Details firm up for BFI’s year-long Doctor Who celebration (updated)
To mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who next year, the BFI are putting on a special programme of events, focusing on each Doctor in turn, from William Hartnell to […]
John Simm wants Master return!
John Simm, who played The Master opposite David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor, is keen to return to the role in order to play it ‘…a bit quieter’. At the Cheltenham Literature […]
AudioGo and Big Finish team up for 50th anniversary Who stories
According to a report in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine, audio producers Big Finish and AudioGo are working together on a series of eleven special Doctor Who stories […]
Starbuck to play Amy Pond’s mother in Oculus
Katee Sackhoff, still best known to genre fans for her role as Starbuck on the revamped Battlestar Galactica, has signed up for Oculus, the horror film which will see Karen […]
BBC reopening Radiophonic Workshop
Fourteen years after it was closed down, the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop is starting up again. According to a report on BBC News, composer Matthew Herbert has been appointed creative director. […]
Doctor Who and Game of Thrones triumph at Hugo Awards
Neil Gaiman’s debut Doctor Who episode The Doctor’s Wife, and the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones were honoured at the Hugo Awards, which were held on September 2 at Chicon 7 in Chicago, with Gaiman hinting that he may be working on another episode. “…Only a fool or a mad man would try to do it again… so […]
Matthew Graham sells new SF MOVIE to Fox (updated!)
Life on Mars and Eternal Law co-creator Matthew Graham has sold Paratime, a new science fiction movie to 20th Century Fox. Graham contacted Sci-Fi Bulletin to set the record straight […]
John Barrowman joins CW’s Arrow
According to an exclusive report at Entertainment Weekly, Doctor Who and Torchwood star John Barrowman is heading over to the CW’s updated version of DC’s Green Arrow. Not much is being revealed about the recurring character he will play on Arrow, except that he is a “well-dressed man” who is “as mysterious as he is wealthy … he is an acquaintance of […]
Phil Davis joins Being Human
According to a tweet by the show’s publicist, British acting veteran Phil Davis has signed up for the fifth series of Being Human. “@PhilDavis6 cast as Captain Hatch in BBC3 […]
Mark Gatiss penning drama on Doctor Who creation (updated)
Rumours have been flying around for some time that the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who‘s first broadcast in November 1963 might be marked with some form of drama, and actor/writer/producer […]
“Ninth” Doctor Richard E. Grant joins Who Christmas Special (updated)
Richard E. Grant, who previously appeared as an incarnation of the Doctor in the spoof The Curse of Fatal Death in 1999 and as a possible Ninth Doctor in Paul […]
RIP Doctor Who companion Mary Tamm
Mary Tamm, who played the first incarnation of Time Lady Romana opposite Tom Baker in Doctor Who, has died aged 62. According to the report at BBC News, she had […]
Comic-Con round-up 1: Doctor Who / Fringe
The past weekend at Comic-Con saw panels on many genre TV series and films: we’ve picked our highlights: Doctor Who: As well as refusing to answer questions about a multiple Doctor story for the 50th anniversary (even when posed by a Dalek), head writer Steven Moffat noted of the seventh series: “We’ve got the Weeping Angels, tragedy, comedy, westerns, absolutely […]
Karen Gillan to star in horror flick Oculus
After she leaves the TARDIS in a few weeks’ time, Doctor Who star Karen Gillan is staying within the fantasy genre for one of her next projects, the horror movie Oculus. The Intrepid Pictures film starts shooting in Alabama this autumn. According to their press release, the plot begins 10 years after a horrifying family incident left two young children […]
Diana Rigg and Rachel Stirling join Doctor Who
Former Avenger and Bond girl Dame Diana Rigg and her daughter Rachel Stirling are joining the Doctor for his seventh series of travels. According to the press release, it’s the first time mother and daughter Dame Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling have ever worked together on screen. Character details remain under wraps, but the episode penned by Mark Gatiss will see […]
David Warner and Liam Cunningham for Who series 7
Veteran genre actor David Warner and Outcasts/Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham will be appearing in Mark Gatiss’ story for Doctor Who‘s seventh season, currently filming. According to the new […]
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