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The first half of Series 6 has now reached its epic conclusion on ABC1 in Australia, and here’s a round up of how each of the episodes faired in the ratings!
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Final ratings for last weekend’s broadcast of the mid series finale, A Good Man Goes to War, have been released.
The episode was watched in the UK by an official audience of 7.57million, a 31% share of the total television audience.
Now that official ratings for all seven episodes are available, we can see that the first half of Series 6 was watched by an average audience of 7.66million. Congratulations to the cast and crew for the achievement!
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BBC Books have released the covers for the forthcoming Torchwood: Miracle Day prequel books which were revealed back in March!
We’ll be able to purchase First Born from 21st July, while the releases of Long Time Dead and The Men Who Sold the World will follow on 4th August and 18th August. Each book has a RRP of £6.99. Will you be getting them?
Keep reading for all the covers, plot and author details!
Rhys was hoping this meant a windswept cottage on a cliff top, but he’s had to settle for a miserable caravan in the isolated village of Rawbone. With the locals taking an unhealthy interest in their daughter, Gwen and Rhys start to realise that something is very wrong – something with echoes of a life they thought they’d left behind.
As they uncover the village’s terrible past, Gwen discovers that Torchwood will never leave them behind, and now she and Rhys stand alone in defence of the Earth. And the children of Rawbone can only bring her closer to the secret forces that want her out of the way.
Long Time Dead by Sarah Pinborough To be released 4th August
Cardiff Bay.
The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base.
DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance, fascinated by the process. There are people in his dreams. People he feels he should know.
The disbanded Torchwood Institute spent a century accumulating non-terrestrial artefacts and catching aliens. Who knows what – or who – might still be intact down there.
But by the time they find the first body, Suzie Costello is long gone.
The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams To be released 18th August
When Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked ‘Torchwood’ that they’ve been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff. A very special shipment the British government is keen to offload at almost any price. The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case. As the strange deaths pile up, Rex realises there must be experimental tech out there, but someone is obstructing him at every turn – each time he seems to be catching up with the rogue unit, something puts him off the trail. Rex is the CIA’s golden boy – but has he met his match in the evasive Mr Wynter?
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The final ratings for episode six of Series 6, The Almost People, have been released.
The figure shows that the episode, the penultimate episode of the spring series and part two of Matthew Graham’s two parter, was watched by an official audience of 6.72million.
Doctor Who was BBC One’s 6th most watched programme of the week. Congratulations to the cast and crew! Keep up to date with the latest ratings news here.
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“This is the day he finds out who I am…”
- River Song
For Doctor Who fans, Saturday is always a big day, but this particular one is even more sizeable than usual! Tonight will see the grand premiere of the long awaited mid-series finale, in which the Doctor will face his darkest hour as A Good Man Goes to War. The question is, are we ready?
Since the mind-blowing cliffhanger at the end of The Almost People last weekend, the anticipation for what has been billed as a “game-changing” finale has been intensifying. Fandom has been hit with a tidal wave of speculation, and, in a matter of hours, we’ll be able to see if any of us even came close to outsmarting the weird and wonderful brain of Steven Moffat. For the Doctor, Amy and Rory, it’s sure to be the greatest challenge yet.
Let’s not forget River, who will also be back on our screens tonight, and this time she’s bringing with her the answer to a question that has been at the forefront of discussion since summer 2008. The Doctor first encountered her in Silence and the Library, and since then, we’ve slowly been given cryptic clues about who/what she is. In this episode, she’ll finally reveal her secret. Will it be worth it? Karen Gillan certainly thinks so!
There’s all of that plus monsters aplenty and the conclusion of various story arcs. What more could we WANT from a mid-series finale!? We were told about the mid-series split last August, and here we are just hours away from the anticipated/dreaded moment…
We’ll be discussing all the shocks from 7:30pm, so join us then to share your reactions!
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War - 6:40pm, BBC One/BBC One HD Doctor Who Confidential - 7:30pm, BBC Three/BBC HD
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It features Karen Gillan, Steven Moffat, Alex Kingston and Arthur Darvill discussing the long awaited episode, which airs on Saturday at 6:40pm on BBC One.
It’s certainly going to be one to remember, as River Song acknowledges that the time to reveal her most closely guarded secret to the Doctor has come at last…
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The mid-series finale, A Good Man Goes to War, is slowly but surely on its way, and the BBC has today delivered some more images to help tide us over until the weekend!
The highly anticipated episode hits our screens on Saturday at 6:40pm on BBC One, and it’s guaranteed to be non stop drama as River Song acknowledges that the time to reveal her most closely guarded secret to the Doctor has come at last. For more finale intrigue, check out its web exclusive prequel and trailer and even more images.
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The final ratings for Series 6 Episode 5, The Rebel Flesh, have been released.
The information shows that the episode, part one of Matthew Graham’s two parter, was watched by an official audience of 7.35million, which is an impressive 34.1% share of the total television audience.
Congratulations to the cast and crew for yet another brilliant figure! Everything’s coming up Doctor!
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Overnight ratings show that last night’s episode of Doctor Who, The Almost People, was watched by an unofficial audience of 5.0million, a 24.4% share.
As soon as the credits rolled, the web was inundated with reviews and reactions, the majority of which were inevitably centered around the episode’s shock cliffhanger, so there’s lots of spoilers. According to the Guardian, it was “one of the most staggering reveals” in the history of the series, though they say the episode itself felt “a bit uneven”.
Meanwhile, the Telegraph have praised writer Matthew Graham for delivering a “taut, claustrophobic, sci-fi thriller”, and SFX have given the “predictable” episode a rating of 3/5. Digital Spy describe the two-parter’s climax as both “surprising and satisfying”, finishing: “Hats off to you, Who team, you’ve pulled the rug out from under us again”…
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The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams
