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BBC has released a sneak peek at the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special: Twice Upon A Time The episode will be the last for both 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi and showrunner Steven Moffat, as both will be moving on after the episode It will also feature Capaldi's regeneration into Jodie Whittaker's 13th Doctor, plus David[...]

Well, nightmares." Good Omens is co-produced by BBC Studios with Narrativia (Rhianna Pratchett's production company) and the Blank Corporation in association with BBC Worldwide for Amazon Prime and the BBC Gaiman, Caroline Skinner, and Chris Sussman are executive producing for BBC Studios; and Rob Wilkins and Rod Brown will executive produce for Narrativia. Good Omens is expected[...]

Even before it's arrived in North America by way of HBO, Strike, the BBC series based on author J.K Rowling's series of books following the adventures of private investigator Cormoran Strike has been given the go-ahead for a third series. HBO has signed on for the North American broadcast sometime later in 2017, however the dates[...]

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It's just that we can't put the word "cunt" in a headline. A writer for Doctor Who Magazine going by the name of The Watcher hid a vulgar message for his bosses at Panini (the publisher of the magazine) and BBC Worldwide in a column in the latest issue As noticed by users on 4chan and[...]

So if you've never read any of Douglas Adams' books or even experienced The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy beyond the film or the lackluster TV series the BBC produced, chances are you'll never be able to get past your bedroom (seen below). This week, the BBC loaded the entire game to play for free on the BBC4[...]

Even so, it was a delight to speak for a few minutes about what audiences could expect in the upcoming season over on BBC America OK: From a production standpoint, how's Dirk Gently changed between Season 1 and Season 2? Arvind David: Season 2 is in one sense a little easier because everyone knows each other…people[...]

Tune in to BBC America this Saturday to check out Season Two Octavio Karbank reporting from at the Dirk Gently season two event at New York Comic Con, One of the breakout shows over the past year has been the eclectic show Dirk Gently Based off the novels by Douglas Adams, the latest iteration of[...]

Footage was used in the subsequent Five Doctors crossover to explain the absence of The Fourth Doctor, Douglas Adams reworked the story into Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in 1992, its recorded footage was released on video using linking narration by Tom Baker to complete the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm7LQvT_5C0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Doctor Who:[...]

Showtime is importing the BBC comedy-thriller Ill Behaviour stateside, premiering the six-part series as early as next month Chris Geere (You're the Worst), Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex) and Tom Riley (DaVinci's Demons) star, with Sam Bain (Peep Show) writing and Steve Bendelack (Friday Night Dinner) directing the series. Ill Behaviour introduces us to Joel (Geere),[...]

Mad Men alum Jon Hamm will be joining David Tennant and Michael Sheen on the set of Amazon Studios and BBC Two's Good Omens as the archangel Gabriel, the primary messenger of God. Based on Neil Gaiman's (American Gods) and Terry Pratchett's (Colour of Magic) novel and written by showrunner Gaiman, the six-episode series introduces us[...]

AMC was made an offer it couldn't refuse, closing a co-production pact with the BBC and securing North American broadcast rights for international organized crime thriller McMafia. Created by Hossein Amini (The Alienist) and James Watkins (The Woman In Black) from a script by Watkins and inspired by Misha Glenny's best-selling non-fiction book McMafia will also premiere[...]

Harington will next be seen in the BBC's drama Gunpowder, a three-part series based around the Gunpowder Plot in London in 1605, before returning as Jon Snow to film the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones. Let me be the first to confess that I went into this post trying to line up a[...]

Good Omens will be broadcast on BBC in the UK following its initial exclusive broadcast on Amazon Prime. Good Omens is co-produced by BBC Studios with Narrativia (Rhianna Pratchett's production company) and the Blank Corporation in association with BBC Worldwide for Amazon Prime and the BBC Gaiman, Caroline Skinner, and Chris Sussman are executive producing for[...]

