The BBC has binned its planned Doctor Who Christmas special and put the show 'out to tender'. This is a face-saving TV industry term for saying you've kicked an ailing show into the longest of grass, but don't want to enrage its most rabid fans. Good luck with that, chaps. Essentially it translates as 'Somebody please, please take this nightmare off our hands'. It’s like one of those Facebook ads you see for a dog that needs rehousing because it barks all night, gnaws on toddlers, and has no control of its bowels, but is a total sweetie, honestly. If by some bizarre quirk of circumstance I found myself the unwilling owner of the tender, I'd put Doctor Who on ice for at least a decade. Much has been written in the past few days about what happened to poor old Doctor Who, how the thing was revived in glory and then retoxified in shame. As a former writer on Doctor Who, I was actually in the room when some of the mistakes were made. I offer the following suggestions – in a reflective but constructive spirit – for anybody barmy enough to take the thing on. (And yes, I broke many of these 'rules' myself, but I know better now.) ✍️ Gareth Roberts Article | spectator.com/article/twenty…

First look at ‘HEADS’, a new stop-motion animated film from Mackinnon & Saunders, the studio behind ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. The film follows a dystopian world where severed human heads can live independent from their bodies & where the poor can sell their heads.

If it was so important for you, how come you didn't vote in favour of it in March? Only John McDonnell out of your 400 MPs voted in favour. You are a hypocrite, just like all the rest.

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Peter Serafinowicz has been cast as Peeves the Poltergeist in the ‘HARRY POTTER’ TV series. (Source: variety.com/2026/tv/global/h…)

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Japan is set to roll out nationwide LGBTQIA education programs in schools, universities, and workplaces. The goal is for more people in Japan to understand sexual orientation and gender identity outside of cisgender, heterosexual norms.