Win a life-size TARDIS for your school

Wednesday, 27 August 2014 - Reported by Marcus
BBC Doctor Who Adventures Issue 353This week's Doctor Who Adventures gives you a chance to win a life-size TARDIS for your school.

Editor Moray Laing says:
Don’t miss the latest issue as we’ve got an amazing competition. We’re giving away life-size TARDIS to one lucky reader for their school classroom or playground. It’s a perfect replica of the Doctor’s amazing time machine – and although, sadly, it isn’t actually bigger on the inside, it’s a massive prize to win!
This TARDIS is worth £4,000 and to enter, readers have to collect two tokens. You’ll find the first token in the current issue and the second one appears in the issue out on 10 September.

Plus:
  • Five fantastic gifts! A magnetic TARDIS box, special key, a sonic screwdriver and two more magic, moving lenticular cards.
  • Special door hangers to cut out and pop on your door.
  • Exclusive interview with actress Jenna Coleman who tells us what it’s like to be the Doctor’s companion.
  • Two amazing fact figures of the new Doctor and a Weeping Angel.
  • Preview pictures from the next two episodes.
  • A special appearance from Cheryl Cole in the Alien Babies comic strip.
  • Loads of activities and puzzle pages.
  • Dalek secrets.
  • Strax’s guide to the Half-Face Man.
  • Two posters.
  • Read an exciting comic strip with the Doctor and Clara.
BBC Doctor Who Adventures Issue 353, on sale 27 August – 9 September 2014, priced £4.99.




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People Roundup

Tuesday, 26 August 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Showrunner Steven Moffat has won the 2014 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Mini-Series or Movie for the Season 3 episode of Sherlock His Last Vow.

Moffat was presented with the award at the ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday evening. Diana Rigg who was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in Game of Thrones, lost out to Allison Janney.

Paul Cornell has achieved a life's ambition with an article in the new issue of Fortean Times

The article is about the history of Fortean themes in Doctor Who (that is, the appearance of UFOs, ghosts, the Loch Ness Monster, etc.)

It’s based on a lecture the author delivered several years ago at the Fortean Times Unconvention, but has been updated to include the whole of the current series thus far.

ABC have released the pilot of Selfie, the new comedy starring Karen Gillan

Based on the My Fair Lady story, Gillan plays young woman Eliza Dooley, who is desperate to become famous via social media, but gets lessons in how to make real friends from an ettiquette expert.

She stars alongside Star Trek and Harold and Kumar actor John Cho as well as Homeland's David Harewood in the series which debuts on the US network ABC on September 30th.

The channel has added the whole programme to its Twitter feed.




FILTER: - Karen Gillan - Steven Moffat

Into the Dalek - New Images

Tuesday, 26 August 2014 - Reported by Marcus
The BBC has released new images from the second episode in the new series of Doctor Who, Into The Dalek.

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A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now… With the Doctor facing his greatest enemy, he needs Clara by his side. Confronted with a decision that could change the Daleks forever, he is forced to examine his conscience. Will he find the answer to the question, “am I a good man?”

Written by Phil Ford and Steven Moffat, and directed by Ben Wheatley (Kill List)

The episode introduces Samuel Anderson (History Boys) as Danny Pink, a teacher at Coal Hill School, where Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) also teaches.




FILTER: - Series 8/34

Deep Breath: Canadian Ratings

Monday, 25 August 2014 - Reported by Marcus

Viewers tuned into Canadian channel Space in record numbers on Saturday night where the debut of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Time Lord, Deep Breath, delivered 805,000 viewers, making it the number 1 program of the day on all of television among the key A25-54 and A18-49 demographic, and the most-watched Space episode this broadcast-year-to-date, reaching nearly 1.4 million viewers overall.

On Twitter, #DoctorWho garnered more than 5,000 tweets on Saturday, creating an estimated 6.5 million estimated impressions on the social media platform in Canada. Throughout the day, multiple Doctor Who related topics appeared in the Top 10 trending list.




FILTER: - Canada - Ratings - Series 8/34

Deep Breath: US Ratings

Monday, 25 August 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Deep Breath has an audience of 2.6 million on BBC America, the biggest ever audience for a series opener on the channel.

The initial screening, scored 2.2 million, slightly down on the record breaking figure of 2.4 million achieved by the 50th Anniversary story, The Day of the Doctor, last year, but up by 46% on the last equivalent premiere.

The total of 2.6 million includes plays and same-day views.

In the demographic of adults 25-54, Doctor Who had just over 1 million viewers.

During the premiere on Saturday evening, Doctor Who was the most-watched show on cable. It dominated Twitter for the day among TV shows.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - USA

Deep Breath: Appreciation Index

Monday, 25 August 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Deep Breath had an Audience Appreciation Index 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.

The score, while lower than Doctor Who has achieved in recent years, still puts the programme as one of the most appreciated of the weekend.

Ratings on Sunday were incredibly low, meaning Doctor Who retains its place as the third highest rated programme, on overnights, for the week. The highest BBC One could manage on Sunday was 5.1 million for the News, while ITV scored 2.4 million with its highest rated programme Come On Down: The Game Show.

On BBC Two the repeat of the drama on the origins of Doctor Who, An Adventure in Time and Space, had an audience of 0.6 million, a 4.6% share of the total TV audience.

Final figures for the week will be published next Monday.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - UK

Updated: Overnight Australian ratings for Deep Breath and Australian simulcasts

Monday, 25 August 2014 - Reported by Adam Kirk
Deep Breath averaged 1.187 million national viewers in Australia (these figures include the five major capital cities and regional and rural viewers). It was the highest rating drama of the day and the eighth highest rating program of the day overall.  Excluding regional and rural viewers, Peter Capaldi's debut averaged 710,000 viewers in the five major Australian capital cities and was the ninth highest rating program of the day overall in the big cities (the second highest rating drama in the cities after ANZAC Girls). The 4.50am broadcast simulcast with the UK also averaged an impressive 260,000 national viewers. These rating do not include time shifted viewers.

Update: The ABC has also confirmed that it will continue to simulcast Doctor Who with the UK for the remainder of series eight, and will also continue to make each episode available on its iview player from Sunday morning.




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

Overnight Australian ratings for Deep Breath

Monday, 25 August 2014 - Reported by Adam Kirk
Deep Breath averaged 1.187 million national viewers in Australia (these figures include the five major capital cities and regional and rural viewers). It was the highest rating drama of the day and the eighth highest rating program of the day overall.  Excluding regional and rural viewers, Peter Capaldi's debut averaged 710,000 viewers in the five major Australian capital cities and was the ninth highest rating program of the day overall in the big cities (the second highest rating drama in the cities after ANZAC Girls). The 4.50am broadcast simulcast with the UK also averaged an impressive 260,000 national viewers. These rating do not include time shifted viewers.




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

Into the Dalek: Next Time trailer

Sunday, 24 August 2014 - Reported by Marcus


Welcome to the most dangerous place in the universe… The Daleks are back and the Doctor embarks on his deadliest mission ever.




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6.8 Million watch Deep Breath

Sunday, 24 August 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: Deep Breath has an audience on BBC One of 6.8 million viewers. It had a 32.5% share of the total TV audience.

Doctor Who was by far the most watched programme of Saturday night, getting over two million more viewers than the second placed Casualty, which had 4.2 million watching. Tumble, the programme leading into Doctor Who had 3.3 million. The BBC took the top five places of the day with ITV's highest rated programme being Tipping Point: Lucky Stars with 3.3 million viewers.

The audience rose slowly through the episode, peaking at 7.0 million towards the end.

Doctor Who is currently the third highest rated programme for the week, with The Great British Bake Off leading the charts with 7.4 million.

Figures for the week are generally lower than average due to it being towards the end of the holiday season in England and Wales, with many families being away from home. The last season opener Asylum of the Daleks, shown 1st September 2012, had an overnight figure of 6.4 million.

The overnight figure is an estimate of the numbers watching when the show was transmitted and on catchup the same day. It does not include those watching at the Cinema. A full consolidated figure, including those who watch the programme within 1 week of transmission, will be released by BARB next week. The consolidated figure is likely to be substantially more then the initial overnight and could see Doctor Who reaching top place in the charts.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - UK