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Bodyguard and Line of Duty producer Priscilla Parish is to become the head of drama at the BBC’s commercial production arm BBC Studios. Parish will take up the newly created role in November, joining from World Productions where she was an executive producer and head of development. Parish will report to Ralph Lee…

Terrance Dicks, one of the most prolific contributors to sci-fi series Doctor Who, has died at the age of 84. Dicks had a long association with the BBC drama and wrote for the series between 1968, when he was hired as a script editor, through to 1983, when he wrote 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors. He had a…

BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the British broadcaster, has combined its international sales and distribution businesses together, and named Paul Dempsey to the newly-created role of President, Global Distribution. Dempsey, who joined BBC Worldwide in 1998 and has held a number of senior positions, will relocate…

The Doctor is heading to HBO Max after the WarnerMedia streaming service picked up the exclusive streaming rights to long-running BBC Studios drama Doctor Who. The service will have all 11 seasons of the sci-fi fan favorite at launch in spring 2020 including the SVOD premiere of season 11, which stars Jodie Whittaker…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight's Years And Years finale on HBO. “The point is you don’t need a revolution for a Viv Rook to take over," declares Years And Years creator Russell T Davies of the populist uprising on the HBO dystopian family drama of the near future that literally and digitally…

The new year will start off with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. At least according to the official trailer for the Doctor Who New Year’s special, Resolution, which will premiere Tuesday, Jan. 1 at 8 PM ET/PT on BBC America. In the New Year’s Day special, a terrifying evil is stirring from across the…

BBC America is going to ring in 2019 with Doctor Who. Breaking away from the traditional Christmas Day timeslot, the popular series will have its first-ever “Who Year’s Day” which will include a marathon of all the Christmas specials that will pave the way to the aforementioned New Year’s Day special The marathon will…

There were two firsts for Doctor Who's latest season debut this weekend with the long-running series premiering globally on a Sunday and Jodie Whittaker taking over as the 13th and first female Time Lord – and that translated into some strong ratings for BBC America. Simulcast with the UK, the rest of the planet and a…

David Tennant was among the millions who caught Jodie Whittaker’s first full Doctor Who episode last night, and apparently being an ex-Doctor and knowing the behind-the-cameras tricks didn’t provide any emotional distance. "It's very exciting,” Tennant tells SiriusXM hosts Jessica Shaw and Dalton Ross (listen above).…

Jodie Whittaker's Doctor unleashed 8.2M viewers and a 40.1% share for BBC One in the UK as the first episode of the new season of Doctor Who smashed the performance of recent airings. This compared to Peter Capaldi's swansong season, which opened with 4.6M (25%) overnight viewers in the UK in April 2017, largely in…

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details about the Doctor Who Season 11 premiere today.  "Not yet who I am, brain and body still rebooting, reformatting," says Jodie Whittaker's just-regenerated Time Lord in the Season 11 opener of Doctor Who, shown all over the world and at a near- packed Theater at Madison Square…

"Let's get a shift on," says new Doctor Jodie Whittaker in the first full-length trailer for the new season of BBC America and BBC One's Doctor Who. "I'm just a traveller," Whittaker adds in the explosive trailer. She appears alongside her team of friends – Ryan (Tosin Cole), Yasmin (Mandip Gill) and Graham (Bradley…