Issue 288 of Doctor Who Adventures is out today and comes with a free TARDIS wipeboard.

The magazine also examines the cubes from The Power of Three, says goodbye to Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in an interview, and shares the secrets behind Doctor Who's Dalek designs.

Packed with posters, quizzes, and cartoons as well, the publication is on sale until Wednesday 3rd October.

A deal has been struck between stickers specialist Topps Europe and BBC Worldwide to bring out a Doctor Who trading card game next year.

According to a report by Toy News, it will focus on key characters and images since the show returned to our screens in 2005, including those from Series 7. Topps will also be marking the programme's 50th anniversary by bringing out a line of memorabilia from across those five decades.

This isn't Topps' first foray into the worlds of Doctor Who. The company has previously brought out sticker collections related to the show, with the first one released in 2006.

Louise Ramplin, Topps Europe's entertainment marketing manager, said: As well as packets of trading cards, the collection will also include collector tins and starter packs.

The BBC have released a variety of photos to promote The Angels Take Manhattan, which will premiere on BBC1 next Saturday at 7:20pm.


The Angels Take Manhattan is due to be broadcast at these times around the world:

United Kingdom : Saturday 29th September, 7:20pm BST   BBC1
United States  : Saturday 29th September, 9:00pm ET    BBC America
Canada         : Saturday 29th September, 9:00pm ET    SPACE
Australia      : Saturday 6th  October,   7:30pm AEST  ABC (also on iView from 30 Sep)
New Zealand    : Thursday 11th October,   8:30pm NZST  Prime

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Additional photos from earlier episodes this year are also available to see, below.

Final ratings data for the week ending 16th September 2012 released by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board or BARB, puts Doctor Who as the ninth most-watched programme of the week on British television.

With 8.42 million viewers, A Town Called Mercy was the second highest rated programme on BBC Television for the week with only series premiere of the dance series Strictly Come Dancing out-rating it. Doctor Who beat every edition of the soap EastEnders.

The situation when ITV1 figures are added is complicated. When the raw figures for each channel are studied then Doctor Who appears to be 7th in the list of top programmes. However ITV1 HD needs to be added into the mix as the figures are calculated separately for the HD version for the independent channel, but added into the reported figures for BBC One. The BBC also includes ITV+1 when comparing their programmes with the opposition, as watching on ITV+1 is considered the same as recording a programme on the main channel and watching it later.

When these extra figures are added in, Doctor Who come in as the 9th most watched programme of the week, meaning all three episodes of this series have earned top ten places.

The final ratings figure does not include the BBC Three repeat, where around 500,000 watched. Nor do they not include those watching on iPlayer where around 900,000 people accessed the episode in the first four days.

Doctor Who: The Power Of Three had an Appreciation Index or AI score of 87.

The score is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the episode. It is based of a survey of 5000 people. The score of 87 puts the programme into the excellent category.

Doctor Who was the joint highest scorer on the two main channels for the day, along with Casualty and Formula 1.

With Sunday's overnight figures now available, Doctor Who is 19th for the week. Final consolidated ratings will be released next Monday.

Matt Smith is to appear at the MCM London Comic Con on 26th October 2012, where the actor will be signing and participating in a panel discussion with the show’s executive producer, Caroline Skinner.

The panel, which will also be made available online, forms part of the promotion for the Doctor Who: Series 7 Part 1 DVD, which is released commercially on 29th October. The DVD will be available to buy at the Doctor Who stand at ExCeL, and the first 100 people to do so will also receive a wristband which will allow them to get it signed by Matt Smith during the actor's session in the Signing Hall at the event.

Tickets for the MCM London Comic Con, which runs over the weekend 26th-28th October in London's ExCeL Centre, are available from their website.

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship was watched by 135,320 viewers on New Zealand's Prime channel last Thursday, and was once again the highest-rated programme for the channel that evening. Though down on last week's series opener, for comparison Night Terrors last year achieved 119,850 viewers (22 Sep 2011).

For other channels, similarly the top two shows were again TV2's Embarrassing Bodies (340,590 viewers) and TV3's The X Factor USA (311,730, 7:30-9:30pm average), followed by Sky Sport 2's International Netball (166,080, 7:40-9:05pm average), FOUR's American Dad (70,270, 8:30pm) and Family Guy (69,830, 9:00pm), Sky Sport 1's ITM Cup Rugby (43,080, 7:30-9:10pm average), and Maori TV's Code (22,890). Top show of the day was One News on TV One with 676,040 viewers.


Meanwhile, Asylum of the Daleks has topped the time-shifted TV ratings, with some 41,740 viewers - the figure indicates that almost a fifth of the total audience watching the show did so in this way! The consolidated rating for the show is now 213,430 viewers (19.56% share).

A Town Called Mercy had a final consolidated rating of 8.42 million viewers.

The final figure includes all those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days of transmission. It is a large increase on the initially estimated figure and gives the show a 33.4% share of the total TV Audience. It is the highest rating of the series so far, and the first time since the series returned that the third episode has outrated the series opener. It is the Best performing 3rd episode of a season since the 2005 story The Unquiet Dead.

The figure does not include those watching on iPlayer.

A full report of the week, giving Doctor Who's place in the top ten, should be issued by BARB tomorrow.

A Town Called Mercy has averaged 556,000 viewers in the five major Australian capital cities. Up against the football finals, it was the top-rating ABC drama of the day and the ninth highest rating programme of the day overall.

The Power of Three had an overnight audience of 5.49 million viewers, a share of 25.6% of the total TV audience.

The programme was down on last week, not having the benefit of a lead-in from Strictly Come Dancing, but was up on the rating for the fourth Autumn episode last year, The God Complex, which had an overnight figure of 5.2 million.

Doctor Who was the second highest rated programme of the day. Winner of the night was once more The X Factor, which had 8.24 million watching. Casualty was third with 4.0 million watching. Against Doctor Who, Red Or Black? on ITV 1 had 3.66 million viewers.

With Sunday's ratings still to come, Doctor Who is at 17th place for the week. Final consolidated figures, which will be available next week, should see this position rise.