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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,[...]

After all, what good is subtext if it's so hidden nobody notices it? Regenerating in "Doctor Who", BBC Studios Russell T Davies is an atheist and proud of it He singlehandedly brought the show to the 21st Century and built up a new fanbase including a female viewership in a post-Buffy era Yet he did more than[...]

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[...]

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.