Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace animated screenshot

Doctor Who missing adventure ‘The Underwater Menace’ to be animated

The partially-missing Season 4 Doctor Who adventure from 1967, The Underwater Menace, will be animated with four new episodes in colour and high definition, released on DVD and Blu-ray. The original master recordings of all except episodes two and three of The Underwater Menace were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings … >

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Black Snow

Black Snow – BBC picks up Australian crime drama

A cold case is reopened when new evidence comes to light in a school time-capsule. The BBC has acquired Australian crime drama Black Snow. The six-part series stars Travis Fimmel (Vikings), Jemmason Power, Talijah Blackman-Corowa, Eden Cassady, Seini Willett and Gulliver McGrath (Dark Shadows, Lincoln). Here’s the synopsis: A small-town Australian high-school gathers for the … >

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Star Wars: Ahsoka poster

Ahsoka – character posters for the new Star Wars series

Ahead of the series launch, Lucasfilm have dropped images of the series’ principals.  We’re only a couple of weeks out from Star Wars: Ahsoka, the latest live-action series to land on Disney+. This one follows the fan-favourite Jedi, who began her adventures in The Clone Wars and Rebels animated shows. In recent years, she has … >

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William Shatner speaks on writers and actors strikes

William Shatner spoke on the WGA (screenwriters) and SAG-AFTRA (actors) strikes ongoing in America and how they affected his convention appearance at Fan Expo Boston on Saturday, August 5, 2023. The convention organizers reassured fans that the the celebrity talks, meet-and-greets, autograph signings, photo ops and panels would still occur with this official statement: “As … >

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The Woman in the Wall

The Woman in the Wall – first-look images from new gothic thriller

The show, a psychologically and emotionally compelling detective story, stars Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack.  With The Woman in the Wall billed as coming soon, the BBC have released a series of first-look images. Starring Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials) and Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters), the gothic thriller comes from writer Joe Murtagh. The story … >

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Liberation of the Daleks

‘Doctor Who: Liberation of the Daleks’ coming to paperback in November

Doctor Who: Liberation of the Daleks, the comic-strip adventure first published in Doctor Who Magazine, will be available as a collated paperback comic release this November. Picking up from where the previous Doctor Who TV series left off with The Power of the Doctor, Liberation of the Daleks is the Fourteenth Doctor’s first official adventure. … >

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Ghosts Series 4

Ghosts UK to get a US airing on CBS

In a surprising twist of fate, American views are getting a run of the UK version of the show.  The glorious Ghosts continues to be a homegrown sitcom delight, with its fifth and final series airing later this year. Starring Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe as Alison and Mike, who inherit the tumbledown Button House, … >

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