11.6 million viewers tuned in to BBC One for the Sherlock special on New Year’s Day last week. ‘The Abominable Bride’ was the most watched programme between 21 December 2015 and 1 January 2016 across all channels. Charlotte Moore, Controller BBC One commented: “After a two year wait, it’s incredible to see the indisputable power … >
A new episode of Sherlock is a rare treasure that only emerges once every blue moon and causes by its very existence a feverish excitement among its fanbase. Two years on from the third season, we have a one-off special to tide us over. ‘The Abominable Bride’ carries off from where we left Sherlock in … >
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffats’s acclaimed retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic stories. But what if this wasn’t Sherlock in the modern day? What if it was the late Victorian period? > Buy ‘The Abominable Bride’ on DVD on Amazon. To celebrate … >
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 … >
With 2015’s Christmas special done and dusted, the rumour wheel can start turning in earnest on the next season of Doctor Who. Confirmed to be continuing in his showrunner role, Steven Moffat has been teasing Season 10’s writing line-up with a promise of excitement, revealing: “…we’ve had meetings today with two writers who’ve never written … >
Gallifrey may be back, but the last thing The Doctor would want is to be at home for the holidays. So where is he? The planet is Mendorax Dellora. The year is 5343. The Christmas ad on TV is probably an elderly Ice Warrior sitting on the moon of Phobos as a younger member of … >
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 … >
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has admitted that finding his replacement has become “a big problem.” Steven Moffat has been showrunner since 2010’s Season 5 and will return for Season 10, although there have been reports that this will not be airing next year. > Buy the complete Season 9 box set on DVD on … >
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 … >
Alex Kingston returns to Doctor Who as River Song in this year’s Christmas special. It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into … >