Showing posts with label BBC America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC America. Show all posts

Sunday, August 04, 2013

New Doctor Who Star To Be Revealed Today!


There have been 11 white male actors to play the lead character on the long-running British television series Doctor Who. Matt Smith announced this summer he would be leaving the show, and we will know who the 12th Doctor Who today will be by the end of a live television show on BBC America at 7pm British time (2pm EDT).


The show has been running for more tan 50 years and has improved dramatically in recent years. It no longer has cheesy visual effects and it still has one of the best television theme songs of all time. A number of Britain's greatest acting talents (Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Diana Rigg, Sophie Okonedo, John Hurt, Richard E. Grant, Bill Nighy) have guest starred on the latest version of the show, which is run by an openly gay man, Steven Moffatt. (CORRECTION: Russell T. Davies, the showrunner before Moffat too over Doctor Who, is openly gay; Moffat is not!)

The show has become notably more diverse, with people of color playing larger roles. It will be very interesting if the producers take the next logical step and cast a non-white actor in the role. Do you think it will happen?

Friday, November 11, 2011

Celebrity Friday: Theo James


Every once in a while I am channel surfing and come across the show Bedlam on BBC America. I always stay and watch it for awhile, hoping for glimpses of stunningly gorgeous British actor Theo James who plays Jed. According to his Wikipedia page, Theo James was born Theo Taptiklis in December 16, 1984, which makes him 26 years old.

He apparently has decent role in the next Underworld movie and was recently named a "Star of Tomorrow." Remember where you saw him first!

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