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Doctor Who's overnight ratings continue their downward trend - although they still remain good overall in comparison to other shows. Yesterday's broadcast of 'The Crimson Horror' on BBC1 achieved an audience of 4.61 million or 25.2% of the audience. Final figures will be due in just over a week.

This week we have a copy of the BBC Audio CD of 'Doctor Who: Martha in the Mirror' read by Freema Agyman to give away. Just drop us a line to say what you thought of this weekend's episode 'The Crimson Horror not after than 5pm Tuesday and we will enter you into the draw to win. Everyone is welcome to take part, member or non-member, UK or not.

The consolidated figures give 'Hide' a final viewing figure for its BBC1 broadcast of 6.61 million - meaning that it added 1.6 million viewers to the initial 'overnight' numbers - which is a good result. Doctor Who was 15th most popular programme for the week, and the 6th most popular on BBC1 behind only EastEnders, The Voice and Countryfile. The final audience share was 29.1%

The fanzine of Canadian Doctor Who fandom celebrates its 10th Anniversary issue - and is available to download free of charge at www.whotopia.ca

Amongst the content is an interview with Louise Jameson and even more excitingly, with the current DWAS Coordinator, giving his views on fandom today. (that's me actually...)

The overnight ratings for yesterday's episode on BBC1 were 4.9 million, or 26.7% of the audience. Doctor Who was third for the day once again. Time shift figures will be available next week.

More details at http://www.doctorwhonews.net/search/label/Ratings

Please let us have your views on this weekend's episode 'Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS' - as always, all comments are welcome, short or long. This week we have a copy of the new 'Destiny of the Doctor' CD 'Smoke and Mirrors'. This features the 5th Doctor and is read by Janet Fielding. We will pick a winner at random from all comments received by 5pm Tuesday.

For it's BBC1 debut, 'Cold War' added 1.65 million additional viewers to finish with an overall figure of 7.34 million, being those who watched at the time of broadcast, and those who watched it later. This does not include the viewers for the BBC3 repeat, nor the BBC iPlayer downloads.

The overnight ratings for 'Hide' on BBC1 yesterday show the episode achieved 5 million viewers. This is the lowest for for the 2012/3 series so far though is still a good figure. It represents 24.5% of the audience. Doctor Who was in 4th place for the day. The more accurate consolidated figures will be available in just over a week.

DWAS recently inherited a Doctor Who merchandise collection from the family of a fan who sadly died from cancer. This is now being auctioned at eBay to raise funds for Leukaemia research.

You can see what is available at http://www.dwasonline.co.uk/charity_auction

The consolidated ratings for the BBC1 broadcast of 'The Rings of Akhaten' show that the episode added 2 million viewers, once those who recorded it to watch later are taken into account. The total figure for the episode is now 7.45 million.

There is more at Doctor Who News: http://www.doctorwhonews.net/search/label/Ratings