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On this season of 'Doctor Who', fans will have to say goodbye to the show's 13th Doctor in Peter Capaldi, as the actor bows out following a brief run as the time-travelling Time Lord. Of course, this means that the BBC are looking for a new actor to take the place of the Doctor, with many fans encouraging the network to bring a female Doctor on board for the first time, amongst various other calls for a plethora of different men to replace Capaldi.

Hayley Atwell doesn't want to play Doctor Who

One of those actors that many fans have been hoping to see is Hayley Atwell. Formerly a part of Marvel television series 'Agent Carter' following her time in the role on the big screen in 'Captain America: The First Avenger', she then moved on to ABC drama 'Conviction'. Unfortunately, that show faced the axe after a single season, and with 'Agent Carter' also put on the back burner, Atwell could be hoping to find herself a new TV role. The Doctor however doesn't seem to be one for her...

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James D'Arcy has joined the cast of Marvel's new ABC drama series Agent Carter and will star opposite Hayley Atwell in the highly anticipated show. D'Arcy will play Howard Stark's Butler - an ally to Agent Carter.

James D'Arcy has joined the cast of Agent Carter

According to Variety, Enver Gjokaj and Chad Michael Murray are also on-board for the series.

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The musicals will have it at this year's Oliver Awards, the annual ceremony to honour the year's best theatre productions, which will take place on the 13th April. Last year, Matilda The Musical was the evening's grand victor and the theme of Roald Dahl adoration will be continued this year with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its Willy Wonka, AKA Douglas Hodge, standing out as early favourites.

'The Book Of Mormon' Is One Of The Nomination-Leading Productions At The Oliviers 2014.

The childrens musical, along with the 1981 comedy musical Merrily We Roll Along, leads the nominations this year with seven nods each. Next, The Book of Mormon, Once and The Scottsboro Boys are up for six prizes each and will battle it out in the fiercely-fought Best New Musical category.

Continue reading: 2014 Olivier Awards Nominees: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Merrily We Roll Along, The Book Of Mormon Set To Dominate

The first clip has been released from the upcoming Jimi Hendrix biopic, All Is By My Side, in which Outkast's Andre 3000 plays the legendary guitarist. Having premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and now gearing up to screen at the nearing South By Southwest, the film is making fans wait until August for a general release.

Andre 3000 & Hayley Atwell As Hendrix & Kathy Etchingham.

Andre 3000, AKA Andre Benjamin, will play the guitarist before he became super famous in the year leading up to his landmark performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. The film follows Hendrix on his journey from working as a backing musician in New York City to relocating to London. Whilst there he meets model/muse Linda Keith (played by Imogen Poots) who fiercely encourages him to start playing original material.

Continue reading: First Jimi Hendrix Biopic Clip Released, See Andre 3000 In His New Role [Video]

Charlie Brooker's Channel 4 anthology series Black Mirror returned this week, with an altogether more dramatic and engaging season opener. Though praised for its uniqueness, the first installment of the show was dubbed unwatchable by some TV critics, with plot lines exploring the Prime Minister being forced into sexual intercourse with a pig and a talent show descending into pornography. Brooker's show was certainly hard hitting, though he seems to have toned things down for season two, sacrificing some of the surrealism for a more narrative driven approach.

Last night's episode - Be Right Back - was set in a distorted reality future, following young couple Ash (Domhall Gleeson) and Martha (Hayley Atwell). When Ash is killed in a road accident, his girlfriend signs up for a computer program that trawls the internet for Ash's public information and creates a profile representing him, which replies realistically to her messages. The Guardian gave the show a positive review, "This Black Mirror feels less like the usual Brookerian nightmarish video game dystopia, and more like 2019. It's also less satirical and acerbic than some of his previous television; not just a technology-obsessed sarcastic underwhelmist's bleak view of the future," wrote critic Sam Wollaston. The Independent's Neela Debnath picked up on Brooker's ability to intrigue the Twitter generation, "Be Right Back works so well because it has captured the social media zeitgeist. It was a lovely and touching story."

Brooker - a former PC Zone writer - has become a familiar figure on British television in recent years. He won early acclaim for his Screenwipe series, a comedic yet intelligent look at current shows and how television is produced. He went on to create the Newswipe spin-off series as well as hosting 10 O'Clock Live and writing for The Guardian. His five-part horror drama Dead Set was nominated for the 2009 Best Drama Serial at the BAFTAs. 

Continue reading: Black Mirror: How Britain (And Hollywood) Fell In Love With Charlie Brooker

Instead of going out tonight, and spending money, seeing people you don't actually like talking to, grab a full-fat cheesecake, and settle down in front of Sundance, because tense World War II drama Restless is on, and you don't want to miss it.

In what The LA Times call "a very British Story" The Sundance Channel miniseries tells the tale of a woman who might be in danger because of her secret past as a World War II spy. They, The LA Times go on to call it, "a dimly lighted labyrinth of clipped sentences, meaningful glances and sudden bursts of passion rather than rock 'em, sock 'em car chases and gunplay. The work Eva and her compatriots are doing consists mostly of introducing false intelligence into the foreign press in the hopes of confusing the Germans and, later, persuading the United States to come to the aid of the Allied forces. (So there are no Nikita-like acrobatics, which would have only split Eva's skirt anyway.)

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