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So do you want to be on TV? Live in the UK? Don't mind the potential of being mocked for your comic collection? Thn get in touch with RDF Television who are making a new series, Collectaholics, for BBC Two. Presented by Mark Hill and Mel Giodroyc, Hill states; If you're worried that the aim is to have[...]

Also Mrs Brown takes a trip in the TARDIS. You don't suppose... she could be the next regeneration, could she? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nayRp165R4A

Rowling's first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, was published at the end of September and barely two months later has been commissioned for an exclusive TV adaptation by BBC One and BBC Drama. The novel is a tragicomedy set in an English suburban West Country town called Pagford After the death of the local Parish[...]

Second" "Oh yes, cos you were in the Dalek one weren't you?" "Yep" "Playing a different character." "Yep, totally different character" "You died" "Yep" "Got turned into a Dalek "Ouch" "So you couldn't be the sme charcetr at Christmas, that would be impossible." "No way." "Roll the trailer" And while we're at it, here's a BBC Wales promo piece, featuring lots of our favourites. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIbphh-AFWI[/youtube] [...]

Viz Comic, one of the best selling comics in Britain, is to celebrate Christmas by putting the late TV presenter Jimmy Savile, now revealed by the media

Cheeky spoilers anyone?" before being posted to Reddit. The finder did try to get in touch with the BBC and the production team to return the script without joy, though after the Reddit posting, things took a natural turn and arrangements were made. We can of course note that Jenna-Louise Coleman's character is called Clara, Being Human's[...]

Oops, this one fell through the cracks a little… Frank Spotnitz, and Adam Rayner were talking up the new BBC/HBO TV action series Hunted at MCM London Expo, and showing off the first five minutes of next week's episode Including how they get past last week's rather explosive cliffhanger… and it does indeed involve a little[...]

This'll teach me though – I did ask BBC Books if they fancied a graphic novel, and they went, 'No' I sat here thinking, I could write a graphic novel, I could even draw the graphic novel, that'd be brilliant… No There we are then, I tried." Yeah, that's BBC Books for you IDW? I know[...]

Jamie Wotton writes for Bleeding Cool. He saw New Zealand, and is raising Australia; Federal MP George Christiansen is launching an official campaign to get the BBC show Doctor Who to film an episode in Australia This comes hot on the heels of New Zealand attempting to get the show to film an episode over on their[...]

Actor, writer, director and producer, Noel Clarke, has just appeared on BBC Breakfast, to talk about his new film, The Knot He also was asked about Star Trek 2, for which he revealed nothing, mentioned how he'd been cut out of Ghost Rider 2 and how Doctor Who fans were waiting outside the studio Talking[...]

Observations on the mid-season finale.

We are going by what has been shown in the BBC trailers (not the Canadian one which we are ignoring for these purposes) and trying to work out stuff from what we know. Facts: This is the last episode for Amy Pond and Rory Williams This episode is set, at least partially, in New York in the present[...]

Will Rian Johnson get the chance to direct an episode of Doctor Who? Might Peter Jackson film an episode in New Zealand?

That's more than one insight for every five minutes.

Get ready to say goodbye to the Ponds. With tears in your eyes?

Flickering lightbulbs that may indicate the coming of Weeping Angels. No one knowing who the Doctor is anymore. A Doctor prepared, nay, willing to kill in

Padraig Cotter writes for Bleeding Cool. Here's the final trailer for the BBC and HBO's new drama The Girl, with Toby Jones, Sienna Miller and Imelda Stanton The film will offer us a glimpse into director Alfred Hitchcock's obsession with The Birds' leading lady Tippi Hedren during the making of that film. I have to say that[...]

Yes there are spoilers. Obviously. 1. Queen Of Flirtation It was always a shame in The Girl In The Fireplace that Madame de Pompadour never actually got

Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool; Thank God DOCTOR WHO is back! The British TV Imagination Drought is over! It’s always fun to study and dissect

As we expected, Neil Gaiman is providing another Doctor Who episode, presumably for the second half of this series. Moffat had teased a returning writer

Hooray! New Doctor Who! And series seven starts with a belter. Yes, there will be spoilers. If you haven't seen Asylum Of The Daleks yet then maybe, just

All is not well in the world of the Ponds. And not even the Doctor inventing pasta can save that... this does tie into all sorts of reports from people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQZc9DzneUI It's May with the Ponds... In their bedroom. And it's too early. Bloody helmet regulator. Saturday can't come

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdBsc5pQ1k It's not long is it? The first webisode of Pond Life, filling in the gaps between the last time we saw Amy and

Back in the day when Russell T Davies was known for TV shows that didn't involve aliens and spaceships, had himself a replica black Dalek made for his

She's now the partner of Nev Fountain, a fellow I used to know when we both wrote for BBC Radio 4's Weekending show He went on to fame and semi-fortune with Dead Ringers, an impression show that was suitably obsessed with Doctor Who and, in the process, found himself getting to know Nicola better[...]

Bleeding Cool have been told from BBC sources that the title will change with every episode to reflect the content So Dinosaurs On A Spaceship, for example, will see the logo covered in scales… There may be a few Doctor Who stories on Bleeding Cool today No, scratch that, there will be…   [...]

Doctor Who loves a Christmas Day Special. It also loves a Victorian setting. Well, here we have a Victorian set Christmas Special. To be filmed next week

This was banned from airplay when it was released to coincide with the Silver Jubilee in 1977. The aerial shot of the Thames is identical to that used in the BBC soap opera EastEnders theme, as are the drum beats. We race back down through the Thames Barrier, underground, into the tube system We hear The Clash's[...]

Kurtis Wiebe at the Image Comics Panel just made an interesting surprise announcement. QT Digital and BBC Worldwide are to produce a fully voiced motion comic of his Image Comics series, Peter Panzerfaust, which retells the story of Peter Pan during the Second World War With the plan to then turn it into a BBC live[...]