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I'm in the room with Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Sue Vertue and Claes Bang, to hear them talk Dracula, their new BBC TV drama But first we got to see the trailer There is blood dripping on contracts, flies crawling into eyeballs, blood pumping in veins, fingernails being ripped from fingers, nuns with stakes under[...]

The BBC has been trying to keep the home fires burning by putting out videos of past seasons' highlights. Let's raise a glass for Bill Potts, the 12th Doctor's final companion. The official Doctor Who YouTube Channel released a 21-minute highlights video of Bill Potts' scene from Series 10 This was the 13th Doctor's final season, and[...]

The TV Museum released an 80's video of Jon Pertwee as a Doctor-like character - and it's the reason "Doctor Who" needs a female lead now more than ever.

The stories and sketches Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam have heavily influenced generaations. Every 10 years, Monty Python reunites to tell and retell their stories about pitching the idea to the BBC, creative process of the television series, and shooting the films The last time the six were[...]

Sherlock and Doctor Who writers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are writing a brand-new adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel for BBC One and Netflix, and they're bringing a first look at their new series to MCM London on Saturday 26th October Oh look, I'm already planning to go to the show That just[...]

BBC 6 has been running a weekly afternoon slot, Paperback Writers: Graphic Content in which writers known for their comic book work are interviewed about music, its role in their life and creative life, which play out over an hour or two-hour slot, along with their selection of music Oh and the headline news bulletins[...]

BBC 6 has been running a weekly afternoon slot, Paperback Writers: Graphic Content in which writers known for their comic book work are interviewed about music, its role in their life and creative life, which play out over an hour or two-hour slot, along with their selection of music Oh and the headline news bulletins[...]

In the 1960s, the BBC didn't see value in many of their shows and erased the videotapes for recycling This was before they realised shows like Doctor Who could be worth tens of millions of pounds You can bet they're not making that mistake ever again, not when every new show is a potential franchise. Mission[...]

Over the weekend, Doctor Who comic book writer Jody Houser had some news about the second year of the Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor series, starting in January, just after the Krampus-fighting Christmas Special two-parter in November and December (or both in November for Local Comic Shop Day participants.) Titan Comics' deal with BBC Worldwide for[...]

Set to premiere in Fall 2019, the BBC has unleashed the first trailer for its limited series adaptation of H.G Wells' The War of the Worlds Adapted by Peter Harness (Wallander, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell) and directed by Craig Viveiros (And Then There Were None), the three-part drama stars Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark, Loving Vincent),[...]

Fresh off her multiple wins at the Emmy Awards, "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge has signed a 3-year overall production deal with Amazon Studios.

The series also won for Best Comedy Series and director Harry Bradbeer won Best Directing for a Comedy Series. That's four-for-four with Fleabag – "The Little British Feminist Comedy That Could." TV Academy Not bad for what started out as a 10-minute sketch from a drama workshop, eh? Then it that became a 90-minute one-woman play before it[...]

Over three years ago, Bleeding Cool ran its first article about the BBC3 show Fleabag, by Phoebe Waller-Bridge Titled 'And With That Final Episode, Fleabag Becomes The Finest TV Drama Of 2016', I wrote, And because it has been picked up by Amazon Prime in the USA, about to drop all six episodes in three weeks time,[...]

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is performing it for the last time after debuting it back in 2013. Fleabag became a hit television series on the BBC in the UK in 2016 When Amazon Prime premiered it in the US and worldwide, it became a cultural touchstone in feminist storytelling Fleabag has become the emblem for flawed, messy, sexual[...]

Anyone for happy hour on the galactic lido deck? DRACULA – BBC/Netflix (Dracula) Steven Moffat's "Dracula" (BBC One/Netflix) In case the title above didn't tip you off, the former Doctor Who and Sherlock  showrunner is taking a stab at Bram Stoker's classic vampire lore No word on much else about it yet, including when to expect it, but[...]

"It was actually commissioned by the controller of BBC One and budgeted," Davies told Doctor Who Magazine at the time. The spinoff would have featured Rose on her alternate Earth working with her mother Jackie and that world's version of Pete Tyler in their version of Torchwood. "It was going to be fantastic We'd have had a[...]

Would you like to explore Doctor Who's TARDIS in VR? The BBC and HTC have come together for a special event where you can do just that To celebrate the launch of the VIVE Cosmos, the two will be holding a special VR session at the Protein Studios experience in Hackney, where you can check[...]

Big Finish announced this week that Freema Agyeman will return to play former "Doctor Who" companion Martha Jones in audio drama "Torchwood: Dissected."

For the 50th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus' first broadcast, on BBC 1, Michael Palin has narrated and constructed a series of shws for BBC Radio 4, Monty Python at 50: The Self-Abasement Tapes, broadcasting sketches that never made it to air, or in very limited capacities, such as advertising for the show and[...]

They feel like character dramas that that are commonplace on the BBC without any sense of inferiority This is a mark of Big Finish's increasing confidence and evolution since they started in 1999. Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon is available now at £24.99 on CD or £19.99 on download Don't forget that every CD purchase from bigfinish.com unlocks a[...]

The BBC's official Doctor Who channel released a trailer for Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 26 Blu-Ray and DVD box set, featuring Sophie Aldred as the 7th Doctor's (Sylvester McCoy) companion Ace. All companions who leave or are left behind tend to carry an air of melancholy about them They always wait in hope that he[...]

Classic Doctor Who writer Terrance Dicks has passed away at the age of 84. Born in east London in 1935, the British author was best known for his work as a script editor on the wildly popular BBC science fiction series Between 1969 and 1974, Dicks is credited with penning more than 150 Doctor Who scripts[...]

Big Finish Productions released the latest “season” or “box set” of Doctor Who spinoff "The Diary of River Song" this week - here's what we thought...

Fans of the late Terry Pratchett's (Good Omens) epic comedy/fantasy book series "Discworld" have some good news coming their way, with Adam Hugill (Pennyworth) set to join BBC America's eight-episode series adaptation The Watch in a lead role Written by Simon Allen (Strike Back, The Musketeers), the "punk rock" thriller focuses on City Watch as[...]

We're all fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her breakthrough BBC show Fleabag around here Uberfans know that Fleabag began life as a one-woman play Waller-Bridge wrote and performed at the Edinburgh Festival back in 2013. Now Waller-Bridge is going back to perform the original play one last time in London's West End Some fans are paying[...]

We all love BBC's Doctor Who for its freewheeling stories, lovably nutty hero, and ability to be virtually any kind of story it puts its mind to being Sometimes it feels completely random and arbitrary, but it has a lot of deep ideas embedded in its lore. From the 1960's to the 1980's, writers often threw[...]

It's the kind of thing you might find on BBC Radio 4. The story is a classic woman-in-peril thriller that are make up a lot of bestselling crime novels Themes about the loss of support, safety and family are common in this subsection of the crime genre The characters are ordinary middle-class people who are unprepared[...]

Television is living in a "golden age" with the quantity and quality of content out there. It's also resulted in "toxic fans" who are hurting the medium.

She was commissioned by BBC Three to adapt it into what became season 1 of the show in 2016 The show's unapologetic go-for-broke brand of messy feminist emotional exploration made it a sensation When it hit Amazon Prime in the US, Waller-Bridge and the show became an international sensation. BBC/Amazon Prime Actually, there is already a Fleabag[...]

The BBC's Sherlock is still massively popular Fans are still eager for a new TV movie or season, though that's unlikely Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are both so busy that it's almost impossible to get them together Series creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have also moved on to new pastures, like the new[...]