Final figures show Doctor Who: The Girl Who Waited was the 13th most watched programme of the week.

Final Figures include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days, but do not include those watching on iPlayer where a million have so far accessed the episode. The included figures helped Doctor Who edge ahead of a episode of Coronation Street to take the 13th position.

Torchwood Episode Nine finished the week as number 36 in the chart.

The BBC have released three video clips to introduce the next edition of Doctor Who Confidential, Open All Hours, which is due to be broadcast on Saturday 24th September on BBC3/BBCHD at 8:00pm, straight after Closing Time.



The episode will be available via the BBC iPlayer after broadcast until 8th October.

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The BBC have also released a number of publicity photographs for Closing Time:

Doctor Who will go head to head with The X Factor, when the series finale is transmitted on Saturday 1st October.

The Wedding of River Song has been scheduled for 7.05pm on BBC One, directly following on from the first live Saturday show of this year's Strictly Come Dancing. The programme forms part of a double bill of fantasy on the channel with the story being followed by the season premier of Merlin.

Both are up against ITV1's biggest hitter in the form of The X Factor which starts at 7.30pm, half way through Doctor Who. The contest has reached the stage where celebrity guest stars will help whittle the number of contestants down from 32 to the final 16. The first half of Doctor Who will face All Star Family Fortunes, which just edged ahead of Doctor Who on overnight figures last week. This edition features Christopher Bisson of Emmerdale and McFly's Harry Judd.

Against the Doctor, BBC Two will be showing Frost on Nixon, not the film but an interview with TV presenter David Frost talking to broadcaster Joan Bakewell about his landmark interviews with former US president Richard Nixon. Channel 4 will be showing Channel 4 News followed by X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 spin-off prequel from the action fantasy X-Men series, starring Hugh Jackman. Channel Five will be showing the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge, starring Henry Fonda and Robert Shaw.

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The Sarah Jane Adventures will return at 5.15pm on CBBC on Monday 3rd October, with episode two being shown at the same time on Tuesday.

Doctor Who: The God Complex had an Appreciation Index, or AI score of 86.

The AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the episode. The score puts the programme in the excellent category.

The latest figures, for the April to June quarter, show that the average AI for BBC One has risen to 82, the highest score in the channel's history.

The BBC collects appreciation index (AI) figures from an online panel of 19,000 adults, who are asked to score programmes they have watched or listened to out of 10. Responses are then averaged into a score out of 100.

The AIs for BBC One and BBC Two rose by a point each on the last quarter, to 82 and 84 respectively, while BBC Three, remained static on 84 and BBC Four dropped one point to 84.

Last week's Doctor Who story, The Girl Who Waited, had a final consolidated rating of 7.60 million viewers with a share of 30.8% of the audience.

Consolidated figures include those who record and watch the programme within seven days. The final rating is much more accurate than the initial overnight figure and is based on the actual broadcast time of the programme, rather than its scheduled time.

BBC One's highest performing programme of the night was the launch of Strictly Come Dancing, with 8.31 million viewers

A chart position will be released later this week when final figures from the whole week are available.

Next weekend sees the the premiere of Closing Time, the penultimate episode in the current series of Doctor Who, broadcast on BBC1/BBC1HD at 7:10pm, 24th 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 1st October.



Writer Gareth Roberts talked to the BBC about writing the episode, and producer Denise Paul discusses what to expect from the story:

5.2 million watched Doctor Who: The God Complex on Saturday according to unofficial overnight figures.

The the programme was down on last week and had an audience share of 23.8%. It was the third highest rated show of the day.

Doctor Who was just behind All Star Family Fortunes on ITV1, which achieved an average of 5.3 million viewers. The celebrity quiz show was helped by the build up to The X Factor which boosted its audience in the last half hour to bring the average just ahead of Doctor Who, although the Time Lord will almost certainly gain back the lead when final figures are released next week.

Doctor Who's lead in Celebrity MasterChef had an average of 2.7 million viewers and the winner on the night was once more The X Factor, which had 10.8 million watching.

With one day to come Doctor Who is the 23rd most watched programme of the week.

On BBC Three, Doctor Who Confidential had an overnight audience of 0.52 million.

Official figures will be released next week.

The Girl Who Waited has debuted in Australia to respectable ratings. TV Tonight reports that, up against the football finals on the commercial stations, the episode averaged 513,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It was the top rating drama and the seventh highest rating programme for the day overall (after the major news bulletins, the football finals and the Australia-Ireland Rugby World Cup match). The corresponding Confidential Cutdown rated 324,000 viewers in the five major capitals. These overnight figures, however, do not include regional, rural and time-shifted viewers and hence significantly understate the actual national ratings.

The shortlist for this years Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards have been announced, and Doctor Who has once again been nominated in the Best Television Drama Series category; this is the third year running for the series, an award it has missed out on both other occasions to Being Human, the supernatural drama from Toby Whithouse (who also wrote this coming weekend's Doctor Who adventure, The God Complex).

Writers Steven Moffat, Richard Curtis, Gareth Roberts, Stephen Thompson, Neil Gaiman and Matthew Graham are nominated this time, representing the first half of the series broadcast in Spring. The series is up against The Shadow Line by Hugo Blick, and Accused by Jimmy McGovern, Danny Brocklehurst, Alice Nutter and Esther Wilson.

Steven Moffat is also up for another award, along with Mark Gatiss and Stephen Thompson, for the Best Television Short-Form Drama category for Sherlock; the other nominations are for Eric & Ernie by Peter Bowker, and Exile by Danny Brocklehurst.


The awards ceremony takes place on Wednesday 16th November at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill.

The guild is a trade union for professional writers and the awards are deemed to be special because the work of writers is honoured by their peers and colleagues.

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.