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EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall has promised fans that season 12 is going to open with the biggest and most ambitious episode ever of the BBC sci-fi drama. Chibnall told Deadline that Jodie Whittaker’s Tardis-travelling time lord will be thrown into action in a “movie-like” two-part curtain-raiser…

All3Media International has sold both seasons of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Emmy-winning show Fleabag to Japanese pay-TV channel Wowow. Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd’s drama Liar has also been picked up by Wowow. BBC One’s Baptiste will also debut in Japan through an agreement with Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. All…

Doctor Who will return to BBC One and BBC America for its 12th season on New Year’s Day. The January 1 premiere date was announced as a new trailer was dropped for the sci-fi drama, which sees Jodie Whittaker reprise her role as the Time Lord. The season gets underway with two-part special, Spyfall. BBC America has…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is working to salvage a format from Sony Pictures Television’s British production outfit Electric Ray following casting issues. The British broadcaster commissioned factual entertainment show One Click Away in April last year, with the intention of testing it with viewers as a broadcast pilot…

A new season of Doctor Who arrives in 2020, exact date to be announced. But to whet the appetite of true Whovians, the first trailer has been unleashed, and it’s got a lot of action to unpack. Goran Višnjić (ER) and Robert Glenister (Paranoid) will join the previously announced Stephen Fry (The Hitchhiker's Guide to th…

Goran Višnjić (ER) and Robert Glenister (Paranoid) will join the previously announced Stephen Fry (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and Lenny Henry (Broadchuch) as guest stars joining the cast of Doctor Who when the venerable sci-fi import returns to BBC America in early 2020. For Glenister, joining the new…

Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall has regenerated the BBC show’s writing team ahead of the launch of season 12 in early 2020. Nina Metivier, writer of BBC and Netflix series The A List, and A Discovery Of Witches writer Charlene James have penned their first episodes of the sci-fi drama, as has Maxine Alderton, who…

BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC responsible for making and selling shows like Doctor Who, has announced that it has cut its gender pay gap. In a report published on Thursday, it said: Its median pay gap stood at 10.3%, down from 14.1% in 2018. BBC Studios’ mean pay gap was 17.6%, compared with 19.6% last…

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…