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...more internet info about the episode, how can so many people be so wrong? to much booze???...

     

         ...Voyage of the Damned scored an Appreciation Index figure of 86 making it one of the most enjoyed programmes on British Television this Christmas. A score above 85 is considered excellent. It was the highest score on either of the main two channels for the day.

For a drama series with such a massive audience to score so well in the Audience Appreciation figures is very unusual and a real measure of just how well the show is performing. The only other programmes to score higher on Christmas day were "Romeo and Juliet" on BBC2 and "The African Queen" on Channel 4.

The Appreciation Index, or AI, is a measure of how much the audience liked the programme. It is a score out of 100, based on responses from a carefully selected panel. The average score for drama on BBC1 and ITV1 is 77. A score in excess of 85 is regarded as excellent while a score below 60 is poor...

...some viewing information from Gallifrey One...


    ....Unofficial figures show that the 2007 Christmas special Voyage of the Damned was watched by 12.2 million viewers, a 50% share of the total television audience. This is the highest rating the show has achieved since its return in 2005.

The programme was the second most watched of the day, being beaten by the edition of EastEnders immediately following Doctor Who.

The audience peaked in the last fifteen minutes of the show with a massive 13.8 million watching, nearly 55% of the audience. The five minute breakdown shows that over 15 million watched the last five minutes of the programme.

The day was a triumph for the BBC, with BBC One taking 9 of the top ten places. Against the Doctor, Emmerdale on ITV1 could only manage 5.8 million, with the Evening News only getting 3.8 million.

The previous highest rated episode of the new series was Rose, which got 10.8 million viewers. If confirmed these figures will make Voyage of the Damned the highest rated episode of Doctor Who in over 28 years. It has the largest audience since the 1979 Tom Baker story City of Death, which had the advantage of being broadcast when ITV was on strike and BBC1 was one of only two channels broadcasting.

In the Children's Charts, Doctor Who was top of the list with 2.2 million under 16's watching, an incredible 65.3% share of the audience.

Final figures, including data for those who recorded the programme and watched it later, will be released by BARB in two weeks time...
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...spinning around...

...i should be so lucky, lucky, lucky...

...Do they knw its Christmas, by Band Aid...

...never bought it in 1984, unlike everyone else it seems, and its still being played on the radio, aaaaaaaaaaaarrggghh!!!...

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...must admit i love this old-school art by Ezquerra, reminds me of his Dredd work from some of the early 80's Dredd annuals...

...by the way it took me all of 2 mins to 'tidy-up' the art, so i was just wondering why this hasnt been done???  especially if they are changeing whole parts of it later in the series???...

...or even just enlarge the printing and bleed it of the page for real? any thoughts???...http://i17.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/cb/9c/5901_1.JPG">

...would it not look better with some of those boxes tidied up so they no longer look like page bleeds that no longer bleed of the page...http://i17.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/cb/9c/5901_1.JPG">

...was wondering what the thinking was behind the reprinting of this strip? for a start it doesnt even fit the page, obviously because it comes from an American comic, but even so...

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...sorry, very cryptic posting title...

...this has been posted today the the old Outpost Gallifrey website, whos next? Russell T Davies and then David Tennant???...

...''According to reports in the The Guardian, executive producer of Doctor Who, Julie Gardner will leave the series in January 2009. Gardner has been one of the driving forces behind the series since its return in 2005 as well as having huge success with other dramas including Life on Mars and Torchwood.

She will be replaced by Piers Wenger, who will take over for the series fifth season, and who will also become head of BBC Wales drama. Wenger, who is 35, recently left his job as head of drama development at Granada, where he worked on the BAFTA and RTS award-winning Housewife 49. Earlier this year he helped set up independent producer Mammoth Screen. He will join the BBC in the new year and spend a 12 month period taking over from Gardner. He said "I'm incredibly excited to be joining BBC Wales, the success of the drama team there has been extraordinary and I look forward to taking the team to even greater heights."

Jane Tranter, head of Fiction at the BBC, paid tribute to Julie Gardner describing her as "one of the most impressive television executives in the UK". She said "Her success over the past four years in BBC Wales drama has been unparalleled and her work on Doctor Who has earned her a place in TV history."

Gardner herself said she had been on the "trip of a lifetime" over the past five years. "I know that when I hand over my sonic screwdriver to Piers for season five of Doctor Who, it will be to someone who loves and understands the show."

Gardner will continue to work on Doctor Who for the next year, overseeing the fourth series, as well as three specials for broadcast in 2009''...

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