Now playing: Watch this: Toshiba’s Star Wars TV is the screen you’ve been looking… 1:09 Here’s a test of your Star Wars loyalty. Do you love Star Wars so much that you’d watch Star Wars even when you’re watching something other than Star Wars? That’s more or less what Toshiba’s new TVs, designed in collaboration …
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On the day the USA celebrates winning independence from British rule, the UK’s publicly funded broadcaster is fighting the influence of US online companies on British children. The BBC today announced in this year’s annual plan that it will plough £34 million (around $44m or AU$58m) into children’s services over the next three years, described as the biggest investment in …
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Count it as a promise for zombies and time travel fulfilled. AMC Networks, home of The Walking Dead and owner of BBC America, where Doctor Who plies his era-hopping trade, is now available on YouTube TV. The service announced the new additions in a tweet Monday. Before you get too excited, remember that YouTube TV is not regular old YouTube. …
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Weeping Angel (noun): 1. A terrifying monster from the popular UK sci-fi series “Doctor Who,” which resembles a harmless winged statue — until you blink or look away. 2. An alleged spying tool, co-developed by the CIA and the UK’s MI5 security agency, which lets a Samsung Smart TV (specifically, the F8000 Smart TV) pretend to turn itself off — …
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Now playing: Watch this: New ‘DuckTales’ cast sings the classic theme song 1:22 When Disney brings back “DuckTales” in 2017, “Doctor Who,” “Community” and “Saturday Night Live” stars will be voicing the new adventures of Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, Louie and the rest of the gang. David Tennant (“Doctor Who”) made his debut as Scrooge McDuck in a video released …
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When was the last time you chowed down on veal cutlets stuffed with snails or impressed your dinner guests with a bush of crayfish in Viking herbs? With a little help from the late surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, those dishes and other equally unusual ones can grace your table. Dalí’s cookbook “Les Diners De Gala” will be available again for …
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Why should the Doctor have all the fun fighting alien monsters? In the new “Doctor Who” spinoff series “Class,” there’s no Time Lord hanging around to protect humans from Daleks, Cybermen, Blinking Angels and the usual monsters the Doctor has battled since the beginning of “Doctor Who.” In the teaser trailer, released by BBC America Friday at New York Comic …
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“Doctor Who” spinoff TV series “Class” is almost in session. Creator and writer Patrick Ness revealed in a new video more details about what makes “Class,” which centers on teens attending Clara Oswald’s Coal Hill School, different from other “Doctor Who” spinoffs like “Torchwood” and “The Sarah Jane Adventures.” Related stories LGBT lead planned for ‘Doctor Who’ spinoff series ‘Class’ …
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Daleks, the metal-encased warriors and enemies of Time Lords in “Doctor Who,” have a habit of never really dying. So maybe it’s no surprise that a 50-year-old lost episode called “The Power of the Daleks” will live once again — in animated form. The original master tapes from the 1966 “Doctor Who” adventure were destroyed in an archive purge in …
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