The winners of the ultimate Doctor Who family competition, have been announced by BBC Doctor Who Adventures magazine

Moray Laing, Editor of Doctor Who Adventures, says: The family win a year’s worth of Doctor Who Adventures, an action figure and a Doctor Who calendar. Three runner-up families win goodies too.

Also this issue:

• A sneaky look at the next two episodes of Doctor Who.
• Which monster should be crowned the grossest creature of all time?
• The chance to win Doctor Who – Deep Breath on DVD plus a complete set of Doctor Who Regeneration stickers from Topps.
• Essential facts about the Dalek Prime Minister.
• Fun puzzles, quizzes and things to cut out and keep.
• Interview with Ben Miller, who recently played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Who.
• Comic fun and danger for the Doctor, Clara and also the Alien Babies.
• Bonus token to win a life-size TARDIS for your school.

The new issue of BBC Doctor Who Adventures, Issue 355, is on sale from 24 September – 7 October 2014, priced £3.99. The issue comes with a A2 Doctor Who poster to celebrate the launch of the new Topps Regeneration collection, plus 13 Doctor Who stickers, including exclusive ones.

Listen has now been confirmed as being the 7th most watched programme on British Television for the week ending 14th September 2014.

The episode, with 7.01 million viewers, was the second most watched programme on BBC Television, only being beaten by The Great British Bake Off which had 10.13 million watching.

Saturday'sThe X Factor on ITV, topped the chart with 10.21 million watching.

The chart position continues the run of episodes in the UK top ten, with the last seven stories reaching that position.

The longest run of stories in the top ten was from Midnight in June 2008 to The Beast Below in April 2010, a run of eleven episodes, but which covered a number of specials.

Series Eight is the first series where, on final figures, the first four episodes have all reached the top ten.

The BBC has released a new set of pictures from the next episode of Doctor Who - The Caretaker, which debuts next Saturday.
Written by Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat, and directed by Paul Murphy.

After receiving recent reports that the DVD of The Two Doctors no longer includes A Fix With Sontarans as an extra, we checked with BBC Worldwide over the status of the story's release and they have verified:


At the time of writing, online retailers such as the BBC Shop and Amazon still list the extra; purchasers of the story should verify which version they are buying as retailers may hold either version in stock at present.

BBC Home Entertainment in the United States, has announced a massive collection in honour of the Eleventh Doctor and the man who portrayed him with the release of Doctor Who: The Complete Matt Smith Years Limited Edition Blu-ray Gift Set, which will be released in time for the holidays on November 4, 2014.

Matt Smith made his first appearance as the Doctor in 2010, and went on to star in three seasons of Doctor Who, written and executive produced by Steven Moffat.

The set features the complete adventures of the Eleventh Doctor – every season, every special, every episode. It also includes, for the very first time on a special bonus disc, Doctor Who Proms 2013, The Day of the Doctor: From Script to Screen, The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot and Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide. It also includes the two part special The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Death of the Doctor and the docu-drama An Adventure in Space and Time.

The set is available for pre-order from Amazon.

Doctor Who Time Heist had an Audience Appreciation Index 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.

Overall Doctor Who rated slightly higher with Women rather than Men and scored the highest within the 16-34 age group.

The X Factor once again topped the ratings for Sunday with 8.7 million viewers, while the return of Downton Abbey had 8.4 million viewers. Doctor Who is currently in 24th place for the week. Final figures will be published next week.

The Sunday repeat of Tim Heist on BBC Three had an overnight estimate of 0.24 million viewers, a 1.0% share of the audience.

Time Heist averaged 977,000 national viewers in Australia (these figures include the five major capital cities and regional and rural viewers). It was the second highest rating drama of the day (after The Code) and the tenth highest rating program of the day overall. Excluding regional and rural viewers, this story averaged 644,000 viewers in the five major Australian capital cities and was also the tenth highest rating program of the day overall in the big cities (again the second highest rating drama in the cities after The Code). These ratings do not include time shifted viewers.

7.01 million watched the UK transmission of Listen according to consolidated figures available today, which include those recording the programme and watching within one week of transmission.

The figure means no episode of Doctor Who this year has yet dipped below 7 million viewers on final figures.

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

4.93 million watched Doctor Who - Time Heist, according to unofficial overnight figures, a share of 23.8 % of the total TV audience.

Doctor Who was second for the day with ITV's The X Factor taking the lead with 8.4 million viewers. Doctor Who's direct opposition, The Chase: Celebrity Special, was third with 4.2 million watching. The Doctor Who lead in Pointless Celebrities had 3.9 million viewers, giving the programme a higher inheritance than last week.

Overall Doctor Who is currently 20th for the week.

Final figures will be released next Sunday.