In Victoria, the screenings are at Village Cinemas and tickets can be booked now.  Session times below – more information at Village Cinemas.

Knox, Southland and Sunshine - 9pm, Saturday June 1 and 4pm, Sunday June 2.

Fountain Gate, Geelong, Jam Factory and Karingal - 4pm, Sunday June 2 only.

For those in Sydney that weekend, a series of Doctor Who 3D projections will be displayed against the facade of Sydney’s Customs House in Circular Quay during the evening of Saturday, June 1st, as part of this year’s Vivid Festival.  The projections will be displayed hourly from 6:50pm to 11:50pm.

More details at the Vivid Festival website.

The event includes loads of activities for all ages:

• Trivia for everyone
• Come dressed as your favourite character
• Competitions and prizes
• Special offers

In Victoria, the only shop involved is Chadstone – details below.

Come along and be one of the first people in Australia to purchase the new Doctor Who Series 7: Part 2 on DVD.

The ABC Shop have indicated more Doctor Who nights will follow across 2013.

ABC Shop Chadstone
Monday 20th May 2013
5pm – 8pm
Shop B186, The West Mall, Chadstone Shopping Centre
CHADSTONE VIC 3148
(03) 9568 8245

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 slotting in front of ‘Doctor Who’ as the second-top drama for the day.

As always, thanks to TV Tonight.

But at least Tegan got bagged out.

But for what it’s worth, we won’t blame Sydney this week: they jumped up 3,000!

As always, thanks to TV Tonight.

Below you can see, for example, the breakdown of this week’s 728,000 between the five cities, and the approximate percentage of each city’s population.

I’m not actually sure whether the Brisbane area includes the Sunshine and Gold Coasts — if not, you can bump their proportion up to about 6.3%.

I haven’t trawled back through the archives to confirm this, but to my memory Perth has usually been the most interested, or very near to it. Let’s attribute that to them being the city that saw the show first, way back on 12 January 1965!

I’m sure everyone who went along had as much fun as we did and will agree the guests were wonderful!  Thanks to First Contact Conventions for making it happen!  Hello to everyone who stopped past the DWCV table and welcome to those who joined the club.

Now, Lords of Time returns in May for an evening with Eric ‘Master’ Roberts – one night only, Tuesday May 28th.

But, it doesn’t stop there – Lords of Time 2 lands in Melbourne on December 7th with another SEVEN guests, most of whom have never appeared in Melbourne before (and some not in Australia at all!).

Tickets for both events are on sale now from First Contact Conventions.

The final ratings for ‘The Bells of St John’ will be announced later this week.

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 accidentally sent to subscribers several days early.

The Anniversary special starts production next week.

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!

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.

If you haven’t yet received your copy, please let the club know.

Next issue is due to be mailed around ANZAC Day.

The show will feature actor Toby Truslove (ABC’s Laid, Outland, The Strange Calls) and cultural theorist Dr Djoymi Baker discussing the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and the notion of “evil” in Doctor Who. Is it absolute? Are there cosmic forces of right and wrong? And is the Doctor always on the right side? Plus performance guest, cabaret comedian Dean Acuri – performing a song written especially for the show.

If you missed the first event, catch up with the podcast of the highlights at their website or via iTunes. More news and tickets also from their website.

Ben McKenzie, John Richards, Lee Zachariah, Nerida Haycock, Alexandra Tynan, and Petra Elliot at the first ‘Splendid Chaps’ event

Joining Sylvester McCoy, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Paul McGann will be John Leeson, Frazer Hines, Nicholas Briggs, Janet Fielding and Alexandra Tynan! There has never been anything resembling that many ‘Doctor Who’ guests at an Australian convention.

There are literally just a handful of seats left, so if you want to attend book now!

And Whovention Gold in Sydney is now less than two weeks away: Louise Jameson is a late replacement for an ill William Russell.

Kicking off our 2013 theme of 50 Years of Doctor Who, we look at the 1960s and the black and white era of schoolteachers, Scotsmen, Dalekmania and bases under siege.  Plus collector’s corner, Christmas Special wrapup and a the ‘return’ of a classic, plus ‘The 5 most influential people in Doctor Who’.

Entry $5.00 or meeting pass.

No announcement of Australian dates yet, but the episodes will hopefully continue to be available on ABC iView immediately after UK transmission.

*The insert in the latest Sonic states Saturday, March 31st…  This is a typo…

Special thanks to Miriam for organising this.

Each month from January to November 2013 John and Ben will record a live Doctor Who panel discussion – one for each of the eleven Doctors – with a different theme, special guests, musical and comedy performances and general loveliness.  These will also be edited into podcast episodes, released on the 23rd of each month.

The first event (13 January) has the theme of ‘Authority’ and will discuss the first Doctor.  The panel features special guest Alexandra Tynan (nee Sandra Reid), designer of the original Cybermen back in 1966.  She’ll be joined by writer and filmmaker Lee Zachariah (ABC2′s The Bazura Project, Hell Is For Hyphenates podcast); broadcaster and host of 3RRR FM’s LiveWire, Nerida Haycock; announcer Petra Elliot; plus Ben and John as hosts.  The musical guest (singing a Who-related number) will be comedian and cabaret artiste Geraldine Quinn.

The first forum is on Sunday, 13 January 2013 from 5pm at the Annexe, Bella Union, Trades Hall, corner of Victoria and Lygon Streets, Melbourne.  Tickets ($13 full; $10 concession + $2 booking fee) will be available at the door (subject to availability) or on the web.  Doors open 4pm, the forum commences at 5pm and will run for approximately 2 hours.

As outlined in the last issue of Sonic Screwdriver, next year’s meetings are a trip through 50 years of our favourite show; each meeting devoted in part to a different era of Who‘s long history – commencing in February with a visit to the black & white era.  Subsequent meetings will pass through the introduction of colour in the 1970s, the JNT-driven 1980s and the ‘wilderness years’ of the 1990s, before coming up to date with the revitalised series that hit our screens in 2005.  It all culminates in November 2013 with a 50th Anniversary event, which will take the place of the usual Christmas party.

Of course, it’s not all about the history of the show – there’s lots of current Doctor Who with the second half of Season 7 still to screen, plus whatever’s lined up for the Anniversary – and the club meetings will include plenty of ‘non-themed’ panels, discussions and activities.  As well as discussing the 2013 episodes, we’ll look at other series and how they influenced (or were influenced by) Doctor Who; uncover the history of Doctor Who video games; meet Doctor Who stars before they were famous; discuss the place of fan productions and Big Finish; and welcome the return of the Doctor Who game show!

To finish with some dates, the next issue of Sonic Screwdriver will be mailed late January.  The meetings for 2013 are:

• Saturday, February 9th  (confirmed)
• Saturday, March 23rd  (confirmed)
• Saturday, May 11th  (provisional)
• Saturday, June 15th (provisional)
• Saturday, July 20th (provisional – this will be the AGM)
• Saturday, August 31st (provisional)
• Saturday, October 19th (provisional)
• Saturday, November 23rd

All meetings are at Northcote Town Hall from 1pm unless otherwise specified.

That made it the 12th-ranked show of the day — but if you take out the cricket and news shows, it was beaten only by a couple episodes of ‘The Big Bang Theory’, which eked out that honour by coming at the back end of Nine’s domination of the day.

(Thanks to TV Tonight for the info.)