Doctor Who Adventures - 61

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Adventures issue 61, is now out across the United Kingdom.
PRESS RELEASE

Ood news!

This week’s issue of Doctor Who Adventures is an really Ood issue. There’s a menacing red-eye Ood staring out on the cover and inside we look at our favourite moments of last week’s scary episode! You can also test out how well you know the Ood with our tricky quiz.

The issue comes with a FREE Judoon notepad, a set of monster tags and there’s also the final part of our giant Doctor Who double-sided poster. On one side you get a picture of Donna and on the other you get all the monsters from the last series!
PLUS:
Three brand-new posters: Miss Foster, Planet of the Ood and the Master.
The Sontaran Stratagem: special preview of the next Doctor Who episode.
Tales from the TARDIS: the Titanic is about to hit Buckingham Palace…
Fact file: all you need to know about the Pyrovile.
Activity: make a cool 3-D Cyber head!
Doctor's Data: Foon Van Hoff.
Create your own monster winner: we reveal the winning monster – who also stars in a special comic strip with the Doctor.
Time Teasers: Ood food and Bloodtide and Doomfinger with a fun word search.
Who knows! Are Cybermen from Earth and can Weeping Angels fly?
Win: answer the questions correctly and you could win loads of prizes!
Subscription offer: if you subscribe you’ll get a FREE Doctor Who audiobook – The Feast of the Drowned.
AND LOADS MORE!

Sadly, DWA is not available on the Ood home planet.




FILTER: - Magazines - DWA

Christmas Special Cast Member Revealed

Tuesday, 22 April 2008 - Reported by DWNP Archive
Posted By John Bowman

David Morrissey has been reunited with his Blackpool co-star David Tennant for this year's Doctor Who Christmas special.

According to a report by the Press Association, the pair appeared on set yesterday in the grounds of Gloucester Cathedral.

Further details are given in the spoiler box - which may contain information you do not want to know. The PA report - with pictures - was carried today by the Daily Mail. Again, do not click on the link if you want to remain spoiler-free.
According to PA:

"College Green was covered with artificial snow for the scene filmed today, in which mourners in Victorian costume marched in front of a horse-drawn cart carrying a coffin.

"Tennant was dressed in the Doctor's trademark ankle-length brown coat, while Morrissey was kitted out in full period garb - a tan knee-length jacket and red waistcoat.

"A security guard sat in front of the Tardis, which was tucked down a nearby alleyway, covered by a white sheet.

"Tennant waved to the crowds as the crew prepared the intricate set and covered the surrounding historic buildings with fake snow.

"Secrecy surrounds the Christmas episode's storyline, but it's believed to feature the Cybermen - the Doctor's deadliest enemies."

Elsewhere, it has been reported that Dervla Kirwan is also in the special.




FILTER: - People - Production - Series 4/30

Radio Times cover revealed

Monday, 21 April 2008 - Reported by Anthony Weight

The official Radio Times website has revealed a preview of the Doctor Who themed cover for next week's edition of the magazine, which is released to newsstands in the UK tomorrow.

The cover features an image of a Sontaran from the forthcoming two-part story "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky", which begins this Saturday at 6.20pm on BBC One.

The cover of the magazine also advertises the free CD of part one of the Doctor Who audiobook "The Resurrection Casket", which is being given away free with the magazine. The concluding part will be included with the following week's edition.




FILTER: - Magazines - Series 4/30 - Radio Times

Planet of the Ood - AI and Digital Ratings

Monday, 21 April 2008 - Reported by Marcus
Episode Three of series four of Doctor Who, Planet of the Ood, achieved an Appreciation Index of 87.

With overnights now available for the whole week, Doctor Who is currently the 15th most watched programme of the week. Final figures will be released byBARB in 9 days time.

Saturday's edition of Doctor Who Confidential was watched by 0.65 million viewers, according to unofficial overnights. The programme, which had a share of 3.3%, was the 4th most watched on multi channel television on Saturday.

Sunday's BBC3 repeat of Planet of the Ood got an overnight audience of 1.03 million, a 4.7% share and was the 4th most watched programme on multi channel TV for Sunday. Doctor Who Confidential got an audience of 0.55 million for the repeat showing.

Meanwhile last Friday's repeat of The Fires of Pompeii got an audience of 0.43 million and was the 7th most watched multi channel programme for the day.




FILTER: - Ratings - UK - Series 4/30

Planet of the Ood - Overnight Ratings

Sunday, 20 April 2008 - Reported by Marcus
Unofficial figures show that episode three of Series Four, Planet of the Ood, was watched by 6.9 million viewers, giving it a 33.4% share of the total television audience.

The programme was the second most watched of the day, being beaten by ITV1's Britain's Got Talent, which got a massive 10.3 million. It won the time slot, beating Animals Do the Funniest Things, which got 4.0 million viewers.

The audience grew by nearly two million during the programme and peaked in the last quarter hour at 7.5 million. The programme is currently the 14th most watched for the week. Final figures will be released byBARB in ten days' time.




