Doctor Who Adventures 29

Thursday, 10 May 2007 - Reported by DWNP Archive

The press release for issue 29 of Doctor Who Adventures - out today - has been released by BBC Magazines.

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You might have to wait two weeks for the next episode of Doctor Who, but don't worry – the next issue ofDoctor Who Adventures is out on Thursday to help fill the gap!

But be careful - inside this exciting edition you'll find danger and monsters on every page…

Feel the heat with our preview of 42 (ooh, ouch, hot) and hide from the scarecrows as we look at Human Nature (scary!).

Also this issue:

*Monsters - find out facts about big face himself, the Face of Boe. Poor old Boe. And learn about Dalek Sec's new look in our pull-out monster guide.
*Comic strip - more comic danger for the Doctor and Martha in part two of The Skrawn Inheritance.
*Adventure guide - read our fact-packed feature on the first episode of the third series, Smith and Jones.
*Win - grab loads of cool stuff!
*Fun stuff - help the Doctor and Martha escape Florence and the Judoon.
*Who knows? - your Doctor Who questions answered. Do YOU know what happened to Margaret Slitheen or why Cyber Yvonne Hartman attacked the Cybermen? Find out here!
*Posters - this issue we've got posters of Daleks, the Lazarus monster, Judoon and the Doctor and Martha from The Infinite Quest.

PLUS all your usual favourites!

The issue comes with a choice of two different inflatable monsters – Dalek Sec and Ood or Sycorax and Cyber Controller. Who will you choose? There's also the second part of our huge Tardis poster for your wall.

Doctor Who Adventures issue 29 is out on Thursday 10 May. You can't miss it - there's a yucky Lazarus monster o




FILTER: - Magazines - DWA

Totally Competition Continues

Thursday, 10 May 2007 - Reported by Jarrod Cooper

Totally Doctor Who are continuing with their HANDPRINT COMPETITION
Every week on Totally we’re giving you the opportunity to win signed hand prints from our wall of fame.

Every week our celebrity Doctor Who guests are invited to give us a signed hand print. At the end of the series we’re going to give them all away to one lucky viewer.

If you want to win that amazing prize, you have tune in every week to Totally Doctor Who, and answer a question about the next episode of Doctor Who. You’ll need all 12 answers to stand a chance of winning this Totally exclusive prize.

Questions so far:

1.How many sides does the Globe Theatre have?
2.What kind of patch is Cheen wearing on her neck?
3.How much money is the Doctor offered to work in the sewers of New York?
4.What does the Doctor secretly hand to Martha before he goes to meet the Daleks?
5.Who does the Martha say the Doctor looks like when he’s dressed in black tie?

Send your answers to us at:

TOTALLY DOCTOR WHO
PO BOX 5158
CF5 9BD
or email us at: totallydoctorwho@bbc.co.uk

Remember, you have to answer all 12 questions to be in with a chance of winning.




FILTER: - Competitions

Meet Martha's family on Totally

Thursday, 10 May 2007 - Reported by Jarrod Cooper

Totally Doctor Who will be broadcast in it's normal time slot this week, despite the week delay for 42Freema Agyeman (Martha),Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Tish), Adjoa Andoh(Francine) and Trevor Laird(Clive) will all be on-hand this week for a conversation on being the new WHO family. Also in the episode will be Barney Curnow who worked on the Lazarus monster.




FILTER: - Series 3/29 - Press

Evolution - Final Ratings

Wednesday, 9 May 2007 - Reported by Marcus
Final official figures from BARB show that Episode Five,Evolution of the Daleks was watched by 6.97 millionviewers. This made it the seventeenth most watched programme of the week.

The programme was narrowly beaten on Saturday night byCasualty.

On BBC3, the repeat was watched by 1.04 million viewers. This made it the third most watched programme on all Multi Channel TV, being beaten byChampions League Live and Katie and Peter. It achieved a higher rating than Sky One's Lost.

The Friday repeat had 0.45 Million watching.

