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Doctor Who: Face the Raven had an official consolidated rating of 6.05 million viewers. The rating issued by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board, or BARB, includes all those who watched the programme within one week of transmission. It does not include those watching online via iPlayer Doctor Who was the 11th most watched programme on BBC Television, and 4th overall on Saturday. The episode finished at 30th in the chart. Strictly Come Dancing topped the ratings for the week with…

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Dr Who stars Peter Davison and Sophie Aldred celebrated Doctor Who’s 52nd birthday and supported the future of the BBC this afternoon. The pro-BBC demo took place outside Broadcasting House in Central London.  

Tony Hall said the BBC could do more to devolve decision-making on BBC services to the devolved nations. The director-general of the BBC Tony Hall laid into the doomsayers who had criticised the BBC’s decision to move some of its drama production to Cardiff during a speech at Cardiff Business Club last night. Describing his first visit to the Roath Lock studios as director-general two and a half years ago, Mr Hall said “there were still voices which said that…

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“I like the fact that this conversation took place between the future showrunner and future Master” Steven Moffat always knew that he was going to write Doctor Who – he told Missy at a party. In the latest issue of Radio Times, the showrunner recounts the time in 2001 where he and Michelle Gomez, the wife of then-Coupling star Jack Davenport, got drunk and predicted the future. “She recalls and I do not – when we were all out in…

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The showrunner hasn’t chosen the new companion yet, but he’s got some ideas… Jenna Coleman’s Doctor Who replacement is still a twinkle in Steven Moffat’s eye, but while the showrunner hasn’t yet chosen the next companion he does have some strong ideas about the character, which could send the series in a new direction… Speaking in the latest issue of Radio Times magazine, Moffat admits he has “specific ideas but not a specific actress” in mind, but says “A new…

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The Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time.

Kenneth Gilbert, who played World Ecology Bureau official Richard Dunbar in the Tom Baker classic The Seeds Of Doom (1976) has died at the age of 84. Prematurely grey and with distinguished granite features, he often played authority figures, although the one he portrayed in Doctor Who found himself on the wrong side of the fence. Dissatisfied with seeing “non-entities” promoted in his place he sells the location of the Krynoid seed pod to eccentric millionaire Harrison Chase and so…

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A study found that female characters have fewer lines in his scripts. Steven Moffat has denied that Doctor Who has become ‘more misogynist’ under his watch, after a study found that female characters had fewer lines on the show since he took over as lead writer. The study, which was carried out by US university students, determined that female characters had more speaking roles and more speaking time under his predecessor Russell T Davies. Admitting it was a “complicated issue”,…

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