The latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine is published on Thursday, and looks ahead to the final four episodes of the current series of Doctor Who, Sleep No More, Face the Raven, Heaven Sent and Hell Bent, including interviews with the writers Mark Gatiss, Sarah Dolland and Steven Moffat, series finale director Rachel Talalay and the Doctor himself, Peter Capaldi.

On the twelfth and final episode of the series, Peter observed:

Also inside this issue:

• INSIDE NUMBER 9: DWM reunites League of Gentlemen stars Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith – writer and star respectively of Sleep No More – for an exclusive interview! Plus a chat with guest star Bethany Black.
• BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL: Showrunner Steven Moffat answers readers’ questions, and reveals just who the Doctor is talking to when he’s looking directly at the camera...
• IMMORTAL WORDS: Poll-winning writer Jamie Mathieson discusses his varied career, including his life as a stand-up comedian, and how his latest episode, The Girl Who Died, came to be.
• HIGHWAY TO HELL: Writer Catherine Tregenna talks in-depth to DWM about how she came to write her recent Doctor Who episode, The Woman Who Lived.
• BACK TO LIFE: Jacqueline Rayner explains why The Girl Who Died reminded her of the Moxx of Balhoon, her childhood and Dodo in Relative Dimensions.
• TALES OF DARKNESS: The Doctor and Clara face terror in the cemetery in their latest terrifying comic strip adventure, The Highgate Horror, by Mark Wright, illustrated by David A Roach.
• THE DWM REVIEW: DWM reviews The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived, The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion. Plus, the latest DVDs, books and audios are put under the spotlight.
• COMING SOON:All the latest and forthcoming Doctor Who CDs are previewed – including UNIT: Extinction and Jago & Litefoot & Strax!

PLUS! All the latest official news, competitions, ratings round-up, Wotcha! and The DWM Crossword.


An exclusive limited edition variant cover will be on sale at the Doctor Who Festival between Friday 13 and Sunday 15 November.

A roundup of publicity for the next episode in the current series of Doctor Who, Sleep No More.

Sleep No More: Known Broadcast Details
United Kingdom	BBC One	Sat 14 Nov 2015	8:15pm
United States of America	BBC America	Sat 14 Nov 2015	9:00pm EDT	(2:00am GMT)
Canada	SPACE	Sat 14 Nov 2015	9:00pm EDT	(2:00am GMT)
Asia Pacific	BBC Entertainment	Sun 15 Nov 2015	10:00am SGT	(2:00am GMT)
New Zealand	PRIME	Sun 15 Nov 2015	7:30pm NZDT	(6:30am GMT)
Australia	ABC	Sun 15 Nov 2015	7:40pm AEDT	(8:40am GMT)
Europe (Benelux)	BBC First	Tue 17 Nov 2015	9:00pm CEST
United Kingdom	BBC Two	Fri 20 Nov 2015	1:45am	(British Signed Language)
South Africa	BBC First	Sat 21 Nov 2015	6:00pm SAST
India	FX	Sun 29 Nov 2015	11:00pm IST
Finland	YLE2	Mon 30 Nov 2015	6:05pm EET
Denmark	DR3	Fri 18 Dec 2015	~8:00pm CET
Germany	FOX	Jan 2016	9:00pm CET	(dubbed into German)

Titan Comics and BBC Worldwide have announced a brand-new mini series starring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, as played by Tom Baker and the late Elisabeth Sladen.

This series expands Titan Comics’ popular and critically acclaimed Doctor Who comics line, which already includes adventures from the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors.

Entitled ‘Gaze Of The Medusa’, the five-part series will hit stores in March 2016 and will be penned by Gordon Rennie (Missionary Man, Judge Dredd) and Emma Beeby (Witch Hunter, Judge Dredd) with art by Brian Williamson (The Twelfth Doctor, Spider-Man, X-Men).

The all-new adventure is set in Victorian England, where a mysterious woman commands a hidden army in a house of the blind. Scryclops stalk the streets...and something alien and terrible screams from prehistory – with a hunger that cannot be satisfied!

Issue #1 will come with six covers to collect: a painted cover by fan-favorite artist Alice X. Zhang; a photo variant; art covers by artists Brian Williamson, Jay Gunn and Matt Baxter; and a blank sketch variant.

Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor #1 debuts in comic stores and on digital devices from March 2016.

Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion had an official consolidated rating of 5.76 million viewers.

The rating issued by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, or BARB, includes all those who watched the programme within one week of transmission. It does not include those watching online via iPlayer

Doctor Who was the 11th most watched programme on BBC Television, and third overall on Saturday. The episode finished at 24th in the chart.

Top of the week was Strictly Come Dancing with 10.85 million watching.

Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion had an Audience Appreciation or AI score of 84.

The Appreciation Index or AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the programme. The score, out of a hundred, is compiled by a specially selected panel of around 5,000 people who go online and rate and comment on programmes.

The highest score for the weekend was for the The Royal British Legion Festival Of Remembrance which scored 90

With Sunday's overnight viewing figures now available, Doctor Who finished as the 47th most watched programme of the week. Consolidated figures will be published next week.

The Zygon Inversion has debuted in Australia, averaging 466,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It was the highest rating ABC drama of the day and the sixteenth highest rating program of the day overall. These ratings do not include iview, regional or time-shifted viewers.

Meanwhile, including time-shifted viewers, The Woman Who Lived averaged 647,000 consolidated viewers in the five major capital cities. With 151,000 extra viewers it was the third highest time-shifted program of the day (the highest time-shifted program had an extra 168,000 viewers) and the ninth highest rating program of the day overall. These ratings do not include iview or regional viewers.

