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For Doctor Who fans, 2025 is proving to be a bittersweet one. In the U.S., the show's longest-running convention, Gallifrey One, announced it would be shutting down before the end of the decade. On TV, Disney seems to be on the fence about making the marriage official
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No offense to Hulu, but if a series is debuting on the Disney-owned platform and it's not an FX series (or a Freeform one), it feels like no one bothers to promote it. We've been complaining about this on and off for the last few years,
Movies
There’s a familiar and questionable trope at the heart of Plainclothes – someone exhibiting homophobic behavior or responsible for anti-LGBTQ+ violence is secretly repressing their own queerness. To writer-director Carmen Emmi’s credit, the film tries to sidestep the most egregious hallmarks of the trope, but in doing so, the
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Production on the first official Doctor Who spinoff since the ill-fated (and very forgettable) Class attempted to create a Doctorless Doctor Who in the mid-2010s kicked off at the end of August 2024 with a splashy A-list roster. The five-episode limited series (which should not be confused with the other
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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 been nearly a decade since Doctor Who last graced San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H, though, in terms of the show’s 60 years, that’s just a drop in the bucket. Returning showrunner Russell T Davies, the Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, and Season 1 companion Millie Gibson,
Viaplay
Are we far enough away from the pandemic outbreak that countries can start making their own television dramas about nationwide responses to novel diseases? That’s what happens in The Fortress, a Norwegian thriller that’s somewhere between disease thriller and conspiracy drama, imagining a completely walled-off Norway in 2037,
Actors and Actresses
In the winter of 1989, Mystery! was entering its ninth wildly successful season as Masterpiece Theater's British murder-and-crime-focused spinoff. The series had boasted a string of Thursday night hits, starting with the 1970s Father Brown series starring Kenneth More, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, the 1980s Roy Marsden
FX
Tom Hollander first caught the attention of the PBS crowd in the late 1990s with his appearance in the BBC-Masterpiece joint production of Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. A couple of years later, he landed on the big screen in Gosford Park, cementing his place as part of
Better Late Than Never
The top-rated BBC series Being Human, originally aired from 2008 until 2013, has finally found its way to streaming, first on BritBox and now on AMC+. Created by Toby Whithouse, whose earlier work included 2001's Bridget Jones’ Diary, the creative team originally intended the series to be about
Comedy
Hot on the heels of its premiere on the streaming service, HBO Max has renewed its quirky British romantic comedy Starstruck for a second season. The series, which aired on BBC Three in the U.K. earlier this spring, stars New Zealand comedian Rose Matafeo, who is also the series
Drama
The four-part mystery thriller The Sister is officially coming to Hulu this January. Created by Luther's Neil Cross and adapted from his novel Burial, the story follows an ordinary man trying to keep a dark piece of his past well hidden. And it asks an age-old question: How