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Delia Derbyshire, David Bowie and John Peel are among the recipients of blue plaques as part of BBC Music Day. The plaque honouring Delia Derbyshire was unveiled by Sixth Doctor Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant who played Peri, who joined BBC Coventry & Warwickshire’s Vic Minett to officially perform the ceremony. 47 new blue plaques were presented by BBC Local Radio, Asian Network and the British Plaque Trust to commemorate people or places that have influenced the UK’s musical landscape….

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Picts vs. Romans – the Doctor and Bill journey to Aberdeen in The Eaters of Light. The Eaters of Light will air on BBC1 on Saturday 17th June at 6.45pm.

After the first announcement a couple of months ago that John Simm’s villain The Master would be returning to BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who, there’s been precious little detail on how the evil Time Lord will fit into the new episodes. We know that he’ll be interacting in some way with his later self Missy (played by Michelle Gomez), will have a fairly significant role and will be sporting a natty evil goatee, but apart from that his big comeback has…

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For many sci-fi fans it is the greatest job in the galaxy but incoming Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall admits that he had to be “wooed” by the BBC before taking up the role. The former Broadchurch writer tells the June issue of The Royal Television Society’s magazine Television: “I finally said yes because I love the show to my bones. I resisted it for a very long time, and [the BBC] really had to woo me.” In the interview…

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For the first time fans will have the chance to see a Doctor Who episode accompanied by a live orchestra, with a special screening of upcoming story World Enough and Time featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (who perform the score for the finished series) playing Murray Gold’s music in front of an audience. The screening of episode 11 of the current tenth series of the show will take place at the Wales Millennium centre on Saturday 24th June to…

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Doctor Who – The Lie Of The Land had an official rating of 4.82 million viewers. The episode, which was shown against the final of Britain’s Got Talent, managed to slip into the top 30 programmes of the week. thanks to viewers who recorded the programme and watched it within a week of transmission. The official rating is the first time Doctor Who has dropped below 5 million viewers since the series returned in 2005. Doctor Who was the 9th…

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Have the Daleks met a new adversary, one perhaps even more determined and clever than the Doctor himself? Programme maker and TV critic Victor Lewis-Smith is planning a feature film exposing the truth about our metal friends from Skaro and he says that he is unearthing plenty of new material for the crowdfunded project. The Undiscovered Daleks, as it will be called, promises to feature never-before-seen outtakes of the lethal machines, and stories galore about their antics. These include a…

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