Doctor Who’s Satan Pit Adds Encore Screenings — plus Carrie and More

Evening News · Thursday 22 October 2026

Demand for Doctor Who on the big screen is so strong that The Satan Pit Extended Cut has added a second night in cinemas. This evening’s edition also has the original Class theme finally being released, good news for the Torchwood shrine, Star Trek’s uncertain future, the eye-watering cost of Star Wars: Starfighter, a second season for Mike Flanagan’s Carrie and more.

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Update: Doctor Who’s The Satan Pit Extended Cut adds encore cinema screenings

• New development: Encore screenings have been added for Saturday 28 November in all six countries, and Cineworld will run 4DX screenings, Radio Times reported on Thursday 22 October
• The main event: Monday 23 November, Doctor Who Day, in more than 1,000 cinemas across the UK, Ireland, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
• What it is: The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit from 2006, edited into one feature-length film with restored deleted scenes, extended footage and an interview with director James Strong
• UK availability: In UK cinemas on Monday 23 November, with encores on Saturday 28 November. Cineworld has 4DX screenings on both dates at all 34 of its UK cinemas. Tickets went on sale at 1pm today

When we first reported on the cinema release, Monday 23 November was the only date announced. The new screenings give fans who missed out on tickets another chance to see David Tennant’s Doctor and Billie Piper’s Rose take on the Ood and the Beast on Sanctuary Base 6, a remote outpost on a planet in an impossible orbit around a black hole.

The two episodes first aired on BBC One on 3 and 10 June 2006, and they are still among the best-loved stories from Tennant’s first series. A 4DX screening of a story with this much rumbling and shaking could be quite a ride.

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Class turns 10 with its unheard original theme, and the Torchwood shrine is saved

• New development: Radio Times premiered the original, unused opening theme for the Doctor Who spin-off Class on Thursday 22 October. Separately, Gareth David-Lloyd has confirmed that the Torchwood fan shrine from Cardiff Bay has been saved, The Doctor Who Companion reported
• The album: Composer Blair Mowat and Silva Screen are releasing a digital-only 10th-anniversary edition of the Class bonus album, now called Volume II, with unheard extra tracks
• The shrine: Cardiff artist Nathan Wyburn is turning the pieces into a permanent artwork, which is expected to go on display at the Red Dragon Centre, possibly early next year
• UK availability: The Class album is out on download and streaming services from Friday 23 October

Patrick Ness’s series about Coal Hill Academy students facing alien threats launched on BBC Three in October 2016. Mowat says he took inspiration from the experimental spirit of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and the Shadow Kin’s metallic sound came from a custom one-string instrument, a nod to a technique Delia Derbyshire used on the original 1963 Doctor Who theme.

The shrine began as a memorial to Ianto Jones and became a wall of messages to Torchwood itself, but it was dismantled during redevelopment of the bay. David-Lloyd said the artwork “will last forever”. It is fitting timing, as the show celebrated its 20th anniversary this week.

Roddenberry Entertainment says Star Trek is “at a crossroads” after the studio mergers

• New development: Roddenberry Entertainment’s Trevor Roth spoke at Rome’s MIA market on Wednesday 21 October, Variety reported
• What he said: “Right now, Star Trek is at a bit of a crossroads, with the end of the current series that are going on, with the fact that it’s been a while since a movie has been out and with decisions needing to be made with what the franchise will be”
• What is coming: A new Star Trek film is in development, while the final seasons of Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy arrive in 2027
• UK availability: Both series stream on Paramount+ in the UK. Starfleet Academy season two is due in March 2027. UK date for Strange New Worlds season five not yet confirmed

Roth, Roddenberry’s chief operating officer and president of development, said the company has “very specific designs” for what Star Trek’s next incarnations will be. He added that Skydance’s purchase of Paramount, and now Warner Bros., had raised questions about the franchise’s future, but that the company is “confident that there will be a wonderful future” for it.

Once the two final seasons have aired, no new live-action Star Trek series has been announced. It has still been a busy 60th anniversary year: catch up with our latest Star Trek News round-up.

Star Wars: Starfighter has already outspent The Force Awakens, UK filings show

• New development: Forbes reported on Thursday 22 October that the film’s UK production company had spent $226.5m (£164.9m) by 31 January 2026, just over a month after filming wrapped at Pinewood Studios
• How we know: Studios set up a separate UK company for each film to claim the UK’s tax credit, and it must publish accounts. Starfighter’s is called Blue Mist Productions (UK), a nod to Return of the Jedi’s fake title Blue Harvest
• The comparison: The Force Awakens’ company booked £147.6m and The Last Jedi’s £162.3m over similar periods. Only The Rise of Skywalker spent more, at £281.6m
• UK availability: Due in cinemas on Friday 28 May 2027

A UK tax credit of $51.5m (£37.5m) brings the net cost so far down to about $175m, but the bill will keep rising: Disney still has around a year and a half of post-production, when the expensive visual effects are added. Shawn Levy directs Ryan Gosling, Flynn Gray, Amy Adams, Matt Smith and Mia Goth.

