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Doctor Who: BBC Making Sure BFF Disney+ Knows Who's The Boss?
Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who – we've reached that point when "The Mouse" is going to be letting the world know that it's the exclusive streaming home to the long-running show for a good chunk of the globe (minus BBC and BBC iPlayer, of course) We saw some[...]
When Russell T Davies Was A Comic Book Creator
Sometimes, they were about Doctor Who Sometimes they were about his school He even ended up on the BBC kids TV series Playaway teaching kids to draw before deciding that being in front of the camera just wasn't for him But courtesy of a a few scans and a recent Alan Yentob biographical Imagine… looking[...]
BAFTAs Host David Tennant Lives with "Swifties": No Taylor Swift Jokes
It's a moment that isn't lost on David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch), with the actor set to host the 2024 EE BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film Awards this Sunday, February 18th. Speaking with Variety heading into the weekend, Tennant was asked if the reaction that Koy received sparked any fears of jokes[...]
Doctor Who: Doom’s Day Keeps Show's Goofy, Silly British Sci-Fi Vibe
British comedian Sooz Kempner revealed how she got cast as intergalactic assassin Doom in the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary multimedia event as a precursor to the TV specials – it was because returning showrunner Russell T Davies and the BBC liked her YouTube videos taking the piss out of disgraced Tory MP Nadine Dorries In[...]
Doctor Who and Other BBC Scripts Are Free For Educational Purposes
The original scripts for Doctor Who, including for the recent 60th Anniversary Specials, and many more, are now available to download for free as an educational resource on the BBC Writers Room site This includes the scripts for the hilarious 5-minute "Children in Need" mini-episode and the 5-minute script that showrunner Russell T Davies wrote[...]
Star Trek: Discovery, Doctor Who, Chucky & More: BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Peacock's Community: The Movie, TBS's AEW Dynamite, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, ABC's The Rookie, SYFY's Resident Alien, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Bewitched, SYFY & USA Network's Chucky, Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2024, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, Netflix's Bridgerton, BBC's Doctor Who, Monty Python, BBC's Gavin and Stacey, and more! Images/Screencaps: SYFY, BBC, Hulu,[...]
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Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who set to kick off a new era of adventuring across time & space this May, the BBC Scripts Library (along with a whole bunch of other "Who" and non-"Who"-related scripts) is now the official home for the RTD-penned eight-page "The Fifteenth Doctor Audition[...]
Gavin and Stacey Returning for a Christmas Special in 2024
Now the show is back with another Christmas Special, premiering on… you guessed it! Christmas Day! Looks like the Doctor Who Christmas Special is going to have serious competition for the top show at Christmas, and no, Eastenders doesn't count Eastenders is always on anyway, and the best anyone can hope for is another big[...]
Renegade Nell: Happy Valley Creator Sally Wainwright's New Disney Show
Sally Wainwright had been a rumoured candidate to become the showrunner for Doctor Who a few years ago before Russell T Davies returned to take the reigns A female swashbuckling adventure series with magic by Wainwright? We're there! Sally Wainwright, Ben Taylor, Faith Penhale, Will Johnston, and Louise Mutter are executive producers of Renegade Nell for[...]
BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Max's Creature Commandos, CBS's Super Bowl LVIII, DC Studios' Superman: Legacy, Max's Puppy Bowl XX, ABC's The Golden Bachelorette, FX's Justified: City Primeval, Disney+'s The Acolyte, WWE/AEW, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, NBC's True Detective: Night Country, Prime Video's Renée Ballard Series, Adult Swim's Royal Crackers, AMC's The[...]
Doctor Who: the Doctor is Incomplete Without the TARDIS
Ahh, Doctor Who, everyone missed David Tennant, so Russell T Davies brought him back for one last hurrah in three 60th Anniversary Specials that were needed to herald a transition from the previous era that began with Davies' revival of the show in 2005 and prepare for the Disney+ Big Budget global streaming era But[...]
Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker Joins The Great Celebrity Bake-Off 2024!
During the final 60th Anniversary Special of Doctor Who, "The Giggle," something happened that changed everything: bi-generation! The Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) didn't die from his fatal wound but healed, and the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) split off from him, leaving him alive and well to live out his life naturally and heal from centuries[...]
Taylor Swift, James Gunn/Batman, SNL & More: BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Taylor Swift/Grammys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Paramount+'s HALO, AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, BBC's Doctor Who, James Gunn/Batman, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, TBS' AEW Collision, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Eric Idle/Terry Jones, FanDuel/Carl Weathers, and more! Images/Screencaps: Instagram Stories, DC Studios, ET, BBC, AMC Networks, NBCUniversal,[...]
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In case you hadn't heard the news, last week was a huge week for Doctor Who Magazine – having officially released its 600th issue To celebrate the milestone, Showrunner Russell T Davies offered a pretty impressive production update on how things are going with Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who[...]
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Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? NBC's Saturday Night Live, Jeremy Renner/MCU, The Flash/Grant Gustin, Crunchyroll's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, NBC's Night Court, Carl Weathers, AEW/WWE, BBC's Doctor Who, Hey Arnold!/Patrick Stewart, Adult Swim's Ninja Kamui, Charmed/Alyssa Milano, HBO's Game of Thrones, Apple TV+'s Welcome Home, Franklin, Hulu's Solar Opposites, William Shatner, BBC's Fawlty Towers, and more! Image/Screencaps: WBTV,[...]
