Doctor Who Once, Upon Time was watched by 3.76 million viewers according to unofficial overnight figures.
The figure is a slight drop from last week's episode.
The seven-day consolidated figure, which includes all those who watch the episode within one week. for the War of The Sontarans was 5.10 million.
This made Doctor Who the 13th most-watched programme on British television for the week ending 7th November
Doctor Who returns this weekend for the third chapter in the Flux series, Once, Upon Time
The episode is directed by Azhur Saleem making his Doctor Who debut.
It stars Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor alongside Mandip Gill as Yasmin and John Bishop as Dan.
The episode can be seen in the UK on BBC One at 6.30 pm on Sunday. Full global broadcasts are listed at This Week in Doctor Who
It can be streamed on the BBC iPlayer, on Netflix, on Amazon Prime and Britbox depending on location.
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 571 is out this week and comes with one of three covers.
It includes the latest on Series 13 from the showrunner Chris Chibnall.
Highlights include
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 571 is on sale from panini.co.uk and WH Smith from Thursday 11 November priced £5.99 (UK). Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £4.99.
War of The Sontarans: Flux: Chapter Two had an Audience Appreciation Index score of 77.
The Appreciation Index or AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the programme. The score, out of a hundred, is compiled by a specially selected panel of around 5,000 people who go online and rate and comment on programmes.
The figure is up a percentile on the 76 received by the series opener last week, indicating a higher appreciation amongst the programme commentators.
Doctor Who War of The Sontarans was watched by 3.96 million viewers according to unofficial overnight figures.
The figure is a drop of half a million from last week's season premiere, not unusual for the second episode of a season.
The final consolidated figure, which includes all those who watch the episode within one week. for the The Halloween Apocalypse was 5.79 million.
This made Doctor Who the 9th most-watched programme on British television for the week ending 31st October.
The actor Clifford Rose has died at the age of 92.
Clifford Rose appeared in the 1981 Tom Baker story Warriors' Gate where he played Rorvik the captain of the privateer ship that transported the time-sensitive Tharils.
He was most famous for his powerful portrayal of Standartenführer Ludwig Kessler, the ruthless Gestapo officer, in three series of Secret Army.
Clifford Rose was born in Herefordshire in the West Midlands of England. After studying at King's College London he sought a career as an actor appearing in repertory theatre and later as a founding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
His first television appearance was in 1959, in the adaptation of Arnold Bennett's Hilda Lessways. Many character appearances followed including roles in Roads to Freedom, Elizabeth R, Callan, Justice, The Pallisers, How Green Was My Valley and The Devil's Crown.
In 1977 he was cast as Sturmbannführer Ludwig Kessler in Secret Army, the series detailing the work of the prisoner evasion lines that helped British pilots escape from occupied Belgium during World War II. It was a powerful multi-layered performance that explored the ruthlessness of the German commander as well as his personal qualities as he fell in love with a Belgium woman.
His performance saw the character return in his own spin-off series, Kessler, exploring the fate of the character after the end of the war,
He later played SS General Hans Kammler in the miniseries War and Remembrance and appeared in Fortunes of War and played Judge Critchley in Alan Bleasdale's drama GBH.
Film roles included parts in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and The Iron Lady, and he had a small role as the Dean of Windsor in The Crown.
He was the winner of the Clarence Derwent Award 2009 for his performance in The Chalk Garden at the Donmar.
Doctor Who returns this weekend for the second chapter in the Flux series, War of the Sontarans
The episode sees the return of the Sontarans, first seen in the 1974 story The Time Warrior. The warriors, created by Robert Holmes, have returned many times to battle The Doctor, most recently in the 2008 story The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky.
In the episode, the Doctor teams up with Mary Seacole, played by Sara Powell. Seacole was a British-Jamaican, healer, and businesswoman who set up the so-called British Hotel behind the lines during the Crimean War.
The episode can be seen in the UK on BBC One at 6.15 pm on Sunday. Full global broadcasts are listed at This Week in Doctor Who
It can be streamed on the BBC iPlayer on Netflix, on Amazon Prime and Britbox depending on location.
The film and television writer Bob Baker has died at the age of 82.
Bob Baker wrote some of the best-loved stories from the classic Doctor Who era, co-creating the Doctor's beloved robot dog K-9. He was the screenwriter behind the acclaimed Wallace and Gromit series of films.
Born in Bristol in the west of England in 1939, Bob Baker initially trained as a monumental stonemason, chiseling other peoples' words onto gravestones.
In the early 1960's he teamed up with writing partner Dave Martin and together they wrote several stage plays before moving into television, working on popular series such as Z Cars.
In 1971, they were commissioned for their first story for Doctor Who. The Claws of Axos was the first of nine stories over eight seasons.
For the third Doctor, they wrote The Mutants and The Three Doctors, the story that marked the tenth series of Doctor Who and which introduced the character of Omega.
In 1975 they were back writing for the fourth Doctor. Over the next four years, they would contribute The Sontaran Experiment; The Hand Of Fear; The Invisible Enemy; Underworld; The Armageddon Factor and Nightmare of Eden.
It was The Invisible Enemy which saw the arrival of K-9. The robot dog was originally intended for this story only, but the producer Graham Williams made a late decision to have him join the Doctor in the TARDIS where he stayed for the next four years.
The character was written out of Doctor Who in 1981 but featured in a pilot for a new series K9 and Company, where he starred alongside Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith. In 2006 K-9 met the Tenth Doctor in the story School Reunion. and would feature in the Doctor Who Spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures. In 2010 a new K-9 TV series was made in Brisbane, Australia.
Other TV work by Bob Baker included the Children's TV Hits Into the Labyrinth and King of the Castle. For adults he contributed scripts for Bergerac and Shoestring as well as Public Eye and Call me Mister
Baker was a very successful, screenwriter becoming closely associated with the productions of Ardman Animations, writing, with their creator Nick Park, award-winning shorts such as The wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and A Matter of Loaf and Death. In 2006 he co-wrote the feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit which won the British Acadamy Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film.
In 2013 Baker wrote his autobiography entitled K9 Stole My Trousers with help from Laurie Booth.
Bob Baker is survived by Marie, his wife of thirty years, and his children and Grandchildren
The Halloween Apocalypse: Flux: Chapter One had an Audience Appreciation Index score of 76.
The Appreciation Index or AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the programme. The score, out of a hundred, is compiled by a specially selected panel of around 5,000 people who go online and rate and comment on programmes.
The previous series opener, Spyfall: Part One (New Year's Day 2020) achieved a score of 82, whilst the most recent episode, New Year's Day adventure Revolution of the Daleks, achieved a score of 79. The thirteenth Doctor's era as a whole has a a current average score of 80.
The score of 76 is the lowest achieved for the series since Love & Monsters in 2006.
Doctor Who The Halloween Apocalypse has an unofficial overnight viewing figure of 4.43 million viewers.
The overnight viewing figure is slightly down on last season's opening episode Skyfall, but higher than the majority of series 12 episodes.
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