The final episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Blood Line achieved an average audience of 3.9 million viewers on BBC One and BBC One HD, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The episode had 17.1% of the audience share and was the 9th most watched programme of the day.

The programme faced strong opposition from Billy Connolly's Route 66, which had 5.4 million watching and which won the timeslot.

Final ratings, which include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days,will be released next week.

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The broadcast of the episode on Starz on 9th September achieved a total of 950,000 viewers over its premiere evening, with 640,000 watching at 10:00pm and 310,000 for the 11:00pm repeat.

With the figures of the finale in the United States now in, here is a round-up of how Miracle Day has fared over its ten week run thus far:

 

                        Starz Premiere     UK Overnight     UK Final BARB
The New World             1.506m *             4.8m             6.59m
Rendition                 1.4m  **             4.4m             5.75m
Dead of Night             1.018m               4.2m             5.49m
Escape to L.A.            0.935m               4.0m             5.19m
The Categories of Life    1.024m               4.1m             5.17m
The Middle Men            0.804m               3.4m             4.60m
Immortal Sins             0.917m               3.4m             4.48m
End of the Road           1.172m               3.5m             4.64m
The Gathering             1.024m               3.5m          (due 19 Sep)
The Blood Line            0.950m               3.9m          (due 26 Sep)

*  - Starz reported 2.7m viewers for the full week/Live+3 DVR data
** - This is a weekend figure, with 609,000 viewers for the 10:00pm broadcast

The second half of the 2011 series of Doctor Who premiered on Prime TV on Thursday evening with Let's Kill Hitler receiving 117,110 viewers according to unofficial overnight figures.

The first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day also premiered on Prime at the beginning of this month with 119,440 viewers while Episode 2 dropped to 58,550 and Episode 3 slightly increased to 73,910 viewers.

Prime Evening News was the most watched programme of the day on Prime for the 1st, 8th and 15th of September.

The BBFC have now classfied several more features that will appear on the forthcoming Complete Series 6 DVD/Blu-ray boxed sets, currently expected to be released during November.

In our previous update, the series finale The Wedding of River Song had yet to be confirmed; this has now been classified with a PG certificate and a running time of 45m 22s.

Commentaries have also been classified for some of the episodes from the series, with The Impossible Astronaut, The Doctor's Wife, A Good Man Goes To War, and The Wedding of River Song having been included (so far).

New features that weren't available on the earlier individual Part 1/Part 2 releases include the Comic Relief special, Time/Space, the preludes to the episodes that appeared on the BBC website, and other additional specially produced material:

Space & Time                U     6m 57s

Preludes:
The Impossible Astronaut    PG    1m 48s
Curse of the Black Spot     U     1m 23s
A Good Man Goes To War      U     1m 36s
Let's Kill Hitler           U     1m 55s
The Wedding of River Song   PG    1m 11s

Up All Night                PG    1m 55s (James Corden)
First Night/Last Night      PG    5m 45s (Matt Smith/Karen Gillan)
Bad Night                   U     8m 28s (Matt Smith/Karen Gillan)

As with previous releases, Doctor Who Confidential will be included in its "Cut-Down" form, though only the latter half have been passed at present:

 8. River Runs Wild        PG   12m 50s
 9. About A Boy            PG   13m 43s
10. What Dreams May Come   U    11m 10s
11. Heartbreak Hotel       PG    9m 15s
12. Open All Hours         PG   12m 47s
13. When Time Froze        PG    8m 59s

    The Night's Tale       U    15m 13s

The latter is an additional Confidential which has been listed for an as-yet unclassified item, A Night's Tale.

The BBC Press Office has confirmed that the first two episodes of Series 5 of The Sarah Jane Adventures, entitled Sky and written by Phil Ford, will broadcast on Monday 3 October and Tuesday 4 October on the CBBC Channel. The exact time is still to be confirmed.


A screening of the first two episodes will be shown at the BFI IMAX on 16th September at 6:30pm, with tickets now available to all. A Q&A with the cast and crew (subject to work commitments) will take place following the screening.

The BBC have released details for Week 40, which includes the synopsis of the episode of the current series of Doctor Who, The Wedding Of River Song; this is due to be broadcast on BBC One/BBC One HD on Saturday 1st October. The time will be confirmed next week.

The episode is written by showrunner Steven Moffat and directed by Jeremy Webb.

The Press office confirms that there will be an extra helping of the Time Lord's adventures in a special, one-off mini episode written by schoolchildren in Doctor Who Confidential the same night.

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Schedules have been confirmed for the previous week, Saturday 24th September, when Doctor Who Closing Time, will be broadcast at 7.10pm.

