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WarnerMedia's upcoming streaming service has secured the exclusive streaming rights to BBC's Doctor Who, with all 11 seasons of the sci-fi drama available at the service's Spring 2020 launch HBO Max's new long-term deal with BBC Studios will also make the streamer the exclusive home for future seasons post-BBC America airings. "'Doctor Who' is one of[...]

If you know continuity, you'll know that this story takes place during the time Jack was in Torchwood and he's undercover. The three hour-long stories of this boxset are as good as any audio drama you might hear on the BBC Goss and Adams are two of the best writers in the Big Finish stable[...]

Torchwood: Sync is one of those fun audio drama crossovers that asks "What if XXXX met XXXX?" Big Finish Productions has an official license from the BBC to produce audio dramas from Doctor Who and Torchwood and they're going to use it to the hilt! An alien spaceship crashes on the outskirts of Cardiff, Wales[...]

Or put in a little chair and work out of it. It needs a bit of sprucing up, the sign needs fixing, a repaint, a reattachment, and I need to get a light on the top from somewhere – but here's the question, Is it genuine? Anyone out there able to tell me? Was it used[...]

The BBC has commissioned Eric Saward to write novels from his two Dalek stories: Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Dalek, the last two stories from the classic run of the show to be novelized – now every episode of classic Doctor Who has a prose version Saward was the script editor for[...]

Fans of Philip Pullman's fantasy epic His Dark Materials didn't have to trek all the way out to Comic-Con International: San Diego (SDCC) to get a fresh look at BBC and HBO's mega-budget adaptation with a newly-released official trailer While the preview may be a light on the "dark" and the "materials" (it is a[...]

Bleeding Cool has put together a list of five (more) shows ripe for remake/reboot, like "Buck Rogers," "The Green Hornet," "Young Indiana Jones," and more.

This Morning is a British daytime television programme on ITV, running on weekdays from 10:30 am till 12:30 pm featuring news, topical items, showbiz,

The BBC's official Doctor Who Channel on YouTube realised a video excerpt of BBC Radio 4 Extra's program celebrating the centenary of Jon Pertwee's birth The Jon Pertwee Files is an hour-long radio program featuring Pertwee's son Sean Pertwee talking about his father's career. Jon Pertwee had a long acting career before and after he played[...]

So let's talk about Ace (Sophie Aldred), the Seventh Doctor's companion (1987-1989) – because I really don't get all the complaints about the current series of BBC's Doctor Who having too much politics The series always had politics embedded at its core: virtually every Science Fiction, spy or crime TV series created in the UK in[...]

A little more than two months after Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) announced some major additions to the cast and directors' chairs for their highly-anticipated Dracula limited series, viewers are getting their first look at Claes Bang's (The Girl in the Spider's Web, Borgen) bloodthirsty count in the three-part drama – where[...]

The fine folks at the BBC and other places who get paid to make these heady decisions are apparently also contemplating a non-holiday season release during the winter so there would be less direct competition with holiday programming, and it would also open up storyline possibilities beyond holiday-themed outings. BBC would not comment on the validity[...]

As we slowly get closer to seeing the release of Doctor Who: The Edge of Time, we now are getting a look at the latest villain to be added to the pantheon.

Director Steve McQueen will be bringing his series Small Axe to the BBC in 2020 The series will follow London's West Indian community as it developed between the 1960's through the 1980's, and winding down around 2014 Amazon has picked up rights to broadcast Small Axe in the United States John Boyega and Letitia Wright[...]

BBC One and HBO's Years and Years is Russell T Davies' unique reimagining of the British family drama with a Science Fiction edge – yet still firmly grounded in the issues of today It takes the UK through the years from 2019 all the way to 2034 through the eyes of a single family, the[...]

When you are a household name before the age of 40 and your face is plastered on toys, posters, comic books, and buses the world over, how do you celebrate your birthday? Well, thanks to a trustworthy on-set source, we now know that Whittaker celebrated her birthday as only she could, bringing laughter to the[...]

BBC Worldwide released a goofy video featuring Colin Baker on trial to plug the upcoming release the Blu-Ray boxset of Doctor Who: The Collection Season 23 – The Trial of a Time Lord. The whole video is an in-joke with more in-jokes within the in-joke as it invokes "The Trial of a Time Lord". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-hWKv9ExtYVideo can't be[...]

The BBC has just released early details on The Capture, an upcoming spy drama that will feature Holliday Grainger and Callum Turner. //Credit: BBCOne The Capture will be a six-part series, produced by Heyday Television and NBCUniversal International Studios, and should hit television screens by the end of the year. The series follows the investigation surrounding Shaun Emery[...]

The Omega Factor is a 1979 BBC show that had a cult following amongst Science Fiction fans Now Big Finish Productions has produced a sequel series in audio drama form. The original BBC series starred Louise Jameson as Anne Reynolds and James Hazeldine as Tom Crane Jameson had just finished playing Leela on two series of[...]

That movie was also about a lonely atheist who tries to seduce a sexy Catholic priest – and let's be honesy: there aren't that many movies or TV series with that plot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39KB2sm9x8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Fleabag Series Season 2 Trailer for BBC starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39KB2sm9x8) Leon Morin, Priest was adapted from[...]

Series 12 of BBC's Doctor Who is finally in production – and since it won't be on the air until 2020, that means everyone gets to speculate on what it'll be like. Series 11 was practically a new show – it had a completely new cast, new showrunner, new design and new composer It was still[...]

The BBC has released the first photograph of Crook in full make-up and costume in the new children's series adapted from the classic books. As the BBC announced in their press release, "Their worlds should never commune but fate has conspired to create an extraordinary union The seasons have stopped and the harvest hasn't arrived[...]

As a devout fan of both BBC's Doctor Who and CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery, I am facing at least another seven months without new episodes of either show… Woe is me Adding insult to injury? For a second year in a row, Christmas Day will come and go without a Doctor Who special[...]

Writers for Doctor Who series 11 included Malorie Blackman, Pete McTighe, Joy Wilkinson, Ed Hime, and Vinay Patel – but it's expected that there were more writers involved during the preliminary stages. Now Tennant may have offered some encouraging words – but advice? Ummm… no… "Oh God no! [laughing] What would I say? What would I say[...]

The BBC reported on Monday that actor Paul Darrow, best known for his role as Avon on Blake's 7 as well as his work on dozens of television series throughout his career, passed away after a brief illness at the age of 78. For many Science Fiction fans, Blake's 7 is a classic show unique for[...]

This is when my search for programs to cover from other countries starts, so I'm really happy to announce that Call the Midwife crew has started production on their ninth season. //Credit: BBC Created and written by Heidi Thomas, the upcoming series of Call The Midwife follows a triumphant eighth series which averaged nine million viewers per[...]

Depending on how this plays out, a new BBC talk show might end up being the coolest, weirdest thing on television. //Credit: BBC Tonight with Vladimir Putin reminds me a lot of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, but the new show puts a CGI Vlad into a live setting, with real studio guests The show will be[...]

Here we have it folks! Our first look at Series 12 of BBC One's Doctor Who! We may have to wait until 2020 to see new episodes, but today the show's official Twitter account gave us a first-look at what the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) will be up to next season By the look of things, our[...]

Big Finish Productions' 'Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 03,' is the third set of audio dramas featuring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

I love that about art and about drag," Williams said about the announcement. The series will be coming to BBC Three, and like the US version,  contestants will compete in individual or team challenges that test a specific drag queen skill before taking on the Maxi Challenge, where they may be required to perform, model in[...]