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The Doctor Who franchise is one that has run for a very long time, and only some seasons have really reached the level of greatness that the show is so well-known for. This wealth of content has been great for long-time fans, but it also makes it difficult for new fans to find the right place to jump in and start watching. This is only made more difficult because Doctor Who has so many spin-off series, with some of these series being better than others.

A variety of different factors go into making a season better than the rest, including the characters included and the season and the stories told as the show goes on. The ambitious Doctor Who companions make a big impact as well, with their personalities playing off of The Doctor in each episode. While no season is safe from bad episodes, some have many more good episodes than bad ones.

Doctor Who is famous for featuring one or more companions that travel alongside the Doctor, but there are also instances in which a one-off companion steals the show. Typically, the best Doctor Who companions stick around for one or more seasons. However, some of the greatest Doctor Who stories introduce a companion who only appears in one episode, or a two-part adventure.

Despite this, these one-off characters are so fantastic that audiences fall in love with them. Unfortunately, the fates of these personalities aren’t always positive. Some suffer a terrible fate before they are able to board the Tardis, although this isn’t an exclusive rule, and others only stay as a one-off companion for other reasons. Doctor Who’s companions come and go in different ways, but to make such an impact in one story is an impressive feat.

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The upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special is set to reveal a side of the Doctor that it rarely features. After Ruby Sunday left the Tardis in the season 14 finale, the Doctor is preparing to celebrate another Christmas before season 15's May 2025 premiere. It will be his last appearance in 2024 and will leave a months-long hiatus before his next adventure. The special has been titled "Joy to the World" and will premiere on December 25.

While the holiday should be a delightful time for many of its viewers, it will be a lonely period for the Doctor. In an interview with GamesRadar+, writer and former showrunner Steven Moffat offered early insight into the episode. While acknowledging that the show is largely about the companions, Moffat admitted that this special will see the Doctor alone. The episode will explore who he actually is without having to put on a show for his companions.

An McU-style Whoniverse – one giant pulsating Cthulhu-like Doctor Who monster with multiple tentacles and limbs stretching in every direction – has always been the plan. Showrunner Russell T Davies has made no secret of that. He wants Doctor Who to be everything, everywhere, all at once, and why shouldn’t it be?

The first part of that plan was officially announced at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. A five-part miniseries entitled The War Between the Land and the Sea is about to go into production, starring Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. It’ll be available to watch in 2025 on BBC One and Disney+.

So (drums fingernails on desk) what else you got? According to the Sdcc 2024 diary from Bad Wolf’s Julie Gardner, published as part of the latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine, there are plans. Or at least hints of teases of plans. In Gardner’s entry...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) and his fiancée, interior designer Mindy Noce, have opened up about their “heaven-sent” relationship.

In January, the V.P. contender, 58, proposed to Noce, 47, just before the New Hampshire primary. The couple is set to exchange vows on August 3 in Charleston, South Carolina.

After months of speculation about Scott’s love life, Scott brought his girlfriend on stage last November after the debate in Miami. Scott’s team confirmed that the pair had been dating for “several months” after eagled-eyed views spotted Noce smiling for the cameras.

In an interview on Fox & Friends, the couple addressed the criticism they have faced, particularly from ABC’s The View, who insinuated that the senator only proposed to be in the running for vice president.

Noce, a Charleston-area designer, has three grown children from a previous marriage, while Scott has never been married before. The pair, who were set...

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Iconic TV director and BBC veteran Russell T. Davies has now revived Britain’s iconic sci-fi serial Doctor Who for the second time. Following Chris Chibnall’s rough treatment of the series, Davies’ new-new-Who is attempting a bold revitalization of the series with a larger focus on fantasy elements, but underlying issues are causing the series to fall flat.

