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It's a faithful BBC/Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel about a relationship between two Irish college students who can't quit each other The book won awards in the UK and became a fetish object for hip literary people It drew praise from the likes of Lena Dunham and Taylor Swift and became a totemic object[...]

As if global rewatches, live-tweeting, and original content being released around their favorite episodes wasn't enough, Doctor Who fans were treated to the news on Monday that BBC Studios will be launching the multi-platform story "Time Lord Victorious" later this year The massive, immersive experience will launch in September 2020 and run over a 12-week[...]

Viewers can follow the livetweet via the hashtag #TheMetaltron. Rose confronts a Dalek on Doctor Who, courtesy of BBC Studios. Shearman is a playwright and TV writer who wrote several acclaimed Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish When Davies brought back the show for 2005, he invited Shearman to write the Dalek episode based on the[...]

From there, Cornell joined Doctor Who Magazine writer and BBC Radio producer Emily Cook as well as director Charles Palmer and actor Lucy Cartwright to offer viewers a behind-the-scenes perspective on how the episodes came to be (including some great looks at Cornell's pitch and script notes) But Cornell wasn't willing to just let the story[...]

Wrapping up a week that started with "The Witchfinders" writer Joy Wilkinson posting new, Graham-focused short story "The Simple Things" (more on that here) and then saw Doctors past and present join together to support our real-life heroes during BBC One's The Big Night In, now seems as good a time as any for a[...]

On Thursday night UK time, Doctors past and present from Doctor Who will join together to support our real-life heroes during The Big Night In, airing on BBC One at 7 pm BST Actors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker, and Jo Martin[...]

To feed the rest of your Doctor Who needs, you can check out an excerpt below and the full story on the BBC's official site (by clicking here). Graham has a moment with the Doctor on Doctor Who, courtesy of BBC Studios. Graham wasn't keen on bucket lists He didn't want to be ticking things off as[...]

You didn't know when you were well off. BBC to Show Message From Ten Doctor Who Before #ClapForOurCarers Images from BBC PR. Ten actors who played The Doctor in Doctor Who will join in with a special message to play out just before 8pm on BBC One, as part of the channel's Big Night In, a telethon[...]

Screencap from BBC. This is a place where every MP has a named peg to they hang their coats with a purple ribbon attached for their swords While green ribbons must be used when taking bills to the House Of Lords The Speaker of the Commons, an appointed MP, has to be literally dragged from his[...]

Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker used to write and present a BBC show called ScreenWipe, a TV adaptation of his Guardian newspaper column Screenburn It transformer into GamesWipe, then NewsWipe or simply Charlie Brooker's Wipe, eventually coalescing into an annual Wipe that we didn't get for the past few years It was generally look back at[...]

It became a two-part episode in Davies' second season. "Human Nature" and "Family of Blood" are the next episodes for a Doctor Who rewatch, image courtesy BBC Studios. The book featured the 7th Doctor and Bernice Summerfield, the companion that Cornell created to replace Ace when the latter left the Doctor in the Virgin novels[...]

It was a gauntlet thrown down by Cook that was quickly picked up over the week leading into it by a growing number of cast members and creative. Camille Coduri, Adjoa Andoh, and Jacqueline King star in Doctor Who, courtesy of BBC Studios. When we woke up this morning, we saw that the updated list had grown[...]

Sophie Alred as Ace – or rather Dorothy now, and Katy Manning as Jo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJY1Ya8DXosVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: What Happend to all The Companions | The Death of The Doctor | Sarah Jane Adventures | BBC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJY1Ya8DXos) It also gave some histories to the characters that is familiar to those who may recall[...]

BBC's The Archers is the longest-running drama in the world But it's never had to cope with a pandemic before For the first time, The Archers will be switching to repeats for a three-week period, with what the BBC dub 'classic' episodes running from the 3rd of May to the 24th of May New episodes[...]

By Friday evening, the Doctor Who Lockdown account reported that stars David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Freema Agyeman, and John Barrowman will be joining in as well. Here's a look at the official poster for the Doctor Who rewatch, courtesy of BBC. Join in with a worldwide watchalong of The Stolen Earth & Journey's End on Sunday 19[...]

