Category: Show News

Here’s a round-up of the viewing options that us fans in Australia have in regards to the season premiere on Sunday 24th August.

• ABC1 Direct Broadcast – the episode will be screening directly from the UK at 4:50am in the morning for those early-birds!
• ABC iView – the ABC’s online media service will have the episode available throughout the day.
• ABC1 Prime-Time Broadcast – the episode will be screening during prime-time at 7:30pm.
• Cinemas – selected cinemas around Melbourne will be screening the episode on the big screen. For more information or to book tickets, visit your preferred cinema’s website: Hoyts, Village, Cinema Nova, Palace Cinemas, Sun Theatre.

Some club members will also be meeting up at one of two screenings – Cinema Nova at 1:50pm and Hoyts Melbourne Central at 4:00pm. Information on these can be found on our events page.

ABC TV has confirmed that the Australian air date for Series 8 will be on Sunday August 24, with the episode entitled “Deep Breath”.

The series will once again be fast-tracked from the UK, scheduled to be aired in the UK on August 23rd (which would be early in the morning of Sunday 24th here in Australia).

In the days of often illegal downloading of popular television shows being a common problem here in Australia due to the time we sometimes have to wait to see our favorite shows, it’s great to see the ABC realizing the popularity of Doctor Who and continue to air it as close as possible to it’s UK broadcast time, while still maintaining a prime-time screening time here in Australia. No mention as yet if there will be an earlier iView screening, but will keep you update on that.

A teaser trailer can also be seen on the BBC’s official YouTube page.

A new teaser trailer released by the BBC confirms that series 8 of Doctor Who will air in August. The 15 second trailer shows silhouette of the 12th Doctor in the TARDIS. No confirmation as yet as to when the ABC will be airing the series, but if recent seasons are of any indication, we’d hope that it will be shown the same day as the UK.

The trailer can be seen on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/QYN6ruU672Y

 

Despite airing from 6:50am on a Sunday morning in the east (and at 3:50am in Western Australia!) a rather stunning 424,000 people (in the “Five Cities” area, overnight) were up early to watch the simulcast of the anniversary story ‘The Day of the Doctor’. Something like 60,000 people then watched in a cinema during the day, and then there were 922,000 watching the repeat come 7:30pm, making it the #1 drama for the day, #1 show for the ABC, and #9 overall.

There were also 51,000 watching on iView.

‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ finished the night with 633,000 viewers, #17 for the day overall.

For those of you not totally distracted by that other thing today, you have to watch The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.

The last six weeks have been a pretty awesome celebration of the show.

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The sheer number of videos, interviews, and other goodies to come out in the past week has been overwhelming, and there’s still a week to go…

To jump immediately to the big one, we have ‘The Night of the Doctor’, a prelude to the anniversary tale ‘The Day of the Doctor’. Even if you don’t normally go for the non-televised additions, let me say quite firmly YOU MUST WATCH THIS.

The first couple minutes (or close to it) of ‘The Day of the Doctor’ were shown as part of ‘Children in Need’:

There were several trailers and teasers before that — here’s the longest and splashiest one so far:

Before that, there was the ’50 Years’ teaser — nothing really from the upcoming story, but a visual treat and celebration of so many aspects of the show over the decades:

And rolling back all of those fifty years, here’s the trailer for the docudrama ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’, which will air on November 21 in the UK and on November 24 on the ABC:

There’s plenty more out there, including An Evening With Steven Moffat re-capping the show’s history. Busy times!

ADDED Monday 19 Nov: federal parliamentarians speak on the anniversary!

ADDED Tuesday 20 Nov: Sydney Newman explains the concept of the show to Verity Lambert in this preview clip from ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’.

ADDED Wednesday 21 Nov: Publicity machine hits overdrive. But what is the spray bottle for?!?

ADDED Friday 21 Nov: this is a bit fluffy, but includes some interesting behind-the-scene shots.

The ABC is joining in the worldwide synchronised launch of ‘Day of the Doctor’, and with the announcement from the BBC of the actual time it will start in the UK, we can safely speculate that the ABC’s screening will start at 6:50am AEST on 24 November.

What is confirmed is that the repeat that evening will start at 7:30pm. The docudrama about the origins of the show, ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’, will follow directly afterwards at 8:50pm, and run another hour-and-a-half.

If you’re looking to see ‘Day of the Doctor’ in 3D at the cinemas (see our earlier post), be warned some sessions are selling out already. Most of the mainstream theatres have sessions at 4pm on Sunday 24 November, with some having extras at other times. The most options appears to be at Cinema Nova, with 11 sessions on the Sunday (some already sold out) and a few more in following days.

The trailer for ‘Day of the Doctor’ has been leaked a day early in Spain. For the moment at least, it can be viewed at:

http://expelliarmus.tumblr.com/post/66409923063

There are literally dozens of other TV and radio shows related to the anniversary that will air around the world over the next few weeks… you may have to be more creative in finding them!

A few hours after the worldwide debut on Sunday November 24 (our time), there will be screenings in 87 cinemas around Australia of ‘The Day of the Doctor’. The Victorian sites are:

Melbourne
Hoyts Northland
Hoyts Victoria Gardens
Hoyts Frankston
Hoyts Highpoint
Village Jam Factory
Village Fountain Gate
Village Southland
Village Knox
Village Sunshine
Cinema Nova
Dendy Brighton

Peninsulas
Village Geelong
Peninsula Sorrento
Peninsula Rosebud
Peninsula Warragul

Regional
Hoyts Albury
Echuca Paramount
Deakin Cinema Mildura
Wangaratta Cinema Centre

Finally, after more than a year of crazy rumours…

Now we wait till Friday morning Australian time for the actual press conference, and to find out whether it’s 2, 17 (the oft-mentioned “MEW theory” of Marco Polo, Enemy of the World, and Web of Fear), or 105 episodes (c’mon, nobody thinks ‘The Feast of Stephen’ could possibly exist).

More info in this BBC News article.