Ever get the feeling that there’s rather a lot of people being told to ‘shut up’ in Peter Capaldi’s era of Doctor Who? Well, it turns out you’re not imagining it. As part of his brilliant range of Doctor Who infographics, fan Paul Smith has calculated exactly how often there have been commands for characters to stop talking over the years. … >
This month marks 20 years since Paul McGann made his Doctor Who debut as the Eighth Doctor in ‘The TV Movie’. > Buy ‘The TV Movie’ on DVD on Amazon. To celebrate the anniversary, here are 30 facts about the 1996 adventure that you might not know… The TARDIS set reportedly cost a million dollars … >
Since her introduction yesterday as the new Doctor Who companion, some fans have been asking why Pearl Mackie‘s character has the traditionally male name of Bill. While there’s not yet been any official comment on the choice of moniker, the most obvious assumption would be that it’s referring to actor William Hartnell, who played the First Doctor from … >
We love Game of Thrones here. Well, of course we do! But 50 hours into the story, it’s not just us that sometimes has a bit of trouble remembering what the heck is going on, right? Fortunately, to celebrate the launch of the epic fantasy drama’s sixth season this weekend, the helpful folks at experience gifts … >
Okay, maybe this is one of things that everyone else in the world knew about apart from us. But… until today we were totally unaware that Sherlock star Una Stubbs released an album entitled ‘If You Can Dance You Can Do It! Have Fun And Keep Fit With Una Stubbs’ in 1982. All this time we’ve … >
After seeing Sherlock writer Mark Gatiss’s ‘Sleep No More’ episode of Doctor Who last season, did you wonder what the ‘sleep’ in your eyes actually is? Unfortunately it’s not really the Sandmen from Le Verrier Space Station. The clever folks at todayifoundout.com explain that the “sleep” is in fact a type of “rheum”, known as … >
‘Voyage of the Damned’ is the most-watched episode of Doctor Who on original broadcast in the UK since the show’s 2005 revival. Guest starring singer Kylie Minogue, David Tennant’s third Christmas special pulled in 13.31 million viewers in December 2007. In second place is the following year’s festive adventure, ‘The Next Doctor’, with 13.1 million … >
Starring Taron Egerton, Christopher Walken and Hugh Jackman, feel-good movie Eddie the Eagle arrives in UK cinemas on Monday 28 March. Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle tells the story of Michael “Eddie” Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself – even as an entire nation … >
Can you believe it’s now been ten years since The IT Crowd first appeared on our TV screens? The award-winning Channel 4 sitcom aired for four seasons from 2006 to 2010, ending with a special episode in 2013. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 box set on Amazon. A whole decade after Jen first ventured … >
Broadcast on E4 from 2009 to 2013, sci-fi comedy-drama Misfits followed a group of young offenders on community service who gained supernatural powers after being caught in an electrical storm. Misfits ran for five seasons and, like Being Human, by the end had a completely different cast to the one it had started with. > … >