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While they were awaiting word on a premiere date for the BBC's holiday special "Revolution of the Daleks" (which apparently has some additional preview images dropping soon), the news broke that showrunner Chris Chibnall, our Doctor Jodie Whittaker, and the rest of the team are filming the now-8-episode Series 13 as we speak (or I[...]

To that end, the added time and protocols is resulting in the expected 11-episode season to be reduced to 8 episodes. Doctor Who Series 13 filming is underway (Image: BBC) "In this strangest of years, the 'Doctor Who' production team have worked wonders to get the show back into production We're thrilled to be back making the[...]

BBC Radio 4 is recording Bameshow, a new panel game twists that the other way. Bameshow logo from BBC Radio. "Welcome to the only BBC Radio 4 panel show featuring exclusively people of colour! But how in an age of entertainment tokenism has this been made possible? This is audio No-one knows we're not white." says Desiree[...]

The Big Scottish Book Club on BBC Scotland recently began broadcasting its second series, filmed with social distancing Its second episode saw writer Damian Barr filming at Lanark Memorial Hall with guests Neil Gaiman, Kirsty Logan and Dr Gavin Francis, and poetry from Harry Josephine Giles.  The theme of this week's show is other worlds,[...]

This week, we pick the quintessential 10th Doctor story, "The Girl in the Fireplace". Still from "Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace", BBC Studios "The Girl in the Fireplace" was Steven Moffat's first script for the 10th Doctor in the new show's second series in 2006 Russell T Davies was still showrunner and the show was[...]

The Machiavellian Prime Minister, played by Helen McCrory as a kind of Thatcher Lite, is not impressed with Lawrence. Hugh Laurie in "Roadkill", BBC Studios, PBS She's especially not impressed that he's more popular than she is and offers him a promotion that's really a poisoned chalice: Home Secretary of Justice  The reporter he took to court[...]

BBC Radio 4 premiered Franklin, a dramatization of that moment in 1968 when Charles M Schulz chose to introduce a black character to the Peanuts comic strip in light of Martin Luther King's Assassination and the Civil Riots riots You might think a drama about a comic artist trying to make a creative decision based[...]

Andrew Neil kicks off the BBC One US Election Night coverage, his last such event for the BBC before switching to a new news station in the New Year Emily Maitlis does her best Jeremy Paxman impersonations against whoever the producers line up against her from the States ITV News has, well, Superman fan Anthony[...]

But while that might've been his "last word," it appears he wasn't quite finished with his "last thought." On Monday, Cook and Moffat shared a copy of the originally barely-seen first draft script for "Blink," entitled "Sally Sparrow And The Weeping Angel." Doctor Who: "Blink", BBC Studios Never referencing the word "blink" and with an ending different[...]

No, not Jodie Whittaker (though there's no such thing as too much of her Doctor, either)- we're talking Jo Martin's Doctor, a canon-crushing incarnation of the Doctor who may very well tear up and throw out everything we thought we knew about the Doctor, the Time Lords, and Gallifrey. Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor, Jo Martin[...]

She reportedly turned down an offer to be the next companion to go on to a prestigious movie career. Doctor Who: "Blink", BBC Studios On Halloween, editor/producer Emily Cook hosted another Doctor Who live-watch and tweet-along of "Blink" She also tweeted Moffat's essay that's his last word about the episode, that not everyone has read[...]

He has since been critical of Trump in the media and voiced his support for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. It was in this aspect that he appeared last night on BBC One's Question Time, a long-running debate show in which several politicians and other newsworthy individuals of commentators are asked questions by members of[...]

The Road is a 1963 BBC TV play written by Nigel Kneale that was lost when the BBC, in their infinite wisdom, wiped the videotape to recycle it for further use It is the same policy that has caused a large number of episodes of Doctor Who and various other classic TV shows to be[...]

During a conversation with Guy Garvey on the recent episode of BBC Radio 6 Music program Finest Hour (which you can listen to here), Whittaker revealed that she questioned her entire approach to the Doctor after seeing Peter Capaldi's regeneration scene that would lead to her taking over the role in 2017 Thankfully, a conversation[...]

Pilgrim, the creation of Sebastian Baczkewicz that lasted 7 series on BBC Radio 4 before ending its run last year, returns for a 2-part special, "The Timbermoor Imp" The first part is up on the BBC website and Sounds app for 2 weeks The second part will be up from next Friday Paul Hilton plays[...]

