When fandoms collide, it’s (usually) a beautiful thing. I think it’s safe to say that applies to this news. Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff has been cast in Karen Gillan’s first movie gig after her run on Doctor Who. And get this, Sackhoff is playing Gillan’s mom. As if that wasn’t enough to get you to keep reading, how about the possibility of Gillan playing a role in Inspector Spacetime?

It’s a lucky day for Inspector Spacetime fans… or, er, Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time fans. Who are basically Community and/or Doctor Who fans. You know who we mean. The second episode of quasi-Inspector Spacetime is out, and boy is it British and delightfully quirky! Join the Inspector and his loyal com…rade Piper Tate (we see what you did there) as they prepare to maybe go up against the Inspector’s arch nemesis Boyish the Extraordinary some point in the near future, maybe. (Hey, time is relative.)

I’m never really sure who Inspector Spacetime appeals to more, Doctor Who fans, or Community fans. Oop! I mean Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time, as the production had change its name after some copyright concerns from NBC. Episode one is here, funded by its successful Kickstarter campaign.

Most of us know her as Number Six/Caprica/many other character names from Battlestar Galactica but actress Tricia Helfer has had a healthy career outside the sci-fi drama. But sci-fi and comedy fans alike should be excited about this news. Helfer is going to have a cameo on the upcoming final season of Community and it will involve their Doctor Who parody, Inspector Spacetime! 

Inspector Spacetime is a show we spend far too much of our time wishing was actually a show we could watch. We’re not entirely sure we’ve accepted the fact that it is not (for now). Which is why we’re glad when the internet humors us, as with this awesome fan art mocking up a poster of the Inspector and company. As Dan Harmon himself said when he saw it (and reblogged it), “this is really really really cool.” (via Dan Harmon)

If you were at Comic-Con International in San Diego today, this is what you’d see. Here we have the aerial view of Hall H taken by Kara Warner from MTV. I’m speechless. Moving on, yesterday we brought you a roundup of the first day’s biggest announcements and we’re back to fill you in with what went down on Day 2 of the pop-culture show. Hit the jump to read about what went down at the Firefly reunion panel, some interesting stories from the DC and Marvel Comics panels, check out a new Walking Dead trailer, hear about new Game of Thrones cast members and a whole lot more!

So, you know the Cow Parade, the international roving art installation where fiberglass cows are painted and decorated by local artists? Well, BT Artbox is kind of like that. Except instead of cows, it’s the classic red telephone box of the UK, Malta, Bermuda, and Gibraltar, and they’re all over London, as if Inspector Spacetime and several dozen of his buddies dropped in to see the sights.

The boxes themselves are beautifully surreal things to come across in the middle of an otherwise normal city street. (Doctor Who fans, just squint and pretend they’re police boxes.)

You remember when the NBC show Community spoofed the BBC’s Doctor Who with their show within a show called Inspector Spacetime? First it got popular enough to have a web series (not affiliated with NBC) made. Then the hopeful creators of that webs series got sued by NBC. But, as Community lives on (for the time being), so does Inspector Spacetime and it turns out one Doctor Who star is a big fan. The BBC recently chatted with Karen Gillan just before she filmed her last episode of the long-running sci-fi show, and the actress described how she came to find out about Inspector Spacetime and even hinted at wanting them to hire her. The BBC thinks it’s a delightful idea and is trying to start a campaign with the hashtag #AmyMeetsAbed. Now watch Gillan being completely adorable in this video.

(via Doctor Who tumblr)

There he is. Right behind this girl’s ear, telling her all kinds of Jedi secrets. (via Fashionably Geek)

Doctor Who fan and Community fan Travis Richey must have been through the roof when he got the small part of playing the lead in a very short joke on Community. One where Abed needed a new television show to be obsessed with and, in desperations, his friends showed him Inspector Spacetime, a half-century old, nearly continuously running low budget science fiction show about a mysterious humanoid alien travels through space and time in machine that looks like a London phone booth but is bigger on the inside.

Well, at least we’re pretty sure he was excited, because after the overlapping Community and Doctor Who communities started, completely of their own volition, to flesh out the fake-universe of Inspector Spacetime, he decided that it would be really cool if somebody could actually produce more episodes of the series. So, naturally, he started a Kickstarter project.