New DOCTOR WHO Season 2 Trailer Features the Return of Kate Stewart & Melanie Bush

 
The Doctor promised that he would keep Belinda Chandra safe.

The BBC has released the full trailer for Doctor Who Season 2, better known as Series 15, featuring the return of Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor and introducing Verada Sethu as incoming companion Belinda Chandra.

As the one-minute, 45-second trailer opens, we hear the Doctor say in a voiceover, "There are forces beyond this universe. We think we are so clever...but we're like children. And when these vast creatures look down on us, our entire reality is in danger."

We see Belinda waking up in her bed to a blinding object in the sky outside her window. This is followed by a group of soldiers in sleek, black spacesuits ordered to put on their helmets.

Next, we glimpse Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) walking down a dimly-lit hallway, followed by the Fifteenth Doctor in a very British bowler hat and suit, looking up at a gigantic animal skeleton somehow moving around like it's alive.

Interestingly, the next thing we see is a terrified Melanie Bush (Bonnie Langford) standing in the middle of a street at night as lights in the houses begin to flicker ominously.

"So, what's your name?" asks Belinda as she prepares an IV in a different scene.

"Just the Doctor," replies the Doctor, sporting a thicker hairstyle.

Belinda shrugs and says, "All right then, I'm called the Nurse."

We cut to Belinda, now inside the TARDIS console room. She looks around the large, cavernous room, staring up at image of Mundy Flynn, whom Sethu played in last season's episode "Boom." 

The Doctor says in another voiceover, "There is something already connecting us."

"This is a time machine," remarks Belinda.

The Doctor snaps his fingers and points at her, quipping "Boom!"

In a separate scene, Belinda tells the Doctor, "I am not one of your adventures. You need to get me home." As the TARDIS lurches, the Doctor informs her, "This might be the long way 'round."

Shifting to an episode set in the 1950s, Belinda tells the Doctor, "You're Scooby-Doo!"

"Honey, I'm Velma," retorts the Doctor.

In a quick montage of clips showing Belinda traveling with the Doctor, the Doctor says, "We are meant to voyage out there and own it." We see the two spacediving in the spacesuits from earlier and the Doctor remarks, "Girl, you are beginning to enjoy this!"

Next, we cut to a large auditorium, where a host steps onto the stage and announces, "Welcome to the Interstellar Song Contest," an obvious take on the Eurovision Song Contest. Belinda and the Doctor confirm that they're staying to watch, but so is the mysterious Mrs. Flood, played once again by Anita Dobson. "I love a good show!" she says to herself.

The trailer takes an even darker tone, as the Doctor states in another voiceover, "It's all a game to them...but the games are deadly."

Shifting to another scene, we hear the Doctor's previous companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) tell an unnamed man, "It wants you scared" as some sinister creatures loom in the shadows. When asked why, Ruby explains, "Because it likes the taste" as the creature begins to reach for the man's shoulder.

Cutting to what appears to be the Daleks' home planet of Skaro, the Doctor says to Belinda, "I promised that I would keep you safe."

"But you can't," replies Belinda as we see the Doctor ejected into space without a protective suit."

"I can," reassures the Doctor. "I will. I do. I will take you home..."

As the trailer music builds to a crescendo, we see a giant spider-like creature.

"...That is a promise."

If you'd like to view the new trailer for Doctor Who Season 2, you can check it out below thanks to the official Doctor Who account on YouTube...

Doctor Who returns to Disney+ for Season 2 on April 12, 2025.

NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 335: "Destiny of the Daleks" Is Up!

 
"Should we go back inside?"
"What?! And never know where I've been 'til the end of time? I wouldn't sleep at night. Come on!"
-- The Second Romana and the Fourth Doctor, Doctor Who: "Destiny of the Daleks"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we're joined by special guest companion Holly Mac as we discuss "Destiny of the Daleks", the first serial from Doctor Who Season 17 in 1979, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, David Gooderson as Davros, and introducing Lalla Ward as the Second Romana!

