Doctor Who Magazine have passed on details on where people who wish to make a donation in memory of Elisabeth Sladen should send to; her family have nominated the hospice that cared for her:

Back in 2009, BBC's Blue Peter launched a competition for its viewers to create a new TARDIS console to feature in an episode of Doctor Who.

The finalists were announced in 2010, with Susannah Leah in the 11-12 category being the overall winner with her design below:


Today's programme will follow up on what happened next with the design:


Blue Peter is on BBC1/BBC1HD at 4:30pm.

(with thanks to Neil Gaiman)

Barb have now issued final ratings for the week ending 1 May making Doctor Who: Day of the Moon the 15th most watched programme of the week.

The placing is 20 points higher than that based on the overnight ratings, the rise being due to the large numbers who recorded the programme and watched it at a later date.

The last episode to fall outside the top twenty for the week, was Silence in the Library in 2008.

Monday's Today show on NBC featured the show's presenter Meredith Vieira visiting the set of Doctor Who and meeting some of the stars, including the current Doctor, Matt Smith, and River Song, Alex Kingston.

Today is America's most watched morning news and talk show. The feature is part of a series called Anchors Abroad, in which the shows presenters visit successful TV shows from around the world.

 

Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot, had an Audience Appreciation figure, or AI, of 86 once more putting it in the excellent category.

With nothing on Sunday getting more than 6 million viewers, Doctor Who finished 18th for the week on overnight figures, with a top ten place possible when the final figures are released next week.

The Sunday repeat on BBC Three was watched by 0.41 million viewers

Episode Two: Day of the Moon had a final consolidated audience figure of 7.30 million viewers, a 36.7% share of the total TV audience, according to figures released by Barb.

The number includes those who recorded the programme for viewing within 7 days of its initial showing. The figure is much larger than the initially reported overnight figure. A full report for the week, which will reveal the shows position in the weekly charts will be released by Barb tomorrow.

The figures do not include those watching on iPlayer, where over 1.2 million have accessed the programme within the first week of transmission.

The BBC have now released an introduction for the forthcoming fourth episode of Doctor Who, The Doctor's Wife, featuring Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, and writer Neil Gaiman:


There are also two new preview clips to whet appetites for the story, alongside the "Next Time" trailer, plus the television trailer for BBC America's broadcast later in the evening:

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The Doctor's Wife will premiere on BBC1/BBC1HD at 6:30pm, 14th May in the United Kingdom; then follows on SPACE in Canada at 8:00pm ET, BBC America in the United States at 9:00pm ET, and on ABC1 in Australia at 7:30pm on the 21st May.


 

6.2 million watched episode three of Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot, according to unofficial overnight figures.

Figures across the board were up on the previous week with Britain's Got Talent once more winning the day with 10.4 million watching. Doctor Who had an overnight share of 30.5% of the total audience, almost the same as last week.

The programme was 1.6 million ahead of the third placed Casualty. When Doctor Who finished, the BBC One audience dropped from 6.7 million to 3.3 million viewers. Against the Doctor, New People Do the Funniest Things on ITV1 had an average 2.8 million watching. Don't Scare the Hare, the lead in to Doctor Who had 2.3 million watching.

Doctor Who is now the 18th most watched programme of the week. Final figures, which are likely to see a much higher chart placing, will be released next week.

On BBC Three, Doctor Who Confidential was helped by the loss of the gap between the end of Doctor Who and the start of the follow up programme, and got 0.64 million viewers, up 80% on last week.

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Meanwhile in Australia episode Two, Day of the Moon, was the fifth watched programme of the day with around 0.90 million viewers in the five capital cities. The rating is slightly up on the previous week. It was only outranked by news programmes and Australia’s Funniest Home Videos on Channel 9.

The Mirror is running a promotion from today to give away figures from the Character Building range of LEGO-compatible toys.

Over the course of the next six days the paper will carry tokens that can be redeemed at either Sainsbury's or Toys'R'Us; Saturday kicks off with the 11th Doctor, followed by a Yellow Eternal Dalek on Sunday and Amy Pond on Monday.


You can watch an advert for the giveaway via the Mirror's YouTube channel.

(with thanks to David Brodie)

As if one Doctor taking on pirates wasn't enough, (The Curse of the Black Spot, tonight 6:15pm BBC1/BBC1HD), another will encounter some swashbuckling action too! Former Doctor David Tennant will provide the voice of Charles Darwin in The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, a new film from Aardman, during which the famous naturalist will team up with a pirate crew led by the Pirate Captain - the lead role being voiced by Hugh Grant (who himself had a brief flirtation with the role of the Doctor in Steven Moffat's The Curse of Fatal Death).

Other characters will be voiced by actors such as Martin Freeman, Russell Tovey, Salma Hayek, and Imelda Staunton (as pirate-hating Queen Victoria!).

The animated tale is based on two books from The Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe, who also wrote the screenplay, and is the first collaboration by Aardman with Sony Pictures Entertainment (their previous films being with Dreamworks). It is due to be released in cinemas March next year.