Paul Winter's blog

The consolidated ratings for 'Deep Breath' on BBC1 23rd August 2014, which include 'time shift' viewing, show that the programme added a large number of additional viewers to the initial 6.8 million, to bring the total to 9.2 million. This makes Doctor Who the second most popular programme of the week.

The overnight ratings for 'Into the Dalek' on BBC1 Saturday 30th August 2014, were 5.2 million viewers or 24.7% of the audience. Doctor Who was the most popular programme on BBC1 and the second most popular programme in the UK yesterday, being beaten only by the return of 'The X Factor' on ITV.

Consolidated figures are likely to be released in about a week.

Thank you for your comments about 'Deep Breath', last week. Surprisingly there were not that many of them, so it would be great to get more reactions from members and other fans this time round.

I guess we all know that anyway - but on BBC1 in the UK 'Doctor Who' was, in terms of numbers, yesterday's most popular programme, and is currently the most popular programme for the whole week.

The overnight audience was 6.8 million which represents a 32.5% audience share. The next closest programme was Casualty with 4.2 million.

So, the new series and new Doctor are almost upon us.

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For fans of Doctor Who on audio, and in particular the Audio Visuals series from the 1984 onwards, there is a superb item in our auction, courtesy of Miwk Publishing:

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A preview of the next CT is available by clicking the picture opposite.

You can now view the video of Waris Hussein dedicating our blue plaque at our You Tube Channel. Click the icon opposite, or below to go directly to the video:

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Following last year's 50th Anniversary poll, we were pleased to be able to present three awards at our recent 'Myth Makers' event. To see our own Tony Jordan presenting these to Philip Hinchcliffe, Graeme Harper and Terrance Dicks just click the 'You Tube' icon on the left hand side of our home page - you can find this and many more items available to watch.