It is a big bet after The Mandalorian and Grogu took $345.6m worldwide this year, the lowest for any Star Wars film since Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012.

Mike Flanagan’s Carrie is renewed for a second season at Prime Video

• New development: Prime Video announced the renewal on Thursday 22 October, Deadline and Variety reported
• Why: Prime Video says it topped its global TV chart and reached number one in more than 105 countries after its 7 October launch
• What next: Season two goes beyond Stephen King’s novel. Flanagan has planned a three-season story, and Summer H. Howell is set to return as Carrie White
• UK availability: All eight episodes of season one are on Prime Video in the UK. Season two UK date not yet confirmed

“For 50 years, audiences have known and gravitated to Carrie White’s story. From the beginning, we imagined a story that goes far beyond the prom,” said Flanagan. King added that he and Flanagan are “excited about what comes next. It’s bound to be thrilling.”

The first season changed the book’s ending, leaving Carrie alive and heading out of town, which sets up plenty of new territory. Read our spoiler-free review of season one.

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Update: Tom Hollander and Aja Naomi King join Prime Video’s horror series Stillwater

• New development: Hollander, King and newcomer Beau Young have joined as series regulars, Deadline reported on Thursday 22 October
• The roles: Hollander plays Judge Jack Taylor, the town’s charming but cult-like leader. King is Sheriff Tanya Green, a recent outsider, and Young plays Galen Keegan, who stopped ageing at 10 but whose mind kept growing
• The story: Ben Hardy plays ex-con Daniel West, who arrives in a town where nobody ages, nobody dies and nobody ever leaves
• UK availability: An eight-episode series for Prime Video, which streams in the UK. UK date not yet confirmed

It comes a week after Lauren Cohan, Mark O’Brien and Mia Tomlinson joined the cast. The series is adapted from the Skybound graphic novel by Chip Zdarsky and Ramón K Pérez, with Greg Berlanti and Carly Wray writing the pilot.

Hollander, who is next in season two of Dune: Prophecy, is a very good choice to play a small-town ruler with a smile that never reaches his eyes.

Ti West’s Ebenezer gets a PG-13 rating in the US for “frightening material”

• New development: The Motion Picture Association gave the film its rating this week, Bloody Disgusting reported on Thursday 22 October
• The film: Johnny Depp plays Scrooge, with Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley, Tramell Tillman as the Ghost of Christmas Present and Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit. Daisy Ridley, Andrea Riseborough and Sam Claflin also star
• Note: This is the US rating. The UK certificate is set separately by the BBFC
• UK availability: In UK cinemas from Friday 13 November

West has said he wanted to make a “spookier version” of A Christmas Carol than ever before, but the director of X, Pearl and MaXXXine has clearly kept this one family-friendly enough for a Christmas audience. That could help Paramount at the box office.

Nathaniel Halpern wrote the adaptation. Watch the second official trailer.

YA vampire saga House of Night gets a new director, with filming set for early 2027

• New development: Johanna Watts will direct her first feature, Deadline reported on Thursday 22 October. Casting is under way
• The story: Zoey is marked to become a vampyre and joins the House of Night, a boarding school where teenagers learn to survive the change, and discovers she has rare powers
• Behind it: Victor Hadida of Davis Films, the producer of the Resident Evil films, and Molly Hassell, who produced Return to Silent Hill. Author P.C. Cast is an executive producer
• UK availability: Filming early 2027. UK date not yet confirmed

It is the first screen adaptation of P.C. and Kristin Cast’s books, which have sold more than 31 million copies in more than 40 countries. Watts takes over from cinematographer Rain Li, who was attached when the project went to market last year.

“I feel a big responsibility to faithfully bring this story to screen for fans around the world,” Watts said.

Kid Cudi will write, direct and star as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Jean

• New development: Kid Cudi announced the film on social media, with images of himself in character, Variety and Deadline reported on Wednesday 21 October
• When: Filming is due to start in 2027
• What he said: “This film will be a love letter to Jean, the 80s and NY city”
• UK availability: Filming 2027. UK date not yet confirmed

“For years people have asked me about playing Jean-Michel Basquiat in a film. But no project actually came to be,” he wrote, so he decided to write it himself. He says the script came from a lot of research, books and talks with people who knew the artist.

Horror fans know him from Ti West’s X, Pearl and MaXXXine. He makes his directing debut with Doe, which he also wrote and stars in, and will direct the horror thriller Wrong Number.

Will you be watching The Satan Pit on the big screen, and would you pick 4DX?