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Weather hits Doctor Who ratings

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...enerate203.jpg Millions watched Doctor Who regenerate

Only 6.2m people tuned in to watch the last episode in the current series of Doctor Who on Saturday night.

The viewing figures were down on previous episodes of the series, which has been a ratings hit for the BBC.

But a spokeswoman for the BBC said the warm weather was a likely reason for less people watching TV indoors.

The final episode saw the Doctor - played by Christopher Eccleston - regenerate into the next Time Lord, David Tennant.

New series

The BBC spokeswoman said that, despite viewing figures being down, it was still the most watched television show of the evening, with a 41.8% share of the audience in the 1900-2000BST slot.

"Almost half of those watching television tuned in to Doctor Who," she said.

"It continues to be the most-watched television show on a Saturday night."

Casanova actor Tennant will become the 10th Doctor Who when the programme returns later this year.

His first words as the Time Lord were: "Hello. New teeth. Now where were we?"

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...tennant203.jpg David Tennant made his debut as the Doctor



Billie Piper will be back for a second series as the Doctor's assistant, Rose Tyler.

Earlier this week the BBC announced there would be a third series in the current run of the drama, written by Russell T Davies.

Almost 3m people also watched Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide, which preceded Doctor Who at 1815BST. Beverley Hills Cop attracted an audience of 2.8m when it was broadcast on ITV at 1830BST, and A Picture of Britain pulled in 1.4m on BBC Two at 1845BST. Just over 1m watched Battle of Britain on Five, while 1.3m tuned in to watch World's Biggest Airliner: Building the Airbus

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Weather hits Doctor Who ratings

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...enerate203.jpg Millions watched Doctor Who regenerate

Only 6.2m people tuned in to watch the last episode in the current series of Doctor Who on Saturday night.

The viewing figures were down on previous episodes of the series, which has been a ratings hit for the BBC.

But a spokeswoman for the BBC said the warm weather was a likely reason for less people watching TV indoors.

The final episode saw the Doctor - played by Christopher Eccleston - regenerate into the next Time Lord, David Tennant.

New series

The BBC spokeswoman said that, despite viewing figures being down, it was still the most watched television show of the evening, with a 41.8% share of the audience in the 1900-2000BST slot.

"Almost half of those watching television tuned in to Doctor Who," she said.

"It continues to be the most-watched television show on a Saturday night."

Casanova actor Tennant will become the 10th Doctor Who when the programme returns later this year.

His first words as the Time Lord were: "Hello. New teeth. Now where were we?"

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...tennant203.jpg David Tennant made his debut as the Doctor



Billie Piper will be back for a second series as the Doctor's assistant, Rose Tyler.

Earlier this week the BBC announced there would be a third series in the current run of the drama, written by Russell T Davies.

Almost 3m people also watched Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide, which preceded Doctor Who at 1815BST. Beverley Hills Cop attracted an audience of 2.8m when it was broadcast on ITV at 1830BST, and A Picture of Britain pulled in 1.4m on BBC Two at 1845BST. Just over 1m watched Battle of Britain on Five, while 1.3m tuned in to watch World's Biggest Airliner: Building the Airbus

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Hmmm . . . somebody's copying how I post things now, and nicking my stories, lol. Let's just copy and paste the whole of digital spy and bbc news pages, and save everyone a lot of bother. I'm not bitter - honest!

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Hmmm . . . somebody's copying how I post things now, and nicking my stories, lol. Let's just copying and paste the whole of digital spy and bbc news pages, and save everyone a lot of bother.

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eh? :confused:

Well here's DS's version:

HOT WEATHER MARS 'DOCTOR WHO' FINALE

http://images.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/li...generation.jpg #Talking about my regeneration!#

Doctor Who concluded its run with a series low last night (Saturday), according to early figures.

The unusually hot weather led to the sci-fi series dropping to 6.19 million viewers, or a 41.8% audience share, between 7pm and 7.45pm.

A BBC spokesperson pointed out that the show was still the most-watched programme of the day and continued to be "king of Saturday evening."

Earlier, documentary Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide had pulled in 2.77 million (23%) while on BBC Three, spinoff Doctor Who Confidential was multichannel's top draw at 677,000 (6.8%).

Casualty was the day's number two with 5.92 million (34.9%), while Murder in Suburbia ranked as ITV1's best-performing show with an average of 3.9 million (22.4%).

Elsewhere, Big Brother dipped to 2.4 million (13.5%), finishing fourth place in the 9pm hour (more).

still confused :confused:

Gosh, I wish I'd actually watched it now!

