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Doctor Who star Nicola Coughlan's comedy series Big Mood has received an exciting update. It was announced this week that the sitcom has been renewed for a second season.

Big Mood, which airs on Channel 4 in the UK and streams on Tubi in the US, features Coughlan and Lydia West (It's a Sin) as lifelong friends, Maggie and Eddie respectively. In the first season, their friendship faced strain for the first time due to mental health pressures as well as personal and professional drama. On Feb. 11, Channel 4 announced that both actors would be returning for more episodes, with series creator Camilla Whitehil back as showrunner.

The 15 Best Rose Tyler Episodes on Doctor Who, Ranked

Billie Piper as Rose Tyler was a big part of Doctor Who's 2005 revival, and is one of the most beloved companions. But what are her best episodes?

Big Mood Season 2 jumps ahead one year,...

Doctor Who actor Ncuti Gatwa says more episodes of the popular British sci-fi series are on the way. However, fans will have to wait a while as production will only begin in 2025.

Gatwa shared the update during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show (via MovieWeb). "It is all going well," the actor said when asked about the future of Doctor Who. "We did the second series this year, the Christmas special is coming up, and we are filming a third series next year," he added about the beloved series.

Related I Wanted a Hero Who Wasnt Closed: Doctor Who Showrunner Explains Ncuti Gatwas Casting

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies shares the reason why Ncuti Gatwa was the perfect choice to portray the next titular Time Lord.

Gatwa made his debut as the Fifteenth Doctor, in the series' 60th anniversary special episode, "The Giggle." The character was introduced through a process called "bi-generation,...

The following contains spoilers for Doctor Who, Season 1, Episode 8, "Empire of Death," now streaming on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer.

The ultimate reveal of Ruby Sunday's mother on Doctor Who borrowed its thematic inspiration from, of all things, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Last Jedi.

Per Comicbook.com, showrunner Russell T Davies discussed similarities between Doctor Who's finale "Empire of Death" and how The Last Jedi handled Rey's parentage via the episode's BBC iPlayer commentary, emphasizing the meaningfulness of its characters being ordinary amidst their fantastical conflicts. "The second film said that [Rey] was nothing special, there was nothing special about her parentage She was just an ordinary person with the Force," Davies explained, adding that, compared to Star Wars: Episode XI - The Rise of Skywalker's Palpatine reveal, "I really loved the version where she wasn't special. When she's ordinary." This, in turn, led to him writing Ruby's...

Company will released Old Boys and Pond Life as first two titles in new initiative.

UK distributor Verve Pictures is launching a non-profit first feature distribution support scheme that will back six debuts over the next 12 months.

The company has received a £135,000 award from the BFI Audience Fund to back the project, which has selected the first two features that will benefit – Bill Buckhurst’s Pond Life, which Verve has taken UK rights to, and Toby MacDonald’s Old Boys, which the company is now working on a deal for. Four more films will be selected over the course of the next year.

Exclusive: Dromgoole to direct Ché Walker script Dead Head.

Open Palm Films, led by the former artistic director of London’s Globe theatre Dominic Dromgoole, has revealed a slate of six feature projects, including four in pre-production.

According to Open Palm, which launched last year, all four are fully financed.

Among the slate is Benjamin, written and directed by UK comedian Simon Amstell, which is due to shoot this summer.

The comedy, about “intimacy and despair”, marks Amstell’s first narrative feature after BBC sitcom Grandma’s House and recent BBC documentary feature Carnage.

The company is due to go into production next month on Parade, directed by Lisa Mulcahy (The Legend of Longwood) and written by Bruce McLeod (The War Boys).

Set in Bradford, the film follows a young man who is left with severe memory loss after a brutal attack. As he begins to piece together his identity, he’s ashamed...

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42, The Power Of Three, Dinosaurs On A Spaceship and more - the Doctor Who work to date of the show's next showrunner...

Who is Chris Chibnall? You might know him as the creator of Born & Bred, Law & Order: UK and Broadchurch amongst others, but as readers of this site, it's more likely that you know his scripts from Doctor Who and his tenure as head writer of Torchwood. On Friday, the BBC announced that Steven Moffat will be stepping down as the showrunner of Who after next year's tenth series (since its revival), to be replaced by Chibnall in 2018.

Over the weekend alone, there has already been a lot written and said in speculation about what the new show-runner, Doctor Who's third since Russell T. Davies combined the roles of head writer and executive producer when he revived the series in 2005. I, for one, welcome our...

And there was much rejoicing.

In an emotional rollercoaster of announcements, the BBC revealed that showrunner Steven Moffat would be leaving Doctor Who after series 10, which they then announced would not begin until Spring 2017. The only new episode for 2016 will be the Christmas special.

Steven’s shoes will be filled by Chris Chibnall, far from a stranger to the series. In addition to numerous episodes of the series including the “mini-sode series” Pond Life, he’s written many episodes of Torchwood, and most recently was the creator and showrunner of the mystery series Broadchurch, starring David Tennant and many other Who-lumni.

