Broadcaster Nicholas Parsons has died at the age of 96 after a short illness, his agent has confirmed. Doctor Who fans will of course remember his consummate performance as The Rev. Mr. Wainwright in the 1989 story “The Curse of Fenric“, which has just been released as part of the Doctor Who Collection: Season 26. Parsons had hosted Radio 4’s Just A Minute since its inception in 1967. “Nicholas passed away in the early hours of the 28th of January,”…
According to Tom Spilsbury, episode 4 of Doctor Who, “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror” had a consolidated 7-day figure of 5.20m viewers (5.07m on TVs and 0.13m on other devices). It was Number 28 on the weekly chart (and 11th for BBC One alone).
According to TV Zone the overnight ratings for last nights Doctor Who: Fugitive of the Judoon averaged 4.21m. The official 7 day consolidated ratings will be available in a weeks time. RATINGS: Last night’s #DoctorWho (Episode 5) averaged 4.21m from 7:10pm on BBC One. Overnights for the series so far…Episode 1: 4.88m Episode 2: 4.60mEpisode 3: 4.19mEpisode 4: 4.04mEpisode 5: 4.21m https://t.co/lu2brq52zA — TV Zone (@tvukzone) January 27, 2020
Carole Ann Ford reprises the role she first created for television way back in 1963 in Susan’s War, a four-part full-cast audio drama due for release in April 2020. Gallifrey needs every Time Lord to fight the Time War. A summons has been issued across the universe to its prodigals. Whatever their skills, the war effort can use them. Susan’s call-up papers have arrived, and, unlike her grandfather, she is willing to join her people’s battle and finally return home. Because Susan knows the…
As reported on Radio Times.com and other publications, It looks like Jodie Whittaker will have at least one more series worth of adventures in time and space – after the Doctor Who star let slip that she would be returning for another run. Whittaker is currently starring in her second series as the iconic character, and has broadly won acclaim for her turn as the first female Doctor in the show’s history. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, she said, “I’m doing…
Upcoming Doctor Who episode Fugitive of the Judoon looks to be a riproaring, action-packed story full of rhino-faced aliens and mystery – but it’ll also be especially poignant. You see, it’s been revealed that the episode will subtly pay tribute to late Doctor Who mega-fan, BBC online producer and sometime convention organiser Paul Condon (who passed away in 2019 after a short illness) by naming a key character after him. In the episode, the Judoon leader (seen above) is credited…
Lizo Mzimba of the BBC has reported… Doctor Who Ep3 now consolidated to 5.38 million (5.25m TV only) Compared to equivalent Capaldi S10 figs which current series seems closest to Series 10: 6.68m (Ep1), 5.98m (Ep2), 5.61m (Ep3) Series 12: 6.70m (Ep1), 5.91m (Ep2), 5.25m (Ep3) So slightly faster dropoff so far… https://twitter.com/lizo_mzimba/status/1219261438713307137
News just in from Lizo Mzimba at the BBC… Last night’s Doctor Who – Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror had overnight audience of 4.04m, continuing downward trend of overnights. We’ll get Episode 3 consolidated figs at lunchtime so we’ll have better idea of how far the dropping overnights are being compensated for by catch-up. https://twitter.com/lizo_mzimba/status/1219192282378919937
Demon Records have announced a double bill of unique full-cast BBC radio adventures re-releasing on vinyl. Jon Pertwee plays the Third Doctor, with Elizabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The Paradise of Death reunites the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and the Brigadier for an adventure that takes them from Hampstead Heath to the far-flung planet of Parrakon, where they face dangers aplenty from the hostile Freeth and Tragan. In The Ghosts of N-Space, which features Jon…
DOCTOR Who introduced some of its most terrifying extra-terrestrials to date this week. In episode Orphan 55, Jodie Whittaker and co visited spa resort Tranquillity, a sprawling holiday destination housing a dark secret. It transpired that the spa wasn’t located on a distant planet after all, but rather an Earth wracked by climate change. With humanity wiped out, a new species, Dregs, have taken hold as the apex predators. Breathing in carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen, the creatures represent a…