Mariah Carey waves to photographers at the Crown Media Family Networks Television Critics Association party on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) --
Mariah Carey is making her directorial debut on the Hallmark Channel.
Carey will direct and co-star in "Mariah Carey's Christmas Project," the network announced Wednesday. Production will begin in the fall. The scripted film is slated to air in December as part of its annual "Countdown to Christmas" programming.
The announcement comes at a busy time for the singer. Next week, she'll receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She recently launched a residency in Las Vegas where she performs her No. 1 hits, including "Vision of Love," ''Hero" and "We Belong Together."
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Two full size Daleks from the BBC TV series Doctor Who, dating from the late 1970,s to 1988 and used in the series 'Remembrance of the Daleks' at Bonhams auction house in London, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, file)
Over six decades of "Doctor Who," the intergalactic adventurer's adversaries have included evil robots, rampaging Yeti — and the BBC, which erased many early episodes of the now-iconic sci-fi TV series.
A film charity announced Friday that it has found two previously lost 1960s episodes among the possessions of a deceased collector. They have been restored by BBC archivists and will be available next month on the broadcaster's streaming service.
The discovery leaves 95 episodes still missing from the adventures of a galaxy-hopping alien known as the Doctor that debuted in 1963.
"Doctor Who" — the "who" is an existential question, rather than the character's name — has become a television institution with millions of fans around the world. But the BBC's attitude to the show in its early years was careless. Scores of episodes were lost because the broadcaster wiped the tapes for re-use.
"The attitudes to archiving back in the 60s in television was really very different from today, and lots of material was junked," said Justin Smith, a cinema professor at England's De Montfort University and chair of trustees of Film is Fabulous!, which works to preserve cinema and television history.
Smith told the BBC that the charity found film cans containing the two rediscovered black-and-white episodes, "The Nightmare Begins" and "Devil's Planet," among the collection of a film aficionado who had died. The collector's estate wishes to remain anonymous.
The episodes aired during the show's third series in 1965 and feature William Hartnell, the first of more than a dozen actors to play the Doctor, in a story involving archvillains the Daleks – pepperpot-shaped metal aggressors whose favorite word is "Exterminate!"