Chibnall said, “Doctor Who is the ultimate BBC program: bold, unique, vastly entertaining, and adored all around the world. So it’s a privilege and a joy to be the next curator of this funny, scary and emotional family drama. I’ve loved Doctor Who since I was four years old,...

Celebs get a lot of grief and trolling on Twitter, so we certainly don't begrudge them dishing it out in return.

But Lord Sugar could possibly benefit from expanding his repertoire of comebacks. Michael M has noticed that he seems to rely on one particular phrase an awful lot.

Sugar has uttered the phrase "shut up" a whopping 393 times (and counting) on Twitter, and not all of them are directed at Piers Morgan either. Here are just a few of the highlights over the years.

@Inspector_Rebus shut up we are having fun

— Lord Sugar (@Lord_Sugar) September 17, 2010

Shut up will you all about Ross brand wife stuff we are starved for commas with 140 ch you know what I mean you smart ar...

— Lord Sugar (@Lord_Sugar) November 8, 2010

@pastrycakes31 tell them to shut up welcome to twitter

— Lord Sugar (@Lord_Sugar) February 12, 2011

@trickytree71 shut up grammar Nazi

— Lord Sugar (@Lord...

Want to catch up with post-2005 Doctor Who but don’t have 85 spare hours to watch the whole thing? We’ve some tips for you…

Maps To TV Shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!

In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do...

News Louisa Mellor 21 May 2013 - 08:34

We spoke to Doctor Who writer Chris Chibnall about the story behind P.S., the series 7 extra scene featuring Brian Williams...

Our heads may be full of series seven finale The Name of the Doctor, but think back to mid-series closer The Angels Take Manhattan, and the unassuming extra scene following up the story of Brian Williams that followed six weeks afterwards.

Written by former Torchwood showrunner Chris Chibnall, the additional four and a half minutes weren't filmed, but sparingly animated with a voiceover by Arthur Darvill, and arguably, are all the more poignant for it.

We asked Chibnall how the terrific P.S. (which you can see below) came about...

Is it right that that P.S., the wonderful Doctor Who extra scene that came after The Angels Take Manhattan, came about because it was lobbied for by fans?

No, no. When I was writing,...

Interview Louisa Mellor 21 May 2013 - 07:00

We chatted to Broadchurch, Doctor Who, and Torchwood writer Chris Chibnall about success, fan theories, orange cagoules, and more...

Spoiler warning: this interview reveals the identity of the Broadchurch killer, and other series one plot details.

Years of keeping Doctor Who and Torchwood’s confidences must have been excellent preparation for the secrecy Chris Chibnall had to maintain throughout the run of his successful ITV drama, Broadchurch.

Part whodunit and part exploration of grief and loss, the David Tennant and Olivia Colman-starring series came to occupy a rare position in early 2013. Critics praised it, viewers watched it in their millions, and in its final weeks, online theories on the killer’s identity were just as widespread and meticulously constructed as anything you’d find in a Doctor Who comments section. Broadchurch fans united on Monday nights and poured reactions onto Twitter and Facebook during every ad break.

The Fall of the Ponds. The Last Page. The Great Weeping. You knew it was coming, The Grand Moff Steven made it clear. Who died, who lived, and who will have a Lot of explaining to do to the parents. Spoilers abound, even more than usual, so here we go…

The Angels Take Manhattan

by Steven Moffat

Directed by Nick Hurran

The episode jumps between 1938 and 2012 Manhattan – in 1938, detective Sam Garner is asked to investigate a mysterious apartment house “where the angels live”, only to meet…himself, years older. In modern day, The Doctor is visiting Central Park with Amy and Rory, when Rory is sent backwards by a weeping angel, into the arms of his daughter River Song. How do you fight an enemy that can suddenly make you go decades into the past? Perhaps the answer in some cases is: you can’t.

The story bears more than...

The Doctor is very good at saving the world, but very poor at sitting still. So when he’s stuck waiting a full year for an invasion to start, it gives a new meaning to cabin fever. The Year of the Slow Invasion, the year The Doctor got involved in Amy and Rory’s life and not the other way around. A very personal episode (featuring the entire world), rife with spoilers, so sit back, and keep your eye on the box.

The Power Of Three

by Chris Chibnall

Directed by Douglas Mackinnon

Amy and Rory have been spending more time away from The Doctor, and it seems less and less of a problem to them. But when tiny little boxes appear all over the world, it’s a mystery sure to attract their time traveling friend, which of course it does. But his arrival also attract the attention of...

We knew going into this episode of "Doctor Who" that we'd be watching the penultimate appearance of Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill as the Doctor's companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams. And we knew the title -- "The Power of Three" -- promised something special. This would be a hour devoted to Amy, Rory and The Doctor coming together to solve a crisis, right?

Surely we'd see how each of them have an important role to play in a storyline that delivers on the title's implicit promise: Three is better than one, or two. We'd nod our heads and think, "Yes, the Doctor is at his best with these companions." Because they're the companions we're watching right now, we love them dearly, and we're at the emotional high point of our relationship with them. We know they're going to leave, but we don't yet know how it will happen.

That...

