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Doctor Who Convention Gallifrey One Sells Out, as 3,200 Fans Pack the L.A. Airport Marriott

See also: *Doctor Who Fans Refurbish TARDIS Console From 1996 Movie for Gallifrey One Convention (From Gallifrey One 2012) Last weekend, Gallifrey One, Los Angeles' Doctor Who convention, sold out its 24th annual show. That's 3,200 convention memberships scored before the day of the event. Back in ... More >>

Jamie Oliver to Produce Chef Race: U.K. vs. U.S TV Show

Well, Jamie Oliver is back filming in L.A., and this time he's not hanging around school cafeterias. Instead, he's serving as the executive producer on a new show on BBC America called Chef Race: U.K. vs. U.S., which premieres with two back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The show will pit tw ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Is Back with Meals in Minutes. Do We Like Him Again?

We've pissed off Jamie Oliver again. But this time, it not what we're allowing our children to be served in the school cafeteria, as was the case on Food Revolution. It's what we're serving them at home. It's what we're cooking. It's the fact that clearly we can't be trusted to navigate a market or ... More >>

No Kitchen Required Around the World in 80 Plates: Does the food still matter?

It takes a special kind of chef to sign up for a competition show. When it comes to cooking, it's much easier, really, to stay in your own kitchen, keep your nose to the saucepan and crank out the best food you know how without the aggravation of mystery ingredients and a ticking clock. But that's ... More >>

Free Food Truck Fest Tonight: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor

Tonight starting at 5:30 p.m., BBC America will host a free food truck fest at the Santa Monica Food Truck Lot at Main and Ocean to promote the premiere of No Kitchen Required. The new reality competition show is a sort of Top Chef-meets-Survivor battle in which a trio of chefs "are dropped off in ... More >>

Doctor Who Fans Refurbish TARDIS Console From 1996 Movie for Gallifrey One Convention

Shannon CottrellPaul J. Salamoff and his TARDIS Console​For more photos see our slideshow, Doctor Who Convention @ The Marriott Los Angeles Airport Paul J. Salamoff is a former special effects artist from Burbank who now works as a writer and producer. He's also the owner of the TARDIS consol ... More >>

The Doctor Will See You Now

He Was a Nerd Before You Were a Nerd

David Mitchell's Soapbox: Towering Hamburgers Woo Food

Hey, fans of BBC America. You know David Mitchell, the comedian, actor and master of the nervous stammer who stars in the British-made sketch series That Mitchell and Webb Look and the sit-com Peep Show? The guy who also writes regular newspaper columns in The Guardian and The Observer and is the f ... More >>

The Doctor is IN (OMFG!): Nerdist Podcast Live @ Comic-Con 2011

Dianne GarciaKaren Gillan and Matt Smith​See more photos in "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Preview Night," "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day One," "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day Two." You will all have to forgive me for breaking the fourth wall of blogger "voice" for this one. The third person just wo ... More >>

Outnumbered and Friday Night Dinner on BBC America: Are British Sitcoms Any Different From Ours?

Photo courtesy of BBC AmericaCast of Outnumbered​In a world obsessed with Modern Family, can we open our arms to two more family-centric comedies, especially when they're from across the pond? We'll see later this summer when two new sitcoms, Outnumbered and Friday Night Dinner premiere on BBC ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con Announces Sunday July 24 Schedule: Matt Smith and Karen Gillan to Appear on Dr. Who Panel

Shannon CottrellLast year, convention goers dressed as the Doctor and Amy. This year, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan will appear at SDCC.​More in "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Thursday July 21 Schedule: Bruce Campbell, Yoshiki, Stan Lee, Mike Judge and More.", "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Frid ... More >>

Michael Winterbottom's The Trip: Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Play With Their Food

For the past couple of years, a trend in British television has been the "sim com" series, or "simulated" situation comedy inspired by Curb Your Enthusiasm, which are various parts scripted and improvised, and partly fictional and based on real life. Director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party Pe ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Saturday Schedule: Futurama, Peter Bagge and Zombies

Check out our picks from Comic-Con's Thursday and Friday schedules. Saturday marks the 36th annual Comic-Con Masquerade, a massive costume contest where contestants will compete in categories like "Most Humorous," "Best Original Design" and "Best Re-creation." If there's anything we learned from ... More >>

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Heavy Meddled: Gavin & Stacey

New British TV comedy is all about the friends and family who get in the way of true love

The Whitest Kids U'Know, Fighting to Offend

Conform or disappear

Film Reviews: Delirious, Death at a Funeral, 7 Dias

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

The diplomat as terror-solving sleuth in BBC’s The State Within

Sit Up and Watch

The best TV of 2006

This Roadie's Life

Steve Coogan, comedy god, rocks on in Saxondale

Working-Class Hero

Jimmy McGovern’s unvarnished TV

You Cum Like a Girl

The feds say a comic’s phrase is too vulgar to trademark, but “cum-furt” is A-OK

That Seventies Cop

Life on Mars, sideburns required

TiVo Top 10

The year in good TV

London Calling

Dry and On the Rocks

New British comedy imports

Scorn and Her Fury

The crime of Mrs. Jean Harris

The Lives of Cops

BBC's Conviction and the new DVDs of Hill Street Blues take their dramas beyond crime-solving

TiVo Top 10

The year in good TV

Into the Boosh

Sex and Gambling on the Polite Screen

BBC America and Lifetime get ambitious and tackle sin

Chefs Under Fire

Is Hell’s Kitchen’s Gordon Ramsay merely the Simon Cowell of haute cuisine?

Women We Love

The smart, odd and sexy women of Green Wing, Grey’s Anatomy and The L Word

Where Mob Meets Mod

Noir fiction writer Jake Arnott on gangsters, mummies and his Guy Ritchie problem

The Shock of Recognition

Britain’s wicked comedy oddballs, from the Beyond the Fringe crowd to thoroughly absurd Catherine Tate

TV 2004

From the Minds of Babes

Oxygen imports comedian Julia Davis’ disturbingly funny Nighty Night

Love and Politics Actually

Murder, sex and crusading journalists in the BBC’s State of Play

Box Populi

TV’s top stories

Mind the Bollocks

In Hollywood studios and London restaurants, balls are bigger than ever

You Vill Vatch!

Or, maybe you won’t: Hitler: The Rise of Evil

The Television War

About Brent

Pushing paper at The Office, a new British comedy

Must-Feel TV

From the BBC, upper-class meddling with commoners’ wardrobes tempered with frank talk about bums and tits

As the World Turns

Not your regular news

Hollywood Moment: Monstrous, Magnificent Spall

From Requiem to Rave...

...and back again, in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People

DISH and Dat

Vivendi’s Jean-Marie Messier, PBS’s Charlie Rose, MSNBC’s Alan Keyes and the Beeb’s (fictional) Roy Mallard

Love That Chris

The rock & roll sitcom