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[...]
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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.
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"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
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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.
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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[...]
By now, you know that Sandra Oh's Eve and Jodie Comer's Villanelle are set to make an early return to BBC America and AMC, with Killing Eve season 3 premiering on Sunday, April 12 As we learned from the official teaser/trailer released last week, the deadly duo are each looking to carve out new lives for themselves[...]
The episode became a fan favourite for its celebration of Van Gogh's work and poignant depiction of his depression and mental illness.
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Doctor Who Magazine writer Emily Cook tweeted on Saturday that the rewatch event will feature an all-star line-up to watch with fans The 11th Doctor himself Matt Smith will join Twitter for the first[...]
What we weren't expecting was for Davies to post a sequel to the return episode, "Revenge of the Nestene".
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Here's a look at the initial Instagram post from Davies, announcing the news earlier today:
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Going online at 7.45, ROSE: THE SEQUEL! Address revealed at 7.45 @bbcdoctorwho @doctorwho_magazine @jacobdudman @emily_rosina
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Following up on Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker offering some timely advice and showrunner Chris Chibnall posting an original short story involving the 13th Doctor's regneration, Russell T Davies has penned and posted a prequel to "Rose" – the episode that marked the series.
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In the following intro, Davies retraces the steps that lead to[...]
During this time of social distancing and self-quarantining, a message of hope from the Doctor is exactly the kind of thing we need right now – and that's exactly what Jodie Whittaker and the fine folks at BBC's Doctor Who had to offer us earlier this week In the clip, Whittaker's Doctor offered a hopeful[...]
Big Finish Productions, the premiere producers of Doctor Who audio dramas and other series, are reportedly moving to releasing content on digital first.
Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall did his part to ease fans' fears and concerns over the growing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on Wednesday, posting a short story starring the Doctor that speaks of hardship, strength, and the "regenerative energy" inside each of us to get through these "strange times" (as Chibnall wrote in his accompanying letter).
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Davies will join the rewatch and livet-weet the show, and he has promised special extras to sweeten the event.
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Radiotimes.com reported that Davies will be releasing what he calls "Rose: The Prequel" before the fan rewatch event launches later this week.
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ROSE livestream and tweet-a-long, THURSDAY 26 MARCH at 7pm GMT[...]
Fans of Doctor Who aren't going to let their love for the long-running BBC sci-fi series take a hit from the growing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, taking to the internet to create virtual communities and online screening events.
On Saturday, a mass rewatch of "The Day of the Doctor" was organized by Doctor Who Magazine's Emily Cook[...]
Jane Tranter at the BBC encouraged him to pitch a revival of Doctor Who and the rest is history Queer as Folk also enjoyed a US remake on cable channel Showtime that lasted multiple seasons more than Davies' original British version.
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Fans were encouraged to legally stream the show or watch a legal download or DVD or Blu-Ray at the same time.
The special starred Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt, Billie Piper and Jenna Coleman in a special multiple-Doctor crossover.
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Emily Cook, a writer for Doctor Who Magazine, brought up the idea on twitter with the hashtag[...]
Looking ahead to next year, an unfilmed story from Tom Baker’s first season on Doctor Who will be produced by Big Finsh Productions as an audio drama.
From That Mitchell & Webb Look, the third and fourth series from BBC 2 in 2008 and 2009 How innocent and naive we all were… hello, good evening and remain indoors.
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Big Finish Productions ("Doctor Who", "Torchwood", "The Prisoner", and more) suspended audio drama schedules this week over coronavirus concerns.
If it was a BBC Radio 4 play, it would just be a two-hander about two women who reunite to hash out why they drifted apart from each other Since this is Torchwood, it's about two women talking While a dead body is lying on a slab next to them.
Tim Foley's script keeps up the[...]
Here's a look at who's still in play: BBC News (April 27), Vudu (April 28), Roku (April 28), Verizon Media (April 28), Vice Media Group (April 29), Ellen Digital Network (April 29), Amazon (April 30), YouTube (April 30), Hulu (May 6), NBCUniversal (May 11), Fox Entertainment (May 11), Telemundo (May 11), Univision (May 12), Disney[...]
Jack's surprise appearance on the show earlier in the season did remind me how much I miss Jack's spinoff series.
Well, the BBC brought out a half-hour video compilation of the first season of Torchwood to remind us of just how much we miss it… give it a look:
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BBC's Doctor Who sparked off a storm of debate and hand-wringing amongst fans in the Series 12 finale "The Timeless Children" It was one of those "everything you knew was wrong!" types of retcons that are the vogue for Science Fiction and superhero stories these days Love it or hate it, the new lore is[...]