Doctor Who – Empress Of Mars had an estimated audience of 3.58 million viewers, a share of 20.6% of the total TV audience, according to unofficial overnight viewing figures. Viewing figures were down across the day with no programme getting more than 5 million throughout the day. Top for the day was Football: World Cup on ITV with 4.73 million watching. The Voice, Kids, had an audience of 4.23 million. On BBC One, with the ramifications of the UK Election…
The latest episode of Doctor Who: The Fan Show – The Aftershow features an exclusive with two huge figures in the world of Who, Mark Gatiss and Matt Lucas. Gatiss has written numerous episodes of Doctor Who since its return in 2005, most recently Empress Of Mars, whilst Lucas plays the current TARDIS companion Nardole. Mark told Fan Show host Christel Dee all about the origins of Empress Of Mars and how, initially, this wasn’t going to be an Ice…
First broadcast on this day in 2007, the Doctor Who episode Blink celebrates its tenth anniversary today. Written by Steven Moffat, who would go on to become showrunner, Blink introduced the world to the Weeping Angels and starred Carey Mulligan as the story’s lead, Sally Sparrow. Carey would go on to become an Oscar-nominated movie star. The story was an immediate hit and Steven was awarded the 2008 BAFTA Craft and BAFTA Cymru awards for Best Writer and also won…
Ten years ago today, Doctor Who introduced the world to the Weeping Angels and Sally Sparrow in the outstanding episode, Blink. Very kindly, the story’s writer (and now Doctor Who showrunner) Steven Moffat has sat down with the press of recount all about this iconic installment from 2007. You can discover Steven thoughts and memories, including an alternate ending for Sparrow and Nightingale, and a look to the future below: Steven Moffat on Blink “Right, then – Blink. What…
“My legs are a bit trembly – like after you’ve had a sudden shock,” says Naomi Alderman, without realising the pun she’s just made. We are in the green room at London’s Festival Hall where, just a few minutes earlier, Alderman was announced as this year’s winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her sci-fi novel The Power. Her gripping book – described by the judges as a “brilliantly imagined dystopia” – explores a future in which women…
Summing up the general aesthetic, central philosophy and appeal of an unusual and multifaceted TV series like Doctor Who would be a challenge for most – which is why it’s all the more impressive that regular series writer Mark Gatiss managed to do it twice in a single conversation. Speaking to RadioTimes.com and other journalists in advance of his upcoming Victorians-vs-Ice Warriors story Empress of Mars this Saturday, Gatiss explained that he picked his setting because it seemed to match…
Whatever you do, if you live in the United Kingdom tomorrow (Thursday June 8th 2017) don’t forget to vote! (“VOTE DALEK“) Here is a party political broadcast on behalf of “The Dalek Party”!
He’s the man behind nearly ten years of gripping storylines for famous BBC show, Doctor Who. Steven Moffat, Doctor Who’s showrunner and executive producer since 2009, has been integral to show’s recent successes, with the latest series of the famous sci-fi show set to be his last. The writer has now addressed a popular fan theory that claims the new series’ first episode played homage to the very first incarnation of the Doctor – William Hartnell. Fans will have noticed…
Mark Gatiss has been waiting his entire life to write upcoming Doctor Who episode ‘Empress of Mars’. This Saturday’s instalment brings back the Martian species known as the Ice Warriors, a classic series monster originally revived for a submarine-set adventure by Gatiss in 2013’s ‘Cold War’. This time, it’s a Victorian expedition party who awaken a hibernating fleet of Ice Warriors and their Ice Empress despite warnings from The Doctor (Peter Capaldi). Gatiss chatted about the return of the Warriors…
We’re still in the dark as to who will be Peter Capaldi’s replacement on Doctor Who, but we can confirm that it will certainly not be Alan Cumming. The Good Wife star says that he has been approached for the role on two occasions in the past, but had turned it down purely on the basis that it would mean spending eight months of the year in Cardiff. Speaking at Listowel Writer’s Week in Ireland, the Huffington Post reports how…