The animated adventure Dreamland was watched by an estimated 0.45 million viewers on BBC Two for its first television broadcast. The six episodes have been available for UK viewers to watch online, but this is the first time the complete programme has been available.

The audience share was 6.5% and the programme was the second highest-rated in its timeslot, getting double the audience of CITV.

The HD audience was below the threshold for accurate analaysis.

Here is a summary of some of the main Doctor Who-related programming across British television and radio over the forthcoming festive period. For a more comprehensive summary of all Doctor Who repeat broadcasts also taking place over the coming weeks, please see our sister site This Week in Doctor Who.

Updates since 30th December have a red border.

UK Broadcast Schedule

Monday 7th December	10.35-11.20pm		The Graham Norton Show	Appearance by Catherine Tate
Tuesday 8th December	1.30-2.30am		Loose Women	Bernard Cribbins (repeat from 12:30pm Monday)
Thursday 10th December	11.00-11.30pm		Chain Reaction	David Tennant interviews Richard Wilson (Repeat)
Friday 11th December	8.50-9.00am		BBC Breakfast	June Whitfield interview
Friday 11th December	5.30-6.00pm		Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf	Part One (Repeat)
Friday 11th December	7.00-8.00pm		The One Show	Ricky Tomlinson's Christmas TV Picks (End of Time clip)
Saturday 12th December	10.30-11.00am		Shelved	Documentary on abandoned programmes, including Shada
Saturday 12th December	5.00-6.00pm		An Hour With Jon Pertwee	(Repeat) Repeated at 11pm and 4am
Saturday 12th December	5.15-6.00pm		Doctor Who - Dreamland	(Repeat)
Monday 14th December	3.00-4.00pm		Alan Titchmarsh Show	Interview with Bernard Cribbins
Tuesday 15th December	4.35-5.00pm		Blue Peter	Joel Defries tracks down David Tennant
Tuesday 15th December	7.00-7.30pm		The One Show	Catherine Tate guests
Tuesday 15th December	9.15-10.00pm		Night Waves	Interview with Steven Moffat
Wednesday 16th December	10.00-10.30pm		Never Mind The Buzzcocks	David Tennant hosts, Bernard Cribbins and Catherine Tate guest
Thursday 17th December	~8.45am		BBC Breakfast	Christmas TV Shows Review
Thursday 17th December	6.00-7.00pm		Sisters of the Flame	Paul McGann Big Finish Audio Repeated 12.00am
Thursday 17th December	~6.25pm		BBC 6'O Clock News	The End of Time preview
Thursday 17th December	7.15-7.45pm		Front Row	Catherine Tate interview
Friday 18th December	5.30-6.00pm		Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf	Part Two (Repeat)
Friday 18th December	6.00-7.00pm		The Vengeance of Morbius	Paul McGann Big Finish Audio Repeated 12.00am
Saturday 19th December	10.00-10.45am		Doctor Who - The Infinite Quest	(Repeat)
Saturday 19th December	10.00-11.30am		Saturday Kitchen	Catherine Tate guests.
Saturday 19th December	Various/Online		E24	Christmas TV Highlights, including Doctor Who
Sunday 20th December	10.00-11.30am		Something for the Weekend	End of Time clips
Monday 21st December	~12:15pm		This Morning	Catherine Tate interview
Monday 21st December	~3:15pm		Colin Murray	Christmas Television discussion
Monday 21st December	6.50-7.00pm		Bedtime Stories	David Tennant reading Miki
Monday 21st December	10.35-11.20pm		The Graham Norton Show	Best Of
Tuesday 22nd December	6.50-7.00pm		Bedtime Stories	David Tennant reading How High is the Sky?
Tuesday 22nd December	7.00-8.00pm		Doctor Who – The Next Doctor	(Repeat)
Tuesday 22nd December	7.15-7.45pm		Front Row	Article on David Tennant's Hamlet
Tuesday 22nd December	9.00-10.00pm		Ruth Jones's Christmas Cracker	Russell T Davies guests
Tuesday 22nd December	9.30-10.00pm		Never Mind The Buzzcocks	(Repeat)
Wednesday 23rd December	10:30am-12:30pm		This Morning	June Whitfield interview
Wednesday 23rd December	6.50-7.00pm		Bedtime Stories	David Tennant reading Small Mouse Big City
Wednesday 23rd December	7.00-7.30pm		The One Show	Bernard Cribbins guests
Wednesday 23rd December	7.00-8.00pm		Doctor Who – Planet of the Dead	(Repeat)
Thursday 24th December	9.30-10.15am		Doctor Who - Dreamland	(Repeat) Red Button Commentary
