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The director Rodney Bennett, who was behind three memorable early Tom Baker stories and whose work outside of the show included many classic dramas has died peacefully aged 81. Bennett was brought on board at a time during which the show underwent a great stylistic change. Tom Baker’s debut, Robot (1975) was very much a continuation of Jon Pertwee’s era in terms of look and personnel but the very next story The Ark in Space (1975) found the show embracing…

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When superstar actress Karen Gillan isn’t drinking at the pub with Rich Johnston or writing her hit Avatar comic book about a Nazi car service app, Uber, she’s busy starring in blockbuster films such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Avengers: Infinity War.  For the former, like the first Guardians of the Galaxy, Gillan was forced to get a haircut for her role as Nebula. Reprising that role in the sequel, however, Gillan didn’t need to go full baldy,…

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Class Episode Three, Nightvisiting, had an audience of 0.84 million viewers for its debut on BBC One, according the unofficial overnight figures, a share of 9% of the total TV audience. Although the ratings are slightly down on last week, the series did managed to rate higher than the other four main channels, with Newsnight on BBC Two getting 0.67 million and Through the Keyhole on ITV getting 0.61 million. Episode Four, Co-Owner Of A Lonely Heart, which followed at…

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  In an interview with the New York Observer, Twelfth Doctor actor Peter Capaldi has been discussing all things Doctor Who. When asked what his favourite Doctor Who episodes are, that he does not star in, Capaldi replied: “I like a lot of them, I like the The Girl in the Fireplace, that’s a good one. I like Rose. I think Rose is really good. Dalek, obviously is great. The Vampires of Venice—I think Matt’s particularly good in that, because…

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On 29 December 1996, the final episode of the Only Fools and Horses Christmas trilogy was watched by 24.3 million viewers on BBC1. John Sullivan’s comedy starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst still holds the UK record for a sitcom; nearly half the country was glued to the episode “Time On Our Hands”, where the Trotters finally become millionaires. On Christmas Day 2016, Mrs Brown’s Boys, the Marmite comedy starring Brendan O’Carroll as the mouthy Dublin matriarch, earned a consolidated…

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Steven Moffat has revealed that he regrets how Amy and Rory’s grief for their lost baby was written in his second season of Doctor Who. 2011’s mid-season finale ‘A Good Man Goes to War’ saw Madame Kovarian kidnap Amy and Rory’s baby, Melody. When Doctor Who returned in the autumn of 2011 with ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’, several months had passed for Amy and Rory before viewers were introduced to Mels, an adult incarnation of the daughter that they hadn’t knowingly…

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The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine has been speaking to former companion Jo Grant, actress Katy Manning, about her time on the show. Katy chats about working with Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee, Time Lord fashion, posing with a Dalek, and much, much more in a fascinating and funny interview. She says of Doctor Who: “Going back to my childhood, I remember sitting nose-to-screen, seeing Doctor Who for the first time, with William Hartnell, and it blew me away….

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