The Gallifreyan Newsroom

When asked what the BBC’s most popular export is, a lot of people might be tempted to turn to controversial car show Top Gear or long-running family favourite Doctor Who. But the answer is slightly more peculiar with international broadcasters instead flocking to buy 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. Broadcasters from countries including Bulgaria, Nigeria and Latvia have purchased the rights to series one of the quintessentially British comedy, which has been sold 992 times in the last 40 years….

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Doctor Who comic book artist Rachael Stott has had a rather fitting thank you note from Mr Peter Capaldi – his own drawing. Stott, who has also worked on Star Trek and Planet of the Apes, tweeted the gorgeous painting penned by the current Doctor, joking that it was her own fan mail. The Time Lord’s note to the artist reads: “To Rachel, what an incredible artist you are. Thank you so much for making my Doctor who he is….

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The Doctors will take Manhattan together this April at the Wizard World convention in New York. Yearning to recreate the Doctor Who team-up glory days of The Day of the Doctor? Got several hundred dollars, plane tickets to America and a hotel booking in New York burning a hole in your pocket? Then you’re in luck – because former Doctors Matt Smith and David Tennant will be appearing together for a special convention appearance for the first time ever. The…

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Doctor Who will be mostly absent from our telly in 2016 – but a new spinoff, Class, is coming to BBC Three and, word has it, it’s “brilliant”. Damian Kanavagh – digital controller for BBC Three – told Digital Spy that writer Patrick Ness and producer Brian Minchin have an “amazing vision” for the series. “I’ve read some of the scripts, I’ve met and talked to Patrick and Brian, and I think their vision for it is amazing,” he said….

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They played on-screen partners in crime for one series. After Jenna Coleman and Matt Smith both quit Doctor Who to pursue other projects, their friendship was put on the back burner as they were tied up in their various career commitments. Therefore it was little wonder the former co-stars were so thrilled to be reunited as they attended a pre-BAFTA party in London on Friday evening. They played on-screen partners in crime for one series But after Jenna Coleman and…

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WHEN a student informed her teacher her father was in trouble at home because he had bought a full-sized Dalek without first checking with her mother, her school came to the rescue. The ultimate sci-fi villain – a 5ft high replica Dalek – has now been given a permanent home at Stokesley School in North Yorkshire, after a student’s father made the unforgivable error of successfully bidding for it at a convention without consulting his other half. The unnamed student…

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