Who’s that girl?

C’mon. Let’s not dodge the obvious headline here. Karen Gillan is the new Doctor Who companion. Read more

Sugar on Sunday

For those who keep Wednesdays free for The Apprentice, some annoying news… Read more

The Doctor is in… The Sarah Jane Adventures

Let’s just cut to the BBC press release, shall we? Read more

Ashes to Ashes

Tonight’s Ashes to Ashes reminds me just how cheaply I can be bought off by TV drama.
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New Doctor Who producers announced

BBC Cymru Wales has announced the new Doctor Who producers. Read more

Doctor Who

The following is a transcript from a media studies conference in April 2019. Read more

Doctor Who interview

The Doctor Who press office has provided OTT with a David Tennant and Michelle Ryan interview… Read more

Comic Relief Night

Fry and Laurie contended every good play needed “a Paul Eddington in it”.

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Wendy Richard tribute programme

The BBC will screen a tribute to the late Wendy Richard this evening. Read more

“For the Love of Christ!”

Callan’s off to Walford. Read more

The long con

The BBC has confirmed Hustle will return for a sixth series in 2010. Read more

Triffids sprouts a cast

The BBC has announced its impressive cast list for The Day of the Triffids. Read more

President Obama: The Inauguration

This was not the star-spangled clamour it ought to have been.

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Hustle

“What do we need in a mark?” asks Mickey, rhetorically. “Greed.” Read more

Matt Smith is the new Doctor Who!

Matt Smith has been announced as the 11th Doctor.

The Party Animals and Ruby in the Smoke star (set to appear in upcoming BBC2 crime drama Moses Jones) was an outside chance with all pundits, until earlier today, when his name suddenly propelled itself through the ranks of potential Time Lords. 

So how did Doctor Who Confidential announce the casting? Slowly… Read more

New Doctor Who to be announced tomorrow

Not much more to add about this story on the BBC site… Read more

Doctor Who

This year’s special ends with the Doctor accompanying a new friend to The Traveller’s Halt. Read more

Doctor Who’s ‘Next’ generation

Thursday 18 December 2008, and a pointedly low key press launch for Doctor Who‘s Christmas episode, ‘The Next Doctor’ held at London’s Soho Hotel.

Jane Tranter, the BBC’s outgoing Head of Drama, warned the assembled: “‘The Next Doctor’ – for the next 60 minutes or so, make of that what you like. And I’m absolutely not going to tell you anything. But by the time you’ve got to the end, you’ve got to promise not to tell anyone else what to make of that. The ability of Doctor Who is to ask big questions and keep everybody guessing. Please enter into the spirit of that, and allow everyone to keep asking questions”. Read more

Up the Creek again

After nearly five years off our screens, Jonathan Creek is poised to return for a one-off, two-hour episode scheduled for New Year’s Day.

So why has the duffle coat-sporting sleuth been resurrected now?

OTT asked the series’ creator David Renwick.  “It’s a kind of boring answer,” he said. “I had nothing else to do! I wasn’t bursting with any other bright ideas after we finished Love Soup, which I’ve been doing for the last two or three years. And, erm, it was sort of a safe decision.”
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Ball of confusion

Simon Cowell didn’t get all the column inches he was expecting this morning. Read more

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