Doctor Who News, Articles, Cast and Crew Interviews

[Teddybrown]

http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/regener...lers-56155.htm
Regeneration limit spoilers (Not sure what it says as haven't read it...)

http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-...gacy-54917.htm
Doctor Who Legacy game (on Android and iOS)

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Excel Convention - Press Photos

http://who-natic.blogspot.co.uk/2013...ss-photos.html

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‘Doctor Who’ Claims Victory Over ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’

http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/doct...catching-fire/

Look out Lionsgate, BBC America‘s after a slice of your box office glory. The network scored a per-screen average of $13,607 on Saturday with its Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor REALD 3D screening event, besting The Hunger Games: Catching Fire‘s $12,300 average in the U.S. according to Rentrak (Catching Fire opened on 4,163 screens last weekend on its way to a $307M global take on the weekend, compared to Doctor Who‘s limited 11-screen run.) NCM Fathom Events will screen the Day Of The Doctor 3D again tonight in 650 theaters nationwide.

[Alan]

‘Doctor Who’ Claims Victory Over ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’

http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/doct...catching-fire/

Look out Lionsgate, BBC America‘s after a slice of your box office glory. The network scored a per-screen average of $13,607 on Saturday with its Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor REALD 3D screening event, besting The Hunger Games: Catching Fire‘s $12,300 average in the U.S. according to Rentrak (Catching Fire opened on 4,163 screens last weekend on its way to a $307M global take on the weekend, compared to Doctor Who‘s limited 11-screen run.) NCM Fathom Events will screen the Day Of The Doctor 3D again tonight in 650 theaters nationwide.

Isn't there ANYTHING this show CANNOT do! Guinness World Record one moment and then beating big Hollywood blockbusters the next! I'm over the moon at this! Extraordinary!

[Quizziard]

It's only winning on a technicality! It was a one-off showing, whereas Hunger Games was repeated numerous times and will be for three or more weeks to come...

[Blencathra]

Perhaps. But for one glorious, shining moment, Doctor Who is ruling the world.


More figures from the US.

Doctor Who 50th anniversary special sets ratings, Tumblr records

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...#ixzz2ljhGE3zA

"Doctor Who" marked its 50th anniversary over the weekend by setting a few ratings records.

"Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor" -- the official semicentennial special of the cult British sci-fi series -- rounded up 3.6 million total Whovians on Saturday, according to Nielsen.

That included 2.4 million viewers for the daytime airing of the much-anticipated special, which was beamed live to 94 countries around the world to avoid spoilers. That was a best-ever rating for BBC America, which carries "Doctor Who" in the U.S.

The rest of the U.S. audience came from a repeat on BBC America during Saturday prime time.

As befitting its status as a cult favorite, "Doctor Who" also burned up social media over the weekend.

There were 14.5 million views of "Doctor Who's" Tumblr on Saturday, more than for any other televised event, including the Super Bowl and the MTV Video Music Awards.

But the American ratings paled beside those in the U.K., where "Doctor Who" is an institution. The BBC said that 10.6 million Britons watched the program.

"Day of the Doctor" also earned recognition from the Guiness Book of World Records for the world's largest simulcast of a TV drama.

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I guess you can't properly see on the promo pic for the Christmas Special, but if you look between the Doctor and Jenna on the landscape version, there is a face...

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Have we seen this vid or parts of it? I'm getting confused.

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Paul McGann 'Doctor Who' return unlikely: "One Doctor at a time"

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/do...at-a-time.html

Paul McGann is unlikely to return to Doctor Who in the near future, showrunner Steven Moffat has said.

While he praised McGann's "superlative" performance in recent online special 'The Night of the Doctor', Moffat suggested that it could prove confusing to have more than one actor play the Doctor on a long-term basis.

"This [50th anniversary] is a party time, so we're doing things differently," the BBC drama's head writer told the press at the official Doctor Who Celebration at London's ExCel.

"One Doctor at a time is the real rule - 'Who would be on the lunchbox?' is always my question when we talk about having more than one Doctor."

