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With Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss' (Sherlock) highly-anticipated BBC/Netflix co-production Dracula premiering as part of the BBC's New Year's Day programming schedule, we have a new Netflix trailer (airing on the streamer beginning this weekend) for the Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider's Web)-starrer as well as a few treats for BBC viewers. Over[...]

Tonight, we got the second episode of BBC One's Dracula adaptation, based on Bram Stoker's classic novel, from Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue But how 'based' is it? Certainly, there is plenty taken from the original novel, rearranged a bit, and with a few notable and broadly welcomed – and squeed over –[...]

I mentioned in my brief semi-spoilery summation of the first episode of Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue's Dracula, which aired on BBC One last night, second episode tonight, that there was a bit of a Sherlock Holmes crossover The team had also recreated Sherlock for the BBC, and it was a mention from[...]

Tonight saw the debut of the first episode of the new BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, from Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue It was everything it needed to be and so much more Minor spoilers before, holding fire on the big stuff, as I know plenty of people will be timeshifting this[...]

With Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss' (Sherlock) highly-anticipated BBC/Netflix co-production Dracula set to premiere as part of the BBC's New Year's Day programming schedule (and on Netflix three days later), we have some new preview images for the Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider's Web)-starrer (which you'll find below). Over the course of three,[...]

Showrunner Steven Moffat also took advantage of his eccentricity to deliver an almost endless series of oddball speeches throughout his run. The 11th Doctor also launched the biggest list of memes and trends: fish fingers and custard, "Bowties are cool", "fezzes are cool" and so on Moffat also established the 11th Doctor as the most kid-friendly[...]

With Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss' (Sherlock) highly-anticipated BBC/Netflix co-production Dracula set to premiere as part of the BBC's New Year's Day programming schedule, we have some updated information on when the Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider's Web)-starrer will air on the streaming service as well as the titles of the three[...]

"Twice Upon A Time" featured some of Steven Moffat's best writing about Death and facing mortality It was melancholy, sombre and funereal as The 13th Doctor considered his life on the verge of a new regeneration It painted The Doctor as a Christ stand-in as he faced his last temptation: to die and rest or[...]

Today, in Forbidden Planet Megastore on Shaftesbury Avenue in London, Doctor Who/Sherlock/Dracula producer Sue Vertue popped by with her husband and writer/showrunner of all those shows, Steven Moffat, to do a little signing of Titan Comics' Sherlock manga publications, that adapt the original scripts of the show in excruciating detail for manga readers in Japan,[...]

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With Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss' (Sherlock) highly-anticipated BBC/Netflix co-production Dracula set to premiere as part of the BBC's New Year's Day programming schedule, we have some updated information on when the Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider's Web)-starrer will air on the streaming service as well as the titles of the three[...]

With Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss' (Sherlock) highly-anticipated BBC/Netflix co-production Dracula set to premiere as part of the BBC's New Year's Day programming schedule, we have some updated information on when the Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider's Web)-starrer will air on the streaming service as well as the titles of the three[...]

With Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss' (Sherlock) highly-anticipated Dracula set to premiere as part of the BBC's New Year's Day programming schedule, the network has released new preview images for the Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider's Web, Borgen)-starrer In the three-part drama, Bang's bloodthirsty count travels from 1897 Transylvania to wreak havoc against[...]

More than a month after Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) dropped the first teaser trailer for their highly-anticipated Dracula limited series at MCM London Comic Con, viewers are learning when Claes Bang's (The Girl in the Spider's Web, Borgen) bloodthirsty count will be haunting their screens – and now, they know. BBC One The three-part drama[...]

Steven Moffat took it even further, given the Doctor a Shakespearean-level final speech a summing up, a eulogy In a post-Buffy era of fandom, the show now dives deep into the death and rebirth of the Doctor to push an explosive emotional catharsis And the show is richer for it. We see what you're doing,[...]

