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Hey, Internet! Keep Quiet About Doctor Who And Get A Special Reward!
The #DoctorWho team would be hugely grateful if fans helped keep spoilers off the net. Steven Moffat has promised if fans help keep the finale's secrets, we'll release a special video featuring Matt & David right after the ep! Yeah, you won't get that on no early release DVD. So, everybody, shhhhh… Oh and if you're trying to[...]
Private Eye On The Doctor Who Bust Up
That both of those outlets often run reports on the production goings on at Doctor Who just shows how far the programme has grown in terms of its media importance. Today, Private Eye have run with added details on the bust up between Steven Moffat and Caroline Skinner that Bleeding Cool previously reported.  And yes, that's one[...]
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: The Romantic Agony Of Moffat's Doctor Who
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 Steven Moffat's scripts They're the structurally-complex, very clever, high concept constructs that every screenwriter would give their left nut and grandmothers to write, but only a small number ever manage[...]
Russell T Davies' Gimp Dalek Appears In Doctor Who Series Opener
And for years he had to tell people it wasn't actually a real Dalek from Doctor Who. You know what I mean. Anyway, the Asylum Of The Daleks, shown last night at the BFI in London, current showrunner Steven Moffat arranged for the Dalek in question to be shipped from Manchester to Wales to be used in[...]
The One With The Two Hearts
Steven Moffat met Twitter technology this morning when he tried to vote in a poll And it all went a little more public than he'd have liked.     What would the reaction of the other actors who played the Doctor have been like? Something like this perhaps? Steven Moffat met Twitter technology this morning when he tried to[...]
Sunday Trending Topics: Shortening Sherlock
From one of today's top topics: US audiences who sat down eagerly last week to watch the imported second series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' Sherlock were disappointed to find that the 90 minute episode A Scandal In Belgravia had been cut down to 82 minutes in order to allow for the necessary "words[...]
PBS Cut 24 Minutes From Series 2 Of Sherlock To Make Room For Adverts
US audiences who sat down eagerly last week to watch the imported second series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' Sherlock were disappointed to find that the 90 minute episode A Scandal In Belgravia had been cut down to 82 minutes in order to allow for the necessary "words from our sponsors". I personally belong to[...]
Master Sherlock: Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Who?
According to The Express, Steven Moffat, the showrunner for both Who and Sherlock, is trying to get his two leading men together. They quote an unnamed source as saying: It's fitting that the Doctor comes face to face with his ultimate enemy, The Master, for the 50th anniversary and it's felt Benedict is the perfect choice if[...]
How Sherlock Did It
There are spoilers here, for the final episode of Sherlock, which aired last night on BBC 1, The Reichenbach Fall. The series only gets shown in the US
How Sherlock Holmes Saved Christmas For Doctor Who
And how Steven Moffat found it hard to get back into the Christmas spirit when writing it in the middle of hot, sunny August He writes; "Help came from the most unexpected source and possibly the least Christmassy man in all fiction It started to snow in Baker Street. "Not real snow (and not even real Baker[...]
Any Doctor Who Movie Would Star The TV Doctor And Not Be A Reboot
Steven Moffat just tweeted; To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot. And on David Yates comments on rebooting the concept as a movie that were spread so widely; Movie thing: David Yates, great director, was speaking off the cuff,[...]
Private Eye On BBC, Doctor Who And Steven Moffat
Bleeding Cool has reported on previous articles that have had a tendency to be contradicted by the BBC, and then mostly come true… The Eye gives some context to last week's news about a David Yates directed Doctor Who movie under the auspices of Jane Tranter at BBC Worldwide, and that this news… "was the first showrunner[...]
Steven Moffat Vs David Yates
This is the only tweet Steven Moffat has issued since the news broke that David Yates is directing a Doctor Who movie for the BBC, even as another part of the BBC says there is no script, cast or production team for such a project – and there's basically no new news. "Announcing my personal moonshot,[...]
Prepare To Be Surprised By The Doctor Who Children In Need Minisode
The official Doctor Who Twitter feed has been buzzing away today feeding us tidbits about the Steven Moffat-penned minisode of Doctor Who written for this Friday's Children in Need fundraising drive With three days left before it gets aired, the episode still hasn't actually been filmed The scripts were delivered only yesterday and the sets[...]
BBC Launch Their Own Doctor Who Convention – £100 For A Day
With only Steven Moffat and Matt Smith confirmed as guests, odds are that whoever the companions are in series seven will be along too. Will it justify £100 for a day? The schedule is repeated from the Saturday on the Sunday… The event will be at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff where the show is recorded Tickets go[...]
Where The Writers Credits Are As Big As The Actors And Directors… Tintin
And that for many kids used to watching Doctor Who Confidential on a Saturday after their main helping of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat is pretty much the biggest name writer off the television that they've heard of And if one writer gets that credit, the other credited writing team (note the use of "and" and[...]
And Finally… When Steven Moffat Talked To Francesco Francavilla About Doctor Who
And last night he ran this image based on Doctor Who: The Wedding Of River Song. Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat was so taken with it when Franscesco posted it, that he tweeted; That's LOVELY Should have done that in the episode! Every week, comics artist major comics artist Francesco Francavilla has been posting a black and[...]
The Continuing Journeys Of Doctor Who And The Ponds: Plot Synopses For Series 6
These just-released synopses from Steven Moffat reveal a lot about the story arc for the rest of this season of Doctor Who They verge on becoming spoilers, so if you're determined to remain completely in the dark about what's coming next then I'd suggest clicking away from this page right now. Amongst other things, we find[...]
What Bleeding Cool Thought Of Sherlock… Back In July
Here's what Bleeding Cool thought of the show back in July when it aired on BBC One. Brendon's Review Of Episode One –  A Study In Pink by Steven Moffat Rich's Eight Thoughts About Sherlock Episode One Brendon's Spoiler Free TV Review Of Episode Two – Sherlock: The Blind Banker Brendon's TV Review – Sherlock: The Great Game And the[...]