Australian overnight ratings for Kill the Moon

Monday, 6 October 2014 - Reported by Adam Kirk
Against stiff competition from the National Rugby League Grand Final, Kill the Moon averaged 447,000 in the five major Australian capital cities and was the fourteenth highest rating program of the day overall in the big cities (these figures do not include regional and rural viewers or time shifted viewers). For the second time this series, Doctor Who also slipped outside the top ten national programs as well (which includes the five major capitals and regional and rural viewers).




FILTER: - Australia - Broadcasting - Ratings - Series 8/34

Kill The Moon - AI:82

Monday, 6 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Kill The Moon had an Audience Appreciation Index or AI score of 82.

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.

Overall Doctor Who rated slightly higher with women than with men and scored the highest within the 16-35 age group. 45% of the sample thought the programme felt 'Fresh and New'.

Strictly Come Dancing topped the ratings for Sunday with 8.84 million viewers, while The X Factor and Downton Abbey took 2nd and 3rd place. Doctor Who is currently in 26th place for the week. Final figures will be published next week.

The Sunday repeat of Kill the Moon on BBC Three had an overnight estimate of 0.29 million viewers, a 1.2% share of the audience.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - UK

The Caretaker - Final Ratings

Sunday, 5 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
6.81 million watched the UK transmission of The Caretaker 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.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - UK

Kill the Moon - Overnight viewing figures

Sunday, 5 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
4.82 million viewers watched Doctor Who - Kill The Moon, a share of 21.5% of the total TV audience, according to unofficial overnight viewing figures.

Doctor Who was the third most watched programme of the day, with Strictly Come Dancing once more taking the top slot with 8.84 million watching. ITV's top prpgramme was The X Factor with 7.18 million viewers. Casualty was just behind Doctor Who with 4.74 million watching.

Doctor Who is currently the 21st most watched programme of the week. Final figures will be released next week.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - UK

Doctor Who Extra: Kill The Moon on the Red Button

Saturday, 4 October 2014 - Reported by Chuck Foster
The Doctor on the Moon (Credit: BBC/Adrian Rogers)The next edition of online behind-the-scenes show Doctor Who Extra, covering the seventh episode Kill The Moon, is also available via digital television's Red Button service on BBC channels at the following times:

Doctor Who lands on the Moon... Well, nearly! This week's Doctor Who Extra follows the cast and crew - and some scary 'spiders' - to Lanzarote, finding out what it took to create this stunning adventure!

Saturday9:10pm-1:10am
Sunday11:50am-2:00pm
Sunday4:00pm-7:55pm
Tuesday3:30pm-7:00pm
Wednesday2:30pm-7:00pm
Thursday3:00pm-7:00pm
Friday2:40pm-7:00pm

The episode is also available on YouTube.





FILTER: - Online - Series 8/34

Filming concludes on Series 34

Saturday, 4 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Filming has concluded on the 34th Series of Doctor Who, with the final shots of the 2014 Christmas episode now in the can.

Director Paul Wilmshurst tweeted The special stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, alongside actor and screen writer Nick Frost, who posted Filming commenced on 8th September, following the cast's world tour, and took place at a number of locations including Vaendre Hall, an Italianate Victorian manor house in St Mellons near Cardiff.

The episode is expected to be screened on BBC One on Christmas Day, with broadcasts following around the world.

A wrap party was held for cast and crew on Friday evening to mark the completion of filming on Peter Capalid's first series as the Doctor.




FILTER: - Filming Reports - Series 8/34

Radio Times Retro Poster

Saturday, 4 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
Radio Times' gallery of free downloadable retro posters for the current series of Doctor Who continues to grow with the creation by designer Stuart Manning for Kill The Moon which airs tonight.

Manning told Radio Times:
This one came to me pretty much the moment I read the episode title, Astronauts and moon landings feel very 1970s to me and, combined with the colour scheme of Doctor Who's standard-issue orange spacesuits, just somehow felt right

This is less of a pastiche of a specific style and more a mash-up of creepy old visuals – a bit of 2001, some '70s bleakness and a touch of those odd, abstract thriller novel covers of the era. Think of it thoroughly foxed and creased
Kill the Moon will be broadcast at 8.30pm on BBC One.

Kill the Moon (Credit: Radio Times/Stuart Manning)






FILTER: - Radio Times - Series 8/34

Time Heist - Chart Placing

Thursday, 2 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus

Time Heist has now been confirmed as being the 14th most watched programme on British Television for the week ending 21st September 2014.

The episode, which just slipped below the 7 million mark, with 6.99 million viewers, was the fifth most watched programme on BBC Television, where The Great British Bake Off took top place with 10.28 million watching.

The return of Downton Abbey on ITV, topped the chart with 10.71 million watching, while The X Factor had 9.94 million viewers. The drama based on the life of Cilla Black, Cilla took fifth place with 8.6 million viewers.

Figures include those watching within 1 week of transmission in HD, SD and via the +1 service. They don't include iPlayer.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 8/34 - UK

Mummy On The Orient Express - TX Time

Wednesday, 1 October 2014 - Reported by Marcus
The BBC have confirmed that the eight episode in the current run of Doctor Who, Mummy On The Orient Express, will broadcast in the UK on 11th October at the slightly later time of 8:35pm.

The programme will once more follow Strictly Come Dancing and will be followed by Casualty. On the other main UK channels the episode is scheduled against ITV's The X Factor (which airs from 8:00pm to 9:20pm), a repeat of Dad's Army, on BBC2, Grand Designs on Channel 4, and JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence on Channel Five.

The Doctor and Clara are on the most beautiful train in history, speeding among the stars of the future - but they are unaware that a deadly creature is stalking the passengers.

Once you see the horrifying Mummy you only have 66 seconds to live. No exceptions, no reprieve. As the Doctor races against the clock Clara sees him at his deadliest and most ruthless. Will he work out how to defeat the Mummy? Start the clock!




FILTER: - Broadcasting - Series 8/34

Retro TV to air The Mind of Evil in colour

Tuesday, 30 September 2014 - Reported by Chuck Foster
Colouring The Mind Of Evil (Credit: Stuart Humphryes)American broadcaster Retro TV will air third Doctor adventure The Mind of Evil in colour next month, the first television channel in the world to do so since the late 1970s!

With the original transmission tapes long-sinced erased, by the beginning of the 1980s only black and white prints of the episodes were still held by the BBC, meaning that the story has only been available to broadcasters around the world since then in that format. However, 2013 saw the story prepared for release on DVD with a newly colourised episode one by Stuart Humphryes (aka Babelcolour) and Peter Crocker, and colour-recovered episodes two to six by Richard Russell. Premiered at the British Film Institute in March last year, the story has since been shown a number of select locations, and made available on DVD and streaming services such as Hulu; Retro's broadcast will mark the first time the story can be enjoyed in colour on broadcast television once more.

Stuart Humphryes told us:
The work required to bring this classic serial back to colour was quite mind-boggling, but the fact it has been embraced so warmly by fans and now about to receive a wider audience through TV broadcast is extremely exciting and very satisfying and makes the thousands of hours worthwhile. I hope the viewers enjoy it!
More details about the colourisation process for episode one can be read via the Babelcolour website.

Episode One airs on Retro from 8:30pm on the 15th October.




FILTER: - Broadcasting - Classic Series - International Broadcasting - Third Doctor - USA