The flow of fresh, original content from a bevy of Doctor Who pros continues this week, with writer Paul Cornell ("Father's Day," "The Family of Blood," "Human Nature") penning a new short story released by the BBC Following Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, and Pete McTighe's online tales, Cornell's "The Shadow Passes" finds[...]

James Barnett even cut together a trailer for the event, and here's a look at the key art for the event: Steven Moffat, Rachel Talalay, and actor Jami Reid-Quarell are set to live-tweet the Doctor Who rewatch of Heaven Sent, courtesy of BBC Studios. Heaven Sent Was An Experimental Episode of Doctor Who Moffat liked to swing for[...]

The BBC and Doctor Who Magazine writer Emily Cook are back once again this weekend, hosting another live-tweet rewatch of an important DW episode If you're joining us now and haven't had time to check what episode scribe Neil Gaiman, actor Michael Sheen, and director Richard Clark have to say about the "The Doctor's Wife,"[...]

The BBC and Doctor Who Magazine writer Emily Cook are back this weekend with another live-tweet rewatch of an important DW episode, and they're bringing another impressive line-up of guests to join along This time, viewers will be screening the fourth episode of Series 6, "The Doctor's Wife" with episode scribe Neil Gaiman, actor Michael[...]

You can start watching the episode via a streaming service or your DVD or Blu-Ray and follow the live-tweets here. Join Neil Gaiman, Michael Sheen, and Richard Clark for a live rewatch of Doctor Who, courtesy of BBC Studios. The Doctor's Wife Was The Story Fans Had Been Waiting For For decades, longtime fans have felt the real[...]

And yes, the BBC put it on the show's official YouTube Channel And squeezed into less than 4 minutes instead of half an hour Okay, I'll bite Many of the emotional moments are about the new Master (Sacha Dhawan) That makes sense He's bat-flap crazy, so he embodies emotional, serious and happy, albeit happy in[...]

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat was one of the first ones to get in on the initiative, and he's back again with a new short story on the show's official BBC website on Tuesday: "The Terror of the Umpty Ums." The short story marks Moffat's first story to feature the 13th Doctor, as played[...]

What began as a modest little show on BBC Three in the U.K It exploded into a global phenomenon when Amazon started streaming it after its U.K premiere It turned its creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge into a household name and launched her career as a writer and actor Waller-Bridge launched Killing Eve and the[...]

BBC's Life on Mars appears to have a few more lives left in it, at least according to series co-creator Matthew Graham During a Twitter Q&A in support of an online rewatch of the original two seasons, Graham revealed that Life on Mars will be returning for a third and final seaason Of special note[...]

For the global fan rewatch of his first episode as showrunner "The Eleventh Hour", he released a new bonus scene. The ever-prescient Radio Times, which has pretty much become Doctor Who's Pravda, reported the new scene. BBC America "The Raggedy Doctor" is a story from young Amelia Pond's diary It takes place after she met the Doctor (Matt[...]

It's really more like an extended highlights trailer for the season, really. Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor, Sacha Dhawan as The Master – Doctor Who _ Season 12, Episode 10 – Photo Credit: James Pardon/BBC Studios/BBC America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZciFfoySaAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Big Moments | Doctor Who: Series 12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZciFfoySaA) "Doctor Who": Fast Highlights[...]

BBC America and AMC's Killing Eve has been doing a fine job getting viewers caught up on how Sandra Oh's Eve and Jodie Comer's Villanelle have been holding up since their second season finale "break-up." Shockingly, they both appear to be doing – well? Still, it's had that "calm before the storm" vibe to it[...]

The free play this week is Wild, staged in 2016- from playwright Mike Bartlett, the berserk mind behind BBC melodrama Doctor Foster and Doctor Who, episode "Knock, Knock" for Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi's final season. This is just one of many performances the theatre will be offering via livestream every week on its YouTube channel,[...]

Pay special attention to the way McTighe handles the matter of "missing episode" and retitling the early stories. BBC Doctor Who – "Press Play" by Pete McTighe The Doctor was feeling lonely Most of the time, she could suppress those feelings and distract herself by saving a planet, averting a war, or emergency-deep-freezing Krynoid hatchlings[...]

BBC America became an active co-financier of the show and helped  up its profile in the US It established Matt Smith's 11th Doctor as a goofy, funny kid-friendly Doctor, but didn't shy away from the darker parts of his personality The episode also featured Olivia Colman as a monster disguised as a mother, years before[...]