The Doctor In The TARDIS Awards 2012

 

The third annual Forum Awards are heading your way, so it's time to start voting again!

Once again, this years awards have grown and now cover 18 catagories. Just like in previous years, the catagories for Best Doctor, Best Companion and Best Story have been split into Classic and New to make voting as fair as possible because while everyone has seen the show since it returned in 2005, not everyone is as familiar with the classic series and it deserves to get equal representation.

This year the spinoffs will be given more of a look in with their own individual 'Best Story' catagories for Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. The award for Best Villian is once again split to include Best Alien/Monster Species. This will mean that individual baddies will be recognised apart from their race, for example, Restac could be nominated seperately from The Silurians. The final new catagory is The Doctor Who Superstar Award. In a similar vein to a lifetime acheivement or contribution award, this award will be for a writer or director or actor etc, who you feel has played a huge role in the show and it's success.

As with last year, it is not compulsory to vote in every catagory. You can vote for as little as one or as many as all of them when you submit your nominations, but votes will only count once so think carefully about your choices.

To submit your nominations, copy and paste the catagories below along with your answers into a private message on the forum to either Myself or PopRockGeek to be counted. And if you aren't a member but would like to vote, you can put forward your nominations via email to: thedoctorinthetardis @ hotmail.co.uk or by messaging us via Twitter (@TardisSpoilers or @PopRockGeek) or by messaging us on our Facebook Page. There are so many ways to vote so make sure your voice is heard.

Here are this years catagories:

Best Doctor (New) -
Best Doctor (Classic) -
Best Companion (New) -
Best Companion (Classic) -
Best Story (New) -
Best Story (Classic) -
Best Guest/One Off Character -
Best Recurring Character -
Best Alien/Monster Species -
Best Villain -
Best Writer -
Best Director -
Best Spinoff -
Best Story: Torchwood -
Best Story: The Sarah Jane Adventures -
Best Audio -
Best Book (Fiction/Non Ficton) -
The Doctor Who Superstar Award -

If you have any questions or queries, please post them below and we will get back to you asap.

The Doctor In The TARDIS Forum

Some of you may or may not be aware that as well as this news page and Twitter feed, we also run a Doctor Who forum under The Doctor In The TARDIS banner.

Whilst we are currently a small community in comparison to many others, we are growing rapidly with nearly 400 members and over 70,000 posts in the last year and a half.

We have sections dedicated to all aspects of the show, including seperate areas for spoilers and non spoilers, merchandise, Torchwood & The Sarah Jane Adventures, the classics series, role-play, fan art and fanfiction, as well a huge section for discussion of topics not relating to Doctor Who and the Whoniverse.

We are a friendly and inclusive forum and we always welcome new members to sign up and share their thoughts and feelings about the show and we make it a priority to make the forum a place where everyones opinions are welcomed and respected. The main ethos of the forum is to provide a place where everyone can discuss the show and how they feel about it in a warm, friendly environment without the worry that their opinions will be trampled on or devalued.

If you love discussing Doctor Who then please come and have a look around and sign yourself up today by visiting The Doctor In The TARDIS Forum

Ratings Update

Saturday nights premier of The God Complex finished the day third overall across all channels bringing in 5.2m overnight viewers. The episode, which saw a dip from last weeks overnights should see a significant rise and continue this years trend once timeshifted viewing has been taken into account. The episode also scored an AI of 86, considered excellent.

The final ratings for last weeks The Girl Who Waited have come in at a very impressive 7.6 million viewers, with 1.6m of those timeshifting to watch after the initial broadcast via iPlayer and other means.

Meanwhile Torchwood: Miracle Day episode 9 brought in a healthy 4.63 million viewers with timeshift taken into account.

For more on how the shows are performing this year, check out the ratings threads at The Doctor In The TARDIS Forum

Torchwood Series 1-4 Box Set

A complete series 1-4 boxset of Torchwood has been announced for release, with Amazon currently offering the best prices online. They have the standard and the bluray versions ready for pre-order. Standard will set you back £44.97, and bluray comes in at £48.69.

Containing Series 1, Series 2, Children of Earth and Miracle Day:
Torchwood follows the adventures of a team of investigators, led by the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness. Set in the UK in the present day, the team use scavenged alien technology in a very real world to solve crime; both alien and human. Separate from the government. Outside the police. Beyond the United Nations. Everyone who works for Torchwood is young, under 35. Some say that's because it's a new science. Others say it's because they die young... 