The latest season of Doctor Who, for the first time in decades, simply lacks a strong hook. The Eccleston and Tennant eras’ Time War edge brought a modern, almost-hbo appeal to the series, Matt Smith’s era focused on exploring The Doctor’s relationship with his companions and the brilliant Capaldi era explored whether or not The Doctor is actually a good man with some of the best conflicts the series has ever seen. Whether it was...

*Warning — this review contains some spoilers for 'Boom'*

Ever since Ncuti Gatwa took over the Tardis keys to become Doctor Who’s Fifteenth Doctor, things have been pretty non-stop for everybody’s favourite Time Lord. From playing cosmic catch with Neil Patrick Harris’ Toymaker in 60th anniversary special debut ‘The Giggle’, to scat-battling a goblin king with new companion Ruby Sunday (Gibson) in Christmas outing ‘The Church On Ruby Road’, to run-ins with space babies, bogeymen, Beatles, and the celestial embodiment of music itself in 'Space Babies' and 'The Devil's Chord', there’s barely been a moment for the Doctor — or indeed the show’s viewers — to take a breath. All of that changes with ‘Boom’, a stripped back, slowed down, and cheek-clenchingly suspenseful character study from former Who showrunner — and Weeping Angels creator — Steven Moffat.

After the outré musical spectacle and supernatural Jinkx Monsoon hijinks of last week’s...

Moffat's return to Doctor Who in "Boom" showcased emotional complexity, action, and a romance subplot. "Blink" was a standout Doctor-lite episode with a simple yet powerful monster in the Weeping Angels. "Heaven Sent" stood as Moffat's best episode, exploring themes of grief with the Doctor monologuing for centuries.

Following the release of Steven Moffats most recent Doctor Who episode, Boom, it was worth considering which of his episodes are the very best. Steven Moffat was one of Doctor Whos ex-showrunners and took charge during the eras of Matt Smiths Eleventh Doctor and Peter Capaldis Twelfth Doctor. Throughout Moffats time in control of the show, and even before, he crafted some of the greatest episodes of Doctor Who ever.

Whether it was an individual episode or a whole story arc, Moffat received praise for his intricate details, dedication to the Doctor Who lore, and overall engaging characters. Moffat also created some...

Ncuti Gatwas has revealed Doctor Who season 14 will introduce a new villain that even the Doctor fears. The Doctor has faced dangerous enemies but always found solutions to defeat them, or hasn't been too afraid of them. The upcoming episode "Devil's Chord" will show the Doctor at his most scared and vulnerable, hinting at his most dangerous opponent ever.

Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has opened up about how season 14 will feature a villain that even the Doctor is afraid of, also revealing when they will make their debut. The Doctor has faced plenty of dangerous antagonists over his many iterations, with recurring ones being the Master and the Daleks. However, he's also faced plenty of other dangerous entities, including the Sontaran, the Silence, and Weeping Angels. Each time he's been able to confidently dispatch of them in some way, often finding solutions to combat them.

However, while speaking with Screen Rant,...

New fan art captures the tragedy of Clara's death and the Doctor's eternal grief in "Heaven Sent". The Doctor spends billions of years trapped in cycles of grief, alone with memories of Clara and haunting shades. Fan art highlights the Doctor's heartbreaking journey, touching on the profound themes of loss.

"Heaven Sent" is one of the most tragic episodes in Doctor Who history, and new fan art has summed it up with a single image. After the death of the Twelfth Doctor's companion, Clara, he is captured in a Confession Dial that keeps him eternally moving through a repeated cycle of life and death. With his memories constantly erased, the Doctor is left to toil for billions of years as he wrestles to complete the same escape attempt over and over again.

As the wait for Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who season 14 continues, the Twelfth Doctor's fateful journey has...

Former showrunner Steven Moffat has revealed that he has no plans to return to Doctor Who, despite speculation and social media posts. He believes the show is fine without him. Moffat's take on the Time Lord redefined the character as a legendary figure who could effortlessly chase away monsters and help anyone feel at ease. He also gave the Doctor a chance to heal from his trauma. While Moffat's era faced criticism, his contributions to Doctor Who, such as "Heaven Sent," "Blink," and "The Curse of Fatal Death," have had a lasting impact on the fandom.