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Press reaction for the The Zygon Inversion is mostly positive with many reviewers picking up on the performance of the lead actor. Peter Capaldi's finest hour is how The Express describes the episode. "Peter gives a powerful performance as a Doctor trying to maintain a fragile ceasefire, opting for diplomacy over militancy. Throughout his speech, he never loses his flow or passion. At times it feels as if the television screen falls away and we're watching a stage production, such is the strength of his acting."

The Guardian felt the episode finally cemented Capaldi as The Doctor. "As he delivered his passionate, eloquent takedown of Zygon rebel Bonnie, this version of the Doctor was comprehensively nailed, skewering perfectly who this man is.....This Doctor has never been written better, Capaldi has never channelled Tom Baker more, that sequence is cemented instantly as the “Capaldi moment” in clip shows for the rest of time."

Digital Spy agreed. "Peter Capaldi is absolutely spectacular.His emotional, grandiose confrontation with both Kate and 'Zygella' is spellbinding. A breathless, breathtaking lecture on the futility of war, this sequence is easily Capaldi's finest moment as the Doctor since he took up the reins last year."

Radio Times thought the bunker scenes between The Doctor and the two protagonists were spectacular. "An incredible piece of writing and acting. The scene lasts a full ten minutes as the Doctor runs the gamut of emotions in his effort to make Clara/Bonnie/Zygella stand down and “break the cycle” of cruelty and war. The Time Lord and the writers (Peter Harness and Steven Moffat) are wearing their hearts and political colours on their sleeves. It’s wonderful to watch and absorb."

The Metro also loved the Doctor's speech. "The use of the Osgood boxes – mere McGuffins to force both sides to think and talk for long enough to defuse the conflict – is a typically elegant Doctor-style resolution. They are no more than empty vessels that allow him to channel his preferred weapon: the power of words." The paper felt the episode so nearly a classic. "The story lacked the visible large-scale threat – it was all implied and never seen – and an iconic moment that, say, an army of Zygons marching across London would have provided."

The Telegraph thought the episode over complicated "Putting paid to the threat involved negotiating over an "Osgood Box" which would either do away with all the humans on Earth or all the Zygons. But the box turned out to be two boxes… and each box contained two buttons. In other hands this might have been a deft sequence of plot switcheroos, but here it felt like stage business to pad out a slightly threadbare symposium on terrorist ideology"

Online Den Of Geek joined in the praise for the show's lead actor and the themes pursued in the story. "Doctor Who has just blasted a 45 minute lesson in tolerance, the state of the world, war and the futility of conflict straight into people's living rooms while The X-Factor was on the other side."

The themes of conflict were picked up by AV Club. "The climax of The Zygon Inversion makes explicit something that the best anti-war Doctor Who stories have always understood. Depicting the madness of war doesn’t require an epic scale. If anything, narrowing the focus to a single conflict or moral dilemma clarifies the essential futility of violent conflict."

IGN concurred "It takes the Doctor’s painful recollection of the war he fought in -- the ultimate war -- to convince Evil Clara, to get her to start to see things his way. “When I close my eyes, I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count,” he says. And suddenly Evil Clara isn’t so evil anymore, as she realizes her and the Doctor are more alike than they are different."

TV.com enjoyed the darker tone of the episode. "The magic of Doctor Who is that it's constantly able to reinvent itself, and so it has. I wish that I could sit back and just enjoy the innate silliness of some of the show's lighter episodes, but given the darkness that permeates much of the Capaldi era, I find myself drawn to the episodes that have deeper meanings, that touch on the more serious subject matter at hand."

gamesRadar felt the highlight of the story, and even the series, was the interaction between Clara and Bonnie. "Jenna Coleman manages to make them feel like subtly distinct characters, and has a blast playing against herself in one (or should that be two?) of her best performances of the series" Mashable also praised the performance of both of the lead actors. "Jenna Coleman manages to thoroughly convince as both sides in the Clara-Bonnie battle of wits. A showdown conducted over a television could have easily looked laughable, and Coleman deserves the credit for making it work."

TVFanatic preferred the first episode of this double parter. "Bonnie forcing that Zygon out of his human form was freaky, but the morphing was not smooth at all. It would have been preferable for the man to stay in that inbetween state, which was fairly disturbing. True, the point was for the alien footage to go viral. Still, I'm just not a fan of the Zygons" The Register also felt the episode to slow "The Zygon Inversion feels a little too laboured, overly-wordy and lacking in action, and that's despite a tremendous performance from Peter Capaldi. A pity, too, to see such a brisk demise of the excellent Bonnie."

Finally Radio Times loved the past references in the story. "A punch-the-air moment for the Doctor Who fan. In case you don’t know, Kate’s dad, the Brigadier, issued the command “Chap with the wings there. Five rounds rapid!” in the 1971 classic The Dæmons"

You can read the Doctor Who News review in our reviews section.

4.13 million viewers watched Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion, according to unofficial overnight viewing figures.

Doctor Who had a share of 19.9% of the total TV audience for the day.

Top once more was the BBC celebrity dance show, Strictly Come Dancing, which had 9.17 million watching. The X Factor on ITV was second with 6.42 million viewers.

The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance, live from the Royal Albert Hall had 5.39 million watching with gameshow Pointless Celebraties gewtting 4.57 million. Two editions of BBC News pushed Doctor Who into seventh place for the day. It currently stands at 40th for the week.

Final figures, including those who recorded the programme and who watch it within one week, will be published next week.

The BBC have released clips looking behind the scenes of this week's episode of Doctor Who, The Zygon Inversion.




A full review of the episode can be found on Doctor Who Reviews

The first two scripts of the current series of Doctor Who have been made available online, courtesy of the BBC Writer's Room.

The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar, both written by Steven Moffat, are available to download, as part of the BBC's commitment to support and develop writers across the whole of BBC drama, comedy and children's departments.

Link to writers room