In this episode, Jesse, Holly and I discuss things like Jesse using Doctor Who to help him get over the Luka Dončić trade, Jesse being warned about inconsistent regenerations, confusing "Destiny of the Daleks" with "Genesis of the Daleks", the Sarah Jane Smith audio series, Romana's regeneration establishing that a Time Lord can regenerate into the form of someone they previously met, "Destiny of the Daleks" being Daleks creator Terry Nation's last script because Douglas Adams rewrote 98% of the script, Michael Wisher being unavailable to reprise Davros, Tim Barlow being deaf at the time of filming, why K9 was written out of the serial with electronic laryngitis, the Fourth Doctor reading Oolon Colluphid's book The Origins of the Universe from Douglas Adams' classic novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Holly and me being overtaken by our respective Big Finish collections, Jesse having multiple questions about Romana's regeneration, Tom Baker and Lalla Ward getting married for a while, Romana not being a true equal of the Doctor like River Song, wanting to see the Movellans return again, the Daleks' plan to get Davros to help them beat the Movellans, the Daleks not accounting for the Fourth Doctor's unpredictability, our favorite quotes of the story,  new listener feedback from Dave Proctor and Sandi from Oregon, and more!

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And just in time for the new era of Doctor Who, we now have a BRAND NEW Next Stop Everywhere t-shirt, which you can find on TeePublic RIGHT HERE!  This spiffy shirt looks great when you're listening to your favorite Doctor Who podcast and travelling through time and space! Or you could order all sorts of cool Next Stop Everywhere merch there as well!

Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "The Bells of Saint John", the sixth episode from Doctor Who Series 7 in 2013, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, and the return of Richard E. Grant as the Great Intelligence!

DRUNK CINEMA 074: "The Silence of the Lambs" Is Up!

 
"Do you think that Jack Crawford wants you sexually? True, he is much older but do you think he visualizes scenarios, exchanges...fucking you?"
"That doesn't interest me, Doctor, and frankly, it's...it's the sort of thing that Miggs would say."
"Not anymore."
-- Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, The Silence of the Lambs

Hello again, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, we watch The Silence of the Lambs, the 1991 psychological horror thriller directed by Jonathan Demme, featuring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford, and Ted Levine as Jame Gumb!

This time, Xan and I discuss things like Xan hooking us up with DEVO tickets, running down my Top 5 All-Time Favorite Movies, The Silence of the Lambs being released on Valentine's Day, Caged Heat being the Citizen Kane of women's prison movies, Silence being the second book in the novel series by Thomas Harris, Xan and I previously discussing this movie on Gold Standard: The Oscars Podcast, Scott Glenn creeping Xan out, Chris Isaak as Special Agent Chet Desmond in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Xan campaigning for The Substance at this year's Oscars, Dr. Lecter being Anthony Hopkins' definitive role, Demme's love of shots where the character is looking right at the camera, Clarice looking at her car and realizing that Lecter was absolutely dead-on in his analysis of her, Clarice looking for father figures, Buffalo Bill not being transgender, Xan crushing on Mark Knopfler, the film's accurate depiction of rural southwest Ohio, the scene where Lecter's eyes bore into your very soul, "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazzarus, that awkward moment when Jack Crawford and the FBI storm the wrong house, new Drunk Mail from Aaron Case, finally getting For Your Eyes Only back on the schedule, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks as Xan and I watch For Your Eyes Only, the 1981 James Bond series espionage film directed by John Glen, featuring Roger Moore as James Bond, 

Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock, Chaim Topol as Milos Columbo, and Julian Glover as Aristotle Kristatos!

NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 334: "The Sontaran Stratagem" Is Up!

