The Royal Television Society in London, is holding an event exploring why Doctor Who has become such a global success.

Doctor Who: Anatomy of a Hit will take place on Tuesday 11 November. Tickets are available from the RTS website

Doctor Who Kill the Moon was the twentieth most watched programme for the week on British Television, according to figures provided by Barb, maintaining the run of top twenty places for the programme.

The Great British Bake off took top position with 10.67 million viewers, ahead of the Drama Downton Abbey which had 10.15 million watching, once ITV HD and ITV+1 figures are added in. The docu-drama on the life of Cilla Black had 8.21 million watching. The X Factor also did well with all three editions rating higher than Doctor Who. The top soaps, Coronation Street, EastEnders and episodes of Emmerdale all entered the top twenty.

Full Ratings Data for week

The BBC have confirmed that the tenth episode in the current run of Doctor Who, In the Forest of the Night, will broadcast in the UK on 25th October at the slightly earlier time of 8:20pm.

The programme will once more follow Strictly Come Dancing and will be followed by Casualty. On the other main UK channels the episode is scheduled against ITV's The X Factor (which airs from 8:00pm to 9:20pm), a repeat of Dad's Army, on BBC2, Walking through History on Channel 4, and World War II in Colour on Channel Five.

The next issue of Doctor Who Magazine is due out in the shops on Thursday, 16th October, and sees lead writer Steven Moffat discuss the return of the Cybermen in this year's final adventure:


Also in this issue:

• Extensive previews of episodes 9 to 12 of the new series – Flatline, In the Forest of the Night, Dark Water and Death in Heaven. DWM talks exclusively to writers Jamie Mathieson, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Steven Moffat.
• DWM interviews Samuel Anderson, aka Danny Pink.
• Steven Moffat answers readers’ questions in his exclusive column.
• DWM talks to Derrick Sherwin, Doctor Who's producer in the late 1960s.
• Kill the Moon writer Peter Harness talks in depth about the script for his episode.
• Reviews of the latest TV adventures: Time Heist, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon and Mummy on the Orient Express.
• DWM talks to the stars of the eighth Doctor's latest audio series, Dark Eyes 3, including Paul McGann, Alex Macqueen and Georgia Moffett.
• The Doctor and Clara’s comic strip adventures continue in The Eye of Torment written by Scott Gray, illustrated by Martin Geraghty.
• The Time Team comment on the 2008 Tenth Doctor episode The Stolen Earth.
• Jacqueline Rayner writes about the different ways of watching new episodes in Relative Dimensions.
• The results of the DWM 2013 Merchandise Poll are revealed.
• The Watcher tackles the controversial subject of last-minute edits in Wotcha!
• The DWM crossword, prize-winning competitions and much more!

The director Michael Hayes has died, aged 85. He helmed three stories during the 1970s, Season 16's The Androids Of Tara, The Armageddon Factor, and the following year's City of Death.

Initially reluctant to take on the show, seeing it as "a children's show with dodgy effects", he was persuaded to do so by his friend Graeme MacDonald (Head of Serials) and producer Graham Williams, during which he also became friends with the lead actor Tom Baker. With his final contribution to Doctor Who, Hayes took the show to its first overseas location, filming in the streets of Paris - he also contributed to the story both with a cameo as a passenger on the Metro seen to follow the Doctor and Romana of the train at Boissière station, and to provide the voice of one of the gendarmes who inform the Doctor that the Mona Lisa has been stolen from the Louvre.

As well as Doctor Who, he directed a number of episodes of popular series such as Thirty-Minute Theatre, Z Cars, The Onedin Line, When The Boat Comes In, and All Creatures Great And Small, leading up to his last credited production, Skorpion, in 1983. He also produced and directed (and cameoed in) the 1961 sci-fi series A For Andromeda.

The creative team behind the free, award-winning podcast series The Minister of Chance is looking to expand their saga into an episodically released motion picture. In order to achieve it, the producers have turned to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.

The Minister of Chance is a spin-off from the very first Doctor Who podcast Death Comes to Time from 2001, in which The Minister was portrayed by Stephen Fry. The story continues the tale of the Minister, now regenerated and portrayed by Julian Wadham (John Steed in The Avengers from Big Finish), who steps into the middle of a power struggle between two nations, the technologically advanced Sezuan and the primitive Tanto – lead respectively by the Ambassador Durian(Paul McGann) and the Witch Prime (Sylvester McCoy). The audio series is available for free on both iTunes and the Minister of Chance website.

The original podcast drama featured a star-powered cast, ranging from the afore-mentioned McGann, McCoy and Wadham, to Sophie Aldred (Ace of Doctor Who), Paul Darrow (Blake's 7) and Philip Glenister (Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Mad Dogs). The producers have stated that a majority of the original cast is interested in taking part in the movie, naturally barring the unforeseen issues like scheduling conflicts. In fact, the only actor that is said NOT to appear for certain is Paul Darrow. The movie will be written and directed by Dan Freeman and produced by Kerryn Arcari.