Doctor Who Returns
Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who being so far ahead with its filming – having wrapped Season 1 & the 2024 Christmas Special and currently filming the second season The positive is that it pretty much guarantees a set release schedule for the next two seasons – no worrying[...]
BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? WWE Royal Rumble 2024, Paramount+'s Criminal Minds: Evolution, Adult Swim SMALLS' Camp Bucktooth, Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revolution, NBC's Saturday Night Live, AEW, NBC's True Detective: Night Country, DC Studios' Superman: Legacy, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, Paramount+'s HALO, Peacock's Community: The Movie, Disney+'s Daredevil: Born Again, BBC's Doctor Who, and more! Images/Screencaps: Netflix, Paramount+, SNL,[...]
Doctor Who: the Doctor is Incomplete Without the TARDIS
Doctor Who is not just a time-traveling immortal The Doctor is not complete without the TARDIS The latter is a huge part of the series' identity Without it, The Doctor would have just been another generic hero from the 1960s to the 1980s It's the sheer surreal oddness of the TARDIS that gives the show[...]
Game of Thrones' Kit Harrington Developing "British Western" Thriller
He hasn't been home for 15 years but, following a tragic accident, finds himself the unwilling head of his family before discovering the unthinkable – that his father had been running a multimillion-pound drugs racket from a hidden corner of his family land, as often happens. Harington and West said the show, which is part-funded and[...]
WWE/McMahon, Reacher, The Ones Who Live & More: BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Prime Video's Reacher, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Paramount+'s Criminal Minds: Evolution, Jensen Ackles/Supernatural, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Warhammer 40,000/Henry Cavill, WWE/Vince McMahon, Paramount+'s Wolf Pack, HBO's The Last of Us, TBS' AEW Dynamite, DGA/WGA, Adult Swim's Royal Crackers, FX's Shōgun, BBC's Doctor Who, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Rob Huebel/Night Court, and more! Images/Screencaps:[...]
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Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who is experiencing some disadvantages Heading into last weekend, The Mirror reported that Gibson would be departing the show after Gatwa's first two series and would apparently appear in only three of her final season's eight episodes (with one expected to wrap up Ruby Sunday's[...]
BCTV Daily Dispatch
Smith/Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, Adult Swim's Checkered Past, Prime Video's The Consultant, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Apple TV+'s Constellation, BBC's Doctor Who, and more! Images/Screencaps: WWE, YouTube, Adult Swim/Cartoon Network, Netflix, SNL, Paramount+, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Howard Stern Show, NBCUniversal BCTV Daily Dispatch: WWE/Netflix, Dwayne Johnson, Squid Game, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Stephen[...]
Character Options Toy Fair London 2024
And also to get photos of the Doctor Who figures Well, TMNT is locked off on its own in a room I was not allowed to enter Maybe the YouTubers on Influencer Day on Thursday will be able to break it down, but not me. And Doctor Who? They had a shelf, but I was told[...]
Doctor Who: Jo Martin Geeks Out on Her Fugitive Doctor Action Figure
British toymaker Character Option, who are behind the majority of Doctor Who toys in the UK, announced this week that they were at last releasing an online exclusive collector's edition action figure of The Fugitive Doctor, played by Jo Martin during Jodie Whittaker's second series back in 2020 They even released a video of Jo[...]
BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai, CBS's Ghosts, Jared Padalecki/Batman, Our Flag Means Death/#RenewAsACrew, AEW/WWE, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Prime Video's Reacher, Paramount+'s HALO, BBC's Doctor Who, The CW's Superman & Lois, DC Studios' The Batman Part II, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Lower Decks, and more! Images/Screencaps: Paramount+, Warner Bros[...]
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Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who hits BBC One, BBC iPlayer & Disney+ screens, rumblings are beginning to get louder regarding the immediate future of the long-running show Earlier this month, Gibson gave an interview where she covered a number of Doctor Who-related topics, from what it was like[...]
Doctor Who/Disney, Star Trek: Picard, OFMD & More: BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Netflix's Sweet Tooth, Prime Video's Wytches, Disney+'s Daredevil: Born Again, Max's Harry Potter, AEW/WWE, Prime Video's Invincible, MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, CBS's Ghosts, Max's Our Flag Means Death/#RenewAsACrew, NBC's Saturday Night Live, BBC's Doctor Who, Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, Disney+'s Ironheart, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, FX's Alien, NBC's Night Court, Green[...]
Doctor Who EP to Fans: RTD Will Save You From The Big, Bad Disney
Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Rudy Sunday)-starring Doctor Who, it might not be surprising to know that quite a few fans were a bit nervous over what influence "The Mouse" might have on the long-running series Adding to those concerns were the rumblings over how Disney's investment could find "The Mouse" having[...]
The Jetty: BBC Previews New Jenna Coleman Cop Thriller
The BBC  unveiled a first look at Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who, The Cry, The Serpent) playing a cop in the apparently highly anticipated (not by us!) new crime drama The Jetty, from writer Cat Jones and producers Firebird Pictures, for BBC One and BBC iPlayer Because eventually, every British A-lister ends up playing a cop[...]
Doctor Who: Leela's Time War Fate Revealed in Series 15 Boxset Video
Tom Baker's fourth season as the Fourth Doctor is the next release to come to Blu-ray when Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 15 releases later this year However, it's the newly unveiled mini-episode written by Pete McTighe that is going to set off all kinds of fan speculation, like does it tie-into the "Time[...]