London Paramount – at the intersection of Hollywood glamour and British culture

Time to step aside Disneyland Paris, there’s a new sheriff in town that goes by the name of London Paramount Entertainment Resort. While it’s not quite time to pack your bags for Kent just yet, 2020 is just around the corner. Once you hear about the rides planned for the proposed £2 billion theme park, […]

'Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child' unaired pilot…51 years later

It was 51 years ago Sunday that a time-travelling humanoid alien called The Doctor began exploring the universe in his TARDIS with a pretty simple mission to save civilisations, help ordinary people, and right wrongs. Doctor Who first appeared on BBC1 television at 17:16:20 GMT, eighty seconds after the scheduled program time of 5:15p due […]

The ultimate DIY: How to build your own Cybermen

The Cybermen have had more upgrades than the iPhone. While the Daleks will forever go down in history as the most iconic and scariest challenge to the Doctor, the Cybermen will, undoubtedly, be the more interesting and most misunderstood. Created by Dr. Kit Pedler, the unofficial scientific advisor to Doctor Who, and Gerry Davis, former Doctor Who script editor, the Cybermen made their first appearance in William Hartnell’s final story, “The Tenth Planet”, in 1966.

A Hitchhikers Guide to the Daleks

Now that we finally know the true identity of Missy, we turn our attention to the Daleks. Do we really know who they are?   To the casual observer, little is known about the mutated remains of the Kaled people of the planet Skaro. They travel around in tank-like mechanical casings and are a race […]

Rowan Atkinson is Doctor Who – Comic Relief 1999