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Digital Spy presents Doctor Who Week - seven days of special features celebrating the return of the world's favourite sci-fi series, and the arrival of a brand new Doctor on August 23.

When Peter Capaldi steps out of the Tardis this weekend for his Doctor Who debut, it'll be the first time many will see the wiry Scottish actor in action. Playing The Doctor will raise Capaldi's profile into the stratosphere, but he's been a supporting staple on the small and big screen since the early '80s.

Digital Spy casts its eyes over five film highlights from the 12th Doctor.

Local Hero (1983)

Capaldi's second acting job was in Bill Forsyth's brilliantly moving Local Hero, a comedy-drama about an American oil company worker who's dispatched to Scotland with a view to buying up land surrounding a small community. His first point of contact is Capaldi's Danny Oldsen, a fresh-faced bumbler who,...

Digital Spy presents Doctor Who Week - seven days of special features celebrating the return of the world's favourite sci-fi series, and the arrival of a brand new Doctor on August 23.

When Peter Capaldi steps out of the Tardis this weekend for his Doctor Who debut, it'll be the first time many will see the wiry Scottish actor in action. Playing The Doctor will raise Capaldi's profile into the stratosphere, but he's been a supporting staple on the small and big screen since the early '80s.

Digital Spy casts its eyes over five film highlights from the 12th Doctor.

Local Hero (1983)

Capaldi's second acting job was in Bill Forsyth's brilliantly moving Local Hero, a comedy-drama about an American oil company worker who's dispatched to Scotland with a view to buying up land surrounding a small community. His first point of contact is Capaldi's Danny Oldsen, a fresh-faced bumbler who,...

Peter Capaldi. He’ll obviously be very different from the three preceding rebooted Doctor Who Doctors, as we could have surmised from showrunner Steven Moffat‘s three words to describe the next Doctor: “Not. Matt. Smith.”

He played the despised Frobisher from Torchwood: Children of Earth, the one who had to make all the unfortunate decisions, other than Jack of course. He also played the main character in “The Fires of Pompeii” episode with the 10th Doctor and Donna. His facility with playing conflicted characters will serve him well in this new gig, if indeed they decide to take that route again.

One of my favorite bits of trivia is that he played the W.H.O. Doctor, I kid you not, in World War Z. That’s World Health Organization, but come on, that’s kinda cool.

Here’s his pic:

And here’s the press release, via the...

Okay, so maybe claiming that Kate Hudson has an anti-charm is a bit unfair. But, generally, if you hear that a movie is going to star Ewan McGregor, even if it sounds a little stupid, your general reaction is going to be, “well, at least Ewan McGregor is in it.” And when you hear that a movie is going to star Kate Hudson, even if it looks promising, your general reaction is going to be, “well, Kate Hudson picked the script, so clearly it’s got to be awful.” What then to expect from this new romantic comedy, Born to Be King, now that McGregor is attached to star and Hudson is negotiating to be his co-star? Seeing as the film was written and is to be directed by Peter Capaldi, an actor-turned-director who hasn’t had much experience making features (he made Strictly Sinatra is 2001), it’s hard to make a prediction on which actor’s...

You.d think that people would know to avoid combing the words .Kate Hudson. with .romantic comedy,. but Hollywood never seems to learn from its own mistakes. And somehow they.ve gotten Ewan McGregor involved in it too. Variety has gotten word that McGregor is signed on and Hudson is in talks to star in Born to Be King, a new romantic comedy that is set to be produced by Indomina Releasing. Peter Capaldi, who is best known for playing the foul-mouthed, hot tempered Scottish government official Malcolm Tucker in Armando Iannucci.s In The Loop, will be both writing and directing the feature, making it his first time helming a feature since 2001.s Strictly Sinatra with Ian Hart and Kelly Macdonald. The story is set in the world of filmmaking and centers on an extra (played by McGregor) who .has an uncanny resemblance to a movie actor.. Hudson will...

Ewan McGregor is set to headline Indomina Releasing's contemporary "The Prince and the Pauper" tale, Born to Be King , Variety reports. Kate Hudson is also said to be eyeing the project as the female lead. Written and directed by Peter Capaldi ( Strictly Sinatra ), Born to Be King follows an on-set battle between male and female movie stars and a situation that gets all the more complicated when an extra arrives bearing a shocking resemblance to the leading man. McGregor was recently seen in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire and Lasse Hallström's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen . He'll next appear on the big screen in Bryan Singer's just-retitled Jack the Giant Slayer . Hudson, meanwhile, appeared in Something Borrowed and Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist ....

My friend Stephen Blackman, who has died after a stroke aged 55, was the director of photography on some of the most memorable and successful TV commercials of recent years, including John West's "bear fight" advert and Virgin Atlantic's "love at first flight".

His commercials won many awards, and Stephen was in great demand all over the world, especially for shoots for car manufacturers such as Audi, BMW and Chevrolet. In an industry not always known for its kindness of heart, Stephen remained unfailingly courteous. He was always willing to give advice and share professional secrets, and he possessed a calmness under pressure that endeared him to his crews.

Stephen tackled everything with conviction and a deep confidence in his own expertise. He was the cinematographer on the 1993 adaptation of Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden, as well as the films Strictly Sinatra and Trigger Happy (both 2001).

He was born in Oxford to Alan,...