 
"And your name?"
"General Staal...of the Tenth Sontaran Fleet. Staal the Undefeated!"
"Aw, that's not a very good nickname. What if you do get defeated? Staal the Not-quite-so-undefeated-anymore-but-never-mind?"
-- The Tenth Doctor and General Staal, Doctor Who: "The Sontaran Stratagem"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we discuss "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky", the fourth and fifth episodes from Doctor Who Series Four in 2008, featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, along with the return of the Sontarans and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like my writing a Titans story for DC Comics in their new anthology DC's Lex and the City #1, the four writers announced for Doctor Who Season 2, the explanation for where the Brigadier was during this story, Christopher Ryan as Mike Thecoolperson on The Young Ones, the first appearance of Dan Starkey as a Sontaran, the Sontarans returning after 28 years, writer Helen Raynor wanting to avoid a "handbags at dawn" scenario that rehashed Rose Tyler's meeting with Sarah Jane Smith in "School Reunion", the undramatic explosion of a UNIT jeep, Donna's mispronunciation of "Sontaran" being a reference to "The Time Warrior", Martha reunion with the Tenth Doctor, the Doctor's consistently inconsistent attitude toward guns, the "Are you my mummy?" gag that references "The Empty Child", the Doctor's surprise that Donna and Martha get along with one another, Sylvia still not knowing that Donna is traveling in the TARDIS, Sylvia having a common sense solution to save Wilf's life while the Doctor didn't, UNIT's Colonel Mace and Captain Price sharing a kiss, not wanting to recast the Brigadier for live-action, Luke Rattigan being inevitably betrayed by the Sontarans, wondering why Luke sacrificed his life to save the Doctor's, Freema Agyeman getting to play an evil clone of Martha Jones, wondering how the Doctor knew igniting the upper atmosphere would work instead of setting the Earth on fire, our favorite quotes of the story, new listener feedback from Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, my upcoming story for DC Comics' anthology, Jesse having to watch another Dalek story, and more!

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And just in time for the new era of Doctor Who, we now have a BRAND NEW Next Stop Everywhere t-shirt, which you can find on TeePublic RIGHT HERE!  This spiffy shirt looks great when you're listening to your favorite Doctor Who podcast and travelling through time and space! Or you could order all sorts of cool Next Stop Everywhere merch there as well!

Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "Destiny of the Daleks", the first serial from Doctor Who Season 17 in 1979, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, David Gooderson as Davros, and introducing Lalla Ward as the Second Romana!

First THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Trailer Teases Galactus

Welcome to the Baxter Building.

Marvel Studios has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film The Fantastic Four: First Steps, based on the Marvel Comics superteam created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

In the film, on a 1960s-inspired retro-futuristic Earth, the Fantastic Four must protect their home from being devoured by the cosmic being Galactus and his enigmatic herald, the Silver Surfer.

The 90-second teaser trailer opens with Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) and Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) introducing someone to their home in the Baxter Building. "We make a point to do family dinner every week, Sunday at seven, on the dot, no matter what. We're all here."

We then see an exterior shot of the retro-futuristic Baxter Building, with the team's "4" logo at the top. Inside, The Thing/Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) asks the team's robot helper H.E.R.B.I.E. about the status of spaghetti sauce that's being prepared in the kitchen. After taste testing the sauce, the Thing tells H.E.R.B.I.E., "I wanna add a couple cloves of garlic, not because it's not delicious. I just wanna add a little bit of zip, okay?"

As a countdown begins, we flash back to the team's mission to space where they received the powers, with Reed working out calculations on a blackboard, the team posing for pictures in their spacesuits, and the actual rocket launch.

In bed, Reed says to Sue, "Before we went up the first time, you couldn't turn invisible, Ben wasn't a rock, and Johnny never caught fire."

We see the Thing sadly looking at a television in a store window, watching himself before his physical transformation into an orange rock monster. "Best pilot in the world right here," Reed says to the camera. "Yeah," Ben replies to the camera, "best-looking he means."

Next, we glimpse the Human Torch/Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) catching fire and blazing off into the night sky. 

Back to the conversation between Reed and Sue, Sue tells him, "Ben has always been a rock, Johnny is...Johnny, and I'm right here." As we glimpse Johnny flying up into the upper atmosphere until his flame cuts out from lack of oxygen, Sue continues, "Whatever life throws at us, we'll face it together...as a family."

Various fleeting images follow, including the Four watching something explode in the night sky over Manhattan from their balcony, a sleek FantastiCar automobile racing through the streets, John Malkovich stepping into view with long hair and a beard, the back of Galactus' head as he looks down at the Statue of Liberty, and the costumed Fantastic Four inside what appears to be a TV studio set.

If you'd like to watch the teaser trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube...

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 25, 2025.

DRUNK CINEMA 073: "Blue Velvet" Is Up!

