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After the shocking conclusion to this week’s Doctor Who, we’re desperate to see how the story continues in the next episode – and a trailer for the new installment is full of exciting teasing details. As the footage shows, following his experience in the vacuum of space, Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord has been left blind and vulnerable – but for some reason, he’s keeping new companion Bill (Pearl Mackie) in the dark, to the confusion of Matt Lucas’s Nardole. “You’re…

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Doctor Who – Oxygen had an Audience Appreciation or AI figure of 83 The Appreciation Index in an indication of how much viewers enjoyed the episode. It is based on the reactions of a selected panel of viewers, who rate the episode shortly after transmission. 83 is considered a good score, roughly similar to the scores achieved by the last series of the show, The score was the highest for the evening on the two main channels.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show – The Aftershow has been speaking to writer Jamie Mathieson about his latest Series 10 episode, Oxygen. Mathieson, who also penned 2014’s Mummy On The Orient Express amongst others, was joined on the show by Oxygen stars Mimi Ndiweni (Abby) and Kieran Bew (Ivan). Mathieson’s super scary ep looked at capitalism in the future where oxygen is sold for profit. The writer told Aftershow host Christel Dee: “The line I was really happy they kept…

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Oxygen, series 10 episode 5: like an intergalactic edition of The Walking Dead. Who needs Snakes On A Plane when you’ve got zombies on a spaceship? That was the pitch for the latest Timelord adventure, titled “Oxygen”. The Tardis trio answered a distress call in deep space and soon found themselves trapped on copper-mining space station Chasm Forge. All but four of the crew had been mysteriously murdered. And as if that wasn’t sinister enough, the dead were still stomping…

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Doctor Who – Oxygen achieved an overnight viewing audience of 3.57 million viewers, a share of 20% of the total TV audience, according to unofficial figures. BBC One occupied three of the top four spots for the day, with Oxygen achieving fourth place; third place went to the preceeding Pointless Celebrities (which itself contained a Doctor Who related round) with just 100,000 additional viewers (3.58m/23.1%). The annual Eurovision Song Contest took second place with 6.73m viewers (35.2%). However, top spot…

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And the winner with 30% of the votes is… Yeti from The Web of Fear – The Second Doctor In April The Doctor Who Experience ran a competition where you could decide which classic Doctor Who monster would receive some much-needed renovation and be unveiled at the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff. Fans were given the chance to decide between 8 monsters, with the winner being displayed at the Doctor Who Experience later this year. Over 5,000 of you voted both…

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Ever wanted to ask a Doctor Who writer exactly how they get the Time Lord from A to B, keep the sonic at his side and create TV’s most terrifying monsters? Well, now you have your chance – because the writer of this week’s episode, Jamie Mathieson, will be responding to fan queries in a special reddit AMA session. Mathieson will hit the reddit thread (which you can access here) after his episode Oxygen has aired on BBC1 this Saturday…

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