Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor - Comic Series

Wednesday, 8 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Titan Comics have released a preview of their brand-new series, Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor #1, which will launch on October 15.

The comic is written by Robbie Morrison and illustrated by Dave Taylor. Cover art is by Alice X Zhang. The comic will be exclusively previewed at New York Comic Con which takes place on October 9-12.
Offering shocks, surprises, and galaxy-shaking revelations, seasoned TARDIS pilot Robbie Morrison (Drowntown, The Authority, 2000AD, Nikolai Dante) and New York Times-bestselling artist Dave Taylor (Batman: Death by Design; 2000AD) mark the start of their first five-issue run by diving headfirst into the console room and pulling all the levers they can – spinning the new Doctor off to his most challenging destination yet!

Freshly regenerated and with a new head full of unanswered questions, the Doctor (as played by Peter Capaldi) whisks Clara Oswald (as played by Jenna Coleman) away to a strange and distant world.

Clara thought she was in for an evening of marking essays on the Metaphysical Poets, followed by going out on a date – or at least trying to. You know, normal stuff.

Instead, she’s facing down exotic flora and fauna in her best dress, backing up the Doctor on a trek through traumatically alien undergrowth – and she doesn’t even know what the Doctor is searching for, or what will try to kill them should they find it!

New Face! New Doctor! New Beginning!




FILTER: - Comics - Twelfth Doctor

Mummy on the Orient Express - New Pictures

Tuesday, 7 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
The BBC has released a new set of pictures from the next episode of Doctor Who - Mummy On The Orient Express, which debuts next Saturday.
The Doctor and Clara are on the most beautiful train in history, speeding among the stars of the future - but they are unaware that a deadly creature is stalking the passengers.

Once you see the horrifying Mummy you only have 66 seconds to live. No exceptions, no reprieve. As the Doctor races against the clock Clara sees him at his deadliest and most ruthless. Will he work out how to defeat the Mummy? Start the clock!
Written by Jamie Mathieson and directed by Paul Wilmshurst.

Mummy On The Orient Express  (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014)
Mummy On The Orient Express - The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express -  Foxes (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express - Perkins (Frank Skinner) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014)
Mummy On The Orient Express - Maisie (Daisy Beaumont) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express - Perkins (Frank Skinner) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express - The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express - Prof Moorhouse (Christopher Villiers) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express - The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014)
Mummy On The Orient Express  - Foxes (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express - Maisie (Daisy Beaumont) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express - Perkins (Frank Skinner) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express -  Captain Quell (David Bamber) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014) Mummy On The Orient Express - Perkins (Frank Skinner) (Credit: Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide 2014)




FILTER: - Press - Series 8/34

Australian overnight ratings for Kill the Moon

Monday, 6 October 2014 - Reported by Adam Kirk
Against stiff competition from the National Rugby League Grand Final, Kill the Moon averaged 447,000 in the five major Australian capital cities and was the fourteenth highest rating program of the day overall in the big cities (these figures do not include regional and rural viewers or time shifted viewers). For the second time this series, Doctor Who also slipped outside the top ten national programs as well (which includes the five major capitals and regional and rural viewers).




FILTER: - Australia - Broadcasting - Ratings - Series 8/34

Kill The Moon - AI:82

Monday, 6 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Kill The Moon had an Audience Appreciation Index or AI score of 82.

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.

Overall Doctor Who rated slightly higher with women than with men and scored the highest within the 16-35 age group. 45% of the sample thought the programme felt 'Fresh and New'.

Strictly Come Dancing topped the ratings for Sunday with 8.84 million viewers, while The X Factor and Downton Abbey took 2nd and 3rd place. Doctor Who is currently in 26th place for the week. Final figures will be published next week.

The Sunday repeat of Kill the Moon on BBC Three had an overnight estimate of 0.29 million viewers, a 1.2% share of the audience.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - UK

The Caretaker - Final Ratings

Sunday, 5 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
6.81 million watched the UK transmission of The Caretaker according to consolidated figures available today, which include those recording the programme and watching within one week of transmission.

