BBC America will be broadcasting the new animated version of Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones next week This will be the first time the long-lost story will be seen in a new animated version since all but two of the original live-action episodes were lost "The Faceless Ones" was first broadcast in six weekly parts[...]
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Today, we pick "Rose" as the quintessential 9th Doctor story.
Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, "Doctor Who", BBC Studios
Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), a shop girl at a Central London shopping center, discovers the world is a lot bigger than she thought when she meets an alien named The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston), who enlists her in his[...]
However, a very reduced role in the seventh final season gave him a little more flex in what other roles he might take.
Which now includes playing the younger version of Tom Hollander's character in the new BBC drama, Us It wasn't an expecting or much-promoted role, so his appearance on screen was a delight to[...]
It comes to a surprise to some people that BBC's Sherlock is not filmed at 221B Baker Street, London That's because there's a bank there, and has been for decades (though they keep a little Sherlock plaque up) Also, Baker Street just doesn't look like Baker Street anymore But Gower Street, just around the corner,[...]
This is a new series we're launching about the BBC's Doctor Who where we pick a story that sums up the personality and era of one particular Doctor The story is not necessarily the best or the worst of that Doctor's era, just the one that we feel is the perfect introduction and summation of[...]
Andrew Neil is a fiercely Scottish journalist and broadcaster, principally for the BBC, on Politics Live and The Andrew Neil Show Or at least, he was Today it was announced that Andrew Neil is leaving to launch a 24-hour, TV channel, GB News, to rival rolling news from the BBC and Sky, from the New[...]
This is a new series we're launching about BBC's Doctor Who where we pick a story that sums up the personality and era of one particular Doctor The story is not necessarily the best or the worst of that Doctor's era, just the one that we feel is the perfect introduction and summation of that[...]
Radio Times conducted a poll of Doctor Who fans to decide the top Doctor, with David Tennant on top and Jodie Whittaker a close second.
When the dust settled on Series 12 of BBC's Doctor Who, there was one question of many that viewers couldn't shake No, not about when holiday special "Revolution of the Daleks" will air or if we'll get new Who in 2021 (though we'll get back to that in a minute) This question has to do[...]
In this week's edition of BCTV Sunday Slices, we look at Supernatural, The Walking Dead, Matt Hardy, American Gods, Joe Exotic, and more.
It's great for adult fans as well as for children of all ages."
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks will premiere on BBC One in late 2020 or early 2021 and Daleks! Will be on the Doctor Who YouTube channel in November.
Nicholas Briggs, who voices the Daleks on Doctor Who, spoke to RadioTimes.com this weekend[...]
Now, it sounds like there might be a light at the end of the tunnel (that won't turn out to be a "big bad" that you have to engage in a little wibbily-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff to defeat) with reports that Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, Bradley Walsh, and Tosin Cole returning to filming "in the coming weeks."[...]
Thomas Milligan (Martha's ex) in Doctor Who Series 3, Episode 13 "Last of the Time Lords" that opened the door for Square Mile to ask the actor about the possibility of taking on the time-traveling lead.
Freema Agyeman and Tom Ellis in "Doctor Who", BBC Studios
While he readily admits that he doubts it would ever happen[...]
Last night saw the return of Eastenders, the popular BBC 1 soap opera set in the East End of London and has been running for thirty-five years That's until the coronavirus came along and the show had to take an extended filming – and broadcast break Showing four episodes a week, it began to eke[...]
The Doctor was the original Timeless Child, an immortal being from an unknown place who became the basis for all the Time Lords.
Jodie Whittaker in "Doctor Who", BBC
The child came to the universe through a gateway from another universe or dimension Her adopted mother Tecteun discovered her regenerative ability to turn into another body and[...]
What about the Prime Dalek Strategist? What about the Hond and their combined suicidal genocidal mission? The Doctor Who Annual is out tomorrow, isn't it?
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A thrilling new adventure for the Tenth Doctor (as played by[...]
