With much of Doctor Who-Nation still reeling (in a brilliant way) from the recent announcement that Broadchurch‘s Jodie Whittaker will be taking the keys to the TARDIS in 2018, the BBC just released an early trailer for the 2017 Christmas Special, “Twice Upon a Time”, the forthcoming Peter Capaldi finale as the Twelfth Doctor, and it’s all that […]
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Following a short battle with cancer, Deborah Watling, the actress best known for her role as companion Victoria Waterfield, appearing opposite Patrick Troughton’s second Doctor in 40 episodes of Doctor Who from 1967-68, has died at the age of 69. The actress is the daughter of actress Patricia Hicks and actor Jack Watling, who also […]
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Moments after Roger Federer defeated Croatia’s Marin Čilić at Wimbledon in three straight sets to win the Wimbledon Mens Finals, and after 54 years, the BBC announced The Doctor is finally a woman. Despite the Time Lord’s being able to regenerate as women, as demonstrated when Michelle Gomez became The Master/Missy, the traveling Time Lord at the […]
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With Death in Paradise‘s Kris Marshall the odds on favorite to replace the now-departed Peter Capaldi, we are less than 48 hours away from knowing the identity of the 13th Doctor. The official announcement is set to be made at the conclusion of the BBC1’s coverage of the Wimbledon Men’s Final that is scheduled to wrap […]
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Should you find yourself in need of a British comedy binge fix, check out Whites, the 2010 BBC 2 comedy starring Alan Davies, Darren Boyd and Katherine Parkinson. Set in the kitchen of a country house hotel, Whites has Davies playing Chef Roland White, a culinary genius of a chef that, in foodie terms, is several days past […]
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Full disclosure. I’m a big Phil Davis fan. Over his career, viewers have been treated to Davis as the mean money lender in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House, the human incarnation of the devil on Being Human, a murderous cab driver in the first episode of Sherlock, a crime family solicitor in Silk and, more recently, his portrayal as […]
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Denis Lawson, best known the world over for his impressive array of roles, including the iconic X-Wing pilot Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars franchise, and as the mild-mannered Jarndyce in the BBC’s Charles Dickens adaptation Bleak House, has joined the cast of Victoria for series 2. Looking quite a bit different than his most […]
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Prime Suspect: Tennison, the long-awaited prequel to the brilliant, early 90s series, Prime Suspect, that starred Dame Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison and based on writer Lynda La Plante’s book, “Tennison”, premieres on PBS on this Sunday as part of the Masterpiece series. Prime Suspect: Tennison, stars Stefanie Martini as a young Jane Tennison and will showcase her early days on […]
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Heida Reed, Capt Ross Poldark’s on-again, off-again, on-again love interest in the hit BBC1/PBS series, Poldark, has begun packing her bags preparing for a move to Los Angeles in the not-too-distant future, trading in the Cornish coast for the California coast. One thing is definitely clear, she is not leaving the series but, according to Reed, […]
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For someone that has had an asteroid named after them (Asteroid 9621 Michaelpalin), has not one, but two high-speed Virgin trains named after him in honor of his achievements as a traveler, is past President of the Royal Geographical Society and has been ‘unofficially’ referred to over the years as “Britain’s Nicest Man”, Michael Palin […]
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