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat reveals his honest answer to the chances of him returning to the series. Moffat began his involvement in the franchise between the classic series' conclusion and its revival in 2005, and would join the production of Christopher Eccleston's season as a writer. Once showrunner Russell T Davies exited,...

This Post Contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer.

On The Masked Singer Season 10’s “Soundtrack to My Life” episode, Anteater, who added a raspy twang throughout the show, was revealed as Hall & Oates’ John Oates.

“In keeping with this episode, you were the soundtrack of my life,” panelist Ken Jeong said to Oates after the reveal. “I just grew up on you, man. I’m literally starstruck right now.”

After a head-to-head performance against Donut, Candelabra was the second masked contestant to be...

Choosing your favourite Doctor Who episode feels a bit like choosing your favourite child, except you probably don’t have 800-plus children, so maybe it’s even worse.

But that’s exactly what Doctor Who Magazine inflicted on fans earlier this year, sugaring the pill ever so slightly by combining all the multiple-episode stories into one, which helpfully narrowed the choice from over 800 episodes to 300 “TV adventures”.

Who fans were tasked with rating all episodes out of ten – narrowing it down to 37 stories – and then asked to pick their top five from this list. After much number crunching, the top 10 TV adventures were revealed.

And there was one clear winner: “Heaven Sent”.

This 2015 Peter Capaldi-era episode was certainly powerful and memorable. The Doctor was grieving Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman), after she was executed in the previous episode, “Face The Raven”. In “Heaven Sent”, The Doctor is trapped in a strange castle,...

Born in 1973, Wissam Charaf is a Lebanese-French director, cameraman. and editor. In 1998, he began to work with the French-German network Arte, as a news cameraman, editor and journalist. He has since covered major conflict areas ranging from Lebanon and the Near East to Darfour, Afghanistan, Haiti or North Korea, and worked with programs such as Arte Info, Arte Reportages, Tracks, Metropolis. He directed six shorts, as well as the documentary It’s All in Lebanon. His first feature film, Heaven Sent, premiered at the Acid section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

On the occasion of Dirty Difficult Dangerous screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, we speak with him about his unusual approach towards the dramatic story of the film, refugees and maids in Lebanon, the country’s state in the past and now, and many other topics.

“Dirty Difficult Dangerous“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival

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Cannes 2019 discoveries Mounia Meddour and Maryam Touzani are among the Mena filmmakers with works in post-production.

Middle Eastern and North African cinema enjoyed a high profile on the 2021 festival scene thanks to a raft of works from the region including Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch’s Casablanca Beats, Egyptian Cannes Critics’ Week winner Feathers, Lebanese filmmaker Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon, and Tribeca selection Souad by Egyptian filmmaker Ayten Amin.

Will this trend continue into 2022? Screen rounds up key titles from the Middle East and North Africa that are likely to excite festival programmers this year.

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Christmas rolls around at the end of every year, and with it comes a long list of joyous movies all about this jolly holiday season. From Buddy the elf to the mean Mr. Grinch, fans love watching how different characters get together to celebrate Christmas with their friends and families.

Related: Eloise At Christmastime: 10 Wholesome Movie Quotes To Live By

Some characters have had the privilege of coming back in second and even third movies. While some films have been just as popular as their original counterparts, other sequels have slid between the cracks and are not well known. There are also many Christmas movies that deserve to make a comeback with a brand new story! Here are five sequels that fans would love to see and five that you need to see right now!

Documentary follows tour of Gisèle Vienne’s rave-inspired dance work Crowd.

Brussels-based sales company Best Friend Forever (Bff) has acquired Patric Chiha’s documentary If It Were Love ahead of its premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February 2020.

