Paul Winter's blog

We are just n hour away from the new series on BBC1 and elsewhere around the world. As always, we would like to know what you think. Our online poll will be live on this website at www.dwasonline.co.uk after the show has finished

It's-a-coming......

http://www.dwasonline.co.uk/latest_issue

Owing to an administrative error, a small number of DWAS members who subscriptions run to 31st Dec 2017 were sent letters saying their membership had expired on 31st Dec 2016. Apologies if this affected you.

It has been announced that the next series, returning 15th April 2017 will be Peter Capaldi's last as the Doctor.

Celestial Toyroom Remembers John Hurt, 1940 - 2017

This month's Doctor Who Magazine features a number of old DWAS publications. One of those mentioned is 'The Companion Volume" published by the Society in 1977. For a limited time, a PDF copy of this is available to download from our website, free-of-charge.

Doctor Who on Christmas Day in the UK added over 2 million viewers in official figures to end up with 7.83 million viewers. More details available at DW News:
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2017/01/the-return-of-doctor-mysterio-offic...

The Christmas special on BBC1 in the U.K. acheived an overnight result of 5.8 million, or 27.1% of the audience. This is a respectable result compared to other programmes, achieving the number 7 position for the day. The highest rated programme was 'Strictly Come Dancing' with 7.2 million viewers, or 32.1% of the audience.

More information is at Doctor Who News:

It's not enough, said everyone after reading the CT 2017 Annual, we demand more. So here is more..

Many thanks to all who supported our auction, by bidding, and by promoting it. The final winning bid was for a fantastic £560-00 which will benefit the Grand Order of Water Rats, in memory of Jon Pertwee.