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Next Week On Doctor Who – Hell Bent – The Series Finale
Not to be watched until you have seen tonight's episode of Doctor Who, Heaven Sent… Here's the trailer for Hell Bent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYuP8AfmuvcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Hell Bent: Official TV Trailer – Doctor Who: Series 9 Episode 12 (2015) – BBC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYuP8Afmuvc) And the Next Week teaser… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxvGCYzh8aYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Hell[...]
When Benedict Cumberbatch Deliberately Made Himself Look Like An Otter
In 2012, the Red Scharlach tumblr site pointed out just how much of an otter Benedict Cumberbatch was. Well on tonight's Graham Norton Show on BBC1, they reversed it, finding otters that didn't look like Benedict Cumberbatch and getting Benedict to look like the otters instead And yes, Johnny Depp joined in at one point as[...]
How Professor X Goes Bald In X-Men: Apocalypse, Revealed
On the Graham Norton Show, currently airing on BBC 1, with a guest list including Daniel Radcliffe, Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch and James MacAvoy, we got a tease as to a certain plot point from the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse. Noting that Daniel Radcliffe has shaved his head for Imperium, a film where he plays an FBI[...]
Ten Thoughts About Doctor Who: Face The Raven
Doctor Who: Face The Raven aired on BBC 1 a couple of hours again What went down? 1 Death Of A Theory Theory shot to ribbons, at it always was going to be Not an out-of-time Doctor it seems, but it was all just foreshadowing Or was it? Out of the hoodie, back in the jacket, this episode[...]
Hear Stan Lee Discover For The First Time That Iceman Is Gay
And you can hear him recite it to BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme this morning to promote his graphic memoir by Peter David and Colleen Doran. No, no mention of Steve Ditko, obviously. But he was also asked about Iceman being outed as gay recently in the All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men comics And it came[...]
Ten Thoughts About Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion
Now it's time for the Inversion… aired a couple of hours ago on BBC1 Your spoilerage may vary. 1 They Live No she is not in hell But Clara has been trapped in a fake reality before – just this time there's no souffle The newspaper gobbledygook spoke to me though, when I have difficulty sleeping[...]
Halloween Horror Bliss On BBC Radio 4 – Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh
I want to talk about BBC Radio 4 Fright Night, a double feature on Saturday night of two classic, if slightly forgotten horror stories adapted to radio It's actually quite fitting that Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape and Koji Suzuki's Ring got lumped together for a Halloween scarefest The Stone Tape was originally a TV[...]
Ten Thoughts About Doctor Who – The Girl Who Died
Noggin The Nog was a series of children's books and barely-animated BBC kids show about vikings by the late, great Oliver Postgate, who also created the Clangers who themselves appeared in an episode of Doctor Who…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bKAYH3Sl8s 8 Public Shaming So the Doctor's way to defeat the baddies to to take video of them looking foolish, add a[...]
The Sherlock Special Trailer Is Here
The BBC has released the trailer for the Sherlock Special that has Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman reprising their roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson in a more traditional setting This is a standalone special, not some kind of wibbily wobbly timey-wimey event involving a blue police box. No date has been set for[...]
Doctor Who Is Getting A Brand New Spinoff, Class, For BBC3
It's been a while since Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood… But now, just as rumours hit of a reduced run for Doctor Who in 2016, we get the news of a new spinoff series, Class, for BBC3, written by young adult novelist Patrick Ness set in modern-day London, and Coal Hill School, the school where Clara works[...]
Ten Thoughts About Doctor Who – The Magician's Apprentice (SPOILERS)
Hands Labyrinth Steven Moffat has a stock in trade of making the mundane into the creepiest things possible, which is handy when you are on a BBC budget Statues, shadows, something out of the corner of your eye, they cost bubkiss In this case it's hands rising through the mud, waiting to drag you down, with[...]