The film is about the production of dance work Crowd by renowned French-Austrian choreographer Gisèle Vienne. The show, exploring the 1990s rave scene, recently played at the UK’s Sadler’s Wells as part of its international tour.

The documentary follows its 15 young dancers of different origins and horizons on tour. From theatre to theatre, the production mutates into strange,...

The twelfth incarnation of the Doctor was stern and fearless, bearing the marks of a two-thousand-year-old Time Lord in a more transparent manner. Now, a new video posted on Doctor Who‘s official YouTube channel compiles Capaldi’s best moments as the Twelfth Doctor.

To many, he was known as the Hybrid. To some, he was known as the President. But to us, he will always be the Magician. When Steven Moffat, the series’ previous executive producer, chose Peter Capaldi to play the Doctor, he intended to show a darker aspect of the character and move away from the quirkiness of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, played by David Tennant and Matt Smith, respectively. He was successful at that, and Capaldi’s different take resulted in admiration and respect from Whovians all around the globe.

During his tenure, he fought with demons and aliens throughout the universe, as Doctors do,...

From the stark contrast “Stuck In The Middle With You” provided for Mr. Blonde torturing a cop in “Reservior Dogs” to Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega’s iconic dance to Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” in “Pulp Fiction,” Quentin Tarantino is a proven master in choosing just the right song, and the extensive track list in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is no exception.

Tarantino discussed the music of his latest film during a 90-minute event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles this week alongside guests who included Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders, a band that contributed three pieces of sonic ’60s history to the movie.

Here are five things we learned from the event.

For the opening credits, the song made the sequence

The director said he had two songs in mind for the opening-credit sequence, which involves scenes of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie...

Jean-Pierre Mocky , who was honoured by the French Film Festival UK in 2016 Photo: Richard Mowe A young Mocky who worked with Jean Cocteau in 1949 as the poet in Orphan Photo: Unifrance One of France’s most renegade, colourful and unclassifiable filmmakers Jean-Pierre Mocky has died in Paris at the age of 90, it has been announced by his family.

He was the director of more than 60 films, notably The Big Wash (La Grande Lessive), Heaven Sent (Un Drôle De Paroissien), Le Miraculé, A Mort l’Arbitre and Y a-t-il Un Français Dans La Salle?.

He was a man of many parts. In the 1940s he was a celebrated theatre and film star probably best-known for his performance in Jean Cocteau's Orpheus (1950).

Mocky began his directorial career with the 1959 release, The Chasers, and has subsequently turned out loosely constructed features noted for their broad black humour and cynicism. Although he is in...

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From Tank Girl to Doctor Who, Sherlock to The Flash, Doom Patrol to American Gods, Rachel Talalay has made her mark on genre storytelling.

If you’re a fan of genre television, you’re almost certainly a fan of Rachel Talalay’s work. In the almost 30 years since Talalay first stepped behind the camera for her feature film debut, the veteran director has worked on dozens of TV dramas, from Sherlock and Doctor Who to The Flash and American Gods.

If Talalay were a character actor, she would be Allison Janney before Hollywood got its act together and started giving her the meatiest of roles, and the recognition to go along with them: a skilled veteran in her field turning in consistently stellar work in an industry that creates opportunities for cisgender white men disproportionately more than anyone else. Hollywood gave Janney I, Tonya and an Oscar...

There’s a lot of elements that make Doctor Who great – spectacular acting, set, costume and creature design, direction, etc. – but it’s hard to argue that a good script isn’t key for a show that’s known for its big imagination. And for those interested in the writing of the long-running sci-fi series, the BBC has now released a selection of scripts from the modern version of the show on its Script Library service for your reading pleasure.

There are currently 14 scripts available to read online, plucked from across the past 14 years of the revived series and from the pens of various writers. Season 3 opener “Smith and Jones” from former showrunner Russell T. Davies is the earliest script up for grabs, while the most recent is the premiere of season 11, “The Woman Who Fell To Earth,” Jodie Whittaker’s first adventure as the Thirteenth Doctor which was written by current showrunner Chris Chibnall.

