Official figures released by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board or BARB, give Doctor Who – Thin Ice an official rating of 5.51 million viewers.
The rating includes all those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days.
Doctor Who is the 25th most watched programme for the week, and 10th most watched on BBC One
Top for the week was ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent with 10.60 million watching. Drama’s doing well include BBC One’s Line of Duty with 9.92 million and ITV’s Little Boy Blue with 7.17 million. Doctor Who sliped behind the soaps EastEnders and Emmerdale as well as Coronation Street.
Doctor Who was the second highest BBC One programme for Saturday night, just behind of the entertainment show All Round to Mrs Brown’s
Danger In Deep Space – Oxygen Preview – Doctor Who: Series 10 – BBC
The latest issues of the Doctor Who Figurine Collection feature two very familiar foes, Cybermen and the Daleks.
Every two weeks, Whovians can enjoy an exclusive hand-painted and highly-detailed figurine and a magazine packed with info on its subject.
Check out the details and images below on Issues 98 and 99.
Cyber Controller
Doctor Who Figurine Collection: Part 98 (out early May)
From the 1985 Sixth Doctor story Attack of the Cybermen.
Thought destroyed in 1967’s The Tomb of the Cybermen, the Cyber Controller was revealed as alive and well on Telos, in an upgraded body.
All the figurines are carefully produced in 1:21 scale, and cast in a specially formulated metallic resin before being painted by hand and individually numbered.
Doctor Who Figurine Collection: Part 99 (out late May)
From the First Doctor 1964 epic The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
This black Dalek was the supreme leader that led the 22nd-century takeover of Earth.
All the figurines are carefully produced in 1:21 scale, and cast in a specially formulated metallic resin before being painted by hand and individually numbered.
The Reeltime “crew” have just spent a marvellous weekend at the DWAS event THE CAPITOL II in Crawley.
Saw lots of familiar faces and recorded two new MYTH MAKERS titles … TORCHWOOD’s KAI OWEN – who played Rhys – (hosted by Robert Dick) and DOCTOR WHO’s monster man JON DAVEY (hosted by NICHOLAS BRIGGS)!
Almost six years after the last series of Torchwood aired on BBC1, the Doctor Who spin-off is back. Series five, Torchwood: Aliens Among Us, takes place after the events of Torchwood: Miracle Day, with John Barrowman and Eve Myles reprising their roles as Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper alongside new characters co-created by Torchwood supremo Russell T Davies.
Fans, many of whom have long been petitioning for a return for Torchwood, may see the news as a mixed blessing though, because this series will not be on TV but will instead be released as a twelve-part audio drama by Big Finish Productions, which has been adding stand-alone adventures to the Torchwood canon in the intervening years.
Released in three four-part instalments, the new series begins with Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper having restarted Torchwood in Cardiff. “But something terrible’s happened to the city,” warns the official synopsis. “With every day getting darker, will Torchwood need to adopt a whole new approach?”
The answer appears to be yes, with a series of new members apparently set to join the team.
“Russell’s been wonderfully involved in the continuation of Torchwood,” said producer James Goss. “We came up with some characters and ideas and he very kindly, very politely said ‘Marvellous, but no. Howabout…?’. And that’s what lead to Jack and Gwen being joined by Mr Colchester (Paul Clayton), Ng (Alexandria Riley), Tyler (Jonny Green) and the enigmatic Orr (Sam Béart).”
There will also be returns for Gwen’s husband Rhys (Kai Owen), and her former police partner Andy (Tom Price), as well as another mystery reappearance…
“This is an ambitious series for Big Finish – an entire season of Torchwood!” said Goss. “There are some great scripts by some new writers, but there are also some familiar old faces – of course Rhys and Andy are in it, but there’ll be a few other surprises, including an appearance by someone who just has to be, has to be dead…”
All three sets of Torchwood – Series 5: Aliens Among Us can be pre-ordered individually for £25 as downloads or £28 on CD, with specially-priced bundles collecting all three for £60 and £75 respectively. Torchwood Series 5: Aliens Among Us part 1 will be released August 2017
Knock Knock! You can now stay in Doctor Who’s eerie Knock Knock house for real
Knock Knock! You can now stay in Doctor Who’s eerie Knock Knock house for real
You can now stay in the spooky house from Doctor Who’s recent Knock Knock episode but beware of the Daleks and The Weeping Angels.
The good news is you won’t need a TARDIS to get there because Fields House, which has been a key location for a number of BBC dramas including Sherlock, is in Newport, Wales, which is easily accessible by train or car. Hurrah.
The owners of the property, built back in 1860, have just set it up on AirBnB meaning it can be all yours – temporarily – at the click of a mouse.
Until the next time Doctor Who and the BBC come Knock Knocking that is.
Would you follow David Suchet through the gates? (Picture: BBC)
The house played a key part in the latest episode of Doctor Who which saw David Suchet, aka, Poirot, guest star as the mysterious landlord of the house.
The house also has a history of starring – if that’s the word – in a number of other BBC shows and episodes of Doctor Who.
The building is divided in two and the other half to the one which was used in Knock Knock featured in the 2007 episode Blink which was a favourite among fans after it introduced show-defining monsters The Weeping Angels.
The outgoing Doctor, Peter Capaldi, in Knock Knock (Picture: BBC/BBC Worldwide)
Episode producer Nicki Wilson told the Radio Times: ‘It’s the same building, but the house is sort of in two halves.
‘It’s kind of a semi-detached Gothic mansion, so Blink was actually filmed on the other half of the house.
‘The other half of the house is where Blink is filmed, and actually where we filmed the cellar for this episode.’
It also featured in the Sherlock episode A Study In Pink, where it was called Lauriston Gardens.
Doctor Who – Knock Knock 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 to 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 highest score for the evening on the two main channels was achieved by Casualty on BBC One which scored 85.
Season 10 DVD and Blu-ray box sets details and cover art revealed
BBC Worldwide has announced new details for the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Peter Capaldi’s final season of Doctor Who.
Season 10 will be available to buy in two parts on DVD and Blu-ray, with a complete version being released later this year.
Both the Part 1 and Part 2 box sets are now available to pre-order from Amazon, iTunes and HMV.
The first six episodes of Season 10 will be released on Monday 29th May.
The final six episodes of Season 10 will be released on Monday 17th July.
Both parts will also each include six, exclusive art-cards, themed to each episode, plus ‘Inside Look’ features for each episode, featuring behind the scenes footage; cast interviews and the inside story.
The Tardis is in trouble in new Doctor Who Oxygen clip
After the latest episode of Doctor Who brought us chills, this Saturday’s edition looks set to bring the thrills, with a new preview clip of ‘Oxygen’ showing our time-travelling trio nearly thrown into deep space.
After flooding the chamber they’re entering with oxygen, the Doctor (peter Capaldi) Bill (Pearl Mackie) and Nardole (Matt Lucas) find that the space station doesn’t take to kindly to unauthorised air, with the automated systems decompressing the area and nearly sucking the entire group out of the airlock.
And it looks like the Tardis (which rapidly closes its doors when the decompression begins) could be heading for an early exit itself, with the iconic time-travelling police box being drawn out of the door by the powerful decompressive forces at work.
Trapped on a spaceship that apparently has deadly spacesuits, with no Tardis and no other option for survival than to put one on? We’d say that has the makings of a seriously exciting episode.
Doctor Who continues on BBC1 this Saturday at 7.15pm