Doctor Who Confidential was 24th in the list with 0.59 million

Final figures include those who recorded the programme and watched it later.


Top Twenty TV programmes w/e 29 Apr 2007

1 CORONATION STREET (MON 1933) - 10.87 - ITV1
2 CORONATION STREET (MON 2030) - 10.69 - ITV1
3 CORONATION STREET (WED 1930) - 9.41 - ITV1
4 EASTENDERS (MON 2001) - 9.09 - BBC1
5 CORONATION STREET (FRI 1934) - 8.97 - ITV1
6 CORONATION STREET (SUN 1929) - 8.95 - ITV1
7 NEW TRICKS (MON 2100) - 8.37 - BBC1
8 EMMERDALE (MON 1902) - 8.25 - ITV1
9 EMMERDALE (TUE 1900) - 7.83 - ITV1
10 EASTENDERS (FRI 2000) - 7.76 - BBC1
11 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (TUE 1930) - 7.67 - ITV1
12 EASTENDERS (TUE 1930) - 7.45 - BBC1
13 EASTENDERS (THU 1930) - 7.44 - BBC1
14 EMMERDALE (WED 1859) - 7.23 - ITV1
15 CASUALTY (SAT 2037) - 7.14 - BBC1
16 KINGDOM (SUN 2102) - 7.05 - ITV1
17 DOCTOR WHO (SAT 1844) - 6.97 - BBC1
18 EMMERDALE (THU 1903) - 6.82 - ITV1
19 THE ROYAL (SUN 2000) - 6.78 - ITV1
20 EMMERDALE (FRI 1903) - 6.74 - ITV1

Multi Channel Top Twenty

1 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LIVE (Wed 1900) 1,814,000 - Sky Sports
2 KATIE AND PETER: THE NEXT CHAPTER (Thu 2100) 1,154,000 - ITV2
3 DOCTOR WHO (Sun 2000) 1,042,000 - BBC3
4 LOST (Sun 2200) 1,018,000 - Sky 1
5 FORD SUPER SUNDAY (Sun 1533) 834,000 - Sky Sports
6 FILM: BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON (Mon 2149) 752,000 - ITV2
7 BONES (Thu 2101) 729,000 - Sky 1
8 HOME AND AWAY (Tue 1828) 706,000 - Five Life
9 AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL (Mon 2100) 684,000 - Living TV
10 LIVE FORD FOOTBALL SPECIAL-MATCH (Sat 1200) 684,000 - Sky Sports
11 HOME AND AWAY (Wed 1829) 666,000 - Five Life
12 EASTENDERS (Tue 2159) 660,000 - BBC3
13 HOME AND AWAY (Mon 1829) 660,000 - Five Life
14 UGLY BETTY (Wed 2101) 646,000 - E4 In
15 HOLLYOAKS (Thu 1900) 645,000 - E4 In
16 DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (Wed 2300) 638,000 - E4 In
17 HOLLYOAKS (Tue 1859) 632,000 - E4 In
18 HOLLYOAKS (Mon 1900) 623,000 - E4 In
19 THE SIMPSONS (Sun 1832) 608,000 - Sky 1
20 HOME AND AWAY (Thu 1828) 599,000 - Five Life

Source BARB






FILTER: - Ratings - UK - Series 3/29

North America DVD Releases

Wednesday, 9 May 2007 - Reported by Jarrod Cooper

TvShowsOnDVD.com have announced August 14th as the North American release date for Robot and Survival.




FILTER: - Canada - USA - Classic Series - Blu-ray/DVD

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Wednesday, 9 May 2007 - Reported by Jarrod Cooper

McFarland Publishing have announced a new title, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: The Discerning Fan's Guide to Doctor Who, to be published later this year.
The long-running BBC science fiction program Doctor Who has garnered an intense and extremely loyal fan base since its 1963 debut. This work examines the influences of psychology, literature, pop culture, and the social sciences on Doctor Who storylines and characters. Topics explored include how such issues as class, gender, and sexual attraction factor into the relationships between the Doctor and his companions; whether the Doctor suffered from multiple personality disorder or other psychological afflictions; and the role of the Doctor’s native culture in shaping his sense of identity.




