Episode Six of Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Middle Men, had a final official rating of 4.60 million viewers according to figures released by BARB.

The programme was the 18th highest rated on BBC One for the week.

The final result includes those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days. It does not include those watching on iPlayer.

Episode Seven, Immortal Sins, had an AI score of 81.

Thursday (1st September) sees the eighth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day premiering in the UK, with End Of The Road being broadcast at 9:00pm on BBC1/BBC1HD. The episode will also be repeated on BBC2/BBCHD the following Tuesday at 12:20am, and available to watch online in the UK via the BBC iPlayer until 23rd September.

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Writer Jane Espenson recently talked to the BBC Press Office about her work on Torchwood.

Doctor Who: Let's Kill Hitler had an Appreciation Index score of 85.

The Appreciation Index or AI is a measure of how much an audience enjoyed a programme. Figures are based on ratings from a selected panel of 5000 people. The average score for BBC One is 80 with the average for the current Doctor Who timeslot being 82, and the average for Drama being 85.

6.2 million viewers tuned in to watch Let's Kill Hitler, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The programme had a share of 28.7% of the total TV audience and was the most watched programme of the day on BBC One. The total included 1.02 million viewers who were watching on BBC One HD.


The X Factor on ITV 1 won the day with 10.6 million watching. Against Doctor Who ITV1 scored 5.4 million for All Star Family Fortunes.

Doctor Who's audience was steady throughout the episode, with an initial figure of 6.2 million rising to a peak of 6.3 million. With one day to come, Doctor Who currently stands at 17th for the week.

Final figures, which will be released in 8 days time, should see the final total rise considerably, when those who record the episode and watch it later are factored in.

On BBC Three 0.51 million watched Doctor Who Confidential.

Torchwood:Immortal Sins achieved an average audience of 3.4 million viewers on BBC One and BBC One HD, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The figure was the same as last week, although this week the main opposition came not from Big Brother, but from the first network showing of the feature film, The Duchess staring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, which gave BBC Two an average of 3.1 million viewers between 9pm and 10.40pm.

The seventh in the Torchwood series had 14.9% of the audience share and was the 10th most watched programme of the day. ITV1 was showing Show Me the Funny Live Final which had 2.6 million viewers. Torchwood started with 3.8 million viewers for the first quarter, which fell to 3.2 million, before recovering to 3.4 million.

As always the overnight figure is only half the story with the final ratings, which include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days, being released in 10 days time.

Mondays late night repeat of episode Six, The Middle Men. was watched by 0.3 million.

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The premiere broadcast of the episode on Starz on 19th August achieved 662,000 viewers on its 9pm showing, with an additional 255,000 on the 11pm repeat that night. This gave an overall total of 917,000 viewers, showing an increase of 14% over the audience for The Middle Men the previous week.

The BBC has confirmed that episode Nine of the current series of Doctor Who, Night Terrors will be shown at 7pm on Saturday 3rd Sepetmber.

The start time is similar to that of the previous week's episode, Let's Kill Hitler which will be shown at 7.10pm this Saturday.

On BBC One Night Terrors will follow the second celebrity edition of All New Total Wipeout, which this week features comedian Dom Joly, former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan, actress Susie Amy and retired footballer Neil Ruddock. It is followed by The National Lottery: Secret Fortune.

ITV 1 will be showing a brand new series during Doctor Who, pitting the Time Lord up against his old enemy Ant and Dec. The Geordie duo will host a new game show, Red of Black?, in which contestants guess the outcomes of a series of challenges for the chance to win £1million on the spin of a wheel. It was Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway which provided the opposition to Rose, the first Doctor Who episode after the series took is long haiitus, it was a battle which Doctor Who won with 10.6 million viewers to Ant and Dec's 7.2 million.

The on the day winner is likely to be The X Factor at 8.15pm.

BBC Two will offer Flog It as an alternative to Doctor Who asking if a Monart vase, a bronze or naval memorabilia will bring home a profit.

Channel 4 offers Great Migrations, an insight into the motives that drive such creatures as walruses, whale sharks, zebras, orang-utans and plankton to migrate. while Channel Five has One-Day International Cricket, England v India.

Next Thursday (25th August) sees the seventh episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day premiering in the UK, with Immortal Sins being broadcast at 9:00pm on BBC1/BBC1HD. The episode will also be repeated on BBC2/BBCHD the following Monday at 11:20pm, and available to watch online in the UK via the BBC iPlayer until 23rd September.

SFX have launched the Sci-Fi Awards for 2012, and unsurprisingly Doctor Who and Torchwood are suggestions for a number of the categories.


