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Jodie Whittaker, David Attenborough, Danny Dyer, footballer Sergio Aguero and professor Brian Cox are to help the BBC educate children during coronavirus pandemic. With schools out during the COVID-19 crisis, the BBC has been stepping up its education tools to help parents homeschool their kids. Now, the corporation…

An alien Time Lord is concerned that an upsurge in worrying has been detected on earth. So it is that the 13th Doctor, aka Jodie Whittaker, has sent an “emergency transmission” to offer some hope. Using the Doctor Who on BBC America handle, The Doctor said that she herself was in isolation, "Hiding. From an army of…

BBC One lined up some big gun dramas to begin 2020, but Dracula and Doctor Who did not convert into remarkable audiences for the British broadcaster. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ retelling of Bram Stoker’s legendary story of a blood-sucking count from Transylvania was a jewel in the crown of BBC One’s holiday…

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…

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…

Hugh Grant, Jodie Whittaker and Letitia Wright are among 386 new BAFTA members. The 2018 intake span the film, games and TV industries across eleven countries. Scroll down for the full list of new members. Among new members are BAFTA-winner Grant, Doctor Who star Whittaker, BAFTA-nominee Willem Dafoe, Black Panther…

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…