The BBC has announced more details of the BBC Three celebration programme Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty, which will immediately follow the premiere of The Day of the Doctor.

Presented live from London’s South Bank, Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards will be joined by Matt Smith and guests to discuss the Doctor's most epic adventure yet. A host of previous Doctors and their time-travelling companions will also take part in what is described as an ultimate celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who.

As well as all the gossip on The Day Of The Doctor, there will be exclusive interviews, monster moments and fans around the world giving their reaction, as they showcase how they are celebrating the special anniversary.

One Direction, the English-Irish pop boy band, will also be joining the party as they gate-crash the show live from LA to wish the Doctor a happy birthday.

Zai Bennett, Controller of BBC Three, says:

The Science of Doctor Who had an average overnight audience of 2.6 million viewers, according to unofficial figures.

The lecture in which Professor Brian Cox explains the physics that allows Doctor Who to travel through space and time, was the second highest rated programme on BBC Two for the day. It scored a 12.1% share of the total audience, beating the ITV offering, Breathless, which had 2.2 million watching. On BBC One the fundraising concert, Children in Need Rocks, had an average of 4.2 million viewers. Bedlam, on Channel 4 had 1.2 million watching with Slaughter at the Farm: Countdown to Murder getting 1.3 million.

Overall The Science of Doctor Who was the 16th most watched programme of the day. The programme is available to UK viewers on the BBC iPlayer and is repeated next Friday on BBC Two at 11.05pm.

The repeat of Buzzcocks: The Doctor Who Special, hosted by David Tennant and featuring Bernard Cribbins and Catherine Tate, had an average audience of 1.6 million watching, an audience share of 8.5%, and was 28th for the day.

UKTV New Zealand has announced that it will screen An Adventure in Space and Time on Saturday 23 November. The New Zealand premiere of the drama is scheduled at 5:50pm, immediately following eleven hours of previously announced Doctor Who anniversary screenings on UKTV.

The New Zealand broadcast, which appropriately enough takes place on the actual date of the anniversary, will be less than two days after the UK, and one day after North America.

The BBC have released a trailer for the forthcoming drama An Adventure in Space and Time, broadcast next Thursday on BBC2(HD) from 9:00pm.

The BBC have released a number of new publicity photos to promote the forthcoming 50th Anniversary adventure The Day of the Doctor. Images feature Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt as the Doctor, with Jenna Coleman as Clara and Billie Piper as Rose, and featuring Joanna Page as Elizabeth and Jemma Redgrave as Kate.

The Night of The Doctor

Some publicity images are also available for the minisode, The Night of The Doctor. (Note: these images are currently hidden by default for those who have yet to see the episode and its revelations.)

The BBC have released a special mini episode, The Night of the Doctor - an introduction to the forthcoming 50th Anniversary Special, The Day of the Doctor:




The 6'54" episode will also be available to watch on UK television via the BBC Red Button service over the course of the following week at the following times:

• Sat 16 Nov: 7:30-9:55pm
• Sat 16 Nov: 10:30-11:45pm
• Sun 17 Nov: 6:30-9:55pm
• Mon 18 Nov: 7-10:30pm
• Tue 19 Nov: 9:30pm-Midnight
• Wed 20 Nov: Midnight-7:00am
• Wed 20 Nov: 7:30pm-Midnight
• Thu 21 Nov: Midnight-7:00am
• Thu 21 Nov: 5:30-8:10pm
• Thu 21 Nov: 10pm-Midnight
• Fri 22 Nov: Midnight-7:00am
• Fri 22 Nov: 7:30pm-Midnight
• Sat 23 Nov: Midnight-2:30pm
• Sat 23 Nov: 6:00-7:45pm

BBC Radio Wales has announced it will dedicate its daytime schedule to Doctor Who on Thursday, November 21 - two days before the worldwide broadcast of the special 50th anniversary adventure, The Day Of The Doctor.

Two of the station’s daytime programmes, Jason Mohammad and Eleri Siôn, will be broadcasting live from the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff Bay on the day, with a host of special guests ready to tell the Welsh story of the legendary time traveller. Radio Wales will also be re-broadcasting the Doctor Who Prom that was performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London in July this year.

BBC Radio Wales’ Editor, Steve Austins, says: From 10am on Radio Wales Doctor Who Day, Jason Mohammad will be chatting with Jenna Coleman about her role as the Doctor’s current companion, Clara Oswald, and Steven Moffat, the show’s head writer and executive producer, will be answering listeners’ questions. Mohammad will also be talking to the curator of the Doctor Who Experience, Andrew Beech, and there will be a special item about how Wales has benefited from its association with the long-running series.

Mohammad’s connection with the series is stronger than some listeners of his Radio Wales show may appreciate, as he’s appeared as a newsreader on both Doctor Who and the spin-off series, The Sarah Jane Adventures. He’s therefore experienced some of the passion the fans have for the series at first hand. Eleri Siôn will take over the live broadcasts from the Doctor Who Experience from 1pm, with an interview with location manager Iwan Roberts about his job and some of the Welsh locations used on the series. There will also be an exclusive look behind the scenes as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales records the music for The Day Of The Doctor, including interviews with composer Murray Gold and conductor Ben Foster. Film critic Gary Slaymaker will also assess the impact Doctor Who has made on film.

BBC Radio Wales can be heard globally via the BBC Website.

The TARDIS is being taken on tour across Wales for a week as part of Doctor Who's 50th-anniversary celebrations.

The special event starts this weekend and will see the phone box appearing overnight at secret locations in eight towns and cities, with the exact spots revealed on the morning of each visit via #TARDIStourWales.

The tour culminates in Cardiff - where the series is made by BBC Cymru Wales - on the day that the special anniversary episode The Day of the Doctor is broadcast.

Brian Minchin, the series' co-executive producer, said: The tour itinerary is as follows:

• Saturday 16th November - Holyhead
• Sunday 17th November - Llandudno
• Monday 18th November - Wrexham
• Tuesday 19th November - Aberystwyth
• Wednesday 20th November - St Davids
• Thursday 21st November - Swansea
• Friday 22nd November - Newport
• Saturday 23rd November - Cardiff

The BBC have released a video of an event from BBC Cymru Wales, where Doctor Who's lead writer Steven Moffat looks back over 50 years of the show.

The BBC have confirmed that Doctor Who's very first adventure, An Unearthly Child will be broadcast next week on BBC4 as scheduled.

Recent newspaper reports indicated that writer Anthony Coburn's son Stef had challenged the Corporation's ownership of the copyright of the TARDIS, leading to a question over whether or not his father's story could be broadcast. Coburn himself stated this morning via his Twitter account that he had been informed that the BBC were not going to show the episodes.

However, the BBC Press Office have told us:

An Unearthly Child is to be broadcast at 10:30pm on Thursday 21st November on BBC4, immediately following the television premiere of origins drama An Adventure in Space and Time, showing on BBC2 from 9:00pm.