Here is showrunner Steven Moffat writing a companion as both a mystery and a plot device Clara came to represent both the best and the worst excesses of Moffat's writing for the show, creating a sometimes needlessly convoluted Mystery Box puzzle as a long-term arc. Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie) meets the 12th Doctor in his office[...]

Showrunner Steven Moffat took full advantage of his range to create in many ways the "ultimate" Doctor The 12th Doctor felt like an amalgamation of every Doctor that came before He embodied the patrician imperiousness of the First Doctor, the slapstick whimsy of the Second, the madness of the Fourth, the earnestness of the Fifth,[...]

I'm in the room with Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Sue Vertue and Claes Bang, to hear them talk Dracula, their new BBC TV drama But first we got to see the trailer There is blood dripping on contracts, flies crawling into eyeballs, blood pumping in veins, fingernails being ripped from fingers, nuns with stakes under[...]

This was the 13th Doctor's final season, and both showrunner Steven Moffat and star Peter Capaldi's last as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnh0VwshPc8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Best of Bill Potts | Doctor Who (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnh0VwshPc8) After 5 seasons of increasingly continuity-heavy and even convoluted storylines, Moffat streamlined series 10 back to the basics: The Doctor and[...]

Sherlock and Doctor Who writers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are writing a brand-new adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel for BBC One and Netflix, and they're bringing a first look at their new series to MCM London on Saturday 26th October Oh look, I'm already planning to go to the show That just[...]

Scott was the majorly psychopathic Moriarty in Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' Sherlock, so he should be brilliant as the urbane and calculating Tom Ripley. Highsmith Nearly Wrote Wonder Woman As if her novels weren't evidence enough of her bold, creative life, Highsmith also wrote comics – from 1942 to 1948 Her tales crossed a number[...]

Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall also continued the template for the show when they took over as showrunners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHRLi02JAcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Ace Returns! | The Collection: Season 26 Announcement Trailer | Doctor Who (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHRLi02JAc) Box Set Details As the official announcement on the Doctor Who website stated: In 1989, Doctor Who was on a[...]

Everyone working on Doctor Who sends his family and friends our love and condolences at this difficult time." Former showrunner Steven Moffat posted the following memorial on Instagram: View this post on Instagram. With a kind word from Mark Gatiss… Very hard to express what Terrance Dicks meant to a whole generation A brilliant TV professional, a funny and[...]

To what end? Could it be that time traveler's DNA gave them certain survival advantages like immunity to certain diseases in ancient times that don't exist anymore? Also, in Steven Moffat's run, Amy and Rory's daughter Melody was conceived in the TARDIS and she became part Time Lord as a result She had the ability to[...]

Series creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have also moved on to new pastures, like the new Dracula series that just finished filming But if they announced new Sherlock, the internet would explode Women in China risked going to jail for writing Sherlock fanfiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH0vgNhLSOgVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Santa Clarita Diet: Season[...]

Davies, Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, and many of the writers were fans of his era You can find traces of Ace in many of the current show's companions, but none of them are as complex or specific as she was. Ace After the Show Ended Ace is the companion whose run never really ended Cartmel planned to[...]

A little more than two months after Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) announced some major additions to the cast and directors' chairs for their highly-anticipated Dracula limited series, viewers are getting their first look at Claes Bang's (The Girl in the Spider's Web, Borgen) bloodthirsty count in the three-part drama – where[...]

Three months after Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) revealed that filming on their highly anticipated Dracula series would begin "very soon" and production confirmed to be underway, the BBC/Netflix project announced Jonathan Aris (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), Sacha Dhawan (The Boy With the Top Knot), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Misfits), Catherine Schell (On Her Majesty's[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat's stints as well If you want to learn how to write Doctor Who, this is a great way to immerse yourself in the variety of tones, themes, plots, and styles the show adopted over the last ten series As a fan, it is a great way to revisit moments from your[...]

This is the "Voldemort" that showrunner Chris Chibnall and his predecessors Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies will never discuss openly because they don't want to throw the BBC bean counters under the bus, causing a bigger fuss than what's already been kicked off Budget – as in when they finally get it – is[...]