For more merchandise news, reviews and releases, come on over to The Doctor In The TARDIS Forum

Miracle Day Episode 1 Ratings UK Update

Last week TDITT brought you the news that the first episode of 'Miracle Day' had pulled in overnight ratings of 4.8 million.

Today BARB have revealed the final consolidated ratings for the episode (without iplayer). They are a massive 6.59 million, an increase of 1.79 million from the overnight figure. This brings it into line with the ratings for the first episode of 'Children of Earth.'

From these ratings it looks like fears that Torchwood's audience might dip due to people downloading the US broadcast may be unfounded, although it will be easier to judge that after the series has completed its run.

It also remains to be seen if there will be a knock on effect from the controversy surrounding the fact that the UK is getting a slightly different edit of Episode 3 to the US.

For the moment though, Torchwood appears to be doing well.

Torchwood Ratings Update

Overnight ratings for the UK airing of Miracle Day episode 2, Rendition, have come in at 4.4 million with a share of 19.1%. 

 

These figures are down slightly on the first episode of the season, though they are likely to grow once the official and timeshifted figures are announced early next week. We are also waiting on the AI figure too.

Officials for episode 1 are due on Monday.

Torchwood Episode Four Promo Images

Torchwood Sex Scene Scandal?

Fans of Torchwood: Miracle Day in the UK are upset after the BBC announced that it plans to cut parts of a sex scene from episode three of the show fearing an 'avalanche' of complaints from viewers.

The sex scene which features Captain Jack, played by John Barrowman, and a barman he meets in the show, will still be seen in the US version. Many fans are now questioning whether the BBC would have left the scene intact had it been between a man and a woman.

Torchwood: Miracle Day, although a spin off from a family show, has always had more adult themes and sex scenes and swearing have both featured heavily in the past, but the BBC suspect that complaints may arise over this scene, which Barrowman described as 'not gratuitous', despite it airing after the watershed.

What do you think of the removal of the scene? Are the BBC right to cut it or should the viewing audience be able to see the show exactly as it was intended in its late evening slot? Let us know below

Torchwood US Ratings Update

The premier of Episode 2 on Starz saw a drop in the ratings for Miracle Day, bringing in 609,000 viewers on Friday. For it's four airings over the weekend it brought in a total of 1.4m viewers, also down on the first episodes weekend total of 1.9m.

Episode 1, with repeats and 3 day DVR recordings taken into account has come in with a very respectable rating of 2.7m for Starz.

In the UK, the AI for episode one was revealed yesterday as 85, which is considered excellent. Official figures for episode 1 are not yet available, but overnights (reported fully HERE) came in at 4.8 million.

Miracle Day Ep 3 Promo Shots

Miracle Day Episode 1 Ratings UK

Last nights premier of Torchwood: Miracle Day managed to bag BBC1 an overnight figure of 4.8m, with a peak early on in the episode of 5.2 million viewers.

The episode, which was first broadcast in the United States nearly a week earlier, has potentially suffered from many people deciding to download instead of waiting for broadcast. It took an audience share of 21.1%

These figures are down slightly on last year, though it must be remembered that these are just overnight figures and the actual consolidated number will be released in about 10 days.

Miracle Day finally arrives in the UK

One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. People keep aging, they get hurt and sick, but they never die, threatening to change what it means to be human, forever.

The wait is over ...

It's been two years since Torchwood last graced UK television screen with the event that was 'Children of Earth.'

Tonight it finally returns with it's fourth series, Miracle Day. The first episode, 'The New World,' which airs tonight at 9pm on BBC1, has the following synopsis on the BBC Torchwood site:

When death itself comes to a halt, the whole world faces its greatest danger yet. CIA agent Rex Matheson has only one clue: the word 'Torchwood'.

So, are you excited that Torchwood is finally back on our screens?

Whatever your thoughts, why not come & share them in our special Miracle Day section on the forum after the episode has finished. We'd love to know what you thought.

Torchwood Episode Two Promo Images

Miracle Day Episode 1 Ratings

The ratings for the first Torchwood: Miracle Day episode to air on Starz have been released.