Many fans were excited to hear Keyshia Cole’s pregnancy announcement on Instagram. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the Heaven Sent singer is actually adding to her family. Just one day after suggesting, via a string of hashtags on Instagram, that she is having another baby, Keyshia sort of apologized for the announcement. At least now she knows how excited everyone would have been for her. “I Kinda Apologize for #Trolling yesterday, telling y’all I was ##Preggo !!!! Buuuuuuut y’all need to stop body shamming me and sayin I’m Pregnant Every Other Day !!!! Like seriously, it hurts my feelings Hey […]

The post Keyshia Cole baby news not true, singer sorry for Instagram prank appeared first on Monsters and Critics.

Be inspired by the heartwarming and miraculous story of a mischievous little angel when the faith-based family film Heaven Sent arrives on DVD February 21 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The film is currently available on Digital HD.

Heartwarming inspiration and fun are on tap in the miraculous story of a mischievous little angel on a mission when the faith-based family film Heaven Sent arrives on DVD February 21from Lionsgate. Currently available on Digital HD, the story unfolds when a young couple, on the eve of their painful divorce, receives a surprising houseguest – an 8 year old runaway from Heaven. Cleverly guided by Divine intervention, she helps them rediscover their hope and faith in the power of love. Heaven Sent gained recognition and success at the Bentonville Film Festival, and premiered on the Lifetime network as one of its most anticipated film events of 2016. Directed by Michael Landon Jr. and written by Rick Ramage,...

Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek star in the adventure based on the bestselling 1969 memoir of convicted French felon and fugitive Henri Charriere.

Papillon shot for 51 days in Belgrade, Serbia, as well as various locations in Montenegro and the Mediterranean Film Studioswater tanks in Malta.

Michael Noer directs from a screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski. The story charts Charriere’s escape attempts from the brutal penal colony on French Guiana.

Red Granite’s Joey McFarland, David Koplan and Riza Aziz produce with Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi.

Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman starred in the 1973 version.

Condé Nast Entertainment has hired Bruce Perlmutter as senior vice-president of production to oversee the company’s digital video content. Perlmutter most recently produced BuzzFeed’s live election night coverage, and the Heaven Sent live skydiving event for Fox, Facebook Live and Snapchat. FilmRise has acquired North American rights to Nancy Buirski’s documentary By Sidney Lumet. The film premiered...

It’s a girl for Kelsey Nixon!

The Kelsey’s Essentials and Kelsey’s Homemade host, 32, and husband Robby Egan welcomed a daughter via gestational surrogate on Monday, Nov. 21, Nixon announced on Instagram.

“We made it. Our Nora Elizabeth is everything we dreamed of and more,” the Food Network and Cooking Channel star captioned an Instagram photo of herself and Egan gazing at their baby girl, who arrived weighing 7 lbs., 1 oz.

“This day couldn’t have been more special,” she added.

Nora joins 4-year-old big brother Oliver. The couple’s son Leo died due to complications a month after his...

Cantinas Entertainment has acquired Mission Pictures to form Cantinas Distribution.

The new entity will be bundled up with an established P&A fund and is led by Mission Pictures co-founder Cindy Bond.

The plan is to release “positive, life-affirming films” in North America. Bond and her team plan to have a major presence at the leading film markets and will be on the ground this week at Sundance.

“We are thrilled to announce the formation of Cantinas Distribution,” said Cantinas Entertainment co-founder and CEO Greg Campbell.

“This fulfils one of the core components for Cantinas Entertainment to become one of the next-gen content providers of quality entertainment. We are equally excited to be partnering with Cindy who is a respected industry leader and her vision that is in lock-step with our long-term strategic goals for the company.”

“This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for Mission Pictures and me personally,” said Bond. “I look forward...