The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary episode The Day of the Doctor has taken more than $10m (£6m) at the box office in its first three days of being aired in cinemas across the globe.

The BBC released the The Day of the Doctor in cinemas globally on Saturday, and by Monday fans had spent $10.2m (£6.25m) to watch it.

The UK box office took £1.8m in its first three days. Where it was the third most film of the week after Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Sandra Bullock's space survival film Gravity.

The BBC have announced that in the USA the film took $4.7m on Monday night alone, selling 320,000 tickets, which made it the second biggest film of the day after Hunger Games.

In terms of average revenue per screen the BBC said it was number one in the US on Monday, with 650 cinemas airing the 75-minute anniversary edition for an average of $7,155. Hunger Games, on much wider release in 4,163 cinemas, made $2,623 per screen on average.

In Australia more than 70,000 fans visited the cinema to watch D…

BBC Worldwide have today lanched a new free to play Doctor Who game app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
Doctor Who: Legacy is currently focusing on the sixth and seventh series of the show and features Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor and his companions Amy, Rory and Clara battling foes such as The Weeping Angels, The Silence and The Daleks. However there are plans to introduce a bigger range of characters to the game in the run up to Christmas and David Tennant's Tenth Doctor is already featured in screen grabs from the game in the app store.

The game is or will be available today in the following regions: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and on both Google Play and iOS app store. If you don't see it yet, keep checking back.  Other territories will be added in over the coming days.

Game Description:
For the first time ever, interact with fifty years of Doctor Who as you travel through time and space, relive his most dari…

London based Milk VFX have released a video showing how the stunning visual effects of The Day Of The Doctor, including the Time War, were created.

Watch it below:

The BBC have released a selection of backstage images of David Tennant, Matt Smith and John Hurt filming scenes for The Day Of The Doctor.

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The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure in this 50th anniversary special. In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London’s National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space, an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor’s own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.

Visit our special The Day Of The Doctor section for photos, videos and more from the episode.

The Dan's Hope Campaign is auctioning off a Tree Fu Tom DVD set autographed by both David Tennant and Sophie Aldred in aid of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. The auction is one of many just launched in their latest sale of autographed and collectable merchandise.

The Tree Fu Go! DVD includes 7 stories from the award winning animated CBeebies series, plus a collectable Tom figure. The inlay has been signed by Sophie and David, who voice the characters of Tom and Twigs. The auction runs until Tuesday 3rd December and bids are welcome from buyers outside the UK.

Click here for more information and to place a bid

The Dan's Hope Campaign was set up by the family of four year old Dan who has a rare type of congenital muscular dystrophy. Its aim is to raise money to fund research into muscular dystrophy and into the development of therapies and clinical trials.

Visit their website for more information

View all the items in the latest Dan's Hope auction here

ITV's award winning crime drama Broadchurch will begin on RTL 4 in Holland early next year. The series stars David Tennant, Olivia Colman and Arthur Darvill and was first broadcast in the UK this spring.

Broadchurch


RTL 4 start in januari met nog een buitenlandse dramaserie, namelijk Broadchurch, dat met dubbele afleveringen te zien zal zijn op de zondagavond, van acht tot tien uur. Deze serie gaat over detectives Ellie Miller en Alex Hardy, die in de kustplaats Dorset de spraakmakende moord op een achtjarige jongen proberen op te lossen.

De eerste aflevering is te zien op vrijdag 3 januari om 22.30 uur. Broadchurch zal verder gewoon op de zondagavonden vanaf 5 januari.


RTL 4 starts January with an overseas drama, namely Broadchurch, which will be screened in double episodes on Sundays, from eight to ten o’clock. This series follows detectives Ellie Miller and Alex Hardy, who are trying to solve the devastating murder of an eight year old boy in a coastal town in Dorset.
The first episo…

Viewing figures reveal that the Saturday broadcasts of the Day Of The Doctor on BBC America brought in record viewing figures for the network.

The original simulcast broadcast at 2.50pm ET averaged 2.4 million viewers. The evening repeat put on more than a million more giving a total of 3.6m.

Another record was set on the Doctor Who Tumblr site on Saturday where there were 14.5 million views, more than any other televised event, including the Super Bowl and the MTV Video Music Awards.

The episode also screened in US theatres where it sold out in 11 cities nationally.

In the UK, The Day Of The Doctor was watched by 10.6m viewers on Saturday and ranked third in the weekend cinema box office table. 

The special episode saw Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor joining forces with his earlier incarnations played by David Tennant and John Hurt to resolve a significant moment in the Doctor's timeline. The special also featured Billie Piper, Jenna Coleman, Joanna Page and Jemma Redgrave.

David Tennant's appearance last night on BBC Radio Two with Jo Whiley has now been made available as a permanent clip on the website.

Listen again to David and Jo as they enjoy a fine selection of cakes while chatting about the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary, the Richard II live broadcast, Broadchurch and the American remake Gracepoint. David also selected the soundtrack for the evening.

The Day Of The Doctor ranked in the UK cinema charts this weekend after showings of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special in 450 screens shot it into third place. The chart success comes in the week that entertainment ranking service Rentrak have announced that Event Cinema releases will be included in the official UK chart.

The Day Of The Doctor, starring Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt, brought in £1.7 million from the simultaneous screening which took place at the same time as the international TV broadcast. It was beaten only in the UK film rankings by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Gravity. 

The figures so far released do not include the total for the Sunday repeat screenings.

The Day Of The Doctor will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 2nd December in the UK and 10th December in the USA
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David Tennant appeared tonight on The Jo Whiley  Show on BBC Radio 2 to play music, eat cake and chat about Doctor Who, Richard II and what's in store for him in the future.

Some highlights from David's chat with Jo:

He watched The Stolen Earth and Journey's End to get himself back into the role of the Tenth Doctor for the 50th Anniversary specialHe worried about stepping on Matt Smith's toes, but  "...Matt was very generous at the whole notion of it...we really got on and we really enjoyed playing with it."On his plait: "I'm sporting some fairly serious hair extensions for Richard II...you can't plait your own extensions, I've discovered. You need help."He and Matt Smith agree that they have set themselves a moral bar on how to behave during their tenures as the Doctor: they feel that they have less scope for the rock'n'roll lifestyles enjoyed by some of their classic predecessors due to the scrutiny they are always under.David ca…