Staged is probably the one truly successful new BBC TV series pitched, produced, and about the lockdown Its premise is simple: it follows actors David Tennant and Michael Sheen in lockdown as they bicker and fail to get on with rehearsing a play through zoom It's the kind of show only the BBC would make[...]

Tennant joined the show in its second new season in 2006, replacing Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor. David Tennant and Billie Piper in "Doctor Who", BBC Studios Tennant credits Piper with helping him cope with the sudden fame and loss of privacy that came with becoming the star of the biggest TV show in the country[...]

Doctor Who: Adventures in Lockdown is a new book of Doctor Who short stories being released to benefit BBC Children in Need It will feature prose stories by Neil Gaiman, Paul Cornell, and former and current showrunners Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, and Chris Chibnall as well as an all-star lineup of writers who have scripted[...]

The series is produced by Bad Wolf in association with New Line Cinema for BBC One and HBO Executive producing the series are Jane Tranter, Dan McCulloch, Joel Collins, and Julie Gardner for Bad Wolf; Philip Pullman, Jack Thorne, Tom Hooper; Deborah Forte, Toby Emmerich, and Carolyn Blackwood for New Line Cinema; and Ben Irving[...]

Deacon is a new trilogy of stories on BBC Radio 4 featuring veteran actor Don Warrington as a mysterious drifter who shows up when least expected to save a lost soul Created and written by Edson Burton, a historian, poet, playwright, and performer, the series features an almost all-black cast and features myths and the[...]

With a final official trailer that we're sure is on its way, the second season of the cable network and BBC drama will use The Subtle Knife as its source material, the second novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels that focuses on the adventures of Lyra (Dafne Keen) as new worlds await (as you'll also[...]

Maze Theory and BBC Studios announced two new Doctor Who games are on the way with a VR and a Mobile title in Springe 2021 First up, coming to consoles and PC will be Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality which will build on the story told in the previous VR title, Doctor Who: The[...]

When it does, viewers will find the Daleks in a position they are very rarely in: desperate and on the run from a force that could wipe them from existence. DALEKS! Release Date Trailer | Doctor Who Written by James Goss and created by Salford-based animators Studio Liddell, the BBC Studios Digital production will be available for[...]

Set to launch this November, the five, 10-minute episodes that make up "The Archive of Islos" find the Daleks in a position that viewers very rarely find them in: desperate and on the run from a force that could wipe them from existence. DALEKS! First Look Clip | Doctor Who Written by James Goss and created by[...]

NYCC gave us our first real taste of the upcoming BBC America series The Watch, an adaptation of the Discworld novel by Sir Terry Pratchett The story follows the City Watch, a group of ragtag cops tasked with protecting Ankh-Morpork Moderated by Yvette Nicole Brown, the panel features Executive Producers Richard Stokes and Simon Allen,[...]

In August, fans of BBC America's upcoming adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett's (Good Omens) epic comedy-fantasy book series "Discworld" learned that January 2021 was the target month for its debut Well, at Friday's New York Comic Con-Metaverse panel, they learned- and saw- a whole lot about The Watch First, we now have a date: the[...]

Of course, the conversation had to turn to the future of the franchise- in particular, the already-finished special "Revolution of the Daleks" (with preview images) and production on Series 13. So what did we learn? First, that "Revolution of the Daleks" was confirmed to be airing "this holiday season," with BBC America once again running a[...]

YouTube screencap. Jodie Whittaker: One of the first times when the Doctor is away from the gang and from the Doctor's point of view has no idea about what's going on on Earth and so we're in the position … I'm on a role… we're in a position where the Doctor is in this prison and[...]

With Jodie Whittaker and the rest of the team behind Doctor Who reportedly expected to begin filming Series 13 within the next two months (barring further COVID-related delays), it appears the BBC's long-running sci-fi series has a creative sandbox that writer and playwright Grant Morrison (DC Comics' Batman, Green Lantern, and The Flash; Happy!) wouldn't[...]

Still, his radio history is long and varied, from student radio at Canterbury University, his Grievous Bodily Radio show for BBC Radio 4 back in 1997, and The Jon & Andy Show with Andy Hurst, which won him a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award He also co-created the long-running impressions show Dead Ringers, replacing WeekEnding,[...]