CBS is hoping to cash in on that wave of budding homicide detectives with a pilot order for a remake of the BBC Two miniseries Murder, from executive producer Dan Lin (It, The LEGO Movie). But here's the interesting twist: though each episode of the potential series will be shot like a true-crime documentary, none of[...]

Our friends across the bathtub from us have had the honor of knowing him from his 2006-2011 run as Calvin Valentine on long-running soap opera Hollyoaks; and as Ryan Naysmith on British football drama series Dream Team. But did you know that Whittle's most challenging rile would be…Ricky Whittle, Glitterball Champion? Okay…here's the backstory: In August 2009, when[...]

BBC has an upcoming miniseries about the infamous "Gunpowder" treason and plot, and Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington just happens to be in it The unsuccessful Catholic attempt to blow up Protestant King James I of England in 1605 has lived on in infamy, and the upcoming three-part mini-series will tell a different side of the[...]

Phoebe Waller-Bridge may not have been cast as the new Doctor Who despite making the elite top 500 shortlist, but it's not all bad news! Waller-Bridge's BBC3 comedy Fleabag will return for another season in 2019, thanks to visions that came to her while riding public transportation. "I was on a bus and had an idea!" Waller-Bridge[...]

Dirk (Samuel Barnett) and Todd (Elijah Wood) are back for another season of case-solving and universal interconnected-ness, as BBC America released the first trailer for Season 2 of sci-fi/comedy series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adapted from the popular novels from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams, the Sherlock Holmes-with-a-twist series chronicles the[...]

Better start playing nice with our feathered friends now — the BBC announced that it has given the greenlight for a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds for television The miniseries is set to be produced by David Heyman's (the Harry Potter franchise) Heyday Television, based on a script from Irish playwright and writer Conor McPherson[...]

Incoming thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker appeared on BBC's Radio 6 recently to talk about her upcoming role Unfortunately, though the interview was broadcast on the airwaves, nobody could understand what Whittaker was saying through her thick Yorkshire accent. Luckily, BBC has released a video of the interview on the Doctor Who Facebook page, and they've added[...]

David Bradley, who portrays William Hartnell's 1st Doctor, says he will appear in the Christmas Special and will address the Doctor's 60s sensibilities.

Naturally, this generated a renewed interest in classic Doctor Who episodes, only for new fans to discover that there are more than 97 episodes for which no recordings can be found, mostly from the era of the first and second Doctors. The BBC and Britbox have teamed up to try and bring as many Classic Who[...]

Thanks to Pinguino for her array of images from San Diego Comic-Con through Thursday from the crack of dawn to the dead of night. Can you spy...

Trading card manufacturers have wasted no time in issuing a Topps NOW card featuring the announcement of Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor.

The BBC is a peculiar institution Not a state broadcaster, but a public broadcaster, it is mostly funded by the BBC licence fee, which anyone in Britain who watches live TV is legally liable to pay Watching TV without a TV licence is a criminal matter rather than a civil concern and those who don't[...]

We take a look at just why now is the time for a female Doctor on the long-running sci fi family drama, in response to negative criticism for the casting

With today's announcement from BBC 1 that actress Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch, Attack the Block) would be assuming the role of the 13th Doctor beginning with Doctor Who's 2017 Christmas Special and continuing full-time in 2018 with Series 11,  there's been no shortage of praise for (and some whining about) the glass ceiling-shattering decision Playing "Monday[...]

#DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/rB4t1RH8Dx — Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) July 14, 2017 So who will it be? Speculation has run rampant since Peter Capaldi announced he was leaving, with names like Kris Marshall, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman, Hayley Atwell, Richard Rankin, Ted McGinley, Tilda Swinton, and many more all rumored at one time or another. The BBC would probably love to keep[...]

Steven Moffat appeared on Doctor Who: The Fan Show to talk about the season 10 finale, revealing that things could have gone a very different way for Missy.