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Doctor Whol Supernatural, Serenity, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, World of Warcraft, Dragon Age and more are all sitting on the shelves of your local gaming shop and they offer the chance to step into someone else's character, to wear the licence like a coat and see where it takes you, see if you can tell[...]

BeanWatch: Larry Marder unveils the cover to the next Beanworld volume, entitled "Something More" as the Beanworld enters Summertime, and the Beanworld

Now it's time for a new generation of kids to get freaked out by them. This Doctor throws a mean punch… ..ish… Has something to hide… Shoots starting pistols… Proper guns… And is still as handy with the old kissing… And is that the return of Magpie Electricals from "The Wire"? Okay, enough of the Doctor Who stuff, it only winds William up,[...]

Every year, BBC One run a special themed series of idents for programming over the Christmas period. And this year, what with David Tennant's final Doctor Who episodes playing out over Christmas and the New Year, the BBC have made the idents, well, a little Tardisy. Here they are… aren't they pretty? (UPDATE: The first now in HD, and[...]

But enough to inspire Doctor Who fanfic writers the world over I understand from well-connected-fan-chatter combined with a little birdie at BBC America that in the end-of-year Doctor Who specials, and yes I am eeking this out a bit so that there are no spoilers for the front page of Bleeding Cool, I've got in[...]

Okay, so what's been happening on the cool in the last couple of weeks? We've been covering ComICA events such as Eddie Campbell, James Jean and Tara McPherson,  and even chaired a discussion between Ramon Pere, Karl Kerschl and Cameron Stewart, while a Viz founder kicked off against the upcoming Tate Britain exhibition of their work. We[...]

As well as a skit from Merlin and the first three minutes of the Christmas Doctor Who, we got the Children In Need DVD single And it's spectacular A medley arranged by comedian Peter Kay who does the voice of Big Chris in Roary The Racing Car And basically every major children's stop-frame animation character[...]

In 1968, we saw 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Doctor Who adventure Wheel In Space, with Cybermen and stuff Anyway, some bright sparks have smooshed them with some damn fine CGI And it's brilliant If you, you know, really like 2001 and Doctor Who Which I do Oh, how I do. It is a bit[...]

Ooh, and a first look at the upcoming Christmas' Doctor Who at some point And Paul McCartney jamming with Take That. But comic book creator Tony Lee, recently back from India, owes Children In Need his very life On his blog he writes a remarkable story about finding himself a paralysed amnesiac in 1991; An ambulance was[...]

Comic book writer Tony Lee has spend the last week in India, flown out by the British Council as part of a cultural programme. The writer of Doctor Who, Harker, Pride And Prejudice And Zombies and Hope Falls comics found himself lauded, feted and given lots of flowers. And as some kind of cross between Michael Palin[...]

Children and the occasional mother queuing for the Twilight: New Moon premiere ten hours later. All fine and dandy though, you know, school truant officers? Hello? But getting out of work later was almost impossible. Twilight ruined Leicester Square. — I wonder… with BBC America advertising Vertigo Crime Comics and DC Comics showing BBC America ads for Doctor Who…[...]

18th: Dog carcass in alley jdunbar: Fuck Hollywood! CharlesSkaggs: No, I don't watch the new DOCTOR WHO but I understand it uses concepts of mine. theronster: Just about to watch LXG again over a joint and a cup of tea Y'know, it's really improving with age. joshadams: Geoff Johns steals my tweets! AndrewCroskery: It's nice to be clean shaven. theronster: Right,[...]

But, no, on the eve of the new Doctor Who episode, legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock is becoming part of the extended franchise. The author of the Elric, Eternal Champion and Jerry Cornelius novels, and an inspiration to many creators such as Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Wiliam Gibson and Ian Sinclair, posted on his forum that; Looks[...]

That last one is especially fun, as I'm currently writing the 9th Doctor boxed set for the upcoming Doctor Who RPG. The thing about having lots of hats is deciding which one to wear and Rich has very kindly given me the opportunity to wear more than one here In coming weeks you'll be[...]

He's a bit of a Doctor Who geek, hence the constant references and impressions in the Dead Ringers TV and Radio series ("Mmm, New Labour, that's weird" – David Tennant/Tony Blair) Well, like all A-list geeks, his partner is an Doctor Who assistant, in this case Nicola Bryant (Peri – while Richard Dawkins has Lalla[...]

I've been told for a while that certain people at BBC Scotland are very jealous at BBC Wales for getting Doctor Who and Torchwood Grant Morrison has talked about wanting to write for the Doctor Who TV show but that he hadn't been approached Maybe this is his way of getting his own sci-fi TV[...]

The Zuda digital line from DC Comics has confounded critics and proved a success of a number of comic titles, in some case making industry names of a few, such as David Gallaher (when I spell his name right.) It's become the comic equivalent of the X-Factor, of American Idol, bringing people from obscurity to[...]

Live in Ontario? Looking for a new home in Brantford? Wanting something with a little geek chic? Well there's this little family home in West Brant that

For something trying to be an adult sci-fi drama, it's telling that the children's TV Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures often had more gravitas and a sense of cohesion. Which is why Children Of Earth is a bolt from the blue Because this is the best British drama of the year Hell, this could[...]

Is he The Riddler in the next Batman movie? Chameleon in Spider-Man 5? No, David Tennant is playing the villainous Pomfrey in the new St Trinians 2 movie,

Directed by Euros Lyn, who BleedingCool pointed out as the director of the upcoming Doctor Who movie. io9 who kindly followed up on the BC piece point out that the movie is rumoured to be announced at San Diego – being attended by Russel T Davies, David Tennant and… Euros Lyn Thanks guys. Russell T Davies and[...]

Hidden at the bottom of a recent BBC piece PR was the news that the British Broadcasting Corporation are planning a Doctor Who movie, probably for 2011, starring David Tennant in the role, while Matt Smith will continue to play the character on the television. Expected to be written by Russell T Davies, while Steven Moffat[...]

As Comic Con International: San Diego starts to groan into existence, on Wednesday, July 22nd, so my first Doctor Who comic with EricJ, Doctor Who: A Room With A Deja View is published. Basically, it's now become a San Diego Comic Con comic, as much as the Complete Strangers In Paradise collection Except with mine, it[...]

Lawry Lewin, British stand up comedian, will appear the last David Tennant episodes of Doctor Who, airing on Christmas Day 2009 and in the New Year. Lewin is a character comedian, and I particularly remember him as a parody paranormal investigator from radio station XFM, taking calls from people who weren't always in on the joke… Could[...]

Since Patrick Troughton replaced William Hartnell in the lead role in the ever-popular British sci-fi TV showDoctor Who, back in 1966, the titles of the show have displayed the Doctor's face Generally disembodied, staring at the camera, dissolving into swirly graphics or exploding into stars, occasionally animating into a grin or a wink. However, after the[...]