While we have seen a lot from Doctor Who‘s wild-west themed upcoming episode this week, not much has been revealed about the following one, The Power Of Three. Most of what we know comes from Steven Moffat‘s introduction to the episode to Radio Times earlier this month:

“The day the Earth got cubed. The year of the slow invasion. The time the Doctor came to stay.”

There have been many ways to invade the Earth, and the Doctor has seen them all. Or so he always thought – and then the human race wakes up one morning and discovers the world has been overrun by… small black cubes. Which then proceed to… do nothing much at all. A plan is afoot, humanity is endangered – but by what and how and, above all, when? For the first time in his world-saving career the Doctor has to call upon the least of his virtues: patience.

The good news is that the DVD and Brd sets of Season 7 of Doctor Who will be out in time for the holidays, and will include two of the Doctor Who pre-season BBC America specials and the “Pond Life” webseries. The bad news is that the title is “Part One” because of course the second half of the season won’t even be broadcast until 2013.

Don’t forget, they refer to a “season” as a “series” in the UK. Here’s the press release:

Doctor Who: Series Seven, Part One

Street Date: November 13, 2012

Suggested Retail Price: DVD$24.98 ($30.98 in Canada)

Blu-ray $29.98 ($37.48 in Canada)

Length: Approx.225 mins + bonus material / 2-disc set

Doctor Who returns, after a record-breaking season on BBC America, with five new blockbuster episodes in the first half of Series Seven. Join the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companions Amy and Rory (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, aka “the...

The Doctor attempts to help the Indian Space Agency about a runaway spaceship of Canadian size headed for Earth. Promising to stop it before it needs to be blown up, he picks up a few friends – Rory and Amy (and Rory’s dad, accidentally) big game hunter John Riddell, and already in his company, Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. They find the ship is a derelict space ark, originally from Earth, created by the Silurians. But where are they, and how did a mysterious and heartless trader named Solomon get control of the ship?

Arthur Darvill had it exactly right when he discusses the latest episode of Doctor Who in a promotional video – “It does what it says on the tin”. The Doctor’s got a gang, Amy has her own companions, Rory’s got his dad, Rory’s dad’s got balls in his pants, the ship’s got a surprising builder,...

With only four episodes of "Doctor Who" left before the Ponds exit the series, executive producer Steven Moffat has promised every installment will feel like a mini-movie, and "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" certainly delivered on that level. There were dinosaurs... on a spaceship. And the Doctor was trying something new: a gang.

It wasn't just Rory and Amy joining him on this adventure, it was also Rory's dad Brian (a perfectly cast Mark Williams, a.k.a. Mr. Weasley from the "Harry Potter" movies), the early 1900's hunter Riddell (Rupert Graves) and famed Egyptian Queen Nefertiti (Riann Steele) -- who all had important roles to play. And there was a memorable villain in the form of Solomon (David Bradley, also a familiar "Potter" face), a ruthless space pirate who exterminated the Silurians captaining the space ark that housed the dinosaurs.

Even with references to genocide, "Dinosaurs" was one of the...

Doctor Who, Series 7, Episode 2: “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship”

Written by Chris Chibnall

Directed by Saul Metzstein

Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on BBC America

This week, on Doctor Who: The Doctor recruits a gang, including a Big Game hunter, Amy, Rory, Rory’s dad Brian, and Queen Nefertiti, to investigate a mysterious spaceship set to collide with the Earth

One of the great things about Doctor Who is its ability to morph genres week to week and season to season. What started as an educational children’s show has explored, at various points, buddy cop-style comedy, gothic horror, and high drama. For series seven, the focus seems to be foremost on fun and adventure and this episode delivers both in spades. It’s a well-paced story, with all of the new characters introduced and established in an economical opening few minutes. The story is refreshingly straightforward, with nary a twist in sight,...

A new season, a return of an old enemy, a dramatic change to a relationship, and a very surprising casting choice made the premiere episode of Doctor Who quite the rollicking ride. Keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times, mind the spoilers, hang tight to your jewelry (especially bracelets), mind the spoilers and here we go…

Asylum Of The Daleks

By Steven Moffat

Directed by Nick Hurran

The Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams are all captured by Dalek sleeper agents and taken to their main fleet, home of their Parliament. Rather than Exterminate him, they beg for his help. Their Asylum, a combination hospital and prison for Daleks so damaged or insane they can no longer be controlled, is in danger of being breached after a lost spaceship crashes on it. The Doctor. Amy and Rory are sent down to the surface to shut down the planetary force field defense,...

We admit there were moments when it felt like this day would never come, but it is finally here. Doctor Who Premiere Eve. To celebrate and to help us all prepare, the BBC has made these wonderful featurettes available, including the final episode of Pond Life. We’ve actually given you all five episodes below, because we love you.

Featurette: Doctor Who – Matt Smith, Karen Gillan & Arthur Darvill on Asylum of the Daleks

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Featurette: Doctor Who – Steven Moffat and Caroline Skinner Introduce the New Season

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Doctor Who – Pond Life, Episode 1

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Doctor Who – Pond Life, Episode 2

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Featurette: Doctor Who – Pond Life, Episode 3

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Featurette: Pond Life, Episode 4

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Featurette: Doctor Who – Pond Life,...