Doctor Who at the National Television Awards

It proved to be a very disappointing night for Doctor Who at the National Television Awards yesterday, with it losing out on the awards for Best Drama and Best Actor. The award for Best Drama instead went to Waterloo Road, a very surprising result considering the other competition, and the award for Best Actor went to David Jason, a deserving winner although disappointing for Matt Smith.

The cause for the lack of awards for Doctor Who was almost certainly due to a split vote, with many people being fans of both Doctor Who and Sherlock, and also both Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch. However, Steven Moffat should still be very proud for his two main shows and lead actors being nominated for awards, and there will be plenty of opportunities in the future to win awards!

Doctor Who 'The Eleventh Hour' Most Watched on BBC iPlayer

The BBC have announced that Matt Smith’s first full episode as the Eleventh Doctor, ‘The Eleventh Hour’, was the most watched programme on BBC iPlayer this year. Official figures show that the story has been streamed 2.2 million times since it was originally broadcast on 3rd April 2010.

The first episode of Steven Moffat’s ‘Sherlock’ series, ‘A Study in Pink’, was watched 1.4 million times on BBC iPlayer, another very high figure for the year. The BBC’s video-on-demand service was launched in 2007, and celebrates its third birthday on Christmas Day.

Doctor Who Nominated for National Television Awards 2011

The 2011 National Television Awards is now open for nominations, with Doctor Who being one of the 33 nominees in the ‘Best Drama’ category, along with Steven Moffat’s other successful show ‘Sherlock’. Matt Smith and Karen Gillan have also been nominated for ‘Best Drama Performance’.

The voting is now open until Monday 11th October 2010, and the winners will be announced at the official ceremony on 26th January 2011.

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‘Sherlock’ Returns for Second Series

Executive producer Steven Moffat and producer Sue Vertue appeared on the BBC Breakfast programme this morning, where they discussed the future of their show ‘Sherlock’.

Sue Vertue confirmed that more episodes will be made of the very successful series: “There will be more. We’re having a meeting to talk about how many and when.”

'Sherlock: The Great Game' at 9 o'clock

The third and final episode in this series of ‘Sherlock’ is airing tonight on BBC One at 9 o’clock, and is titled ‘The Great Game’. This episode is written by Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss, who is also an executive producer of the series along with Steven Moffat.


The success of this series will hopefully mean that another run of episodes will be made by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss for next year. The programme stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, with Martin Freeman as his sidekick Dr John Watson.

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