The Gallifreyan Newsroom

Some advance news now for all lovers of television theme music (and who isn’t?). Murray Gold will feature in the second programme (of 3) Composer Murray Gold tells us how 12 years ago he was given the poisoned chalice which turned into a glorious goblet when he was given the task to update the arrangement to the original Dr Who Theme. Other highlights include: Tony Hatch interviews the maestro of American TV theme music, the multi-Grammy Award winning Mike Post, during…

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Peter Sallis has died at the age of 96, his agents have announced. The actor was best known for appearing in Last of the Summer Wine and was also famous as the voice of Wallace in Wallace and Gromit, however he also memorbally played the part of Elric Penley in Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors in 1967, opposite Patrick Troughton’s Doctor. His agent confirmed he died peacefully with his family by his side. Sallis played Norman “Cleggy” Clegg in Last…

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When working on a series like Doctor Who where fans are both extremely passionate about the show AND well-versed in its half-century of history, you might think that there would be a lot of pressure not to change the formula or contradict any part of the series canon lest you invoke the wrath of the Whovian masses. However, according to frequent series writer Mark Gatiss (who has penned this Saturday’s episode Empress of Mars) that’s simply not the case –…

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Doctor Who – The Pyramid At The End Of The World had an official rating of 5.79 million viewers. The rating was enough to make Doctor Who the 14th most watched programme on British Television for the week and the 6th highest on the BBC. Top for the week was again Britain’s Got Talent with 10.62 watching. Doctor Who was helped by following Match of the Day which topped the BBC weekly chart with 7.50 million watching the FA Cup…

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Doctor Who – The Lie Of The Land had an Audience Appreciation or AI figure of 82 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. 82 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…

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It’s been four years since last we saw Doctor Who’s Ice Warriors in action in Cold War but the reptilian humanoids are coming back with a bang – and a brand new queen – in Doctor Who’s Empress of Mars. We get our first look at the titular Empress in action in the sneak peek at next week’s episode, and she certainly seems a force to be reckoned with. The first female Ice Warrior we’ve seen on screen is rocking…

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Patrick Ness writer and creator of the Doctor Who Spin-off Class, has confirmed he will not be writing any more episodes of the series. The BBC has not officially commented on the future of the series, which was released on the BBC Three online channel last Autumn and shown on BBC America in the last couple of months. However, with the series creator now withdrawing from the drama it looks increasingly unlikely that a second series will be made. https://twitter.com/Patrick_Ness/status/871256325166071808…

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Doctor Who – The Lie of the Land had an estimated audience of 3.01 million viewers, a share of 15.0% of the total TV audience, according to unofficial overnight viewing figures. The series was hit hard by being placed diretly opposite the final of the ITV show Britain’s Got Talent, which topped the day with 8.19 million watching. Doctor Who’s overnight rating is the lowest the series has received in its history, with Battlefield in 1989 getting 3.10 million watching….

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