FILTER: - Books

Lazarus Experiment - AI figure

Tuesday, 8 May 2007 - Reported by Marcus
Episode six, The Lazarus Experiment received an Appreciation Index, or AI figure of 86

Once again the programme is in the excellent category, receiving the joint highest AI figure of Saturday, and the 4th highest figure for the whole week.

On BBC3 the Doctor Who repeats also scored highly, with Sundays repeat of Evolution of the Daleks getting a score of 84 and the Friday repeat scoring 85.




FILTER: - Ratings - UK - Series 3/29

Dalek I Loved You

Monday, 7 May 2007 - Reported by Josiah Rowe

Recently published is Dalek I Loved You, a memoir by journalist, critic and Doctor Who fanNick GriffithsDavid Tennant describes Dalek I Loved You as "A very funny book for anyone who grew up wearing Tom Baker underpants - I know I did."

The publisher's blurb is below, and you can see the author interviewed by a Cyberman onYouTube.
Nick Griffiths watched his first Doctor Who aged four and a bit. He would have hidden behind the sofa but it was back against the wall and his parents didn't let him move furniture so he hid behind a cushion instead. He's since been told by his mum and dad that they didn't have a sofa only armchairs. So this book should really be called Behind the Armchair, but that didn't sound right.

And so began a life long obsession. When Doctor Who started getting rubbish (after Tom Baker basically) he nearly escaped into the world of music and girls until he discovered someone selling tapes of old episodes in the small ads and that was that again.

Dalek I Loved You is an irresistible memoir of a childhood lived through the 1970s and 1980s. Writing with wit and humour, Griffiths takes us on a poignant and often hilarious journey through his childhood, where he first encountered Dr Who, into his teens where he is packed off to boarding school and discovers girls and David Bowie, onto his first formative years of employment at some hip but now defunct music magazines and into life as a father and husband who is now writing about his childhood passion for a living.

For anyone who hid behind the sofa, dreamed of far away planets, or remembers those long lazy carefree summers of your childhood, Dalek I Loved You will be a wonderful journey. He may not have a TARDIS to whisk you off to far flung galaxies, but in Dalek I Loved You Nick Griffiths reminds us that growing up is the greatest adventure of them all.




FILTER: - Books

Sunday Ratings Update

Monday, 7 May 2007 - Reported by Marcus
Overnight figures for Sunday show that the BBC3 repeat of The Lazarus Experiment was watched by 0.94 millionviewers, a 5.2% share of the multi-channel audience. The programme was the second most watched of the day afterFord Super Sunday on Sky Sports.

The repeat of Doctor Who Confidential got an audience of 0.47 millionviewers.

Final overnight figures for the week show that Saturday's Doctor Who was 14th in the chart for the week.

Final figures will be released by BARB in nine days time.




FILTER: - Ratings - UK - Series 3/29

Lazarus Experiment Overnights

Sunday, 6 May 2007 - Reported by Marcus
Unofficial overnight figures show that episode six of Series Three,The Lazarus Experiment, was watched by 6.7 millionviewers, a 37.1 % share of the UK television audience.

The programme returned to its position at the top of the UK ratings chart for the night, beating Casualty, which got 6.3 million. On ITV1, Vernon Kay's Gameshow Marathon got 4 million viewers.

With one day to go, Doctor Who is currently the 12th most watched programme for the week.

The programme was again top of the Children's chart with 1.5 millionviewers, which was a 60.7% share.

On BBC3, Doctor Who Confidential had an audience of 0.77 million, making it the 2nd most watched programme on multi-channel TV for the night, being beaten by Ford Football Special on Sky Sports.






FILTER: - Ratings - UK - Series 3/29