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  • The Doctor’s final adventure will have a few familiar faces from the ’80s!
    April 19, 2022

    The Doctor’s final adventure will have a few familiar faces from the ’80s!

    Pulling out all the stops for the BBC’s Centenary celebration, the series will bring together Doctor Who past, present and future.

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  • At the end of their ‘three series and out’ pact, Jodie Whitaker and Chris Chibnall set to turn over the keys to the TARDIS after S13!
    August 2, 2021

    At the end of their ‘three series and out’ pact, Jodie Whitaker and Chris Chibnall set to turn over the keys to the TARDIS after S13!

    What had been rumored for some time, is now official. Jodie Whittaker is leaving Doctor Who, with showrunner Chris Chibnall also set to depart the series in 2022. Doctor #13 and series showrunner will both bow out following a six-part series (set to air later in 2021), two specials (already planned for 2022), plus one final feature-length adventure for […]

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  • Edgar Wright’s long-awaited ‘Last Night in Soho’ to hit the big screen this Fall
    May 26, 2021

    Edgar Wright’s long-awaited ‘Last Night in Soho’ to hit the big screen this Fall

    Last Night in Soho, the long-awaited psychological thriller from Edgar Wright, is one step closer to hitting the big screen this Fall. Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Baby Driver), who directed Last Night in Soho, c0-penned the script with Penny Dreadful writer, Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit) stars as Eloise, a young […]

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  • 1920s Toronto on edge as Drake Private Detectives Agency shutters after 4 series
    March 7, 2021

    1920s Toronto on edge as Drake Private Detectives Agency shutters after 4 series

    Starring Lauren Lee Smith as Frankie Drake, Chantel Riley as Trudy Clarke, Rebecca Liddiard as Toronto Police Morality Officer Mary Shaw and Sharron Matthews as, perhaps, the most enthusiastic morgue attendant ever, Flo Chakowitz, Frankie Drake Mysteries is set in 1920s Toronto and follows the city’s only female private detectives as they take on the cases the police don’t want to touch. Sadly, it appears the ladies of Frankie Drake Mysteries have solved their last crime on the streets of Toronto when series 4 comes to an end.

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  • As the Daleks return, the Doctor will get a new travel buddy when S13 premieres in late 2021!
    January 4, 2021

    As the Daleks return, the Doctor will get a new travel buddy when S13 premieres in late 2021!

    As companions Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole (Graham and Ryan) turned in their keys to the TARDIS during the recent New Year’s Day episode “Revolution of the Daleks”, it was revealed in a post-program teaser that the TARDIS team is getting some new blood – Liverpool-born comedian and actor John Bishop, who will be joining the […]

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  • Happy belated 81st — John Cleese
    October 28, 2020

    Happy belated 81st — John Cleese

    What better way to celebrate John Cleese’s 81st birthday, belated or otherwise, than with a look back at, perhaps, the two most classic clips from the greatest British comedy of all time, Fawlty Towers.

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  • Doctor Who returns as the TARDIS is set to land on New Year’s Day!
    December 15, 2019

    Doctor Who returns as the TARDIS is set to land on New Year’s Day!

    Given the fact that you have Jodie Whittaker all decked out in a tuxedo introducing herself as “The name’s Doctor…The Doctor”, the return of series 12 of Doctor Who appears to be a James Bond-inspired story complete with the brilliant Stephen Fry’s M equivalent telling his new friends, “the security of this entire planet is at stake.”

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  • July 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing — or is it?
    April 3, 2019

    July 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing — or is it?

    Based on H. G. Wells’ science fiction novel of the same name, the BBC Four film ‘The First Men in the Moon’ tells the story of Julius Bedford (Rory Kinnear), who as a young man meets Professor Arthur Cavor (Mark Gatiss). Together, they travel to the moon and discover a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface — in 1909.

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  • The TARDIS lands on New Year’s Day as The Doctor encounters a ‘terrifying evil’
    December 19, 2018

    The TARDIS lands on New Year’s Day as The Doctor encounters a ‘terrifying evil’

    From the looks of the New Year’s Special trailer (and Jodie Whittaker’s rainbow scarf), fans are in for a brilliant kick-off to 2019.

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  • From the Vault: When ‘The Prisoner’ transformed primetime TV drama into avant-garde art
    December 7, 2018

    From the Vault: When ‘The Prisoner’ transformed primetime TV drama into avant-garde art

    At a time when British telly was shot in black and white, the series was shot in color with an eye towards overseas sales in the U.S.

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