Thursday 24th December	6.50-7.00pm		Bedtime Stories	David Tennant reading The Christmas Bear
Thursday 24th December	7.00-8.00pm		Doctor Who – The Waters of Mars	(Repeat)
Thursday 24th December	10.00-10.30pm		QI	David Tennant panellist
Friday 25th December	~7.35am, ~8.35am		Breakfast	John Simm, David Tennant/Catherine Tate interviews
Friday 25th December	11.15-12.10pm		The Sarah Jane Adventures	The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (Repeat)
Friday 25th December	6.00-7.00pm		The End of Time - Part One	Also on BBC HD
Friday 25th December	7.00-8.00pm		Doctor Who Confidential	Also on BBC HD at 8:00pm
Saturday 26th December	3.00am-4.00am		The Commentaries	The End of Time: The Doctor Who cast and crew discuss episode 1 of The End of Time.
Saturday 26th December	10.00am-1.00pm		David Tennant and Catherine Tate	sitting in for Jonathan Ross
Saturday 26th December	5.05-8.10pm		Hamlet	David Tennant stars
Saturday 26th December	8.00-9.00pm		Archive on 4 - Doctor Who: The Lost Episodes	Documentary on the missing episodes of Doctor Who
Sunday 27th December	11.15am-12.00pm		Desert Island Discs	David Tennant
Sunday 27th December	1.30-2.00pm		On the Outside it Looked Like an Old-Fashioned Police Box	Target novelisations documentary by Mark Gatiss (repeat)
Sunday 27th December	6.50-7.00pm		Bedtime Stories	David Tennant reading
Sunday 27th December	4.45-7.45pm		Hamlet	David Tennant stars
Sunday 27th December	7.00-8.00pm		The End of Time - Part One	(Repeat) Red Button Commentary
Sunday 27th December	9.00pm-10.35pm		The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties	(not confirmed, but almost certainly will feature Doctor Who!)
Monday 28th December	3.00-3.45pm		Archive on 4 - Doctor Who: The Lost Episodes	(shortened repeat)
Monday 28th December	6.50-7.00pm		Bedtime Stories	David Tennant reading
Tuesday 29th December	5.00-6.00pm		Who On Who?	David Tennant interviews Russell T Davies
Tuesday 29th December	6.50-7.00pm		Bedtime Stories	David Tennant reading
Tuesday 29th December	10.20-11.20pm		Alan Carr: Chatty Man	David Tennant and Catherine Tate guest
Tuesday 29th December	10.55-11.40pm		QI	David Tennant panellist (Extended Repeat)
Wednesday 30th December	6.50-7.00pm		Bedtime Stories	David Tennant reading Emily Brown and the Elephant
Thursday 31st December	~7:40am		GMTV	David Tennant interview (originally scheduled for 24th)
Thursday 31st December	~8:40am		BBC Breakfast	David Tennant guests
Thursday 31st December	~9:00am		Breakfast	David Tennant interview
Thursday 31st December	6.50-7.00pm		Bedtime Stories	David Tennant reading
Thursday 31st December	2.00-3.00pm		Doctor Who at the Proms	(Repeat)
Thursday 31st December	10.45pm-12.45am		Alan Carr: Chatty Man	David Tennant and Catherine Tate guest (Repeat)
Friday 1st January	12.55-1.55pm		The End of Time - Part One	(Repeat)
Friday 1st January	2.35-3.35pm		Planet of the Dead	(Repeat)
Friday 1st January	3.35-4.35pm		Doctor Who Confidential: Desert Storm	(Repeat)
Friday 1st January	4.35-5.40pm		The Waters of Mars	(Repeat)
Friday 1st January	5.40-6.40pm		The End of Time - Part One	(Repeat)
Friday 1st January	6.40-7.55pm		The End of Time - Part Two	Also on BBC HD
Friday 1st January	7.55-8.55pm		Doctor Who Confidential – Allonsy	Also on BBC HD
Friday 1st January	8.55-9.30pm		Doctor Who Greatest Moments - The Doctor	(Repeat)
Saturday 2nd January	4.05-5.05am		Doctor Who Confidential – Allonsy	(Repeat)
Sunday 3rd January	2.30am-4.00am		The Commentaries	The End of Time: The Doctor Who cast and crew discuss episode 2 of The End of Time.
Sunday 3rd January	3.40-4:55pm		The End of Time - Part Two	(Repeat)
Sunday 3rd January	7.00-8.15pm		The End of Time - Part Two	(Repeat) Red Button Commentary

Although BBC Television is only available in the UK, BBC Radio can be heard around the world via the BBC Website.

For a full International Doctor Who Schedule see

An additional 695,000 viewers watched the BBC Three repeat of The Waters of Mars, according to official figures issued by BARB this week. The programme rated as the 4th highest watched on the channel for the week.

