Game of Thrones which has won the 2014 Hugo award for for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form beating Doctor Who for the second year running.

The Day of the Doctor and The Name of the Doctor were both nominated, as was An Adventure in Space and Time and The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. However Game of Thrones came through to win the award with the episode The Rains of Castamere.

It was a disappointing night for Doctor Who fans with other Who related nominees losing out in their categories. The winners were announced on Sunday evening at the ExCel Converntion Centre in London.

Full results are here.

BBC Worldwide, in association with Fathom Events, have announced a special Midnight screening of the Doctor Who season premiere Deep Breath, on Saturday night, in selected cinemas across the United States.

The event will feature bonus content exclusive to cinemas including a prequel before the feature presentation and 'behind the scenes' after.

Full details of participating theatres here.

The main nationwide showing of the story in the US is on Monday, August 25th. Full list here.

NB: Please note that attending in costume is fine, however masks, face-concealing make-up, fake weapons, tools, accessories (like sonic screwdrivers) as well as any costumes that conceal what you are carrying, your natural body shape or face are strictly prohibited.

Deep Breath is also screening in Cinemas around the world. Main details here.

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In addition Spanish cinema chain Cinesa have announced that they will be showing Deep Breath in their Barcelona, Madrid, Oviedo, La Coruña, Sevilla, Bilbao, Valencia, Murcia, Valladolid, Zaragoza and Valencia theatres on Saturday 23rd August at 20:45pm. (with thanks to Papel Psíquico)

There is a Doctor Who event at this years Burning Man festival in Nevada, which takes place between 25 August and 1st September.

The Burning Man festival is a bizarre event which happens in the middle of a desert salt bed in Nevada. It is different from other festivals in that there are no paid bands or DJs. The participants create their own entertainment. It is famously a place where makers and artists build amazing sculptures and art cars, with an emphasis on things that burn!

Quixotes Cabaret Club and Bar is a British camp at the festival. They create a venue and a bar and invite anyone at the festival with any entertaining act to come up and perform. Each year they have a different décor theme. This year it is Doctor Who.

The entrance to the camp will be through a TARDIS against a brick wall and the organisers will have an art car in the shape of K-9.

The camp is located at 7:30 and Ephesus, the cabaret nights are Tuesday, Thursday and Friday around 9pm, with a Doctor Who extravaganza evening on the Friday. The club will be glad to see any Re-incarnations of the Doctor, Time Lords, assistants and monsters but warn that Daleks may well be turned around and pushed out. If anyone wishes to get in touch with the camp, please e-mail Paul Pickup at bigfoot.com

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An "unofficial" Doctor Who Disneyland theme day is taking place in September.

In Galliday 1.5 hundreds of fans in Cosplay and fanshirts are expected at the California theme park, taking over rides, playing games and contests.

A page has been set up on Facebook as well as twitter and Tumblr.

Organiser Amy McCain told Doctor Who NewsFor full details see the event website

The Doctor Who World Tour has reached North America, with stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, alongside lead writer Steven Moffat, meeting fans and attending a Question and Answer session at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan.

Fans camped out for up to 10 hours to see the stars emerge from a New York taxi as they attended the special screening of this year's season opener Deep Breath.

Peter Caplidi told the crowd he had been watching Doctor Who since he was five. The tour now moves into its final few days with events in Mexico City on Sunday and Rio de Janeiro on Monday. The team then return to the UK in time for a special event at the Odeon Leicester Square on Saturday to launch the series around the world.

The latest circulation figures for Doctor Who Magazine and Doctor Who Adventures show both publications suffering a drop in sales for the first half of this year, although DWM can take comfort from recording a year-on-year rise.

The new Audit Bureau of Circulations figures cover the January to June 2014 period, and during that time DWM saw its total average net circulation fall to 33,538 per issue - down by 2,613 and 7.2 per cent on the previous six months. On the plus side for the Panini publication, it was still a year-on-year rise of 5.8 per cent. The figure is for both print and digital copies.

DWA, however, has suffered particularly badly. The fortnightly mag from Immediate Media Co fell just below the 20,000 mark, posting a total average net circulation of 19,966 per issue for the first six months of this year, equating to a drop of 8,477 and a slump of 29.8 per cent. Year-on-year, this represented a fall of 18.5 per cent. The figure is for print copies only. Although the publication is also available as a download, zero digital sales have been recorded.

In a statement, DWM editor Tom Spilsbury said:
There has been no statement as yet from DWA.

For detailed breakdowns of the new figures, click on the relevant links in the table below.


The circulation figures for July to December 2014 are due to be published in February 2015.

UPDATE - 18th AUGUST 2014: DWA today gave Doctor Who News the following statement regarding the latest circulation figure.

Consultant publisher Jaynie Bye said: Meanwhile, editor Moray Laing said:

With a new Doctor comes a new title sequence, but the latest incarnation is special in that the inspiration came from a fan made clip, posted on YouTube.

Billy Hanshaw is a motion graphics professional based in Leeds, mostly working on tv commercials and corporate presentations. However as an exercise he created a mock version of a new title sequence for the new Doctor, Peter Capaldi and posted it on his YouTube channel where it has recieved over 700,000 hits.

The sequence came to the attention of Doctor Who's show-runner Steven Moffat, who described it as absolutely stunning and commissioned Hanshaw to work with BBC Wales to create the new titles for the new series. Speaking in New York Moffat said The new title sequence will be revealed to the world on August 23rd. However the initial concept clip, which grabbed the attention of the production team, is still available to view on YouTube.

Discover the behind-the-scenes secrets of the most exciting year in Doctor Who's long history in the latest Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition. Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013, marking half a century of time-travel adventures. The Year of the Doctor is researched and compiled by Andrew Pixley, and has 100 pages packed with previously unpublished photos, day-to-day details of Doctor Who’s production and hundreds of fascinating new facts.

This essential guide contains in-depth articles on the Paul McGann mini-episode The Night of the Doctor; the 50th Anniversary Special The Day of the Doctor; Matt Smith's final story The Time of Doctor; the drama based on the origins of the series, An Adventure in Space and Time; the hilarious The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot; Doctor Who at the Proms 2013; the Brian Cox lecture The Science of Doctor Who; the documentaries Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide and Me, You and Doctor Who; Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty; and much, much more!

The Year of the Doctor is in shops now, priced £5.99.

The BBC have revealed the name of the second episode of the upcoming series of Doctor Who with be titled Into the Dalek.

The title is confirmed in the advance press information for Week 35 . The episode is written by Phil Ford, who co-wrote The Waters of Mars with Russell T Davies, as well as many episodes of Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.It is directed by Ben Wheatley who also directs the series opener Deep Breath.

A promo blurb for the episode is included with the programme scheduled for transmission in the UK on Saturday 30th August, at a time to be confirmed.

A new trailer for Deep Breath has been released by the BBC.



When the Doctor arrives in Victorian London he finds a dinosaur rampant in the Thames and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions. Who is the new Doctor and will Clara’s friendship survive as they embark on a terrifying mission into the heart of an alien conspiracy?

The Doctor has changed. It’s time you knew him.

Doctor Who News is offering the chance to win a set of three Doctor Who books featuring the twelfth Doctor as played by Peter Capaldi.

All you need to do is to guess the final consolidated viewing figure of the series premiere Deep Breath, as reported by BARB to the nearest 10,000 viewers (i.e. two decimal places). This figure includes all those watching the episode within a week of broadcast.

Deep Breath is being broadcast in the UK on BBC One on Saturday 23rd August at 7.50pm. It will follow Tumble, a live entertainment show where celebrities compete in a gymnastics challenge, which had an overnight rating of 3.2 million for its first episode last week. It is followed by vintage hospital drama Casualty, which had an rating of 4.82 million in the most recent BARB report.

In opposition to the Doctor, ITV is offering a game show, Tipping Point: Lucky Stars, with comedienne Jo Brand, former England rugby union player Ben Cohen and Dragons' Den investor Kelly Hoppen. The last reported consolidated rating for the show was 2.94 million. Other alternatives include Dad's Army on BBC Two and Grand Designs on Channel 4.

Prize

The prize is a set of three books published on 11 September.

Entering The Competition

To enter the competition, please send the following details to comp-ratings@doctorwhonews.net:

• Your name and email address
• Your country (full address will only be requested if you are a winner)
• Your guess for the final consolidated viewing figure

Previous Ratings:

For comparison, the rating for the previous Doctor Who season opener, Asylum of the Daleks, shown 1 September 2012, was 8.33 million. The Eleventh Hour, which introduced Matt Smith on 3 April 2010 had 10.08 million watching. Full Doctor Who ratings are available here.

Terms And Conditions:

• The competition closes at 7.50pm BST, 23rd August 2014.
• Only one entry will be accepted per person.
• The competition is open worldwide.
• BARB figures are expected around 10 days after transmission; we will contact the winner once they have been published.