In order to enter production, The Minister of Change is seeking for £ 100 000 in funding by October 31st. As always with Kickstarter, the money won't be charged from the pledgers until the campaign closes and successfully reaches its goal. The Kickstarter rewards feature a wide range of collectibles from the movie props and statuettes to musical spoons signed by Sylvester McCoy.

The Kickstarter project is live here.

The BBC have released a number of publicity photos for the forthcoming episode Flatline; as well as Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara, images also feature Christopher Fairbank as Fenton, Joivan Wade as Rigsy, Matt Bardock as Al, and Raj Bajaj as George.


The episode airs from 8:25pm on BBC One this coming Saturday, 18th October.

Voting has now opened for the twentieth National Television Awards, the annual ceremony that takes place in January with award-winners chosen by the British viewing public.

Doctor Who is included in the Drama category as usual, but competition is strong with some 34 productions to choose from at this stage of voting. The show is up against a range of British programmes, with only one import included this year: Atlantis, Call The Midwife, Casualty, Cilla, DCI Banks, Death Comes To Pemberley, Death In Paradise, Downton Abbey, Endeavour, The Escape Artist, Grantchester, Happy Valley, Holby City, Inspector George Gently, In The Club, Jonathan Creek, Last Tango In Halifax, Line of Duty, Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Midsommer Murders, Mr Selfridge, The Musketeers, New Tricks, Our Zoo, Prey, Scott & Bailey, Sherlock, Shetland, Silent Witness, Suspects, Vera, The Village, and The Widower.

In the combined Drama Performance category, both Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are nominated for their Doctor Who roles, and will also face former Doctor David Tennant, up for his role in The Escape Artist. There are some 50 personalities listed in this category, including a number of Doctor Who guest stars from the past and present: Clare-Hope Ashitey (Suspects), Brenda Blethyn (Vera), Paul Bradley (Holby City), Jim Carter (Downton Abbey), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Jack Donnelly (Atlantis), Neil Dudgeon (Midsommer Murders), Shaun Evans (Endeavour), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Martin Freeman (Sherlock), Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey), Helen George (Call The Midwife), Robson Green (Grantchester), Miranda Hart (Call The Midwife), Keeley Hawes (Line Of Duty), Douglas Henshall (Shetland), Lee Ingleby (Our Zoo), Sir Derek Jacobi (Last Tango In Halifax), Suranne Jones (Scott & Bailey), Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge), Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley), Nicholas Lyndhurst (New Tricks), Rosie Marcel (Holby City), Kris Marshall (Death In Paradise), Anna Maxwell Martin (Death Comes To Pemberley), Maimie McCoy (The Musketeers), Amanda Mealing (Casualty), Hermione Norris (In The Club), James Norton (Grantchester), Tamzin Outhwaite (New Tricks), Sarah Parish (Atlantis), Katherine Parkinson (In The Club), Maxine Peake (The Village), Luke Pasqualino (The Musketeers), Jeremy Piven (Mr Selfridge), Anne Reid (Last Tango In Halifax), Matthew Rhys (Death Comes To Pemberley), John Simm (Prey / The Village), Lesley Sharp (Scott & Bailey), Martin Shaw (Inspector George Gently), Reece Shearsmith (The Widower), Dame Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey), Sheridan Smith (Cilla), Derek Thompson (Casualty), and Stephen Tomkinson (DCI Banks).


The initial round of voting takes place until midnight 26th October, with the short-list votes taking place in January in the lead-up to the Awards Ceremony itself at the O2 Arena in London on 21st January 2015; the ceremony will be broadcast on ITV.

Last year saw Matt Smith win the Drama Performance category, with the show itself also winning Best Drama. The complete list of winners from previous years can be found on the NTA website.

A new book celebrating Lalla Ward's adventures as the intrepid Time Lady Romana in Doctor Who, has been released by Fantom Films.

Designed and edited by Paul W.T. Ballard, this collection contains remembrances from Ward herself on each of her stories, alongside a vast wealth of visual material. Included inside are photographs from filming and photocalls, reproductions of beautiful costume designs from June Hudson and Doreen James, as well as stunning original artwork by top Doctor Who artists Alister Pearson and Andrew Skilleter.

All profits from this limited edition collection are being donated to Denville Hall.

You can order the book from the Fantom Films Website.

The drama based on the birth of Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time, has been nomionated of an International Emmy Award.

Nominations for the 2014 International Emmy Awards were announced today by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at a Press Conference at the Mipcom convention in Cannes.

An Adventure In Space And Time was written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Terry McDonough.

The drama has previously been nominated for a BAFTA award and a Critics Choice award, but lost out in both cases. The 42nd International Emmy Awards will take place November 24, 2014 at the New York Hilton Hotel.