Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman have wowed Doctor Who fans in Sydney as part of the global Doctor Who Tour.

The duo touched down in Australia's biggest city on Tuesday morning where they embarked on a hectic round of publicity and personal appearances to launch episode one of the new series and introduce the new Doctor to Australia.

Following a press conference and photo call on Sydney Harbour Side, the day culminated with a fan event at the State Theatre, where Capaldi and Coleman received a standing ovation from over 2000 fans.

Peter Capaldi commented:
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Jon Penn, Managing Director, BBC Worldwide ANZ says:
The tour marks the largest ever promotional undertaking in Doctor Who’s 50-year history. It kicked off in Cardiff, Wales on 7th August, followed by London (UK) and Seoul (South Korea). After Sydney, Doctor Who: The World Tour will continue in New York (US), Mexico City (Mexico) and will finish in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on 19th August.British Airways has been the event sponsor for the Sydney and Seoul stops on the tour.


The rest of Australia will get to see the new Doctor when ABC simulcast the feature-length first episode in line with the UK broadcast in the early hours of Sunday morning 24th August (EST). Following the simulcast, the episode will be available to watch on ABC iview throughout the day before it broadcasts on ABC at 7.40pm Sunday 24th August.

ABC will also screen an exclusive interview with Peter Capaldi, hosted by Julia Zemiro. When Julia Met The Doctor will transmit on Wednesday 20th August at 8pm.


There is currently a Doctor Who Pop-Up shop at Shop 9.28A World Square Shopping Centre, 644 George Street, Sydney, where fans can buy all the latest Doctor Who merchandise. Next year the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular hosted by Fifth Doctor Peter Davison will be touring Australia and New Zealand, stopping off at Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland.

The tour now moves on to North America where it reaches New York on Thursday.

The BBC has released a compilation of highlights from the Question and Answer section of the South Korean leg of the Doctor Who World Tour.


The team are now in Australia where a round of Press and TV appearances are scheduled, before the tour moves onto America.

The BBC have confirmed that Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Steven Moffat will be attending the special screening of Deep Breath at the Odeon Leicester Square on 23rd.

They will take part in the live Q&A hosted by Zoe Ball, which will be broadcast into participating cinemas up and down the country.

Tickets for the Leicester Square event are available online

A list of participating cinemas is available here.

The Doctor Who World Tour heads down-under for its next stop, with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman participating in a number of press and public events in Sydney tomorrow, leading to another live Q&A event streamed live around the world via the the official Doctor Who YouTube channel (update: the live stream has been cancelled).


Meanwhile, BBC Worldwide have released a number of photos of the new series stars' adventure in Seoul on Saturday, plus a brief video summary of the day. A longer Q&A item is expected in the future.

With the Doctor Who World Tour having reached Seoul in South Korea in the run-up to the start of Series 8 on Saturday 23rd August, Jenna Coleman has begun using social media - sending tweets and posting pictures on Instagram.

Her first tweet linked to a picture of Seoul, which she had posted on Instagram. The tweet - echoing her surprise first appearance in Asylum of the Daleks - simply reads: "Seoul... Boo".

Coleman has also posted a picture of a Doctor Who cake with her character Clara, Peter Capaldi's Doctor and the TARDIS as decorations (shown here), then tweeted a picture of the TARDIS and a boy in a toy car in Seoul, along with a humorous observation:


Her Twitter account - @Jenna_Coleman_ - was set up in March 2012, when she was announced as the new companion, but it is only now that she has begun using it. Her Instagram account name is instagram.com/jenna_coleman_.

The whirlwind tour's next stop is Sydney on Tuesday 12th August, followed by New York City on Thursday 14th, Mexico City on Sunday 17th and Rio de Janeiro on Monday 18th.

BBC America has announced that tickets for the New York leg of the Doctor Who World Tour will go on sale on Monday 11 August at Midday.

The screening event will take place at 7.30pm ET on Thursday 14 August at a venue yet to be confirmed and features special guests Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Steven Moffat.

Tickets will be on sale from Eventbrite at a cost of $12 plus surcharge.

Fans in the South Korean Capital have just enjoyed a screening of the first Doctor Who episode of the new series Deep Breath.

The Q&A session with Pater Capaldi and Jenna Coleman following the screening will be screened live around the world.

NB: Because this is a live event the BBC can not guarantee it will be totally spolier free. A vetted version will be posted later.

The Doctor Who World Tour has got under way with the stars from the show meeting fans at the special red carpet event in Cardiff.

The world premiere screening of the series Opener Deep Breath is taking place at St David's Hall in the Welsh Capital, attended by Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, alongside showrunner Steven Moffat.

Moffat told BBC Radio Wales he believes Capaldi's Doctor will go down well with fans. BBC Wales director Rhodri Talfan Davies said:A further screening takes place later today on London's South Bank, before the team head of to Seoul at the start of their dash around the world.

BBC Worldwide have now confirmed that tickets will go on sale for the Mexico City leg of the Doctor Who World Tour this coming Saturday 2nd August from 11:00pm local time. The Tour will see Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman appearing at the Teatro Metropolitan theatre for the screening of series premiere Deep Breath and a Q&A session.

Tickets will be available to purchase via Ticketmaster.

The BBC have released four new publicity photos for the forthcoming new series of Doctor Who, featuring Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, Jenna Coleman as Clara, and Neve McIntosh as Vastra: