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The BBC has “no plans” to use AI again to promote Doctor Who after receiving complaints from viewers. The BBC’s marketing teams used the tech “as part of a small trial” to help draft some text for two promotional emails and mobile notifications, according to its complaints website, which was…

Jane Tranter, the co-founder of Doctor Who and His Dark Materials producer Bad Wolf, has called on the UK government to update British television tax credits to promote domestic investment. Tranter, one of the UK’s most highly-regarded producers, said television’s voice “got lost” in the UK’s recent…

Doctor Who has a date. The BBC and Disney+ will launch the latest season of the classic sci-fi – the first since the Disney streamer came on board – simultaneously around the world. The show, which stars Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor with Millie Gibson as his companion Ruby Sunday, will…

EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Who director Jamie Magnus Stone is helming a sci-fi series adaptation of Brian W. Aldiss’ debut Non-Stop for Aircraft Pictures. Set in a distant future, Non-Stop tells the tale of Roy Complain, a man born into a primitive society only to discover his tribe is one of many aboard a…

BBC Studios is increasing its debt facility by £250M ($318M) — a move that closely follows the acquisition of BritBox International, its biggest ever single transaction. The agreement with a consortium of commercial banks brings the debt facility to £600M, up from £250M in 2022, the Financial Times…

EXCLUSIVE: Mad Dog 2020 Casting, a 25-year-old British agency that supplies background actors to major productions, is facing legal action after failing to pay scores of clients. Equity and Bectu, two of the most prominent UK creative industry unions, are pursuing legal claims on behalf of members…

EXCLUSIVE: Some of the biggest UK drama production houses have started developing lower-budget slates in response to a depleted market and the success of local stories such as Mr Bates vs the Post Office. The bosses of Doctor Who co-producer Bad Wolf and Crown maker Left Bank both told Deadline they…

EXCLUSIVE: Bad Wolf is adopting a U.S.-style pilot strategy on BBC drama Dope Girls by finishing episode one months before the rest so that it can be shopped at the London and LA TV Screenings. Jane Tranter, who co-runs the Doctor Who and His Dark Materials producer, said this is the first time the…

British actress Pamela Salem, who starred in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again and TV’s Doctor Who, died on Wednesday, according to Big Finish Productions. She was 80. Born in 1944 in India, she played Bond's secretary Miss Moneypenny in Sean Connery's 1983 film Never Say Never Again, which…

EXCLUSIVE: The jury for the Jodie Whittaker-backed £25,000 ($31,000) Empower Film Fund for female and non-binary filmmakers has been set. Whittaker’s former Doctor Who co-star Mandip Gill will be on the jury alongside BAFTA-nominee Ella Glendining (Is There Anybody Out There?), BAFTA-nominee Ameenah…

Matt Smith’s star turn as Prince Phillip in the first two seasons of The Crown attracted plaudits but didn’t exactly secure him as a long-term viewer. The House of the Dragon star said he “keeps an eye” on the twists and turns of Peter Morgan’s now-ended royal family saga but “doesn’t really watch” Th…

Here’s a shocker: the BBC and Bad Wolf have reportedly replaced Millie Gibson as Doctor Who’s companion after she filmed just one season as Ncuti Gatwa’s sidekick. The Daily Mirror’s Nicola Methven, who is well-sourced on Doctor Who, said Gibson would be replaced by Andor star Varada Sethu in Gatwa’s…