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From yesterday's episode of New Tricks on BBC1. Maybe not as obviously as before But we have a new character, Margaret Kirby And Peter Sale. It's the final episode for actor Alun Armstrong… so he has to deal with a fictional nom de plume of Lawrence Archer. A building company called Ennis and McCrea[...]

Noe there's a thing. You are an actor, you are trying to film a scene from a TV show with a large crowd of adoring fans penned in tweeting your every twitch. But there is something you want to say. And they may provide you with just the opportunity.

Senior #Setlock Correspondent, Lizzie Holmes, gave us a lovely serious of shots from this afternoon's filming on Holmes series three, in London. Outside a certain flat...

The new series of Sherlock from the BBC is filming today Which gives a greater chance for fans to turn up and watch the show being filmed If they can actually film it. Damn it, this is getting bigger than Doctor Who I'm told hundreds of fans have already turned up. And the street sign has just[...]

Or not. And in the new Doctor Who comic from IDW, issue #12, written by Andy Diggle, and approved by all sorts of BBC people Showing the last day of the Time War on Gallifrey And it's very destruction… Rejected that name? The renegade? HURT: "What I did, I did without choice… in the name of peace and[...]

Over San Diego Comic Con, Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that IDW and BBC were coming to the end of their Doctor Who US licence at the end of the year and were not renewing Odds are it had become a lot more expensive We followed it up with the news that[...]

Okay, here we go. When I first ran the rumours of the return of Doctor Who Missing Episodes to the BBC, being spread by Doctor Who production folk, I pointed out that the rumours states that Doctor Who was only part of the haul, there were Dad's Army, Morecambe And Wise missing episodes in the haul[...]

Reaction to the casting of Peter Capaldi as The Doctor in Doctor Who has been mixed. We're all on board at Bleeding Cool, but some aren't sure. Always the

Ok, that's one mystery solved.  But what about those missing episodes...?  What does Peter Capaldi know and when did he know it, hm?  Peter Capaldi is the

Such as Alex Day of the band Chameleon Circuit, who YouTube got together with the BBC for this low budget Doctor Who styled video for their song Teenage Rebel– with a rather spectacular fan service twist about half way in. Alex Day told me; Ever since the whole 'lost episodes' thing, I've been thoroughly enjoying Bleeding Cool's[...]

Isn't that polite of him? As opposed to the usual... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDGzzGRKukE&

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al7XJxlDoyQ That's Peter Capaldi of The Thick Of It... and just revealed as The Next Doctor. So, since I managed not to

Courtesy of fansite Doctor Who Hub, there's a rumour that BBC have put up a placeholder on their websites. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Welsh-Hero-is-the-Twelveth-Doctor Welsh? However, changing the URL to anything gets to a similar page, just without the social network likes Which that site and such fuss may well have generated[...]

Bleeding Cool's Brendon Connelly tweets; I've just been told that Daniel Rigby is 100% in Edinburgh right now. At this very second. Take that as you will.

 On the BBC at 7pm this Sunday night we will finally find out who will play the twelfth doctor, in a live show hosted by Zoe Ball For our American readers who might want to ensure they're near a computer at that time that's 7pm UK time, which is 11am PDT and 2pm EDT. Most-Read TV/Film[...]

We're just one day away from the BBC officially unveiling the next star of Doctor Who The Thirteenth Doctor, by our count. Time then for a survey of the story so far Here's what we know, what we think, what we knew and what changed along the way. Originally our favourite for the role of The Next[...]

The preview to the new series/season of Sherlock, that just aired on BBC One… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llGXWICGsD4[/youtube] Hopefully we'll find out more about the rubber ball… The preview to the new series/season of Sherlock, that just aired on BBC One… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llGXWICGsD4[/youtube] Hopefully we'll find out more about the rubber ball… [...]

There's more. The Record; BOOKMAKERS have suspended betting on the new Doctor Who because they are convinced Peter Capaldi has got the job. The actor, famous for his role as foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, was down to 5/6 favourite with William Hill when they stopped taking bets. Joe Crilly, a spokesman for the firm, said:[...]

 Who will it be…? Most-Read TV/Film Stories Thursday: Official: BBC To Reveal New Doctor Who In Live Broadcast This Sunday – UPDATED  On the BBC at 7pm this Sunday night we will finally find out who will play the twelfth doctor, in a live show hosted by Zoe Ball For our American readers who might want to ensure[...]

(literally it seems, the video may be geoblocked) Okay, so on Sunday, as Bleeding Cool told you yesterday, the BBC will be announcing the Next Doctor So… Doctor Who? I don't know. Last time I did, I had a genuine production leak before the announcement show, that it was Matt Smith Here's the tweet. Matt Smith is the Eleventh[...]

But it took the UK to perfect it as a long running entertainment format, as they faded away in the USA, due to falling viewing figures and a lack of connecting with younger audiences, despite a daytime revival in the seventies and eighties. But in the UK, Just A Minute is the longest lasting version, still[...]

There was a Doctor Who-related dinner-party held a few weeks ago, in which guests were told that two of the guests had signed NDAs and most definitely wouldn't discuss anything regarding missing episodes and not to bring it up. More and more, I'm hearing reports that people have signed NDAs about… something regarding returning episodes of[...]

Was £200. Although did anyone pay that? Now a much, much more reasonable price. An inflatable Dalek that you can ride around in. If you're of a certain age.

Such an advertising deal would be incompatible with a high profile BBC role like The Doctor. Rigby also has some Spooks and some Ideal episodes to his name as well as the series Lilies. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7-wWdFhIJI[/youtube] But also some seriously strong theatre work, including Hamlet, Romeo And Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream… and the One Man, Two Guvnors revival,[...]

Michael Sheen on comic books and Neil Gaiman at the hands of drama college student Gary. "Here's the Watchmen, here's Swamp Thing, here's Hellblazer and

Doctor Who is a part of Cardiff life. Filmed there, with plenty of Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures action over the years as well, locals are used to

Remember now, Philip Morris has denied any involvement, or knowledge that such episodes still exist, the BBC have been non committal and I have no actual evidence for anything detailed below at all. But this is the rumour, as has been passed around by BBC producers, members of the Dr Who production office and prominent professionals[...]

Kevin Bacon has been making England his home of late. And filming commercials for mobile and broadband provider EE.

THE ORIGINAL VIDEO TAPES WERE WIPED SUBSEQUENT FILM COPIES WERE EITHER RETURNED TO THE BBC AND SENT TO LANDFILL ODD FRAGMENTS HAVE SURFACED TWO EPISODES ON 16MM FILM BUT THATS IT THE PROGRAMMES IN QUESTION LIKE MANY OTHERS WERE DESTROYED AS THEY HAD NO FURTHER COMMERCIAL VALUE .THEY ARE NOT MISSING BUT DESTROYED THE END.I[...]

My kids watch BBC's Horrible Histories, on the CBBC channel and then again again on the iPlayer It's one of those kids TV shows that pretty much justifies the licence fee in one A series of comedy sketches based on history, obsessed with the gorier details and especially anything flatulent Each episode has a parody[...]