I had it on in the background, sis and Mum were watching it, but I was doing homework :rolleyes: :wall:

Might blag and see if I can catch the ending tonight... All I remember is Jack shouting to the people something about them hearing him die above them. :searchme:

what about Captain Jack? I think he was an great addition to the cast!! It was great to see an American actor in such an iconic 'British' programme!! do you think he'll make an appearance in the next series?

I hope so, I thought he was quite good. A little cheesy at times, but good!

I still reckon my Captin Zombie Jack would be histerical!

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Gosh, I am late posting on this.

There is no Bad Wolf. When the time vortex entered Rose and she could see, 'every this that was, every thing that is and everything that could be', she realised that she has to send a message to herself to get her to go back to the Doctor.

She took the Bad Wolf sign form satalite five and scattered it through time and space as a message to herself.

So, she was the cause of the messages, but there is no Bad Wolf really.

Captain Jack and Rose have both now signed up for the whole of series 3. there is a christmas special first and then series 2 starts in March. Series 3 and a 2nd christmas special have already been comissioned.

David Tennant has a lot of teeth!

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Thanks for the explanation. it makes sense to me now! lol. i thought it was a good episode overall. Not too sure about the new doctor but I'm sure he'll grow on me in the next series.

ive now read 3 diff explanations of what bad wolf is, im even more confused than when i watched it!

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ive now read 3 diff explanations of what bad wolf is, im even more confused than when i watched it!

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LOL. I think that Trinity's one makes most sense - when the time vortex entered Rose she could see the parst the future and all of time and she took the letters from the sign of the Bad Wolf and scattered them throughout time so that in the past she saw it written on the ground and that made her realise she had to go back to save the Doctor. Complicated or what...

I understood that the Bad Wolf wasn't a bad thing or person, but like a messenger, which is why Rose scattered the words everywhere in order to remind her to go back and save the doctor. I thought I had all sorted in my head, till I read this thread. Russell T Davis says on a seperate bad wolf website, that there is a bad wolf though. It just wasn't a baddie like everyone thought. There is even a bit saying about what all of the clues are to who/what the bad wolf is and all of them point to Rose, but her being the wolf in a good way, ensuring the Daleks didn't end the doctors life and all of humanity as well!! :searchme: :hmm:

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LOL. I think that Trinity's one makes most sense - when the time vortex entered Rose she could see the parst the future and all of time and she took the letters from the sign of the Bad Wolf and scattered them throughout time so that in the past she saw it written on the ground and that made her realise she had to go back to save the Doctor. Complicated or what...

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Surely that's a paradox?

Having the bad wolf as a mnemonic was dire. RTD could have done much more with it.

Absolutely - a circular reference if ever I saw one!

The ending was the best - from the moment the Daleks are about to exterminate the Doctor and Rose arrives ...

Most definitely, and it was Rose that saved the day - Girl Power!!!!!

Well as i've sadi before that was the first time i've ever watched Dr Who and now i'm totally hooked. Wonder if they will repeat the whole series? Does anyone know?

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Well as i've sadi before that was the first time i've ever watched Dr Who and now i'm totally hooked. Wonder if they will repeat the whole series? Does anyone know?

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its on bbc 3 i think

parts 1 1nd 2 are on dvd now, part 3 1st august and the box set (which looks like a tardis!!!) is out on 21st november

Wait for the box set as it is a Tardis.

They probably will repeat the series. The BBC are apparently thinking about letting people download episodes for a limited time after which they will expire. Not a bad idea imo.

Series Two and Three

Russell T Davies is quoted at CBBC Newsround about the 'scoop' for season two.

"A Christmas special this year, another series of 13 episodes in 2006, followed by another Christmas special and then 13 more episodes in 2007, which is very exciting," Davies says.

About villains: "Some great new stuff. Some famous old monsters called Cybermen will be coming back and they are as equally scary as the Daleks. They will marching onto your screens into 2006. Lots of new villains too and one or two favourite characters from this year as well. But at the same time the Christmas special has a brand new monster to fight, and that's gonna be good!"

About new planets: "I'm the one who has stopped us going off earth because I think you see an awful lot of shows, expensive good ones like Enterprise and Angel, where they go to another planet or dimension and it looks rubbish, it looks like California in the sunshine with a funny rock. I think that when stuff like Revenge of the Sith is doing the most beautiful planets, no matter what you think of the film, the planets are utterly beautiful and that's on a cinema budget which is a trillion times more than a television show would have. I think it's the hardest thing to do and I'm very wary of looking like rubbish because I think the moment the programme looks rubbish people point at it and laugh in a bad way. I'm very happy if people have fun with it and have a good laugh with it. When you have a bad laugh you've lost the faith and you've lost the audience."

