Wednesday Series Coverage

A very brief update today...

The final BARB ratings have come in for episode two, The End of the World: the episode scored a 7.97, which made it the third-placed BBC1 programme of the week, behind "EastEnders" and "Match of the Day." As many people speculated at the time, it seems that viewing figures that week were down across the board and Doctor Who's showing in fact remained pretty constant against "Rose" the week before, in terms of both its placing and its audience share. This is by no means a show with plummeting audience ratings!

TV presenter John Leslie wants to be the Doctor, according to today's Sun. "The 40-year-old lost his job on This Morning in 2002 following a sex scandal, and has not worked regularly on TV since, but it is claimed he hopes to audition for the role. Bookies Ladbrokes, however, are reported as making him a 500-1 outsider, despite claims that he has cleaned up his act and shed weight to look trimmer. And an unnamed 'pal' is quoted as saying: 'There is more chance of him playing one of the monsters.'" This was also covered at Ananova.

Two minor links to report: a discussion of time travel at the Norwich Astronomical Society that mentions the Doctor who series in Norfolk Now, and a Guardian discussion on Cardiff Unviersity that mentions the Daleks.

(Thanks to Steve Tribe, John Bowman, Andrew Flynn, and Chuck Foster)