Jodie Whittaker shared a message of excitement and reassurance with readers of Doctor Who Magazine while sitting side-by-side on a sofa with co-star Mandip Gill on the Doctor Who set in a Zoom meeting with the magazine in May of 2021. The two actresses were on a break before dinner on a long day recording … >
Doctor Who actress Jackie Lane has sadly passed away on 23 June, 2021, a few weeks shy of her 80th birthday. It is with deep regret that we announce that actress and friend Jackie Lane has sadly passed away. We pass on our sympathies to her family and friends. Jackie was best known to Doctor … >
The BBC has acquired The Watch from BBC Studios, a high-concept drama inspired by characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett, and is bringing it to BBC iPlayer as a box set The Watch follows an unlikely group, The City Watch, who are forced to find the guts to save the world, surprising even themselves in … >
Stranger Things retakes the top of the Parrot ratings for Digital Originals and Loki keeps rising The Parrot ratings for the week 13-19 June are out and make interesting reading as ever. Parrot Analytics provides good detail, so we’ll just cover a few points we noticed. The usual suspects lead overall Across all modes of … >
His Dark Materials series 3 starts production of its eight-part adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass This final series will see Will (Amir Wilson), the bearer of The Subtle Knife, and Lyra (Dafne Keen), the prophesied child, travel through multiple worlds to find and protect each other. Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson), Mary Malone (Simone … >
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is an upcoming story-rich, open-world detective game by Frogwares Studio, and it has no intention of holding your hand and pointing you in the right direction if you do not take your detective work seriously enough. The story of Sherlock Holmes has been around since 1887 when author Sir Arthur Conan … >
The Tom Moran series The Devil’s Hour will star Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine Thanks to Deadline, we have a lot more detail on The Devil’s Hour. Due to be shown on Amazon Prime, we now know Peter Capadli (The Thick of It, Doctor Who) will star alongside Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, Patrick Melrose). Also in the case are: … >
BBC Two releases new images of The North Water from See-Saw Films, starring Jack O’Connell, Colin Farrell and Stephen Graham Yes, we’ve checked and these are different from the images we reported last November. The new photos feature Jack O’Connell as Patrick Sumner, Colin Farrell as Henry Drax, and Stephen Graham as Captain Brownlee, alongside … >
Netflix has dropped a first teaser for The Chestnut Man — we can feel goosebumps already The Chestnut Man is coming to Netflix this autumn, and it already has a creepy poster and trailer. There’s even a tagline: If you find one, he’s already found you… Maybe we won’t be rushing to play conkers this year! … >
Amblin Partners, the global film and television studio led by Steven Spielberg, and Netflix have announced a partnership that will cover multiple new feature films per year This is yet another example of a streamer adding a content string to its bow, in this case future content, rather than any deepening of its extensive back-catalogue. … >