Both shows are suggested in the Best TV Show; others include Being Human, Fringe, Game of Thrones, Misfits, Primeval, and The Walking Dead. Matt Smith and Karen Gillan are suggested for the Best Sci-Fi Actor and Actress categories, with the latter also featuring Alex Kingston (River Song), Suranne Jones (Idris) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper/Torchwood); other nominees include Aidan Turner and Russell Tovey for Being Human, Andrew Lincoln for The Walking Dead, and Antonia Thomas and Lauren Socha for Misfits. Myles and Jones also pop up in the Sexiest Female category, with John Barrowman represented in Sexiest Male.

Best Monster or Villain sees Madame Kovarian and The Silence suggested, against enemies such as The Red Skull from Captain America, Crowley (played by Doctor Who guest star Mark Sheppard) from Supernatural and Loki from Thor. Best Special Effect is represented by the opening sequence from A Good Man Goes To War; this competes against Asgard from Thor, Paul from Paul, and the train crash in Super 8.

Doctor Who is also suggested in the Best Collectable, Model, Toy or Boardgame category, with the Character Building TARDIS mini set competing with the Fifth Doctor and Tegan fancy dress outfits, plus items like Thor's Hammer and Captain America headphones.

Finally, the UK censored scenes of Jack from Torchwood: Miracle Day is mentioned in the Biggest Disappointment or Missed Opportunity category; this contains amongst other things the fairies in True Blood, Stan Lee absent from X-Men First Class, and Outcasts!


These are SFX's suggestions - you can actually vote for anything that has been released, published or broadcast between 15th December 2010 and 19th October 2011 via the voting site.

The winners will be revealed live at the SFX Weekender that takes place in early February 2012 and will be hosted by author Robert Rankin; the results will also be printed in Issue 219 of SFX (due out on the 8th February).

The sixth edition of Doctor Who Insider will be available in North America from 1st September.

In this issue, Matt Smith looks to the future:

Also in this issue:

• ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH... Matt Smith is back for adventures new as the Eleventh Doctor and he tells Doctor Who Insider what we have to look forward to.
• BEING GREEN Insider talks exclusively to Neve McIntosh who has hidden beneath the scaly reptilian skin of three Silurians – sisters Alaya and Restac in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood and the sword wielding Madame Vastra in A Good Man Goes to War.
• WARRIOR WOMAN Insider concludes its exclusive interview with Louise Jameson who played the Fourth Doctor’s companion, Leela. Louise gives us her thoughts on each of the nine stories in which she starred and on her continued involvement with Doctor Who.
• A NEW DAY As the 1972 story Day of the Daleks is released on DVD, Insider discovers how the Third Doctor’s first clash with his old enemies has been given a 21st Century makeover for a Special Edition version of the story.
• I WAS... LORD CHARLES CRANLEIGH Actor Michael Cochrane recalls his adventures with two different Doctors – as Lord Cranleigh in the two‐part historical story Black Orchid opposite Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, and as the barking mad Redvers Fenn‐Cooper with Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy in Ghost Light.
• NEXUS POINT The moment of all moments takes its bow this issue as the Fourth Doctor asks himself "Do I have the right?" when the fate of the Daleks lies in his hands in Genesis of the Daleks.
• DATA FILE The First Doctor kicks off a new series of Data Files as we examine the life and times of each Doctor and the companions who traveled with him.
• TIME SCOOP The Doctor’s own people, the once all‐powerful, but ultimately doomed Time Lords of Gallifrey are caught in the Scoop this issue.
• THE RECREATION GENERATOR In this special TARDIS themed edition, we present the winner and finalists of BBC AMERCIA’s recent Where’s the TARDIS? competition.
• MERCHANDISE Previews of the latest Doctor Who merchandise, including Day of the Daleks on DVD, featuring an interview with Valentine Palmer who played the rebel leader, Monia. Authors James Goss and Darren Jones discuss Hounds and Horror as their talking books, The Hounds of Artemis and The Eye of the Jungle are published by AudioGO. Writer Jonathan Morris tells us how he approached writing for the Weeping Angels in his latest Doctor Who novel, Touched by an Angel. And David J Howe updates us on the latest Doctor Who merchandise including a new range of 8” Doctor Who figures and plush Daleks!

PLUS! The latest official news and a giant, double‐sided poster of the Eleventh Doctor with Madame Vastra and the First Doctor.


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Episode Five of Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Categories of Life, had a final official rating of 5.17 million viewers according to figures released by BARB.

The programme was the 19th highest rated on BBC One for the week. While the rating was similar to previous weeks the chart placing was much lower because of the exceptionally high ratings achieved by news programmes during the periods of civil disturbance in several English cities which occurred at the start of the week

The final result includes those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days. It does not include those watching on iPlayer.

Episode Six, The Middle Men, had an AI score of 85.