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Doctor Who: The Devil’s Chord review: Is this madness?
'The Devil's Chord' is a mess, but it's probably an intentional mess.
Doctor Who Space Babies review: Bet you didn’t expect that
'Space Babies' is crazy, chaotic and political. Just as Doctor Who should be.
Doctor Who is back, louder and more chaotic than before
'Doctor Who' hasn't watered itself down for its arrival on Disney+.
Spotify launches educational video courses in the UK
Spotify is testing educational video courses in the UK from creators like BBC Maestro.
Disney+ screws UK Doctor Who fans with global release strategy
Doctor Who will now stream to suit US viewing hours, not the UK.
Minecraft x Planet Earth III is the least offensive corpo collab of the year
Minecraft now offers a free DLC based on the BBC's Planet Earth III, in which you can play the prey or predator.
All of Doctor Who is finally coming to BBC iPlayer
All of Doctor Who is coming to BBC iPlayer. All of it.
Future ‘Doctor Who’ seasons will air on Disney+
New seasons of 'Doctor Who' will debut on Disney+ outside of the UK and Ireland.
Historic UK Proms music festival to include its first video game concert
For the first time, the UK’s annual Proms classical music festival will feature a concert dedicated to video game compositions.
'Doctor Who' needs to evolve to survive
The show's format, which consciously aped 'Buffy' when it relaunched, needs a more radical shakeup to remain relevant.
How to watch the Tokyo Olympics
Every event at the Tokyo Olympics is available to watch, you just need to know where to look.
News outlets will digitally watermark content to limit misinformation
The BBC and its partners will try and curb fake news, but only in the month before the 2020 US election.
Amazon UK will stream some English Premier League games for free
Premier League fans can watch what would have been un-aired matches for free on Prime.
The BBC's Beeb voice assistant is ready for testing on PC
The BBC is launching its voice assistant 'Beeb' in beta.
BBC will open its Sounds app to non-BBC podcasts
The BBC is opening its Sounds app to third-party podcasts in a bid to be a hub for audio talent.
BBC Together lets you watch shows with friends
There’s a new Chrome extension called Netflix Party that allows friends to sync up a Netflix stream. Now, the BBC has started testing its own tool that lets you watch or listen to its shows with other people online, according to The Verge. BBC Together works across the broadcaster’s services.
AMC's free streaming TV includes 'The Walking Dead' and 'MST3K'
AMC is joining the ranks of high-profile TV networks in streaming shows for free during the COVID-19 pandemic. To start, it's making the first half of The Walking Dead's tenth season free to watch from the AMC website and apps until May 1st. IFC, meanwhile, is offering free full seasons of comedy shows throughout April, including Mystery Science Theatre 3000. BBC America is offering free nature documentaries like Attenborough and the Giant Elephant, while SundanceTV's first season of Liar and other shows will be available until April 14th.
BritBox finally adds classic 'Doctor Who' to its UK service
As a Boxing Day gift to the UK, the entire library of classic Doctor Who content is now available on BritBox. The streaming service now has 627 pieces of content -- a mix of episodes, spinoffs, documentaries and more. That includes 558 episodes with the first eight doctors, an unaired story entitled Shada, which is presented as a 130-minute special, and two solely animated stories -- The Power of the Daleks and The Macra Terror.
Recommended Reading: The science fiction of William Gibson
How William Gibson keeps his science fiction real Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker While a lot of sci-fi is obsessed with the distant future, one of the best authors of the genre takes a different approach. The New Yorker explains how William Gibson "has imagined the near future more convincingly than anyone else" to create his stories. That includes his concept of "cyberspace" that first appeared in his work in the early 1980s.
The creators of ‘Wallace and Gromit’ are making a Netflix musical
A traditional part of many a British Christmas is gathering around the TV to watch an Aardman stop-motion production, like beloved series Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep or Chicken Run. The studio has had a long-standing partnership with the BBC, but recently Netflix stepped in to bring that holiday experience to more people.