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Conventions, Television

13’s Sonic Screwdriver Unveiled at Comic-Con International 2018!

What you’re looking at in the above photo is the most radically redesigned Sonic Screwdriver in the history of Doctor Who (virtually every Doctor has tweaked the iconic instrument but this is a total revamp).

A limited quantity of Sonic Screwdriver Collectibles will be available to purchase at the BBC Shop at BBC AMERICA’s booth #4129 for fans attending San Diego Comic-Con. The product will also be available for pre-order starting on Wednesday, July 25th.

Comic Con International 2018 is taking place at the San Diego Convention Center, in San Diego, CA.

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BBC America Announces Doctor Who Exclusives For Comic-Con International 2018!

BBC America has announced its Doctor Who exclusives for Comic-Con International 2018: T-shirts, Hoodies, Mugs, Jewelry and more.

The network also announced two signings: Richard Dinnick, author of Doctor Who: Myths and Legends and contributing author of the Doctor Who: The Missy Chronicles anthology, and Kelly Yates, the artist whose artwork inspired the exclusive Kawaii Collection.

Comic Con International 2018 will take place July 19th–22nd at the San Diego Convention Center, in San Diego, CA.

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Television

The Universe Is Calling: Meet The 13th Doctor’s Companions!

BBC America released a fifty-second teaser introducing the 13th Doctor’s companions – Graham, Ryan and Yasmin – during halftime of the World Cup Final.

It’s as mysterious as anything we’ve seen about the series, so far – though I suspect that not the Speed Force crackling about them.

Doctor Who returns this fall.

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Never Tell a Psychopath Trailer: BBC America’s Killing Eve!

A deskbound MI-5 agent and a psychopathic killer: one limited by her job description and pay grade; the other not bound by those limits – or any others.

Each obsessing on the other in a story that ‘topples the typical spy-action thriller as these two women go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.’

Killing Eve premieres on BBC America on April 8th (8/7C).

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We’re Out of Sugar Trailer: Top Gear Premieres In March!

Top Gear – Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid – Photo courtesy of BBC America.

Top Gear returns to BBC America on Saturday, March 3rd (10:30/9:30C) then slides into its regular timeslot the next day, Sunday, March 4th (8/7C).

The trailer for the new season can only be described as pedal to the metal whimsy.

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TV Reviews

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – That’s Wendimoor Like It!

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Bigby (Miranda Edwards), Amanda Brotzman (Hannah Marks), Litzibitz Trost (Anja Savcic), Farson Dengdamor (Ajay Friese) – Photo by Ed Araquel/Courtesy of BBC America.

Things are rapidly coming to a head on Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (BBC America, Saturdays, 9/8C) – last week we saw the arrival of the boat in Bergsberg and now we get to see something very special about The Boy. It’s not enough (for us) to put it all together, but it just might be Dirk.

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Surprise! Trailer: Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time!

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time – Doctors 12 (Peter Capaldi) and 1 (David Bradley) – Photo courtesy of BBC America.

Oh, dear! The first and current Doctors collide in this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special – Twice Upon a time – and ‘the original, you might say’ is in for a bit of a shock!

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time will premiere on Christmas Day.

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NYCC 2017: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Goes Magical!

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Farah Black (Jade Eshete) and Todd Brotzman (Elijah Wood) – Photo courtesy of BBC America.

How do you follow a time traveling mystery featuring a girl and a dog whose minds have been swapped?

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Blue Planet II Prequel BBC’s First Global Natural History Simulcast!

The exclusive curtain-raiser for the seven-part Blue Planet II features a Hans Zimmer and Radiohead musical collaboration, titled (ocean) bloom, which is a fusion of Planet Earth: Blue Planet II’s main theme with a reimagined version of Bloom, a song Thom Yorke was prophetically inspired to write having watched 2001’s The Blue Planet.

It debuted today during the World Premiere of Planet Earth: Blue Planet II in London – a five-minute prequel for the landmark series has become the BBC’s first ever natural history global simulcast.

Blue Planet II will premiere in early 2018.

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BBC America Announces Premiere Date for Queers!

Queers – Episode: Man On The Platform (No. 1) – Picture Shows: Mark Gatiss – (C) BBC – Photo by Richard Ansett/Courtesy of BBC America.

BBC America’s eight part series Queers sees eight established writers respond to the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act which partially decriminalized homosexual acts between men in the UK, will air throughout the day on October 11 – now known as National Coming Out Day.

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