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This is Mermaid Quay. Part of Cardiff's waterfront. They get a lot of Doctor Who filming going on So much so that they have commissioned a special sign

BBC has just released a new trailer for Doctor Who Series 9 Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman return for the second season of the 12th Doctor. Doctor Who returns September 19th [youtube]https://youtu.be/0csVdLbDMO4[/youtube] BBC has just released a new trailer for Doctor Who Series 9 Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman return for the second season of the 12th[...]

He has said it would be tempting, but he has had no conversation with anyone at the BBC about it. The latest rumor has the Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss stepping in as showrunner and saying that it will be announced this Friday Not sure how much stock to put into that though as Gatiss would be[...]

Based on the weekly Guardian newspaper strip which began in 1995, after a failed ITV pilot starring Julia Sawalha, it began as a radio sitcom on BBC Radio 4 in 2004, starring Sally Phillips. Focusing on social worker Clare, as a woman who likes to try and sort out other people's problems, while ignoring her own, both[...]

You might remember this little nugget. Today, they have revealed that there will be no new Doctor Who series in 2016, though giving room for a series of "Specials" and it's down to the continuing battles between the BBC and showrunner Steven Moffat, including increased pressure for him to step down from the show Without actually firing[...]

BBC Worldwide North America and Fathom Events are going to screen the two-part season eight finale, Dark Water / Death in Heaven, in 3D It will also feature a special prequel scene for season nine called The Doctor's Meditation and an interview with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman hosted by Wil Wheaton. In this epic two-part[...]

The BBC announced on Sunday during the convention that Lena Headey and John Oliver would be joining the voice cast for their new animated Danger Mouse series Oliver, the host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, will be providing the voice for the mad scientist Dr Augustus P Crumhorn III who is a wolf Headey, who[...]

The BBC has released a new image of Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Dr John Watson (Martin Freeman) from the upcoming Sherlock Christmas Special The special, according to series co-creator Steven Moffat takes the two back to the original era of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories… hence the outfits and them looking as if[...]

There has been lots of fuss regarding the Japanese publication of an English language version of their manga adaptation of the BBC Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss Sherlock series, using the text from the original TV show Rather than translating back from the translated Japanese. On its announcement, Sherlock fans in the USA went kinda nuts and tried[...]

The British papers have been full of what they hope is a blossoming romance, that between Prince Harry and Jenna Coleman, best known for playing Clara on

Before walking off the book. But in 2013 he had been asked to pitch a sequel series, four months before IDW and the BBC would part ways and Titan would gain the license And he gave them one with Doctor Who – and Star Trek: Deep Space 9. It's only "fanfic" now But it could have been… STAR[...]

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The sci-fi community is a close nit one as you can see here with the Doctor Who Official twitter page celebrating Star Wars day with couple different images.   Lunacy? #MayThe4thBeWithYou #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/1382fqeknO — Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) May 4, 2015 A long time ago in a props store far, far away… #MayThe4thBeWithYou #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/SAtV3zqnfV — Doctor Who Official[...]

On BBC Radio 4, available online around the world right here, a documentary on 25 years of Twin Peaks, ahead of the new revival is going to be broadcast in seventy-five minutes And available to listen again afterwards right here. It's been 25 years since we first entered the 'cherry pie' logging town and met Agent[...]

Season 9 stars Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) and Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald). [Source: BBC] Maisie Williams is known by most as Arya Stark, the tough as nails young girl growing up with a sword in her hands on Game of Thrones Now we get to see her leave the sweeping landscapes of Westeros and into the[...]

The BBC have announced that they are working on a 90 minute drama about the Grand Theft Auto series Before you get too excited and expect to see Michael, Franklin and Trevor running around Los Santos, the show will focus on the creation of the game by Dundee based Rockstar If you haven't heard the[...]

BBC has announced that Michelle Gomez will be reprising her role as Missy… the latest incarnation of The Master.. in the 9th season of Doctor Who. Michelle Gomez said: "Things have been a little beige since I left Missy behind, so I'm delighted to be putting my lippie back on I'm positively dying to see The[...]

Doctor Who #8 is out this Wednesday from Titan Comics. But if you popped into Barnes & Noble this weekend, you could have got there a little early.

Recently released online by the BBC, the video is quite moving as Tennant was taken completely by surprise, making both his reaction and response all the more genuine and heartfelt. Octavio Karbank is a writer and bona fide Whovian Living in Massachusetts, you can find him on Twitter @TymeHunter and his blog www.cozmicventures.com   [...]

BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning, ran a feature towards the end of its three hour broadcast, looking at the ethnic makeup of modern day comic book creators. Today's edition of the show was guest-edited by long-standing British comedian, writer and producer Lenny Henry, who rocketed to media attention this year after preaching about the[...]

Francesco Francavilla often draws illustrations while watching Doctor Who. And he has just put together a belter, capturing the "Hi Hi Rudolph" moment

But the BBC have already issued one of them via press release… 1 Come Down The TARDIS He only did the show because Simon Pegg has been in it. But we now have the most perfectly named actor to ever play Father Christmas, as Nick Frost We already knew that Father Christmas exists in the Doctor Whoniverse, after[...]

Last night at 11pm, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first two parts of their adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel Good Omens, starring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap. Naturally everyone was a) tucked up in bed b) out on the lash c) living in another country. But if you would like to enjoy both episodes in[...]

No one at Bleeding Cool Towers has been invited to see this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special - a side effect of the Omnirumour coverage I'm sure - but

On BBC's Newsnight TV show airing on BBC2 right now, Hustler founder Larry Flynt stated that he was working on producing a porn parody of The Interview, which would as he said " calling Sony a "bunch of scaredycats… this is a no-back bone situation… I don't even consider a threat from North Korea to be substantial." And when[...]

If there is one thing we learn from this clip for the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special is that Santa Claus sure knows how t make an entrance.

The BBC has released a trailer for the upcoming Christmas Special of Doctor Who The episode features Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald and Nick Frost as Santa Claus And from the looks of the trailer, its going to be a scary Christmas. And they seem to be doing the writing on[...]

But here are the final three episodes of BBC Radio 4's Good Omens playing over Christmas week, illustrated by Sean Phillips, using the likeness of the actors Exclusive to Bleeding Cool, apparently, which is nice. It may be worth pointing out to our colonial chums that while the show will play late in the UK, 11pm[...]

In this Doctor Who extra, Nick Frost talks about doing a ride-along with Santa Claus as research for his roll in the upcoming special Last Christmas.

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran an article about Sean Phillips creating illustrations for the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens running over Christmas. And it's worth pointing out that this will be available free, worldwide, through the BBC iPlayer, both live and streaming afterwards We will run links But it[...]