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If the theme of this post feels familiar, that's because it's the second one like it we've run in the past week and a half. Second verse, same as the first: A streaming service has once again abruptly canceled a genre series with a
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Production has officially begun on the Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea, the first installment in showrunner Russell T. Davies' long-planned Disney+ expansion of the Whoniverse. Though the specifics of the limited series' plot remain under wraps, the spin-off will feature the return
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It's not exactly a secret that Doctor Who is one of the most popular franchises in the world. Over the years, it has already spawned several spin-offs (Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class) and a thriving world of audio adventures courtesy of Big Finish. But with the return
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Witchy BBC Three supernatural drama Domino Day will make its way to America this month on Sundance Now and AMC+. The series, which is being rebranded Domino Day: Lone Witch for its U.S. debut in order to give audiences a more immediate understanding of what the show is about,
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The first Russell T. Davies era of Doctor Who contained several consistent hallmarks: Fiesty companions who prove ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things; complex supporting characters with depth and agency; deep cuts from classic lore; and twisty plots that tended to make almost no sense at all from
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One of the best things about Doctor Who, as a series, is its willingness to revisit, reimagine, and interrogate its own long-running history. For all that showrunner Russell T. Davies has insisted this latest incarnation of the sci-fi classic, with its new home on Disney+ and the bigger budget to
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If there's one thing Russell T. Davies is going to do, it's craft a big, loud, splashy two-parter to close out any season of Doctor Who he's involved in. From "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways" back during
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Somewhat unintentionally, this season of Doctor Who has somehow managed to spin itself into the most timely thing on television. The Ruby-centric "73 Yards," whose primary villain was an aggressive nationalist and xenophobic politician with his hand on the nuclear trigger, arrived just as real-life Prime Minister Rishi
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Doctor Who is a show that is aspirational at its heart. Travel hopefully; never cruel or cowardly, and above all, be kind. Because of this, it's easy to assume that the stories it tells are always happy ones and that everything turns out alright in the end. The
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that some of Doctor Who's best episodes barely feature the show's primary character. These so-called "Doctor-lite" episodes were initially deployed during showrunner Russell T. Davies' first tenure to help mask the fact that the show was filming
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Doctor Who launched Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa's first season in the TARDIS with a pair of episodes that represented much of what this show is supposed to be and do. One episode is set in the future, and the other looks back to the past. One is a
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Never doubt the power of manifesting things: Back in February, we here at Telly Visions were desperate for a distributor to bring BBC Three's buzzy, critically acclaimed supernatural drama Domino Day to America. And it only took three months to get our wish. Streamer Sundance Now has announced