According to SFX, the initial airing brought in 819,000 at 10pm with the +1 service bringing in a further 687,000 viewers, bringing the total up to 1.51 million, narrowly missing out on becoming the most watched launch ever on the channel, just behind Camelot which manages 1.57.

This figure does not include viewers who saw the episode as it was being streamed on the Starz website, which could add many more thousands to the above total. A final and full consolidated rating is expected next week.

Web Of Lies: Episode 1

Here is episode one of Torchwood: Web Of Lies, the online series to accompany Miracle Day.

New Torchwood Opening and Closing Credit Sequence and Music

Here is the new opening sequence for Torchwood: Miracle Day and the new closing music. While the closing music is similar to what we have heard before, the opening is all new. Let us know what you think.

Merchandise Releases Coming Soon

A whole host of new merchandise has been revealed for release in the run up to Christmas this year and the guys over on the forum have been busy putting it all together, so here is a sneak peak of some of the things you can expect to see being released over the next few months.

The Brilliant Book Of Doctor Who 2012

Following on from the success of last years edition, The Brilliant Book Of Doctor Who will be back for a 2012 edition that will be released on October 13th.

There is no cover art as yet, but you can see last year's in the picture to the left. As with last years edition, the newest book is set to contain spoilers for next year, puzzles, pictures, character bio's, episode facts and much more

New Action Figures

Some new figures that are set to be released later this year includes a figure of Idris, who was of course played by Suranne Jones in The Doctor's Wife, a bearded Doctor in straight jacket which we saw in Day Of The Moon and Captain Avery from Curse Of The Black Spot. Character Building will also be adding River Song and Rory Williams figures to their range. A new Sonic Screwdriver variant is also expected.

New Play Sets

Character Building have announced that they are also releasing two new play sets to add to their range. The first is the Cyberman Conversion Chamber which can be seen to the left. Also set for release is the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS Console Room, which is on the right. The Console Room has over 500 pieces and comes with four figures, The Doctor, Amy, Rory and River.



Also as part of the range and due for release soon will be the Eleven Doctor's Set, which will be similar to the standard Eleven Doctors figure
set, only really teeny. All Character Building products are also compatible with other bulding block ranges such as lego.

New Torchwood Audios

Torchwood: The Lost Files is a set of three audios which will see the return of Gareth David Lloyd to the team as Ianto Jones. The set will actually air on the radio before release and will then be available to purchase shortly afterwards.

Adventures In Time And Space Roleplaying Game

Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space is a roleplaying game set in the universe of the world’s longest running science fiction show on TV – the BBC’s Doctor Who. Published in a boxed format, the core set includes:

•Player’s Guide
•Gamemaster’s Guide
•Adventure Book
•Quick Start Guide
•Character sheets, pre-generated characters for the series cast
•Tokens and Dice

 Series 6: Part 1 on DVD & Blu-Ray

Coming soon to retailers will be Series 6: Part one which will include the first seven episodes from series 6 including The Impossible Astronaut, The Doctor's Wife and A Good Man Goes To War as well as some as yet unknown extras.





That is just a snippet of some of the great stuff that will be released over the next few months, but there is a heap more to see, so for even more upcoming releases, product reviews and merchandise news, check out The Doctor In The TARDIS Forum

Web Of Lies: Watch Episode 1 Introduction

For those of you without access to any Apple software, you can watch the introduction above, courtesy of Doctor Who Media. Keep checking back and we will udate with each episode as and when they are uploaded

Torchwood: Web Of Lies - Gwen & Holly

Here are two character profiles for Torchwood: Web Of Lies that will be available alongside Miracle Day. They feature Gwen and Holly, a new character voiced by Eliza Dushku.

The web content is available now. You can get the first episode for free from iTunes if you own any of their products such as the iPad or iPhone. After downloading the app, each subsequent episode will then cost you to download. They will come in sets of three and cost $0.99/59p. A special bundle for all 10 narratives and a game can be purchased for $2.99/£1.79

Torchwood Radio Times Cover Shoot Video

After we posted the new Torchwood Cover yesterday, the good people over at the @RadioTimes sent us a link to a video of the stars during the shoot for the magazines front cover. If you have been hanging around the forum you may have seen this yesterday, but if not you can click the link above or watch the video below.