Final figures released by BARB show that The Waters of Mars was watched by 10.32 million people, with 9.94 million watching on BBC 1, and 376,000 watching on BBC HD. It was the 2nd most watched programme of the week.
The long awaited Doctor Who special episode, The Waters of Mars, gets it first broadcast on television tonight! The special stars David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan and see’s the Doctor going to Mars, and it will be followed by a trailer for The End of Time, the final specials that see the regeneration of the 10th Doctor. Don’t miss the episode, tonight at 7pm on BBC One/HD.
“Is There Life on Mars” is the title for the behind the scenes Doctor Who Confidential episode for The Waters of Mars, and it will go out straight after The Waters of Mars special at 8pm on BBC3, this Sunday, November 15th.
Synopsis
Behind-the-scenes look at Doctor Who. It is the beginning of the end for David Tennant's Doctor, and Confidential is on a mission to Mars to capture the strange goings on in Bowie base one. The programme goes behind the mask of the monsters as the waters rise, causing the production team all sorts of problems. There are explosions, robots and gallons of water as the Doctor meets one of his heroes and battles against his greatest ever foe - time itself.
You can see new The Waters of Mars pictures at Den of Geek here.
The new Radio Times magazine features a cover for The Waters of Mars and will preview the special.
Press Release
Be afraid. Be very afraid. This week we take a look at new Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars (Sunday, BBC1/BBC HD), which may be the scariest adventure that the intrepid Time Lord’s ever had, and find out from Russell T Davies just why he’s ladled on the fear…
With its terrifying army of zombified creatures sporting cracked veins
and white pupils, The Waters of Mars, the first of David Tennant's final
three episodes, might also be his scariest yet.
Out tomorrow, priced £1.
Update
The new TV Guide magazine includes coverage on the special.
Second TV trailer for The Waters Of Mars.
ABC have confirmed that the special will go out on Sunday the 6th of November in Australia. If you are in the UK you can watch a new vid of RTD talking about the special on the official website for Doctor Who here.
BBC One aired a new trailer for The Waters of Mars last night after Waterloo Road finished. It runs for around one minute and can be viewed below. The Waters of Mars goes out next Sunday, 15th Nov, at 7pm on BBC 1/BBC HD.
Meanwhile the first part of SJA story The Eternity Trap aired earlier today, and you can watch it on the BBC iPlayer if you are in the UK here. You can also watch the next time trailer for part two of this creepy story below.
The cover for Doctor Who Magazine issue 415 is now online and can be seen below. The issue goes on sale on Thursday the 12th of November for £3.99. It includes exclusive interviews, a preview for The Waters of Mars and more.
Guardian.co.uk have some new clips from The Waters of Mars, and the BBC Doctor Who website has updated with a preview clip for the upcoming animation Dreamland that airs later this year. The clips can be seen below.
Some more new pictures from The Waters of Mars are now online and can be seen below. In other news, its been announced that The Waters of Mars will air on December 19th in the US on BBC America, and also, Digital Spy have a transcript from what Steven Moffat said about Doctor Who at the annual Screenwriters' Festival in Cheltenham, and you can read that online here.
Today is the 31st of October which means that its Halloween, a day when people dress up as monsters, go to parties, light bonfires and fireworks, and the children go trick or treating! To get you in the mood I put a picture of a character called Maggie who gets infected by the water on Mars in the next episode of Doctor Who which goes out on November 15th on BBC One!
If you are looking for something scary to watch tonight then I recommend Halloween (or Halloween 2, out now in cinemas, for 18s and up), Friday the 13th, or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Or if you would prefer to watch something scary that’s Doctor Who related, then maybe you should put on the Torchwood series one episode Countrycide, that always gives me chills, or even the Doctor Who episodes The Empty Child, Human Nature, and Blink.
Happy Halloween, have a good day!
The BBC have confirmed that the upcoming Doctor Who special, The Waters of Mars, will broadcast on Sunday the 15th of November at 7pm on BBC One and BBC HD. Digital Spy have some new images and teasers here and here.
David Tennant appeared on GMTV to talk about the special, and you can see the interview, which includes a preview clip for the special, below.
The press screening for the special was held today and BBC reporter Lizo Mzimba said the following about the episode;
Sitting directly behind David Tennant and Russell T. Davies. Great episode. And fab new End of Time trailer. Very emotional and scary. New territory for The Doctor. Audience here quite shell shocked by the intensity.
He also revealed that the first 3 minutes of the next special will be shown at the Children in Need event this year. The scene that will be shown will be of the Doctor arriving on the Ood Sphere.
In other news related to The Waters of Mars, the new issue of SFX Magazine includes a front cover for the episode, a preview of the special, and interviews with David Tennant and Russell T Davies. The cover is below.
The latest SFX Magazine is out now, priced £3.99. You can read SFX Magazines thoughts after the special screened earlier today online here.
The BBCs official website for Doctor Who has been updated for the episode.
There is also some BBC News coverage from the press launch online and can be viewed below, and also a transcript from the press conference here.
Today a new preview clip for the upcoming Doctor Who special episode The Waters of Mars was shown on BBC Breakfast. Russell T Davies and Elisabeth Sladen were interviewed about The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith and The Waters of Mars (see the full interview here). The new preview clip is below.
The Waters of Mars airs on BBC One and BBC HD in November.
A couples of days ago a new trailer for The Waters of Mars was released by the BBC, and many blogs and websites are reporting that at one point in the trailer you can see a glimpse of a woman who seems to be holding a baby. This woman is thought to be Rose Tyler holding her baby brother Tony Tyler. A man also seems to be sitting on a chair near Rose and that man is thought to be the meta-crisis Doctor from Journeys End, who is now living in the parallel universe with Rose. You can see two images taken from the trailer below, thanks to the popular blog Life Doctor Who and Combom.
It should be noted that at the moment it is not confirmed that Rose will be returning in The Waters of Mars, but we do know that she will be appearing with her mum Jackie Tyler in the final two specials which sees the regeneration of the 10th Doctor thanks to some filming pictures which can be seen on this website here. The Waters of Mars will air on BBC One in November this year and it stars David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan.
The BBC have just released a new trailer for The Waters of Mars which was shown at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego. The Waters of Mars is expected to air in November and it stars David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan. The new trailer runs for over a minute and can be viewed on the official website and on this website below.
In other news the BBC have now officially confirmed that John Simm will return to play the Master in the last two specials of the year which see the regeneration of the Doctor. You can read the full article about that here, and you can read an article about the new trailer for The Waters of Mars here on the official Doctor Who website.
The BBC's official Doctor Who website has been updated with two new promotional images and a preview clip taken from the upcoming second Doctor Who special episode for 2009, The Waters of Mars, which stars David Tennant as the Doctor and Lindsay Duncan as Adelaide Brooke. The clip runs for 53 seconds and can be viewed on this site below.
A promotional trailer for other BBC programmes coming this Autumn can be seen with the promotional images for the episode here on Digital Spy. The Waters of Mars is expected to air in November. You can view the teaser trailer for the episode which was shown at the end of Planet of the Dead earlier this year in an older post on this website here.
The Waters of Mars will broadcast later this year.
The new issue of the TV listings magazine Total TV Guide reveals the name of the second Doctor Who special of the year. The episode will apparently be titled The Waters of Mars and will guest star Lindsay Duncan as a one-off companion Adelaide for the Doctor as played by David Tennant. The episode will also see the return of the Ood.
