History of the Doctor Who Experience

20 Feb 2011	Doctor Who Experience officially opens in Olympia, London
19 Sept 2011	Commenced site clearance & construction of foundations at Doctor Who Experience, Porth Teigr, Cardiff Bay
13 Oct 2011	Cyberman's unearthed during ground breaking ceremony
16 Nov 2011	First steel rises out of ground for accomodation block at Doctor Who Experience, Porth Teigr, Cardiff Bay
8 Dec 2011	First main building legs installed at Doctor Who Experience, Porth Teigr, Cardiff Bay
11 Jan 2012	Main buidling frame completed at Doctor Who Experience, Porth Teigr, Cardiff Bay
23 Jan 2012	Fabric roof dropped onto Doctor Who Experience, Porth Teigr, Cardiff Bay
22 Feb 2012	Doctor Who Experience closes at Olympia, London, attracting 230,000 visitors
31 Mar 2012	Daleks arrive at the Doctor Who Experience, Porth Teigr, Cardiff Bay
14 May 2012	Cardiff Council hands Doctor Who Experience the keys to the building
14 Jun 2012	Tickets go on sale for Porth Teigr, Cardiff Bay

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BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, is a fast-growing media and entertainment company. Our mission is to maximise profits on behalf of the BBC by creating, acquiring, developing and exploiting media content and media brands around the world. We are self-funded and return profits to the BBC to be reinvested in programmes and services to help keep the UK licence fee as low as possible.

Our primary purpose is to bring value to the BBC in the form of profits and programme investment. We acquire the commercial rights to great programmes such as Planet Earth, Doctor Who and Top Gear and find ways of earning money from these across different media and markets. We then channel funds back to the BBC to be invested in new programmes and services

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