Over 550,000 have now watched the programme on the BBC iPlayer. When all ratings are added together The Waters of Mars has now been watched by 11.5 million people.

Full Ratings data and Audience analysis for the Specials can be found in Gallifrey Base.

The BBC Press Office has confirmed the scheduling of The End of Time, the two-part final adventure for David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. Part one will be shown from 6pm to 7pm on Christmas Day, Friday the 25th of December. Part two follows from 6.40-7.55pm the following Friday, 1st January 2010 - New Year's Day.

In other news, the latest edition of Radio Times has confirmed the casting of Claire Bloom and Brian Cox in The End of Time.

Claire Bloom's casting has been rumoured in many press reports over the last few months but this is the first official confirmation from the BBC that she is in the episode. She has a long career in film and Television appearing with Charlie Chaplin in the 1952 film Limelight for which she won the BAFTA for Best Newcomer. She later won the Best Actress BAFTA for the 1986 film Shadowlands. She is a renowned Shakespearian actress who received great acclaim for her portrayal of Ophelia in Hamlet when she was just seventeen.

Brian Cox provided the voice over for the Ood elder seen in the End of Time trail at the end of The Waters of Mars and was the mystery guest star refered to by Russell T Davies in his Production Notes in DWM. Cox is best known for his role as Hannibal Lecktor in the 1986 film Manhunter as well many Hollywood films and also for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Nuremberg in 2001.

David Tennant's starring role in Hamlet can be seen on BBC Two on Boxing Day, Saturday 26 December from 5.05-8.10pm. and the Catherine Tate special, Nan's Christmas Carol, can be seen on BBC One on Christmas Day at 10.30pm.

Final figures now available for story five of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Mona Lisa's Revenge, give Part One an official audience of 1.12 million , with Part Two getting 0.92 million viewers.

The figures are almost identical to those achieved by the previous week's episodes and triple the average achieved by CBBC in this timeslot. Full ratings data and Audience profile can be found here.

Even though Series Three has now finished its run on BBC One, Sarah Jane continues to rate well with repeats of Series One getting ratings of around 0.6 million in the same slot.
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Final figures issued by BARB show the UK premiere of The Waters of Mars was watched by 10.32 million people.

On BBC1 the programme got 9.94 million watching, making it the second most watched programme of the week on the channel, just behind Strictly Come Dancing. However an additional 376,000 watched the simulcast on BBC HD. If these figures are combined then the rating is pushed above ten million and makes the programme the 5th most watched on British Television for the week. It got higher ratings than all the Soaps and was only beaten by the ratings juggernauts The X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.

If the HD figures are included in the total then the rating makes The Waters of Mars one of only 9 out of 754 episodes of Doctor Who to have made the top five programmes for the week. In terms of raw ratings, it is the episode with the 95th highest rating on first showing. Since the series returned in 2005 only four episodes have beaten this rating.

On Multichannel Television the HD showing is the biggest audience ever achieved by BBC HD, nearly 100,000 higher than the second placed programme. On BBC Three, Doctor Who Confidential was watched by 0.63 million with an additional 100,000 watching on BBC HD. This gave the episode a total rating of 0.73 million and made it the 19th most watched programme on Multi Channel TV for the week.

The third series of The Sarah Jane Adventures ended on a high with Episode One of The Gift getting an AI score of 84 and Episode 2 receiving a score of 87.

The scores are once more way above the average for Children's Television, which is 72.

Final figures now available for story four, The Eternity Trap give Part One an audience of 1.14 million with Part Two getting 0.93 million viewers, an increase of 200,000 viewers over the initially reported overnights.

Over 12 million tuned into BBC One to see the 3 minute preview of The End of Time on Children in Need last night.

The quarter hour beginning at 8pm had an average audience of 11.9 million viewers on BBC One, the highest peak of the evening on any of the channels. The share was 49.5%. Once the Doctor Who clip had been shown the audience dropped off by 2 million with some viewers switching to ITV1 for Coronation Street. Overall the first section of Children In Need had an average audience of 9.8 million. An additional 260,00 viewers watched the Doctor Who clip on BBC HD, taking the total above 12 million.

Meanwhile the final part of The Sarah Jane Adventures, The Gift, finished its strong run with an audience of 0.8 million and a share of 6.4%, far above the average for the channel at this time.

Episode one of The Gift was watched by 0.8 million viewers according to unofficial overnight figures, again far exceeding the average rating for the timeslot. The audience share was 6.2%.

Final figures will be released in two weeks time.

The Wednesday BBC Three repeat of the Waters of Mars was watched by 470,000 viewers according to unofficial overnight figures.