Some droop this week, as the penultimate story of the season, ‘Nightmare in Silver’, pulled just 686,000 “five city” overnight viewers. Hell, Sydney almost had as many viewers as Melbourne! Bit of a drab night for drama all round though, as the shine comes off ‘A Place To Call Home’, with ‘Call The Midwife’ just [...]
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Australian ratings for ‘The Crimson Horror’
6 May 2013 – 9:30 pm
A bump for the show this week, with the highest ratings for some years as ‘The Crimson Horror’ pulled in 786,000 “Five City” overnight ratings. Pity (warning: editorial content!) the story wasn’t all that great… a few seconds of fighting skinsuit is not enough “M Appeal” for me! But at least Tegan got bagged out.
Australian ratings for ‘Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS’
29 April 2013 – 7:29 pm
Bit of deja vu, as ‘Doctor Who’ grabs 725,000 viewers for ‘Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS’ — the same as they got for ‘The Rings of Akhaten’ a few weeks back. That made it the ninth-highest rating show of the day, and the second-highest drama of the day (‘A Place to Call Home’ [...]
Australian ratings for ‘Hide’
22 April 2013 – 8:28 pm
A bump in the road, as ‘Doctor Who’ slid down 80,000 to 648,000 viewers for the episode ‘Hide’. That’s still a comfy win over ‘The Biggest Loser’, but the behemoths that are ‘The Voice’ and ‘My Kitchen Rules’ continue to drag in more than one-and-a-half million fast food fans. But for what it’s worth, we [...]
Australian ratings for ‘The Cold War’
15 April 2013 – 7:55 pm
More of the same for ‘Doctor Who’ this week, with ‘The Cold War’ microscopically up to 728,000 “five city overnight” viewers. So instead I’ll concentrate on the seemingly perpetual indifference that Sydney has for the show, both classic and new. Since at least the Nineties repeats, Sydney has always contributed far less viewers than you [...]
Australian ratings for ‘The Rings of Akhaten’
8 April 2013 – 9:21 pm
This week may have been a bit different on the commercial channels (the new season of ‘The Voice’ debuted with 1.8 million viewers, while the newly-scheduled ‘My Kitchen Rules’ drew an extra half-million for Channel 7), but for ‘Doctor Who’ it was pretty much business as usual, with ‘The Rings of Akhaten’ drawing 725,000 “five [...]
Australian ratings for ‘The Bells of St John’
1 April 2013 – 4:26 pm
The Australian debut of the first episode of the so-called “Season 7b” has resulted in 757,000 “five city overnight” viewers. In a tight tussle, the three commercial channels had between 828,000 and 894,000 viewers for their shows opposite ‘The Bells of St John’.
David Tennant and Billie Piper to return for 50th Anniversary special
31 March 2013 – 1:34 am
The BBC have announced that David Tennant and Billie Piper will appear in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special. John Hurt has also been cast in an unspecified role. It appears the announcement has been made now due to an inadvertent ‘leak’ by Doctor Who Magazine – the latest issue (which contains the cast information) was [...]
Trailer and Prequel video for The Bells of Saint John
25 March 2013 – 2:30 am
The BBC have released an extended trailer specifically for The Bells of Saint John, as well as a short prequel video for the episode. Don’t forget the new episodes start on ABC1 @ 7:30pm on Easter Sunday!
New episodes fast-tracked to Australia!
17 March 2013 – 1:50 pm
The ABC have confirmed Series 7b will commence on Sunday, March 31st (Easter Sunday) at 7:30pm on ABC1 with The Bells of Saint John. This is less than 24 hours after the UK premiere on March 30th, and is the swiftest fast-tracking the ABC have ever provided for screenings on terrestrial television.