But what is so important that I can't just tell myself what I'm thinking?
Fans started putting together theories almost immediately, as Peter Capaldi had appeared both earlier in the Doctor Who episode "The Fires of Pompeii" and also on the Torchwood miniseries "Children of Earth." How were these things related?
Peter Capaldi as Lobus Caecilius in[...]
Sir Lenny Henry has brought back his eighties BBC comedy sketch show The Lenny Henry Show, to BBC Radio 4 Which means he can open the first show with an effects-heavy sketch as the superhero saving the day Comet Or as everyone insisted on calling him, Black Comet It rather gets on his nerves… noting[...]
Peacock, NBC Universal's streaming service, has been on a BBC buying spree lately First, they announced Jimmy McGovern's TV movie ANTHONY, now they've released the trailer for the BBC's adaptation of Malorie Blackman's classic Young Adult Science Fiction book series Noughts + Crosses. The series will premiere on September 4th.
"Noughts + Crosses", BBC, Peacock
The book series[...]
The BBC has released a 20-minute cut-down of "Survival" on their YouTube channel Once again, it's a personal story for Ace (Sophie Aldred) He takes her back to her old neighborhood in Perivale for a quick visit, only to find many of her friends have gone missing and a mysterious black cat has been lurking[...]
In a surprise announcement, NBC's Peacock streaming service released a trailer for the BBC drama Anthony In 2005, 18-year-old Black student Anthony Walker was murdered in an unprovoked, racially motivated attack in Liverpool that shocked the nation Anthony is a powerful feature film that examines the impact of Walker's murder by exploring what may have[...]
Travelling to impossible places, confronting menacing monsters and ancient aliens along the way, it's a journey across space and time to save our race, and our beautiful planet.
The event has been created by Director Tom Maller (Secret Cinema's Casino Royale, 28 Days Later, Blade Runner), writer Daniel Dingsdale (Dark Tourism, Stardust, The Drop Off) BBC consultant James Goss (Dirk Gently, Torchwood),[...]
Luci Loves Desi: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom is a 5-part BBC Radio 4 series about the making of the classic sitcom I Love Lucy that dropped today In a surprising casting coup, Anne Heche plays Lucille Ball and Wilmer Valeramma plays Desi Arnaz Other cast members include Jared Harris,[...]
In 1992, seven years before The Blair Witch Project, long before social media became a big part of everyone's lives, a BBC TV play had its one broadcast on Halloween night Ghostwatch proceeded to freak the entire United Kingdom out that night and brought attacks on the BBC It has never been repeated and has[...]
BBC's The Stone Tape is both the most influential and most obscure ghost story of the 20th Century Written by Nigel Kneale and only transmitted once in 1972, it was a new take on the ghost story that still feels fresh today.
"The Stone Tape", BBC
A Modern Take on Hauntings
A tech company doing research in an[...]
During a June online Q&A, Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Wales, explained that social distancing rules currently in place would make it nearly impossible for a production of the show's size and scope to accommodate: "It'll be down to social distancing A production like that, which at any point employs hundreds of people, freelance[...]
The Goes Wrong Show is probably the funniest comedy the BBC has shown in years Based on the theatrical monsters from the Mischief Theatre that have filled London's West End in recent years, including The Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and Magic Goes Wrong,[...]
The latest Doctor Who supercut on the show's official BBC YouTube channel is "The Deadly Assassin", cut down from four half-hour episodes to half an hour so we can skip over the slow bits It's oddly effective because it's a massively flawed and pulpy story The script by Robert Holmes feels like it was thrown[...]
He caught it while in postproduction editing his upcoming BBC political thriller Roadkill, which stars Hugh Laurie.
As the official synopsis for Beat the Devil reads:
"Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc.
On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions[...]
He even refused a final regeneration scene in that episode with John Hurt – though the BBC got away with using his eyes He has also declined to participate in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas that have seen many Doctor Who actors reprise their roles, including unlikely combinations such as Tom Baker's Doctor[...]