Private Eye is reporting that a full season of Doctor Who will not be made next year. The magazine claims that “BBC staff have recently been informed that showrunner Steven Moffat’s commitments to his other hit show Sherlock mean that there will be no full series of Doctor Who in 2016.” A tenth season has … >
While we await the return of Doctor Who this autumn, what better way to remind ourselves what a truly top Doc Peter Capaldi has been so far than with the Twelfth Doctor’s Top 12 (see what we did there?) moments. > Order Season 8 on DVD on Amazon. > Order Season 8 on Blu-ray on … >
The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day are two of cinema’s seminal blockbusters. The two further sequels were of a lesser calibre; serviceable, throwaway action/sci-fi films, but the first two genuinely changed cinema, creating iconic characters and memorable lines, and boasting revolutionary action sequences and game-changing special effects. Over thirty years after the original film, … >
There’s a lot we knew in advance about Terminator Genisys – too much, you might say, if you saw some of the trailers – but there’s one card that the film always kept close to its chest. We knew that Arnie was back as the titular Terminator, and that Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke was … >
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was in the news earlier this week, with his prediction that in the future robots would, rather than kill us with the laser eyes and chainsaw hands, keep us as pets, because we’d be so helpless and adorable. Not as adorable as little Sophie ‘Potato’ Hawkins mind you. But does he … >
We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again: it’s always a sure-sign of a decent episode of Thunderbirds (or Thunderbirds Are Go) when it opens with the action already in full swing. Opening midway through a bombastic rescue sequence, which in turn results in Virgil and Gordon accidently unearthing a long-lost temple, ‘Tunnels of … >
Atlantis returns to BBC One for a second season, starring Jack Donnelly as Jason, Mark Addy as Hercules and Robert Emms as Pythagoras. Pasiphae’s desire to reign has not abated and rivalry with step daughter Ariadne takes her to new depths. Jason’s personal involvement with Ariadne is surely a complication for Pasiphae, but will the … >
Julian Fellowes will adapt Anthony Trollope’s novel Doctor Thorne for ITV. The three-part drama will begin filming later this year. Downton Abbey creator Fellowes commented: “As a lifetime devotee of Trollope, my own favourite among the great nineteenth century English novelists and certainly the strongest influence over my work that I am conscious of, it … >
I doubt Jenna Coleman knew exactly how important her character Clara Oswald would be to Doctor Who when she took the part back in March 2012. Like her or not, Clara – thanks to Steven Moffat’s masterful planning and/or serendipity – is the most important companion of all. This has nothing to do with favouritism. … >
Marvel’s ambitious shared cinematic universe is now officially the biggest film franchise of all time. Much like Avengers Assemble marked the culmination of the characters’ first individual adventures, so Age of Ultron marks the culmination of Phase II of the project (even if this summer’s Ant Man officially still part of Phase II). But while … >