The End Of Time Part Two Pics

His time's almost up and the poor Doctor is looking more than slightly the worse for wear in these new shots from The End Of Time Part Two.

See how his final story unfolds on New Year's Day at 18:40pm on BBC One.

Thanks to Blogtor Who.

The End Of Time Viewer Ratings

The End Of Time Part One was the third most watched TV show on Christmas Day with a whopping 10 Million people tuning in to see the first part of David's final adventure as the Doctor.
EastEnders and Gavin And Stacey made up the top three.

Hamlet Viewing Ratings

David Tennant's reworked stage outing as Hamlet attracted 900,000 viewers to BBC2, as the BBC took the honours on Boxing Day with the fallout of Archie Mitchell's death on EastEnders the biggest rating show of the day.

Tennant, who had a day earlier starred as Doctor Who on BBC1, received rave reviews for his performance of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The three-hour TV adaptation, managed an audience share of 4.5% across the 5.05pm to 8.10pm slot. BBC2 followed up with the final of Victorian Farm Christmas, between 8.10pm and 9.10pm, which attracted 1.1m viewers and a 5.1% audience share.
The development of the EastEnders whodunit saga, which started on Christmas Day when Archie Mitchell was killed in the biggest-rating show of the day, delivered an audience of 8.1m for BBC1. This represented a 37.9% share of the audience between 7pm and 7.30pm.
The BBC beat ITV into second place with Ant & Dec's Christmas Show the second highest-rating show of the day with 6.8m viewers and a 30.8% share between 7.30pm and 8.45pm.
BBC1's 7.30pm challenger, Pirates of the Caribbean: at World's End, was seen by 6.1m viewers. This was a 27.3% share in the 7.30pm to 10.05pm time slot.
ITV followed up Ant & Dec with a double header of All Star shows. All Star Family Fortunes managed 5.8m viewers, a 25.8% share in the 8.45pm to 9.30pm slot. This was followed by The All Star Impressions Show, from 9.30pm to 10.30pm which attracted 3.1m viewers and a 14.2% audience share.
Earlier on ITV1 Harry Hill's TV Burp Review of the Year managed four million viewers and a 19.6% share of the audience between 6.30pm and 7pm.
Channel 4's Decoded: Dan Brown's Lost Symbol managed 1.4m viewers from 9pm to 10pm, a6.2% share. Follow up The Real Da Vinci Code, where Tony Robinson debunked assertions made in the book, attracted 1.2m viewers, a 6.3% share, between 10pm and 11.05pm.
Over on BBC4 the new Wallander managed to attract 229,000 viewers and a 1.1% share airing from 9pm to 10.30pm.


Source: The Guardian

The End Of Time Part One Screen Caps

We've uploaded over 400 screen caps of David from The End Of Time Part One to the photo section of the site. View them here.

Woman named as journalist Helen Bain

The name of the woman who was swept away in a Wairarapa river while riding her horse is out now, and it is journalist Helen Bain. Bain worked at Parliament, was an award winning journo at the Dominion, and was the communications manger for Forest and Bird. She was well-known and someone who I held in extremely high regard.

Bain wrote some great stories. She even got John Tamihere (her former boss) on record opposing the Foreshore and Seabed legislation. That annoyed Helen Clark so much that Mike Munro(Helen Clark's Press secretary) immediately issued a media statement retracting the comments.

JPL space telescope will get its 1st glimpse at the sky

For the 1st time since NASA's Wide-field Infrared Satellite Explorer (WISE) blasted off 2 weeks ago, the space telescope will be getting its first glimpse of the sky.

The highly-sensitive infrared telescope aboard WISE is housed in a cryostat filled with solid hydrogen that works like a thermos. Until Tuesday, this thermos had a wrap that protected it from heat from the Earth and the sun until the satellite can be launched into orbit and get its bearings.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory-managed mission has to stay extremely cool - just a few degrees over absolute zero - so that it may observe the heat coming from dim objects that may otherwise fade into the darkness of space - similar to asteroids, brown dwarfs and distant ultraluminous galaxies.

But WISE isn't being on the clock just yet. It will take another 2 weeks to get the space telescope ready to start taking images of the sky. Once it begins scientists on the mission expect it to map the whole sky in 6 months – that is a breakneck pace in astronomical terms.

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Comeback Henin eyes victorious Australian Open

Belgium's Justine Henin Tuesday said a stun Australian Open win was "possible" after her short retirement, and warned she would be a better player when she returns to the circuit next week.

"I believe I can be a better player, I believe I can use my experience more than in the past," she said. "When you are 200 % you have no time to realize it.

"You are too involved all the time, and all this time off helped me to realize everything I achieved” she added. “What I can say is I know myself much better and that's the most important thing”.

Justine Henin will play her first WTA event at next week's Brisbane International and will also play in Sydney before the Australian Open, which starts on January 18, 2010.

Asked if she can pull off victory in Melbourne, she replied, "Anything is possible. Henin has won a total of 41 WTA Tour titles and held the number 1 spot for a total of 117 weeks.

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