BBC Worldwide have announced that Peter Davison, the fifth Doctor, is to join the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular UK tour.

Davison has presented the tour in Australia and New Zealand in the past and made an appearance at the 2013 Doctor Who Prom Concert. Vision Nine and BBC Worldwide have today confirmed that he will host the UK events in May 2015 as well as the previously announced Australisian part of the tour.

In addition, given the very strong demand for tickets, one additional matinee performance has now been confirmed for Sunday 24th May at the SSE Arena, Wembley.

The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, which celebrates the world’s longest running science fiction TV series, showcases the music written by Murray Gold for the series since 2005 and features over 100 performers including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and members of the BBC National Chorus of Wales, conducted by Ben Foster. The first ever UK shows will be staged from Saturday 23rd May 2015 to Friday 29th May 2015.

Looking forward to the tour Davison said Tickets for the additional matinee performance on 24th May 2015 go on sale at 10am on Wednesday 5th November. Tickets for the other performances are on sale now.

Doctor Who Dark Water had an Audience Appreciation Index or AI score of 85.

The Appreciation Index or AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the programme. The score, out of a hundred, is compiled by a specially selected panel of around 5,000 people who go online and rate and comment on programmes.

On Sunday, six programmes scored higher than Doctor Who, pushing the show into 29th place for the week. Final figures and chart position will be released next week.

The Sunday repeat of Dark Water on BBC Three had an overnight estimate of 0.26 million viewers, a 1.0% share of the audience.

6.92 million watched the UK transmission of In the Forest of the Night according to consolidated figures available today, which include those recording the programme and watching within one week of transmission.

The final chart position should be available later in the week

It has been announced that the first ever unofficial german Doctor Who event will take place in Kassel on 24th - 25th October 2015.

According to the newly started Facebook page and Twitter account, the event is called TimeLash and will feature guests from the classic and new series.
The organisers plan to finance parts of the event via crowdfunding, which will start in the coming months. Details will follow shortly.

So far no further news are known, although the Whocast, Germany's only Doctor Who podcast, will discuss the event with one of the organisers, in an episode, which can be downloaded in the next few days.

5.27 million viewers watched Doctor Who: Dark Water, according to unofficial overnight figures, 22.4% of the total TV audience at the time.

Doctor Who was fourth for the day on overnights, with Pointless Celebrities, featuring former companion Bonnie Langford, edging ahead of the Doctor with 5.49 million watching, although this position is likely to be reversed when final figures are available.

Strictly Come Dancing was top for the day with 9.7 million watching, while up against Doctor Who, The X Factor had 7.45 million viewers.

Doctor Who is currently 23rd for the week. Final official figures will be available next Sunday.

Matt Smith features on the front cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly magazine to promote Terminator: Genisys, the fifth instalment in the Terminator series. The actor appears along side Jason Clarke who is playing John Connor. Smith is playing an as yet unnamed character but EW describe him as a "close ally of John Connor". He told the magazine of the new film:

David Tennant was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman recently to promote Gracepoint, the American remake of Broadchurch. During his appearance he talked of his time playing the Doctor.

Karen Gillan appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to talk about the ABC comedy series, Selfie, which she is the star of.


Peter Capaldi and Hugh Bonneville appear in the new trailer for the film adaptation of Paddington Bear. The film also stars Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton.

And finally... Sean Pertwee, who had a brief cameo in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, posted an image of himself dressed for Halloween as a familiar looking character...