The first trailer for the new movie adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ hit novel Me Before You has been unveiled. Directed by Thea Sharrock (The Hollow Crown), the romantic drama stars Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) and Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games) in the lead roles, alongside Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who), Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter) and Charles … >
PBS has acquired the US rights to Victoria, ITV’s major new drama about the early life of Queen Victoria. The American public broadcaster will air the eight-part miniseries in 2017 in the Sunday evening time slot previously occupied by Downton Abbey for the past six years. From the makers of Poldark, Victoria follows Queen Victoria … >
Peter Davison, Jenna Coleman and Billie Piper have recorded a lovely video message for a Doctor Who fan battling terminal cancer. Upon discovering that his cancer was both advanced and terminal last month, London-born sci-fi fan Mark “Houndy” Gunther put together a very brief bucket list. Houndy wants to meet as many Doctor Who actors as … >
Catch up on the latest season of Doctor Who with two new releases from BBC Worldwide this month. > Buy Season 9 Part 2 on Amazon. > Buy ‘The Husbands of River Song’ on Amazon. To celebrate the release of Season 9 Part 2 and Christmas special ‘The Husbands of River Song’ on DVD and … >
2015 is clutching its chest, leaning on the TARDIS console and starting to glow at its fingertips. Any minute now, 2016’s a-comin’. Or, if you’re reading this a few days in the future, it’s already here, shiny and vaguely bewildered and not quite fitting into its clothes. Just like most of us post-Christmas, then. Either … >
Hands up who else fully expected that ‘Last Christmas’ was at some point going to feature a certain Wham song? Instead, the Twelfth Doctor’s first seasonal outing reunites him with Clara (in Jenna Coleman’s third consecutive appearance in a Christmas special) as the pair work to extricate themselves from dreams within dreams, and save an … >
It was a bittersweet Christmas when we bid farewell to the Eleventh Doctor. Like Ten before him, Eleven chose to make his Doctor Who exit over the holidays in 2013’s ‘The Time of the Doctor’. It’s at times grand and ridiculous and features a Doctor who is at times bald and nude. It’s also the … >
Following on from the established tradition of Christmas specials featuring innocuous and pleasant winter things trying to murder the Doctor and friends, 2012’s ‘The Snowmen’ features the Eleventh Doctor in an adventure that may well have left scores of children utterly terrified of those jolly, anthropomorphic snow friends that festoon the front gardens of many … >
BBC Worldwide has revealed details of the upcoming complete box set for the latest season of Doctor Who . The complete ninth season will be released on Monday 7 March next year on DVD and Blu-ray. > Pre-order the box set on DVD on Amazon. > Pre-order the box set on Blu-ray on Amazon. The … >
We’ve now had some Time and breathing Space to re-watch (and re-re-watch) and ponder on this year’s Doctor Who finale, ‘Hell Bent’. Frankly it was needed. An immediate reaction would likely have been 50% dribbling. This review will probably only be 15-20% dribbling. Season 9’s first episode, ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’, was the stuff that fan-fiction … >