Lydia West to talk about the story. Lydia West with Stanley Tucci in "Inside Man", BBC "So the drama is coming to BBC and Netflix and it follows the life of a vicar from an English town, a math tutor, and a prisoner on death[...]

The Outlaws is a shaggy dog comedy series on the BBC in the UK about a bunch group of characters who have nothing in common but have to serve community service sentences together and of course, they can't stand each other Then they discover a bag full of stolen money and they have to figure[...]

Ghosts, the hit BBC 1 sitcom about a young couple who inherit a mansion that's haunted with a bunch of ghosts from different historical periods, look set to have a fourth series with production starting at Wet Horsley Place in 2022 Maybe, the US remake on CBS is also a hit at a time when[...]

Peaky Blinders, the BBC's long-running gangster series has completed production on its 6th and final season Director Anthony Byrne revealed that the series is now in postproduction, mostly being edited The 6th series will premiere in 2022 The series has been compared to HBO's Broadwalk Empire, only set in Birmingham, England, and tells the tale[...]

Even with the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux (check out our thoughts on "War of the Sontarans" here) staring down a third chapter that sees the Cybermen enter the scene in a big way (more on that in a minute), it's never too soon to look ahead to the future And that's exactly what we have[...]

After disinviting Andrew Graham-Dixon from a Cambridge Union talk, Monty Python star John Cleese dropped out over what he calls "woke rules."

Creator Neil Cross and star Idris Elba have been promising for years that a movie was coming after the last season of the show ended on the BBC in the UK back in 2019 Now that movie is actually in production Elba posted the following on Instagram from the set: Idris Elba in a still from[...]

After everything that went down during the latest episode of the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux (check out our thoughts on "War of the Sontarans" here), it's actually kinda nice having a week off to process everything and see if we can start piecing the puzzle together (both for Series 13 and to see if there[...]

So if you're reading this then it's safe to say that you've watched the latest episode of Doctor Who: Flux on either BBC One or BBC America But even with that in mind, we're not going anywhere near the episode spoilers or otherwise To find out what Bleeding Cool's very own Rich Johnston had to[...]

Tonight sees the broadcast of Doctor Who: War Of The Sontarans, the second part of the six-part Flux serial, on BBC One in the UK and on BBC America in the US So what did we think? Spoilers of course Though the first thought you'll just be spoiling history. 1 Yes, The Crimean War Was Real[...]

Yaz went through her first series without much of a personality, frankly. Mandip Gil as Yaz in "Doctor Who", BBC Those blank spaces were filled by Gill's own charisma and personality, which is usually what happens with an underwritten character She was a community liaison in the police force, undervalued and underutilized, and frustrated with that[...]

There's a new Doctor Who compilation video on the BBC's official Doctor Who YouTube channel This time it's the Sontarans' turn, since this Sunday's episode of Doctor Who: Flux features their return as Villains of the Week Oddly, the compilation video is rather incomplete The Sontarans are an alien race of warmongering clone armies This[...]

The news was disclosed by the official K9 Twitter account on Friday with an official statement. Bob Baker, "Doctor Who" writer with Radio Host Laura Rawlings at BBC Radio Bristol, BBC "Bob was a prolific film and television writer," it reads "Alongside his late writing partner, Dave Martin, they were stalwarts of children's television in the 1970s,[...]

It gained recent popularity in the book Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and the late Sir Terry Pratchett, especially when adapted by the BBC and Amazon Prime Video The book and TV show make several references to God's unknowable and "ineffable" plan for them all. Well, two things happened recently Firstly the word 'ineffable' was trademarked[...]

On Thursday, Immersive Everywhere and the BBC announced that Doctor Who: Time Fracture will begin resuming mission beginning November 26, 2021 Early last month, the production was forced to announce closures through November 18 due to heavy rains resulting in delays to the repairs needed on the theater from previous weather-related damage. Image: Screencaps Here's a look[...]

Based on reporting from BBC News entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba, the first chapter scored an audience of 4.43 million viewers While that number is lower than last season's premiere rating of 4.88 million (it helps when you have a resting & recovering audience on New Year's Day to broadcast to), it ranks above most of[...]

They quoted "a TV insider" saying "Omari is the perfect candidate on so many levels, including the fact that the BBC said they'd prefer the Doctor to be played by a non-white actor He has also struck up the kind of close working relationship with Russell that helped Christopher and David get the sought after[...]

Even with the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) about ready to take on the Sontarans this Sunday in the second chapter of the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux, things look to be getting a whole lot worse now that we have the title and overview for the November 14th episode, "Chapter[...]

So with the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux having kicked off with a first chapter that set up a lot of storylines that we're expecting to start threading together very soon and a serious big bad for the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Dan (John Bishop) to take on- so serious that it takes[...]

Doctor Who: Flux had a US-UK simulcast, broadcasting on BBC America and BBC One at the same time with a time-lag where the US broadcast stuck in ad breaks The ads were more shocking and surprising than anything in the episode Doctor Who: Flux is the most Chris Chibnall of his entire run You have[...]

After screening the first episode of the 13th Series, here are my Ten Slightly Late Thoughts on Doctor Who: Flux, "The Halloween Apocalypse."

Tonight sees the launch of the new season of Doctor Who on BBC 1 In fact, it's just started Now, traditionally, people like to look at the live viewing figures of the show and compare them to the previous year and always find them wanting That's because the previous year's figures always include the Player[...]

With only hours to go until Jodie Whittaker (Doctor), Mandip Gill (Yaz), and John Bishop (Dan) hit our screens for the first chapter of the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux, and in honor of today being Halloween, we've got another cool featurette to share to go along with yesterday's "Halloween Challenge" and Whittaker's Q & A about the[...]

Because he has just appeared in a BBC drama Lud-In-The-Mist by Doctor Who writer Joy Wilkinson, adapting the work of Hope Mirrlees, playing Duke Aubrey And a pretty decent fist he made of it as well, and since it's on the radio, he didn't have to put on the gold paint like Alan did You[...]

With the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux set to premiere on Halloween and after having spent earlier today having a little fun with Jodie Whittaker (Doctor), Mandip Gill (Yaz), and John Bishop (Dan) as they ran through a Halloween challenge and Whittaker took part in a holiday Q & A, it's time for us to take a second[...]

With only a day to go until The Flux begins its Series 13-long plan to take down Jodie Whittaker's Doctor, Mandip Gill's Yaz, and John Bishop's newcomer Dan in the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux, now seems as good of a time as any to take a breather and have a little fun before a wave[...]

Well, Gill is saying not so fast… Image: BBC In an interview posted by EW earlier today, Gill was asked to confirm their departure with Whittaker & Chibnall but things sound far from definite "Well, one, I can't confirm it but, two, there's just no rules to this Companions do stay on thereafter We still haven't finished[...]

The 6-part series was filmed in the UK and Morocco and will air next year on BBC One and BBC iPlayer The BBC released some first-look images of the series. "SAS: Rogue Heroes" still, BBC Cairo, 1941 David Stirling (Connor Swindells, Sex Education) – an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong – is[...]

Doctor Who Series 13 finally premieres on Halloween Sunday, October 31st with a simulcast event between BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US Being both Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill's final season as The Doctor and Yaz, it raises hopes amongst 'shippers that we might see at least The 13th Doctor[...]

That's when the BBC's Doctor Who: Flux premieres with "The Halloween Apocalypse," as the Doctor & Team TARDIS begin their Series 13-long battle with whatever The Flux is One thing we do know about it is that it travels with a nasty crew made up of Sontarans, Weeping Angels, Cybermen, Ravagers, Ood, and more- all[...]