Richard Edwards

5 days ago | space.com | Richard Edwards

If you'd seen the "Doctor Who" season 2 trailers, you already knew that cartoon character Mr Ring-a-Ding would climb out of a cinema screen like some kind of malevolent Roger Rabbit. As well as being a great visual, it's a handy metaphor for the show's newfound disregard for the so-called fourth wall — in the modern Whoniverse, fictional characters acknowledging their audience is becoming increasingly standard.

1 week ago | space.com | Richard Edwards

Apple TV+ adds to its A-list collection of sci-fi shows with "Murderbot", an adaptation of Martha Wells' award-winning "The Murderbot Diaries" book series. Despite the name, however, this isn't a thinly veiled "Terminator" rip-off. Instead, the upcoming comedy drama focuses on the eponymous Murderbot (played by "Succession"'s Alexander Skarsgård), a SecUnit (security android) who remains indifferent to its human creators after developing self-awareness.

1 week ago | space.com | Richard Edwards

These days it's not always enough for Doctor Who companions to be ordinary people he meets on his travels. From Amy Pond and Clara Oswald through to the most recent TARDIS resident, Ruby Sunday, there's a trend for characters with backstories as strange and complex as the alien worlds the Doctor explores. New companion Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) is no exception.

1 week ago | space.com | Richard Edwards

If you don't live in the UK, you may be surprised how big a part of the culture "Doctor Who" is. It's much more than some sci-fi show about "a mad man [or woman] in a box", but rather a sexagenarian cultural icon so embedded in the British national consciousness that even people who'd never dream of tuning into such far-fetched nonsense have a rough idea what it's about. Describe a room as "TARDIS-like" and pretty much any Brit would understand that it's deceptively roomy.

3 weeks ago | space.com | Richard Edwards

In 2000, a man named Mark Sinclair was on the verge of hitting the big time. He'd already voiced the Iron Giant, and been a supporting player in "Saving Private Ryan" and financial drama "Boiler Room". But it was playing an unashamed antihero in sci-fi actioner "Pitch Black" — which turned 25 a little while ago* — that would make the world take notice of the actor better known as Vin Diesel.