Moffat added that Doctor Who will now return "militantly" to the idea of featuring just one Doctor at a time.

"I have a slight paranoia that at the moment it seems like every bugger's playing the Doctor - more or less all of Equity!" he joked. "Quite soon, it's going to go back to… 'There is one Doctor and that's who he is' - he's one man with many faces, he's not a committee of people with unusual hair."

Doctor Who's 50th special 'The Day of the Doctor' attracted an overnight audience of 10.2m viewers on Saturday (November 23), with those figures later being adjusted to 11.8m.

The series will return to BBC One this Christmas.

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The Day of the Doctor makes UK box office top 3

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/11...ce=twitterfeed

The website Screen Daily is reporting that the 3D cinema showings of The Day of the Doctor, which took place in tandem with its television début on BBC One at the weekend, earned £1.7 million ($2.2 million) in Britain, enough to propel the story to third place at the UK box office for the weekend. The 50th anniversary special was therefore behind only the Hollywood blockbusters The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (£12.2 million) and Gravity (£2.4 million) in this week's chart.

Screen Daily also reports that this is the first week in which releases from Event Cinema, which handled the distribution of The Day of the Doctor for the BBC, have been included in the UK box office chart. The reported figure comes from showings on 450 screens on Saturday.

As previously-reported, The Day of the Doctor was also a success in the television ratings, gaining over 10 million viewers on overnight figures alone - only the sixth episode of Doctor Who to achieve this feat since the series returned in 2005.

[Teddybrown]

http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/moffat-...frey-56196.htm
Moffat drops some hints on the Doctors search for Gallifrey

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Doctor Who: Legacy launches Wednesday

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/11...ce=twitterfeed

Tiny Rebel Games and Seed Studio have announced the release of their mobile game, Doctor Who: Legacy, this coming Wednesday, 27th November. The app will be free to play, and available for both Android and iOS operating systems.

Build a team of your favourite companions and allies drawn from the extensive and illustrious history of the show; face the Doctor’s most notorious enemies; and relive the Doctor’s greatest triumphs. Doctor Who: Legacy will launch with episodes and characters from the most recent two seasons of the show. Season 5 will be released as further free to play content in the New Year as we go backwards through fifty beloved years of Doctor Who lore.

Visually striking, with meticulous attention to character detail, Doctor Who: Legacy is a feast for the eyes of any fan, and features a brand new score by acclaimed video game composer Chris Huelsbeck as well as the iconic theme song from the show as recorded by Murray Gold.

Lee Cummings, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Tiny Rebel Games, said:

The 11th (or is it 12th?) Doctor’s regeneration is approaching fast. With decades of epic adventures to draw from, Doctor Who: Legacy is a loving homage created by loyal Whovians, and is rich in the show’s creative legacy and fun. Combining easy to learn, hard to master mechanics with beloved characters and cunning villains, Doctor Who: Legacy will be a treat for fans, casual players and even the most hard-core gamers alike.

The game also has a Twitter account, @DoctorWhoLegacy for updates.

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The Day of the Doctor box office success for Australia and New Zealand

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/11...ce=twitterfeed

Hot on the heels of the UK box office success, Australia's figures show that The Day of the Doctor was a huge hit in cinemas there, too! The 50th Anniversary adventure took $1.54 million (£872K) at the weekend, placing it third in the charts. Webwombat reported:
Showing on just 107 screens, the sci-fi celebration average an astounding $14,399 per screen (pretty much means every session was sold out) for a final take of over $1.5M.
As with the UK, the runaway leader was The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, whose opening weekend took some $12.5m (£7.8m); however, second place was taken by Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa achieving $1.7m (£962K) in its second week.

Meanwhile, in New Zealand, Flicks reports the episode was even more successful, reaching second place in the chart after taking $187,029 (£95K) at the box office. Unsurprisingly, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was again top of the charts, taking $2.16m (£1.1m) in its opening weekend. Thor: The Dark World took the third spot at $159,271 (£81K).

[Teddybrown]

Looking forward to this mobile game, looks interesting...

[Nolamom]