Doctor Who

Daisy May Cooper and Lenny Rush in first-look images for series two of Am I Being Unreasonable?

Selin Hizli and Daisy May Cooper stand outdoors at night, looking surprised and slightly horrified at something off-camera

Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Tom Davis (Wonka), Denise Black (Queer as Folk), Jamali Maddix (Never Mind the Buzzcocks) and rapper Kojey Radical will all be making appearances. They’ll be joined by Charlie Cooper, in his first onscreen reunion with This Country co-star Daisy May Cooper.

Doctor Who and Wilderness creators teach RTS Wales screenwriting

Jenna Coleman overlooks the Grand Canyon as her character in Wilderness

You don’t have to get a tattoo honouring your favourite production company if you want to get into TV… but it might help.

An audience member at RTS Cymru Wales’s event “How to write a TV drama” revealed that he wrote his master’s dissertation on the Bad Wolf theme in Doctor Who. It was his “absolute dream” to work for the production company, also called Bad Wolf, that makes the show, he declared. And to prove it, he said he had a tattoo on his left arm showing the Tardis graffitied with “Bad Wolf”.

Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw to lead new Doctor Who spin-off

Headshots of Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient

Russell Tovey (Being Human) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki) will star in the five-part series, created by Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies. Davies co-wrote the show with Peter McTighe, who has also written for the long running sci-fi staple.

Jemma Redgrave (Grantchester) will reprise her Doctor Who role as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, commander-in-chief of military outfit UNIT, while Alexander Devrient (Ted Lasso) will return as Colonel Ibrahim.

Working Lives: Robert Strange, creature actor for Doctor Who and Star Wars

Three green Wrarth Warriors stand in the street, pointing guns at something off-camera

What is a creature actor?

A creature actor plays roles that are usually very physical, with a fantastical, non-human form. At one extreme, I am unrecognisable in costume and prosthetics, being beastly and monstrous.

But Emma Stone’s Oscar-winning performance in Poor Things is also a kind of creature performance; it’s a take on the Frankenstein character, embodying something that is not the regular human experience.

What attributes does a creature actor need?

First look images revealed of Lennie James, Sharon D. Clarke and Ariyon Bakare in Mr Loverman

Lennie James walks down the steps of a house in a white and grey checkered suit

The eight-part series adapts Bernardine Evaristo’s 2013 novel of the same name, following Barrington ‘Barry’ Jedidiah Walker. Barry has been married to Carmel for 50 years, who has begun to worry that there are other women on the side.

She’s right, in a way: he is having an affair, but not with a woman. Barry’s lover is his best friend of several years, Morris De La Roux. As they reach the end of their lives, Barry reckons with big decisions which could call his entire family’s future into question.