The final chart position should be available later in the week.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - UK

Kill the Moon - Overnight viewing figures

Sunday, 5 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
4.82 million viewers watched Doctor Who - Kill The Moon, a share of 21.5% of the total TV audience, according to unofficial overnight viewing figures.

Doctor Who was the third most watched programme of the day, with Strictly Come Dancing once more taking the top slot with 8.84 million watching. ITV's top prpgramme was The X Factor with 7.18 million viewers. Casualty was just behind Doctor Who with 4.74 million watching.

Doctor Who is currently the 21st most watched programme of the week. Final figures will be released next week.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - UK

Doctor Who Extra: Kill The Moon on the Red Button

Saturday, 4 October 2014 - Reported by Chuck Foster
The Doctor on the Moon (Credit: BBC/Adrian Rogers)The next edition of online behind-the-scenes show Doctor Who Extra, covering the seventh episode Kill The Moon, is also available via digital television's Red Button service on BBC channels at the following times:

Doctor Who lands on the Moon... Well, nearly! This week's Doctor Who Extra follows the cast and crew - and some scary 'spiders' - to Lanzarote, finding out what it took to create this stunning adventure!

Saturday9:10pm-1:10am
Sunday11:50am-2:00pm
Sunday4:00pm-7:55pm
Tuesday3:30pm-7:00pm
Wednesday2:30pm-7:00pm
Thursday3:00pm-7:00pm
Friday2:40pm-7:00pm

The episode is also available on YouTube.





FILTER: - Online - Series 8/34

Filming concludes on Series 34

Saturday, 4 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Filming has concluded on the 34th Series of Doctor Who, with the final shots of the 2014 Christmas episode now in the can.

Director Paul Wilmshurst tweeted The special stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, alongside actor and screen writer Nick Frost, who posted Filming commenced on 8th September, following the cast's world tour, and took place at a number of locations including Vaendre Hall, an Italianate Victorian manor house in St Mellons near Cardiff.

The episode is expected to be screened on BBC One on Christmas Day, with broadcasts following around the world.

A wrap party was held for cast and crew on Friday evening to mark the completion of filming on Peter Capalid's first series as the Doctor.




FILTER: - Filming Reports - Series 8/34

Radio Times Retro Poster

Saturday, 4 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Radio Times' gallery of free downloadable retro posters for the current series of Doctor Who continues to grow with the creation by designer Stuart Manning for Kill The Moon which airs tonight.

Manning told Radio Times:
This one came to me pretty much the moment I read the episode title, Astronauts and moon landings feel very 1970s to me and, combined with the colour scheme of Doctor Who's standard-issue orange spacesuits, just somehow felt right

This is less of a pastiche of a specific style and more a mash-up of creepy old visuals – a bit of 2001, some '70s bleakness and a touch of those odd, abstract thriller novel covers of the era. Think of it thoroughly foxed and creased
Kill the Moon will be broadcast at 8.30pm on BBC One.

Kill the Moon (Credit: Radio Times/Stuart Manning)






FILTER: - Radio Times - Series 8/34

Who stars’ Paddington Bear statues to appear in London

Friday, 3 October 2014 - Reviewed by Nathan Brown
The Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi, is one of several Doctor Who stars whose designs for Paddington Bear statues are due to feature in a new London trail.

Hugh Bonneville (Avery in The Curse of the Black Spot and A Good Man Goes to War) and Michael Sheen (the voice of House in The Doctor’s Wife) are also involved in the project.

TV presenter Davina McCall, who can be heard in the Big Brother-inspired sequences of 2005 episode Bad Wolf, will be designing a Paddington too.

Statues featuring the creative work of the four Who stars - and a long list of other celebrities, artists and designers - will appear in a trail around the UK capital’s landmarks and attractions between November 4th and December 30th this year.

The trail is tied to upcoming film ‘Paddington’, in which both Capaldi and Bonneville appear.

Michael Sheen’s statue design, Paddington Shakesbear, has already been unveiled.

3DEye, a design company, is helping with the statues’ creation. Once the trail has closed, the pieces are set to be auctioned for the NSPCC and Action Medical Research For Children.

For more information about the trail, VisitLondon.com.




FILTER: - Special Events