Big Finish Productions released the latest “season” or “box set” of Doctor Who spinoff The Diary of River Song this week. Alex Kingston‘s River Song is a character so limitless in potential that the writers are just giddy with where they can take her. She’s a character who literally can go anywhere and do anything, […]
Transference is an unusual audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions. They already produce epic, ambitious Doctor Who and Torchwood dramas that are bigger than a television budget could ever allow. What sets Transference apart is that it’s a naturalistic crime thriller with no Science fiction or fantastical elements at all. Alex Kingston plays a […]
Big Finish Productions released a preview trailer of their 20th Anniversary livestream this weekend, with a 20-hour livestream on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel – with more than 20 episodes of Doctor Who audio dramas and related spinoffs will be in the stream. This includes UNIT, Torchwood, The Gallifrey Chronicles, The Diary of River Song, […]
Big Finish and Doctor Who are celebrating 20 years of the Time Lord’s audio drama travels through time and space, so needless to say, BBC Studios and Big Finish Productions are looking to celebrate. The good news for Doctor Who and Big Finish fans? You’re getting the presents! To mark the milestone, 20+ hours of […]
If you’re Elyse Levesque‘s (Orphan Black) Daisy Channing, you really need the people who are coming after you to understand that the title of WGN America‘s newest limited series, Shoot the Messenger, isn’t supposed to be taken literally. Co-created by Jennifer Holness and Sudz Sutherland, the eight-part thriller also stars Alex Kingston (Doctor Who), Lucas Bryant (Haven) […]
Labor Day weekend has come and gone, with it Dragon Con and a panel with Alex Kingston. Whovians know her as River Song, wife of The Doctor, 90’s tv fans know her as Dr. Elizabeth Corday from ER, we know her as awesome. The panel went about how most of them do; chatting about the event […]
With today’s announcement from BBC 1 that actress Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch, Attack the Block) would be assuming the role of the 13th Doctor beginning with Doctor Who‘s 2017 Christmas Special and continuing full-time in 2018 with Series 11, there’s been no shortage of praise for (and some whining about) the glass ceiling-shattering decision. Playing “Monday […]
Welcome to This Day in Pop Culture History, a daily look at important events, birthdays, and other oddities in pop culture! History is important, and we aim to educate here at Bleeding Cool, so without further ado, here are some things that have happened on March 11: 1927- The first armored car robbery takes place, as […]
The character of River Song is an interesting one in the Doctor Who mythos. Like the Doctor, her history isn’t linear because of time-travel and she has met up with multiple incarnations over the years. Originally being introduced opposite of David Tennant, getting lots of time with Matt Smith and even sharing a long evening […]
The Doctor faces River Song again in this clip from tomorrow’s Doctor Who Christmas special, “The Husbands of River Song.” In which, it seems, River cannot recognize the Doctor: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93wgsEYcjw[/youtube]
Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi and special guest star Alex Kingston introduce the Doctor Who 2015 Christmas special, “The Husbands of River Song” in a video posted to the official BBC YouTube Channel. Kingston calls it a “slapstick caper,” which will be a nice change of pace following the end of the most recent season. […]
It’s never too early to plan for Christmas it seems. While the towns in my area are already assembling their holiday ornaments, BBC Worldwide North America and Fathom Events are planing a Christmastime return for Doctor Who in US theaters. The companies announced, via the ever-helpful Doctor Who Tumblr, that this year’s Christmas Special will screen […]
“To be honest, I did not know whether River [Song] would ever return to the show, but here she is, back with the Doctor for the Christmas special,” says actress Alex Kingston, who returns for this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special, according to Variety. The character, last seen as a data ghost dispersing before the […]
By Rich Epstein The Winter Finale of Arrow begins with a shot of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), well, climing. It’s a quick shot, and the climb will continue each time the show returns from commercial. Oliver is jumped by the League of Assassins. They take him prisoner and bring him to Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina […]
This is English actress Nina Toussaint-White. She appears in the upcoming run of Doctor Who, playing the character Mels. She’s best known for a run on British soap Eastenders a couple of years ago and has worked in theatre since. But she will appear in the upcoming episode, Let’s Kill Hitler. A name similar to […]
So, from left to right we have a Silent, a Pond, a Pond, The Doctor, a Pond and… a Pond? It’s getting really wet around here. Thankfully there’s also some rather dry desert, the lightning and a pyramid – whatever they’re about. The next season-half kicks off in under four weeks with Let’s Kill Hitler. […]