David Tennant is starring alongside Kenneth Branagh in an eight-hour BBC Radio dramatisation of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman.

The thirteen episodes will be broadcast from 18 to 25 September on BBC Radio 4.

This epic masterpiece, centred around the bloody battle of Stalingrad, charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Completed in 1960, the novel was deemed so dangerous by the KGB that the book itself was arrested.

Radio 4 can be heard on FM in the UK and around the world via the Radio 4 website. All epsiodes will be available for 30 days as a free podcast.
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The 2012 Guinness World Records features the man with the largest collection of Daleks in the world.

Rob Hull, a 49 year old from Doncaster in South Yorkshire, is recognised for having the largest collection of the deadly assassins from Skaro, with a total of 571 models, collected over 20 years.

The collection contains Daleks large and small including a 1.8 metre (6ft) lifesize replica model. He brought his first Dalek at 29 and has been collecting them ever since, despite not being a fan of Doctor Who.

Hull's wife Dawn is not celebrating the record.


Doctor Who, is already the holder of two Guinness World Records, having been named the Worlds Most successful sci-fi series in 2009 as well as being the Longest running sci-fi series. Last year Doctor Who Magazine was named as the world's Longest Running Magazine Based on a Television Series.

Matt Smith met up with wounded Royal Marine rowers on the 13th July when they were engaged in the Thames Challenge. The crew were greeted by the actor at the Leander Club at Henley, being there himself for the BBC film Bert and Dickie, the story of the 1948 London Olympic win by the duo. [Thames Challenge, 13th Jul; This is the West County, 12th Sep]

Arthur Darvill fulfilled a lifelong ambition to dive with sharks, as seen in Doctor Who Confidential last Saturday: "Something that has both excited and terrified me is the idea of swimming with sharks. I just think they are such fascinating and amazing creatures. I’ve been snorkelling a few times but to be able to swim with them in a controlled environment is just awesome. It was like something from James Bond, just stepping into this giant pool with massive sharks. I was fairly nervous but also really excited." [Chester Chronicle, 12th Sep]

David Tennant will be one of the hosts for Children in Need's Manchester Rocks concert, taking place at the MEN Arena on 17th November. Acts include Coldplay, Elbow, JLS, Lady Gaga and Hugh Laurie. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, proceeds in support of the charity. [BBC Press, 14th Sep]

Speaking at the launch of his Christmas pantomime (Robinson Crusoe And The Caribbean Pirates ), John Barrowman commented on future Doctor casting: "I think a female doctor might work, you never know. The audience might not like that. I know there's a lot of young girls and women who would love that. I think that maybe they should go out on a limb next time and try it. That always stirs things up a little bit and makes things exciting and it's nice to see different things and challenges happen like that. Listen, if Captain Jack can be an omni-sexual time agent and an assistant to the doctor, why can't we have a female doctor?" [Press Association, 13th Sep]

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch commented about rumours of him becoming the Doctor on the Jonathan Ross Show: "The rumours started because David Tennant is a friend of mine and he said 'going up for my old job?', and I said 'I don’t think I am'. They’re huge shoes to fill. One of the reasons is the Doctor Who job is so hard, because you are on the flask, you are on the school lunch box, you have to sometimes go on the school bus as Doctor Who on promotional tours. I like to keep the work on the set." [The Jonathan Ross Show, ITV1, 10th Sep]

Tonight saw the 15th annual TV Choice Awards take place at the Savoy Hotel in London, with Doctor Who winning the Best Family Drama award for the second year running; the programme beat spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures and this year's NTA winner Waterloo Road.

Karen Gillan won the Best Actress award for her role as Amy in Doctor Who; she was up against fellow "Who" names Alex Kingston (Marchlands), Elisabeth Sladen (The Sarah Jane Adventures) and Freema Agyeman (Law and Order UK).

However, Matt Smith lost out on the Best Actor award, which went to his predecessor as the Doctor, David Tennant (Single Father); other nominees included the other Doctor of this millennium, Christopher Eccleston (The Shadow Line).

Results for all categories may be found via the TV Choice Awards website.

This weekend sees the premiere of The God Complex, the latest episode in the current series of Doctor Who, broadcast on BBC1/BBC1HD at 7:10pm, 17th September in the United Kingdom; it then follows on SPACE in Canada at 8:00pm ET, on BBC America in the United States at 9:00pm ET, and on ABC1 in Australia at 7:30pm on the 24th September.


There are also three preview clips available from the episode:


The BBC published an interview with writer Toby Whithouse; plus, Arthur Darvill provides an introduction to the episode and on working with guest star David Walliams:


A number of publicity photographs for the episode have now been released: