The Gallifreyan Newsroom

The ratings are falling!! The ratings are falling!! Doctor Who has been the linchpin of BBC One’s Saturday night schedule for a decade now. But with audience figures apparently on the decline – just 4.6m tuned in live to watch the latest series premiere – is the show facing an uncertain future? Here, we take a long look at the tough questions being asked of the sci-fi series, and pose one of our own: Is it really as bad as all that? Why…

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The Doctor Who Experience is offering you thr chance to ask the 6th Doctor all of your cosmic questions. Colin Baker will pilot the TARDIS directly into the Cardiff exhibit on Saturday, October 10 for a Q&A session with fans of the Time Lord. It’s your chance to quiz the 6th Doctor on grappling with the Sontarans, surviving his companion Mel’s insane exercise regimen and his trial on Gallifrey. You can book tickets now through the official Doctor Who Experience website. The Doctor…

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BBC One controller Charlotte Moore has not ruled out the possibility of the next Doctor Who being a woman. Moore, who is responsible for the strategy and all the shows commissioned on the flagship channel, said she would never “put a bar” on the direction in which producers wanted to take the programme.   “Peter Capaldi is a fantastic Doctor, and he’s broken the mould. But I’d never put a bar on that,” she told Radio Times. “The great thing about…

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It’s hard for true Whovians to explain Doctor Who to a noob at the best of times, so we don’t envy Jenna Coleman having to do so on Conan last night. Conan O’Brien asked The Doctor’s current companion to give him a quick lesson on the BBC’s long-running sci-fi series, and it’s likely that she was squirming inside every time he called the Time Lord ‘Doctor Who’. He has a long way to go. Jenna gave Conan some sage words of advice when it comes to…

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Final numbers for Doctor Who’s series 9 premiere have arrived, and it’s good news for fans of the BBC sci-fi series. Originally aired September 19 on BBC One, ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’ has a consolidated 7-day rating of 6.54 million viewers. That’s an increase of 1.96m from the original overnight figure of 4.58m. The final figure includes those who recorded and watched the show within one week of transmission, or watched on BBC iPlayer through their television. It does not include audiences…

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Slipknot’s Corey Taylor is turning his hand to TV, lending his voice to a villain from Doctor Who. The musician’s signature scream will allegedly be used on next Saturday’s (October 3) show, The Mirror reports. Taylor will lend his scream to the evil Fisher King, which will reportedly be heard on the next episode of the show as the new villain battles Peter Capaldi’s Doctor The Slipknot star shared his excitement at his involvement on Twitter, writing: “You have NO idea how hard it’s been…

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It seems we definitely won’t be seeing more than one series of Doctor Who a year anytime soon – as Peter Capaldi has said an increase in the number of episodes made would create “casualties”. The actor, who plays the 12th incarnation of the Time Lord, told an audience at the Radio Times Festival that the cast and crew don’t have enough energy to make more than one series a year. “We’ve been going since January 6 and the crew, who are wonderful, are exhausted,” he…

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Fans of Doctor Who companion Clara Oswald might be able to stop weeping into their fish fingers and custard. Actress Jenna Coleman may have confirmed that she’s quitting her role on the BBC sci-fi hit last week but she’s said she’d be open to a return one day. “I would always be happy (to return) if there was a good story,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “But I think we’ll have to see what happens.” Coleman said that her exit has been planned for some time and…

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