FILTER: - Ratings - UK - Series 4/30

Radio Times Cover

Sunday, 20 April 2008 - Reported by Marcus
Next week's edition of Radio Times will once more feature a Doctor Who cover. Details are secret but the episode featured includes the return of the Sontarans. The cover will be revealed on the Radio Times website at 4pm on Monday 21st April.

The Radio Times will also contain a free BBC Doctor Who audio CD - part one of a two-CD set of The Resurrection Casket, written by Justin Richardsand read by David Tennant.




FILTER: - Magazines - Radio Times

Doctor Who Adventures 60

Saturday, 19 April 2008 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Adventures issue 60 is out now across the United Kingdom.
Press Release

Catherine Tate interviewed in this week's Doctor Who Adventures magazine.

You can't have failed to notice that there's a new person travelling aboard the TARDIS – Donna Noble, as played by Catherine Tate. In this week's Doctor Who Adventures Catherine Tate tells the magazine about the fun she's having playing the character.

Did she watch Doctor Who when she was growing up? "No! I remember the theme tune but it was never as interesting to me as Basil Brush. I didn't know the Doctor regenerated until Christopher Eccleston turned into David. It was incredible!"

About stunts: "Kneeling in the TARDIS is like kneeling on razor blades! I've got black and blue knees! I got absolutely battered during the first episode. David wants to do all his own stunts, though!"

If she could really time-travel, would Catherine go and meet herself in the past? "If someone came in now and said, 'Hi, I'm you at 50!' you wouldn't say, 'Oh, go on, take a seat!' I can't answer without my head exploding!"

Read the whole interview in this week's Doctor Who Adventures magazine. Free with this week's issue is a deadly Dalek pen and notepad and the second part of a massive double-sided poster – inside the TARDIS on one side, and the monsters of Series Two on the other.

PLUS:
Four cool posters: The Fires of Pompeii, an Ood, Donna and a Dalek!
The Fires of Pompeii: our favourite bits from last week's episode.
Planet of the Ood: be prepared for a trip to an alien world.
Quiz: test your knowledge on The Fires of Pompeii.
Activity: make your own Son of Mine mask.
Draw: create your own Dalek Sec Hybrid!
Doctor's Data: discover Third Doctor facts.
Puzzle: work out our Krillitane conundrum.
Comic strip: the final part of The Poison Planet.
Time Teasers: Tummy of Terror and a parallel picture!
Who knows! What happened to Margaret Slitheen and why did Lucy shoot the Master?
Win: goodies up for grabs!
Subscription offer: if you subscribe you'll get a FREE Doctor Who audiobook – The Feast of the Drowned.
AND LOADS MORE!




FILTER: - Magazines - DWA

Tennant And Tate For Festival

Thursday, 17 April 2008 - Reported by DWNP Archive
Posted By John Bowman

David Tennant and Catherine Tate will be star speakers later this year at the Times Cheltenham Literary Festival, it was announced today.

They will talk about working with the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as on Doctor Who.

The event runs from October 10 to 19. Precise dates for appearances have yet to be announced.

Reported by thelondonpaper and the Press Association.




FILTER: - People - Catherine Tate - David Tennant

Classic Series Toys Pics

Wednesday, 16 April 2008 - Reported by Jarrod Cooper
Character Options has released the first photos of the upcoming Classic Seriesrange of 5 inch toys. Each figure pack will include a different part of the giant K-1 robot from the fourth Doctor's first story, Robot in 1974. When all eight packs are collected, the giant robot will be complete.

The first wave will include The Fourth Doctor, The Fifth Doctor, The Sixth Doctor, a Sea Devil, a Zygon, Magnus Greel and Mr Sin, SV7 and D84 (Robots of Death).

Also being launched is a Doctor Who 5 inch Classic Dalek Set – this set will include Daleks from The Dead Planet, (1963), The Planet of the Daleks, (1973) and Genesis of the Daleks (1975).

More information on this line can be found at DoctorWhoToys.net

Thank You to John Davies from the Doctor Who Forum for assistance with this story!!




FILTER: - Merchandise

BBC Wins Dalek Book Battle

Wednesday, 16 April 2008 - Reported by DWNP Archive
Posted By John Bowman

The BBC's commercial arm won a High Court battle today concerning a book about the Daleks.

Publisher JHP, which brought out four Dalek-related books in the 1960s that had input from Dalek creator Terry Nation, claimed that BBC Worldwide's The Dalek Survival Guide, which was published in 2002, had infringed its copyright by using material from one of the books.

But according to a report on BBC News, Mr Justice Norris said that although JHP had the licence to bring out the original books - three annuals plus The Dalek Pocketbook and Space-Travellers' Guide - it did not own the copyright.

In 2001, both sides had started working together on a new venture involving the original books plus fresh material, but it foundered after JHP disliked BBC Worldwide's plans.

JHP had claimed that the subsequent Dalek Survival Guide copied The Dalek Pocketbook and Space-Travellers' Guide material. However, the judge ruled that no substantial copying had taken place, and said it was "inherently improbable" that Nation, who died in 1997, would have assigned copyright to JHP.




FILTER: - Production - Books