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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 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[...]

The Amazon/BBC TV adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's novel Good Omens, adapted by Neil Gaiman and starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, is set to air on Amazon Prime pretty damn soon. And the PR is out in full effect Including the creation of a five-floor immersive Good Omens experience, escape room and[...]

They're as good as any audio drama produced by the BBC, with many of the people who make Big Finish dramas having worked for the BBC and the BBC entrusting the company with the official license for the Doctor Who franchise. BBC At this rate, River Song is probably going to meet everyone that has a Big[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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),[...]

We're not even sure either of them would mind being kept down – depending on who was doing the "downing," that is… What we do know is that the Torchwood "co-captains" are set to reunite in January 2020 in the audio drama box set The Sins of Captain John, courtesy of the fine folks at Big[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Big Finish Productions announced Thursday the Doctor Who audio drama adaptation of The Fourth Doctor’s (Tom Baker) comics adventures from the early 1980s.

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[...]

It's still an all-ages show after all. BBC "Fans will experience the TARDIS like never before in this thrilling new interactive story As ever, the Doctor is full of warmth, wit and charm – helped by a wonderful performance from Jodie – which puts fans at the heart of the story as they immerse themselves in this[...]

But those guys were just messing around at the edges compared to the first episode of the second series of Fleabag that has just hit the BBC iPlayer and will be playing tonight on BBC1. Just as before, it carried its stage origins by having the main unnamed character, nicknamed Fleabag, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge address[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Fans of Philip Pullman's fantasy epic His Dark Materials are getting their first look at the BBC and HBO's mega-budget adaptation with a newly-released teaser trailer While the preview may be a light on the "dark" and the "materials" (it is a teaser, but a little more would be nice), we do get to see[...]

A new meme has emerged from the 11th series of BBC's Doctor Who: "Thasmin," the shipping of the 13th Doctor and her female companion Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill) as a romantic couple LGBTQ fans coined the term after the third episode when Yaz' mother first asked Yaz if she was dating Ryan, and after they both[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

The BBC was interested in making the movie, but it fell by the wayside Baker would eventually leave the show, with a copy of the screenplay rediscovered only a few years ago. Baker decided to turn it into a novel with the help of frequent Doctor Who novelist James Goss, who had previously adapted pisodes "The[...]

Once you see the shirts side-by-side, it is hard to not see the similarities. Colleen Hayes/NBC and BBC Studios The pleased-as-punch fan tweeted about it, as most fans do, and normally that would be the end of it However, this one lucky Whovian/Placer's tweet caught the attention of the folks running BBC America's official Doctor Who Twitter account who retweeted it to[...]

The 4th Doctor Tom Baker was the longest-running Doctor in Doctor Who on television, playing the role on the long-running BBC series from 1974 to 1981 To this day, he is still one of the most beloved Doctors and the one most associated with the show in both the US and the UK His adventures[...]

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[...]