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BBC Studios, along with Maze Theory and PlayStack, has announced a new VR title in the Doctor Who universe with Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time The game will put you in the role of The Doctor as you will explore several worlds both familiar and new with all the tools of the trade to[...]
HBO Releases Official Series Teaser for 'His Dark Materials' BBC Joint Adaptation
HBO just released a brand-new official series teaser trailer for their upcoming joint adaptation with BBC of  Philip Pullman's literary trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass). His Dark Materials follows Lyra (Dafne Keen), a seemingly ordinary but brave young woman from another world Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot[...]
Doctor Who: The Comic Strip Adaptations are Gloriously Bonkers
And unlike the old show, back when the BBC was not a commercial enterprise, these cute-looking aliens now sell toys. This story also had another first: teenager Sharon became the first person of colour to become the Doctor's companion for the next few comics stories, decades before Mickey Smith, Martha Jones and Bill Potts became companions[...]
A look at the cover to Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Three months after Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) revealed that filming on their highly anticipated Dracula series would begin "very soon" and production confirmed to be underway, the BBC/Netflix project announced Jonathan Aris (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), Sacha Dhawan (The Boy With the Top Knot), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Misfits), Catherine Schell (On Her Majesty's[...]
Peaky Blinders is Getting a VR Adaptation
Credit// Maze Theory BBC Drama series Peaky Blinders is getting a VR adaptation from indie devs Maze Theory in Spring 2020 The game is being produced in partnership with distributor Endemol Shine Group and Caryn Mandabach Productions. Maze Theory was also the recipient of the UK's "Audience of the Future Programme" funding award to develop the game with cutting-edge AI[...]
'The Good Place', 'Steven Universe', 'Barry' and More Nab Peabody Awards
Bill Hader | HBO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir1_hjemxNA) Barry (HBO) "Even as one of the quirkiest and entertaining series on TV, "Barry" asks serious questions about emotional connection, the nature of violence, and the cost of doing whatever it takes to keep a secret." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aE29fiatQ0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Hannah Gadsby: Nanette | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix[...]
The Name’s Bag. Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge to Punch Up New James Bond Script?
Apparently, they want her trademark quirky wit and absurdity to punch up the script for the Cary Joji Fukunaga-directed film. BBC Fleabag, in case you didn't know, is a BBC TV series about an unnamed upper-class Englishwoman and her sexual misadventures, often drawing the audience into her orbit by breaking the fourth wall and looking at us[...]
'Killing Eve' Season 2: Recap Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Award-Winning First Season [VIDEO]
With BBC America and AMC's Killing Eve only days away from its April 7th return, you're probably thinking, "But Bleeding Cool, how can viewers get caught up on the first season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's award-winning ratings juggernaut before its second season?" Thanks to the fine folks at BBC's Stateside television embassy, viewers are getting a less-then-two-minute recap of[...]
Long-Lost 'Doctor Who' Returns From the Great Beyond
A long missing piece of Patrick Troughton's run as the Second Doctor is available for the first time in nearly 50 years, albeit not in the form it originally aired. //Credit: BBC "The Macra Terror" originally aired between March and April of 1967, and found the Second Doctor and his companions Polly (Anneke Wills), Ben (Michael Craze),[...]
'Killing Eve' Season 2 Preview: Carolyn's Choice of Moisturizer Speaks Volumes [VIDEO]
With less than three weeks to go before BBC America and AMC's Killing Eve makes its April 7th return, viewers are getting another look at Phoebe Waller-Bridge's award-winning ratings juggernaut's second season – but this one doesn't focus on our main players Villanelle (Jodie Comer) or Eve (Sandra Oh).  In the following teaser, we get a brief[...]
'Doctor Who' Confidential [Part 2: Movies]: Pop Culture's Secret Time Lords Exposed!
All of the sudden it hits you: "That's a Time Lord!" Suddenly, all the pieces of character-building background now make sense! While Time Lords may have first appeared in Doctor Who, we can now see that they've infiltrated nearly every corner of pop culture – and for some time now. BBC As any Doctor Who fan could tell you, Time Lords are an ancient[...]
'Doctor Who' Confidential [Part 1: TV]: Pop Culture's Secret Time Lords Exposed!
All of the sudden it hits you: "That's a Time Lord!" Suddenly, all the pieces of character-building background now make sense! While Time Lords may have first appeared in Doctor Who, we can now see that they've infiltrated nearly every corner of pop culture – and for some time now. BBC As any Doctor Who fan could tell you, Time[...]
'Killing Eve' Season 2: Eve's "No Feelings" for Villanelle On Display in New Trailer [VIDEO]
With BBC America and AMC's Killing Eve less than a month away from its April 7th return, viewers are getting a fresh look at Phoebe Waller-Bridge's award-winning ratings juggernaut's second season – and it appears that Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is still feeling the "impact" of her season-ending "quality time" with Eve (Sandra Oh).  In the following official trailer "Quiet," we[...]
Pearl Mackie, Sue Johnston Star in Survivalist BBC Sitcom 'Prepper'
Survivalists often acquire emergency medical and self-defense training, stockpile food and water, prepare to become self-sufficient, and build structures such as survival retreats or underground shelters that may help them survive a catastrophe. 'You already own the most important thing you need to survive the apocalypse – the human brain. Unless you own a tank.' It's also the[...]
Alan Partridge Just CC'ed Everyone at the BBC In to a E-Mail
Tonight sees the return of Alan Partridge to the BBC Steve Coogan's sports reporter-turned-chatshow host character was first created for BBC Radio 4's On The Hour, before getting spinoffs Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge, The Day Today and I'm Alan Partridge, becoming the country's biggest comedy character until Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant[...]
David Tennant On 'Who' Culture, Jodie Whittaker, 'Good Omens' and More
David Tennant has enjoyed a long and vibrant acting career – both on stage and on screen – that truly took off after realizing his dream of becoming The Doctor in BBC's long-running hit series Doctor Who and thriving ever since In a recent interview with The Guardian, Tennant looked back on his career – and ahead, offering his[...]
'Killing Eve' S2 Starts 30 Seconds After S1 Finale, Pushes 'Harry Potter' Comparison
With the second season of award-winning series Killing Eve set to premiere on BBC America and AMC on Sunday, April 7 at 8 p.m ET/7 p.m CT, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw, and Sandra Oh joined executive producer/writer Emerald Fennell and executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle on stage Saturday for their Television Critics Association (TCA) panel[...]
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The latest series of Doctor Who is about to launch in China, and the BBC has released a series of posters to both promote and celebrate its upcoming premiere. Designed by New York-based freelance illustrator Ruan FeiFei, the posters show the TARDIS in a major Chinese city and location They're really cute Each poster is designed to[...]
Doctor Who Series 12: BBC Image Confirms Production Underway
We're not at the end of the first month of 2019, and the BBC is already feeding Doctor Who fans some good news about the 13th Doctor's (Jodie Whittaker) upcoming 2020 Series 12: it's started production, folks! In a post on the show's official Instagram account, the message, "#DoctorWho is back in production" was accompanied by[...]