CBBC has released a 40 second trailer for Series 5 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The first two episodes of the final series, Sky, will broadcast on the CBBC channel on the 3rd and 4th of October. Times are still to be confirmed.

Please note that this role is only open to internal applicants.

BBC Careers have published details for a job with the Doctor Who Production Team! The role is for the position of Assistant Script Editor, and is described thus:


The role will be based at the new Roath Lock drama production centre, where the department has now transferred to from Upper Boat. Job requirements include:

The full job description is available in English and in Welsh, and the closing date for internal applicants is 26th September 2011.

A similar role is also available for Casualty.

Episode Nine of Torchwood, The Gathering, had a final consolidated audience of 4.63 million viewers according to figures released by BARB.

The episode was the 17th most watched programme on BBC One for the week.

No figures have been published for ITV1 for the week, so a chart position for Torchwood and Doctor Who is not yet available. Figures should be released later in the week.

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.

As the public settled down to watch Doctor Who, the production team were anything but - they were spotted out and about in Cardiff Bay last night filming for the Christmas installment!

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.

This week saw the first public confirmation that production has begun on the forthcoming Christmas Special of Doctor Who, with cast and crew settling in at the Welsh town of Llanelli. Filming took place at the private residence of Stradey Castle over the last four days, with Matt Smith spotted at the production base during the course of the shoot.


Some photos of Matt Smith were also published by the Western Mail, though the BBC clarified that the guest star pictured with the actor was not the name suggested by the paper.

Production is now believed to be in studio for the next few days.

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In July, the BBC announced the new Executive Producer for Doctor Who, Caroline Skinner, who would be working on the Christmas Special alongside Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger. This weekend saw Moffat introduce her to Twitter followers, saying: