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A prominent trans creator picked by Grant Morrison to continue the Doom Patrol series after they left, the series was repeatedly uncollected, with collections listed and then disappearing The success of the Doom Patrol TV series which used a number of characters she created for the comic with artist Richard Case, helped change that, and[...]

Over this past weekend, we learned the shocking news that actor  Mark Sheppard (Supernatural, DC's Doom Patrol, Doctor Who) has suffered "six massive heart attacks" that resulted in him "being brought back from [the] dead 4 times." Making it a dramatically better story than it could've been was the fact that we learned that from[...]

What began with Mark Sheppard (Supernatural, DC's Doom Patrol, Doctor Who) getting ready to head out to an appointment would turn into a serious health crisis that would see the actor suffer several heart attacks and "being brought back from [the] dead 4 times." That shocking news was reported by Sheppard himself, taking to social[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? SAG-AFTRA, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Crunchyroll's Spy x Family, Netflix's Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, Crunchyroll's Jujutsu Kaisen, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Lower Decks, FX's American Horror Story: Delicate/Stephen King, David Letterman/Paul Shaffer, Prime Video's Reacher, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Max's Doom Patrol, Disney+'s Loki, BBC's Doctor Who, and[...]

Doom Patrol has reached the end of its run, four seasons on MAX (formerly HBO Max) as the most underrated and subversive superhero show on TV It was the most ambitious exploration of the "superheroes as fuckups" trope, and it wore that on its sleeve with pride all the way to the end. "Doom Patrol: Immortimas[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? SAG-AFTRA, SNL/Foo Fighters, Disney+'s Gargoyles, WWE/AEW, Bud Light/UFC, Disney's LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red, FXX's Archer, SYFY & USA Network's Chucky, Toei Animation's One Piece, Prime Video's Gen V, Amazon Freevee's Bosch: Legacy, Netflix's Geeked Week 2023, Mayim Bialik/SNL, BBC's Doctor Who, Max's Doom Patrol, and more! Images/Screencaps: Disney, Toei, SYFY/USA Network, BBC, Prime Video, Amazon Freevee,[...]

Today's Unstoppable Doom Patrol #7 comes to a stop It's the seventh and final issue from Dennis Culver and Chris Burnham And a glorious comic book it has been There was promise of a spinoff with Robot Man, and Zatanna called Hex And Violence, but things have gone quiet in that direction Maybe the Knight[...]

Max's Doom Patrol is the most subversive superhero show now, more than The Boys, which it beat to the screen by over a year It's the show that defies "superhero fatigue" by constantly being surprising and unpredictable and dives deep into the "superheroes as screwups" trope that overturns the notion that superheroes should be good[...]

Boy, oh, boy, aren't we in for a treat this week? Tuesday, October 24th marks the release date of what is billed as the "CLIMACTIC FINAL ISSUE" of Unstoppable Doom Patrol #7 Because, let's be honest, nothing screams climax more than our heroes scuttling for help to the very villain they've spent a good part[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Adam Copeland/Edge & AEW WrestleDream, Sir Patrick Stewart, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Crunchyroll's Jujutsu Kaisen, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, SAG-AFTRA/AMPTP, FXX's Archer, New York Comic Con 2023, SYFY & USA Network's Chucky, BBC's Doctor Who, Netflix' The Umbrella Academy, Max's Doom Patrol, Leslie Jones/SNL, Peppa Pig/Katy Perry, Apple TV+'s For All Mankind, and more! Images/Screencaps:[...]

Just because Max's Doom Patrol is facing its final run of episodes before shuffling off the streamer's programming "mortal coil" (yup, we're dropping Shakespeare) doesn't mean they're going to be able to spend it sitting around, getting nostalgic, telling takes out-of-school That's what the Friends reunion was all about Nope – our dysfunctional family unit of[...]

But maybe there is an alternative? Tomorrow's Unstoppable Doom Patrol #6 brings back Willoughby Kipling… Created by Grant Morrison and Richard Case as a literal stand-in for John Constantine when DC Comics editorial wouldn't allow Constantine to appear in Morrison's Doom Patrol He's mostly only ever appeared in Doom Patrol infrequently since the Morrison days but[...]

Well, well, look what's coming up this Tuesday, September 26th – Unstoppable Doom Patrol #6 Just caught whiff of the new synopsis, and let me tell ya, it's got all the hallmarks of a classic comic book cliché Buckle up, readers Let's take a look: THE DEBUT OF THE ALL-NEW FLEX FORCE! General Immortus launches his[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Lynda Carter/Wonder Woman, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, The Marvels, DC Studios, Spotify & DC's The Riddler: Secrets In The Dark, BBC's Doctor Who, WWE/Hulu, Disney+'s Ahsoka, FX's Fargo, Max's Doom Patrol, Disney+'s Loki, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, WWE SmackDown, AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, Rupert Murdoch/Fox News, Crunchyroll, Apple TV+'s Slow Horses, and more! Images/Screencaps: Adult Swim,[...]

We had heard the rumblings over the past few weeks that a confirmed return date for Max's Doom Patrol would be hitting soon – and that it would most likely be October Well, we learned today that the final run of episodes will kick off with a two-episode Season 4 return on October 12th (followed[...]

Discovery/AEW, Max's Doom Patrol, Prime Video's Gen V, Paramount+'s Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Peacock's The Continental, BBC's Doctor Who, ABC's Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Russell Brand, and more! Images/Screencaps: Max, Paramount+, BBC, Peacock, SYFY, YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, FX Networks BCTV Daily Dispatch: American Horror Story: Delicate, Star Trek: Discovery, SurrealEstate, Daredevil, Doom Patrol, Gen V, The Continental,[...]

We've got some good news to pass along to fans of Max's DC's Doom Patrol who've been wondering when the final episodes would be hitting their screens Thanks to an interview with midseason return episode director Bosede Williams, EW confirmed that the series will wrap up its run in October As we previously reported, the midseason[...]

January 2023 was a rough month for fans of MAX's Doom Patrol and Titans That's when they learned that both shows wouldn't be returning after their respective fourth seasons But the month would prove twice as rough for Doom Patrol fans, with the midseason finale airing at the start of the year – and no word[...]

Oh, talk about originality, folks! This Tuesday, DC is coming at us with Unstoppable Doom Patrol #5! Because what's more unpredictable than a group of superheroes terrorizing an unassuming, idyllic small town? These so-called 'strangest superheroes' clearly missed their morning dose of pills and decided New Poplar, Illinois looked ripe for the picking. Enter, stage right:[...]

This will follow The Unstoppable Doom Patrol six-issue mini-series after it comes to a conclusion It's the reason Zatanna was given her own two-issue mini-series from DC during the Knight Terrors line-wide event, as a backdoor pilot, and co-starring Robot Man, as one of the few humans who was not put to sleep by the[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, The CW's Superman & Lois, FX's What We Do in the Shadows, Colleen Ballinger/Marina Sings, Max's Doom Patrol, DeSantis/FOX "News," SDCC 2023, Doctor Who/Neil Gaiman, TBS' AEW Collision, The[...]

Brace yourselves for Unstoppable Doom Patrol #4, coming your way on July 11th This episode in our merry misfit saga takes a detour from the world-saving gibberish to focus on much-needed group therapy I mean, is it even a proper superhero group if it doesn't crash and burn through at least one therapist's career? In this[...]

Back in January, ahead of DC Studios co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran rolling out the first chapter of their new DCU plans, word came down that now-Max series Doom Patrol and Titans would be ending their respective runs with their fourth seasons And while some attempted to pin the decision on Gunn & Safran, it[...]

Time to return to Doom Patrols of old, as the Justice League, one version of them at least, recall their encounters with the team in Unstoppable Doom Patrol #3 out this week from DC Comics. Doom Patrol #26 by Grant Morrison and Richard Case, can it really have been so long ago as 1989? Thirty-four years[...]

Well, folks, it's time to get your engines revving as Unstoppable Doom Patrol #3 races its way into comic stores on Tuesday, May 23rd In this latest adventure, we follow Robotman and Negative Man playing good samaritan as they save a new metahuman who's accidentally become a galactic fugitive Seems like a humanitarian act, right?[...]

Doom Patrol was published three months before X-Men, back in 1963, both celebrating their 60th birthdays this year And both beginning with a team of society outcasts led by a wheelchair-bound genius in a mansion who turns them into combatants Doom Patrol creator Andrew Drake believed Stan Lee ripped him off, and even Marvel Comics[...]

Great, another week, another chance to marvel at the "groundbreaking" work of the comic book industry with Unstoppable Doom Patrol #2 landing in stores on April 25th As if adding yet another character was ever a bona fide solution to solve a team's problems, DC trots out the Worm to join the ranks of the[...]

Best known in the comic book sphere for writing Doom Patrol for DC Comics, she was also a World Fantasy Award Winning author of Godmother Night as well as novels such as Unquenchable Fire and Temporary Agency and a renowned tarot artist, and author, commissioned to create the tarot deck for the James Bond movie,[...]

One of a number of Alters of Crazy Jane, the new leader of the Doom Patrol. As to what happened to The Chief? She steps up to that role as well Well, the original one does have a history of betraying everyone, all the time This version of the Chief may be a little more reliable. The Unstoppable[...]

Doom Patrol #35 by Grant Morrison and Richard Case, under a Simon Bisley cover, is the first appearance of two major Doom Patrol characters, Flex Mentallo and Danny The Street And a CGC 9.6 slabbed copy is being auctioned by Heritage today. Danny The Street, named after Danny La Rue, was initially described a "transexual" sentient[...]