About a story arc for the second season, like the "Bad Wolf" stuff: "Yes there is, and that word has already been heard on screen. And that's all I'm saying. You'll have to go back and trawl through 13 episodes to realise what I'm on about. You'll hear the word in the Christmas special though"

About the Christmas Special: "It's going to be 60 minutes long. It's the first story of the new Doctor played by David Tennant. I remember when I was young it's very strange when a new Doctor comes along, and that's exactly how Rose feels. Her mum gets involved again, but beyond that I can't give anything else away. It's as Christmassy as can be. It's got reindeer, it's got sleigh bells, it's got the works."

About Tennant and his native Scottish accent: "Well, every planet has a Scotland. You'll have to wait and see, there are big revelations on the way and I can't say any more than that."

About reaction to the show: "The thing we're most happy about is that we've got a new young audience watching. Research before we started said children won't watch because their mums and dads liked it. That was terrifying because we wanted a young audience and I especially wanted girls watching because science-fiction is very often seen as a boy's thing, which is why we have so many strong female characters. And a lot of strong emotion in it, because I think that gets girls watching. I'm delighted that young audience has latched on to it."

that was interesting, thanks for that trinity :)

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"I'm the one who has stopped us going off earth because I think you see an awful lot of shows, expensive good ones like Enterprise and Angel, where they go to another planet or dimension and it looks rubbish, it looks like California in the sunshine with a funny rock.

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I resent that comment. By no means does Angel make other planets look like Cali in sunshine with a funny rock. :angry:

Anyways... angry part over now...

The christmas one should be good.

Reindeer.... sleigh bells....Doctor who??? Never thought they would be in the same sentance as each other!

Could be interesting though

Yes, have you seen the bbc's trailers of dr who already? They're already counting it down. I just hope they don't overdo it and spoil it for the fans by over-advertising it. I'm in no doubt that it'll be better now it's been confirmed (in Heat magazine) that Billie Piper is sticking around for the whole of the second series and the 3rd series will take us right into 2007 at least.


http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1307915.jpg Greg out - come on Tim!

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Yes, have you seen the bbc's trailers of dr who already? They're already counting it down. I just hope they don't overdo it and spoil it for the fans by over-advertising it. I'm in no doubt that it'll be better now it's been confirmed (in Heat magazine) that Billie Piper is sticking around for the whole of the second series and the 3rd series will take us right into 2007 at least.

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yeh ive seen the trailers. i knew that billie piper was going to do all of the 2nd series but i didnt know she was going to do the 3rd as well

She hasn't confirmed for series 3. But series 3 will take us into 2007. I think that is what Emma means.

Y are they showing the trailers this early? I thought it wasn't back until xmas?

when are the trailers on????

There was one on last night, Count Down to Christmas!

yeh i saw it too. you know like the ones before the final show when it said in 3days........or whatever it was, it says something like "the countdown starts now..................."

Did anyone realise that BBC Three are repeating the entire series by the way. I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago, but forgot!!!

yeh i knew dat second chance to see wot we didnt see b4

if u get my drift

i loved the last episode but it was sad as the doctor left

The last episode ROCKED!!! :cheer: It was soooooooo good!
It was really cute when the doctor and rose kissed!!! :wub:

Well Flozza Christopher Eccleston & David Tennant are two different people- you have to give him a chance- as you have just meet him, i wonder how he did both as David Tennant is in Harry potter as well

Harry potter and the goblet of fire filming finished a couple of months before the filming started for doctor who. Plus he has a very small part in Harry potter so i dubt that would have taken up much time

Billie Piper has decided to quit Doctor Who, according to a report in The Mirror today.

The actress, who plays sidekick Rose Tyler, will not be returning for a third series due to fears that she may become typecast.

"She wants to strike while the iron's hot and make a big name for herself while she's so popular," a source told the newspaper. "She feels her profile will go down if the series isn't as big the third time around.

"The BBC are auditioning other girls to take over. They want to have the next actress all lined up when they announce Billie's departure. They are quite miffed about her decision. The casting people have been conducting secret auditions with a small number of actresses and keeping it very, very quiet.

"They are after a relative newcomer so this is the role which puts her in the public eye. It also means she's less likely to get bored after one series."

Piper is currently filming for series two of the sci-fi show, alongside new Time Lord David Tennant.

Well than she is silly

Thats a big mistake. I think shes getting too big for her boots now she has one best actress