2|Entertain have released cover art and content details for the forthcoming Series Six Part Two, due out on 10th October, and also details for The Sarah Jane Adventures Series Four (31st October).

Here is a list of the currently known open competitions related to Doctor Who - if you come across any competitions not listed please feel free to let us know!

Doctor Who News	3 Sep	Win cardboard figures of The Doctor and Amy Pond. UK residents only
Hamleys	4 Sep	Win 12 tickets to the Doctor Who Experience. UK residents only
Enjoy England	5 Sep	Win tickets to the Doctor Who Experience. UK residents only
Eye of Horus	15 Sep	Win one of ten copies of Day Of The Daleks on DVD (R2). Open Worldwide.
Cultbox	19 Sep	Win AudioGo releases on CD. UK residents only.
DrWho Online	30 Sep	Win one of three copies of Day of the Daleks on DVD (R2). Open Worldwide
DrWho Online	30 Sep	Win one of three copies of Blackout on CD. Open Worldwide
Eye of Horus	1 Oct	Win one of ten copies of Colony in Space on DVD (R2). Open Worldwide.
Eye of Horus	1 Oct	Win one of two life-sized cardboard cutouts. Open Worldwide.

 

Diamond Book Distributors have announced that first three of the recent Target novelisation reprints from BBC Books will be released in North America in early September:

(with thanks to Kuo-Yu Liang/Diamond Book Distributors)

The Radio Times has revealed that the BAFTA award winning actress, Imelda Staunton, will lend her vocal talents to the 10th episode in the current series, The Girl Who Waited, due for transmission on 10th September.

Staunton will play Voice of Interface in the story alongside Josie Taylor playing Check-in girl and Stephen Bracken-Keogh providing the Voice of Handbots.

Imelda Staunton, is best known for her performance in the 2004 Mike Leigh film, Vera Drake, where she played a working-class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abortions. The role won her the BAFTA and Venice Film Festival Award for best actress in a leading role. She was a regular in the Harry Potter film series playing Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge.

The Radio Times has also confirmed that actor Simon Callow will be returning to the series in the final episode of the current series, The Wedding of River Song. Callow last appeared in Doctor Who alongside Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, in the 2005 story The Unquiet Dead, where he played Charles Dickens. No details of his character in the upcoming story have been released.

Torchwood:End of the Road achieved an average audience of 3.5 million viewers on BBC One and BBC One HD, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The figure was slightly up on last week. The main opposition came not from ITV1, which was showing the documentary, 9/11: Day that Changed the World which achieved an average of 5.5 million viewers during its 100 minute slot.

The eighth in the Torchwood series had 15.0% of the audience share and was the 10th most watched programme of the day.

As always the overnight figure is only half the story with the final ratings, which include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days, being released in 10 days time.

Tonight sees the ninth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day premiering in the United States, with The Gathering being broadcast at 10:00pm ET on Starz; it will be repeated on the channel several times in the following week.

The broadcaster has also released three preview videos to introduce the episode (for US residents only):



The episode airs in the United Kingdom next Thursday (8th September) at 9:00pm on BBC1/BBC1HD. The episode will also be repeated on BBC2/BBCHD the following Tuesday at 12:20am, and available to watch online in the UK via the BBC iPlayer until 23rd September.

Doctor Who - Let's Kill Hitler may only have been available on the BBC iPlayer for the last five days of the month, but it still managed to be the most requested programme of August with just under a million requests.

As the month finished, 0.99 million people had accessed the first episode of Doctor Who since the series took its summer break. Top Gear, Episode 6 took second place with episodes 4,5 and 6 of Torchwood coming in 3rd. 4th and 5th for the month with around 0.7 million requests each. Torchwood Episode 7 was 16th for the month with around 0.5 million requests..
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The recent BBC Three repeats have seen the first episodes of the current series back on the iPlayer and given the first episode, The Impossible Astronaut, the boast it needed to become the most accessed programme of the year. So far 1.93 million requests have been made for the episode, ahead of comedy programme Come Fly with Me: Episode Two which has 1.86 million requests. Third for the year so far is Day of the Moon with 1.72 million requests.

The BBC have released details for Week 38, which includes the synopsis of eleventh episode of the current series of Doctor Who, The God Complex; this is due to be broadcast on BBC1/BBC1HD on Saturday 17th September, with the broadcast time yet to be confirmed.


The episode is written by Toby Whithouse and directed by Steve Hughes.

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Meanwhile schedules have been released for the previous week where Doctor Who – The Girl Who Waited, has been scheduled in the heart of primetime at 7.15pm. The episode will follow the 2011 launch show of Strictly Come Dancing.