 
"It's a strange world, isn't it?"
-- Jeffrey Beaumont, Blue Velvet

Hello again, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, we pay tribute to legendary director David Lynch by watching Blue Velvet, the 1986 neo-noir mystery thriller directed by Lynch, featuring Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont, Laura Dern as Sandy Williams, Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens, and Dennis Hooper as Frank Booth!

This time, Xan and I discuss things like ugly crying in the Drunk Cinema Theater, admiring our mutual friend Jesse Jackson for keeping focused, Xan and I being friends and sort-of family because of David Lynch, my being thankful that Xan agreed to do Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast with me, both of us not wanting to hook my Dad up with Xan's mom, Blue Velvet being the prototype of Twin Peaks, my identifying with Lynch's love of small towns, David Lynch exploring the dark underbelly of Americana, a special appearance by my cat Desire, Lynch being diagnosed with emphysema, David Lynch as Gus the bartender on The Cleveland Show, the various celebrity tributes after Lynch's passing, why '80s high schoolers in Blue Velvet dress like they're in the 1950s, the Yellow Man being a Century 21 realtor, Jeffrey watching Dorothy undress while hiding in her closet, Frank's various psychological issues, Roy Orbison not wanting "In Dreams" to be used in Blue Velvet, Lynch's love of speeding highway POV shots, Julee Cruise's "Mysteries of Love", Sandy's justifiable slap to Jeffrey's face, new Drunk Mail from Christine Peruski, my upcoming story for DC Comics, our next unconventional Valentine's Day movie, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks as Xan and I watch The Silence of the Lambs, the 1991 psychological horror thriller directed by Jonathan Demme, featuring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford, and Ted Levine as Jame Gumb!

NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 333: "Frontier in Space" Is Up!

 
"We are about to enter hyperdrive and return to our base. Do not fail the Daleks!"
"Right, we'll see who rules the galaxy when this is over. 'Do not fail the Daleks', indeed. You stupid tin boxes."
-- Dalek Voice and the First Master, Doctor Who: "Frontier in Space"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we discuss "Frontier in Space", the third serial from Doctor Who Season 10 in 1973, featuring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, Katy Manning as Jo Grant, and the final appearance of Roger Delgado as the First Master!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like my Ohio State Buckeyes laying the beatdown on Jesse's Texas Longhorns in the College Football Playoffs, "Frontier in Space" not kicking in until the Master showed up, the story ending on a cliffhanger for "Planet of the Daleks", the tragic death of Roger Delgado, original plans for the Master to have a final encounter in the scrapped serial "The Final Game", the original plans for the Cybermen to appear in "Frontier in Space" instead of the Ogrons, the original plans for "Frontier in Space" and "Planet of the Daleks" to be one 12-part serial, director Paul Bernard omitting the giant Ogron-eating monster, the Draconians being Jon Pertwee's favorite Doctor Who monster, the Ogron stuntmen being asked to move homeless people and drunks so filming could proceed, Jesse liking the Third Doctor and Jo's chemistry, the Third Doctor overloading the mind probe, the Master reading H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Jo resisting the Master's hypnotism by reciting nursery rhymes, the Doctor not being at all concerned that he's in prison, the Third Doctor as a moral crusader, the Doctor realizing that he needed to contact the Time Lords, the female President of Earth, General Williams being more misguided than evil, wondering why the Master would use the dimwitted Ogrons as henchmen, the Master planning to betray the Daleks once they take control of Earth, our favorite quotes of the story, new listener feedback from Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, my upcoming story for DC Comics' anthology DC's Lex and the City #1, our upcoming schedule the first third of 2025, trying to persuade DJ Nik and Xan Sprouse to join us for upcoming episodes, and more!

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And just in time for the new era of Doctor Who, we now have a BRAND NEW Next Stop Everywhere t-shirt, which you can find on TeePublic RIGHT HERE!  This spiffy shirt looks great when you're listening to your favorite Doctor Who podcast and travelling through time and space! Or you could order all sorts of cool Next Stop Everywhere merch there as well!

Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky", the fourth and fifth episodes from Doctor Who Series Four in 2008, featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, along with the return of the Sontarans and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones!