Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman have wowed Doctor Who fans in Sydney as part of the global Doctor Who Tour.

The duo touched down in Australia's biggest city on Tuesday morning where they embarked on a hectic round of publicity and personal appearances to launch episode one of the new series and introduce the new Doctor to Australia.

Following a press conference and photo call on Sydney Harbour Side, the day culminated with a fan event at the State Theatre, where Capaldi and Coleman received a standing ovation from over 2000 fans.

Peter Capaldi commented:
Jenna Coleman added:
Jon Penn, Managing Director, BBC Worldwide ANZ says:
The tour marks the largest ever promotional undertaking in Doctor Who’s 50-year history. It kicked off in Cardiff, Wales on 7th August, followed by London (UK) and Seoul (South Korea). After Sydney, Doctor Who: The World Tour will continue in New York (US), Mexico City (Mexico) and will finish in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on 19th August.British Airways has been the event sponsor for the Sydney and Seoul stops on the tour.


The rest of Australia will get to see the new Doctor when ABC simulcast the feature-length first episode in line with the UK broadcast in the early hours of Sunday morning 24th August (EST). Following the simulcast, the episode will be available to watch on ABC iview throughout the day before it broadcasts on ABC at 7.40pm Sunday 24th August.

ABC will also screen an exclusive interview with Peter Capaldi, hosted by Julia Zemiro. When Julia Met The Doctor will transmit on Wednesday 20th August at 8pm.


There is currently a Doctor Who Pop-Up shop at Shop 9.28A World Square Shopping Centre, 644 George Street, Sydney, where fans can buy all the latest Doctor Who merchandise. Next year the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular hosted by Fifth Doctor Peter Davison will be touring Australia and New Zealand, stopping off at Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland.

The tour now moves on to North America where it reaches New York on Thursday.

The BBC has released a compilation of highlights from the Question and Answer section of the South Korean leg of the Doctor Who World Tour.


The team are now in Australia where a round of Press and TV appearances are scheduled, before the tour moves onto America.

The BBC have confirmed that Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Steven Moffat will be attending the special screening of Deep Breath at the Odeon Leicester Square on 23rd.

They will take part in the live Q&A hosted by Zoe Ball, which will be broadcast into participating cinemas up and down the country.

Tickets for the Leicester Square event are available online

A list of participating cinemas is available here.

The Doctor Who World Tour has arrived in Sydney, with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman appearing at a special press screening of Deep Breath, with a Q&A hosted by former ABC radio presenter Adam Spencer, before participating in a quick photo appearance near the Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour. Peter and Jenna will also both appear tonight at a public screening of Deep Breath at the State Theatre.

The online schedule from BBC America indicates that the channel will now broadcast series premiere Deep Breath at 8:15pm rather than the previously announced 8:00pm - the preceeding Doctor Who: Live Pre-Show is now scheduled for then, in a shortened fifteen minute timeslot.

The alterations may have occured to facilitate the channel's "Takeover Week", which sees the tenth and eleventh Doctors' eras broadcast from The Christmas Invasion on Monday 18th August (with the strange exception of The Idiot's Lantern), leading up to the eleventh's swan-song The Time of the Doctor immediately before the live event. Other programmes during the course of the week include the 50th Anniversary drama An Adventure in Space and Time, all eleven The Doctors Revisited shows, plus the previously reported brand new Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion and Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord documentaries. In addition, a new programme focussing on the current tour, Doctor Who: Global Tour, will be shown on Friday 22nd August at 9:00pm.


Original programming due to be shown on BBC America:

Sat 16 Aug	9:00pm	Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
Sat 16 Aug	10:00pm	The Real History of Science Fiction: Time
Mon 18 Aug	10:00pm	Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord
Fri 22 Aug	9:00pm	Doctor Who: Global Tour
Sat 23 Aug	8:00pm	Doctor Who: Live Pre-Show
Sat 23 Aug	8:15pm	Deep Breath
Sat 23 Aug	11:00pm	Doctor Who: After Who Live

Please note that any advance broadcast schedules may again be subject to change.

BBC Worldwide have announced that the live stream has been cancelled for the Sydney Q&A session tomorrow:


There is no detail as to whether the other proposed live streaming events will continue at present.

The Doctor Who World Tour heads down-under for its next stop, with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman participating in a number of press and public events in Sydney tomorrow, leading to another live Q&A event streamed live around the world via the the official Doctor Who YouTube channel (update: the live stream has been cancelled).


Meanwhile, BBC Worldwide have released a number of photos of the new series stars' adventure in Seoul on Saturday, plus a brief video summary of the day. A longer Q&A item is expected in the future.

BBC Latin America have confirmed that they will broadcast the series premiere Deep Breath on Saturday 23rd August, from 10:00pm Mexican time (Midnight Argentinian time).


The BBC Worldwide regional Entertainment and HD channels are available in the following countries within the region: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.


Fans who were able to get tickets will also be able to watch the episode in advance when the Doctor Who World Tour touches down in Mexico City on the 17th August, followed by Rio de Janeiro the day after.

With the Doctor Who World Tour having reached Seoul in South Korea in the run-up to the start of Series 8 on Saturday 23rd August, Jenna Coleman has begun using social media - sending tweets and posting pictures on Instagram.

Her first tweet linked to a picture of Seoul, which she had posted on Instagram. The tweet - echoing her surprise first appearance in Asylum of the Daleks - simply reads: "Seoul... Boo".

Coleman has also posted a picture of a Doctor Who cake with her character Clara, Peter Capaldi's Doctor and the TARDIS as decorations (shown here), then tweeted a picture of the TARDIS and a boy in a toy car in Seoul, along with a humorous observation:


Her Twitter account - @Jenna_Coleman_ - was set up in March 2012, when she was announced as the new companion, but it is only now that she has begun using it. Her Instagram account name is instagram.com/jenna_coleman_.

The whirlwind tour's next stop is Sydney on Tuesday 12th August, followed by New York City on Thursday 14th, Mexico City on Sunday 17th and Rio de Janeiro on Monday 18th.