Doctor Who News is offering the chance to win a set of three Doctor Who books featuring the twelfth Doctor as played by Peter Capaldi.

All you need to do is to guess the final consolidated viewing figure of the series premiere Deep Breath, as reported by BARB to the nearest 10,000 viewers (i.e. two decimal places). This figure includes all those watching the episode within a week of broadcast.

Deep Breath is being broadcast in the UK on BBC One on Saturday 23rd August at 7.50pm. It will follow Tumble, a live entertainment show where celebrities compete in a gymnastics challenge, which had an overnight rating of 3.2 million for its first episode last week. It is followed by vintage hospital drama Casualty, which had an rating of 4.82 million in the most recent BARB report.

In opposition to the Doctor, ITV is offering a game show, Tipping Point: Lucky Stars, with comedienne Jo Brand, former England rugby union player Ben Cohen and Dragons' Den investor Kelly Hoppen. The last reported consolidated rating for the show was 2.94 million. Other alternatives include Dad's Army on BBC Two and Grand Designs on Channel 4.

Prize

The prize is a set of three books published on 11 September.

Entering The Competition

To enter the competition, please send the following details to comp-ratings@doctorwhonews.net:

• Your name and email address
• Your country (full address will only be requested if you are a winner)
• Your guess for the final consolidated viewing figure

Previous Ratings:

For comparison, the rating for the previous Doctor Who season opener, Asylum of the Daleks, shown 1 September 2012, was 8.33 million. The Eleventh Hour, which introduced Matt Smith on 3 April 2010 had 10.08 million watching. Full Doctor Who ratings are available here.

Terms And Conditions:

• The competition closes at 7.50pm BST, 23rd August 2014.
• Only one entry will be accepted per person.
• The competition is open worldwide.
• BARB figures are expected around 10 days after transmission; we will contact the winner once they have been published.

The fiftieth anniversary episode of Doctor Who was the most accessed programme on the BBC iPlayer for the whole of 2013.

The Day of the Doctor topped the chart with 3.2 million people accessing the episode at some point. The episode had 0.3 million more requests than the second placed programme, episode 1 of Bad Education, the comedy series about the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system.

The Christmas episode, The Time of the Doctor, which saw Matt Smith leave the series, was accessed 1.95 million times in the week following transmission, enough to make it the 32nd most requested programme of the year and the most requested programme for Christmas week. Mrs Brown's Boys, which came top of the Christmas broadcast ratings, had 1.36 million requests.

Nearly a million people downloaded the iPlayer mobile and tablet apps over the Christmas period, meaning over 20 million now have the service on their mobile device.

All ten episodes of Doctor Who that premiered in 2013 made the top 50 programmes on iPlayer for the year. The Bells of Saint John came in at number 5 on the chart, with 2.64 million requests during the couple of months it was available. The Rings of Akhaten was 15th with 2.31 million requests. At 23 was The Name of the Doctor which had 2.06 million requests. Cold War was 33rd with 1.95 million requests, Hide was 35th with 1.92 million requests, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS was 39th with 1.89 million requests, Nightmare in Silver was 40th with 1.89 million requests and The Crimson Horror was 43rd with 1.83 million requests.

Overall, the 2013 episodes were requested over 19 million times during the year. The 2012 episodes were also available on iPlayer for part of the year and were requested a total of 2.39 million times. The 14 episodes from Series Six were requested 4.51 million times and Series Five 0.67 million times.

The Time of the Doctor had a final official rating of 11.14 million viewers, according to figures published by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board.

The consolidated figure includes those who recorded the programme and watched it within seven days, and is a substantial increase on the initial overnight figure. The episode is confirmed as the second-highest rated programme on British television for Christmas Day, and the third-highest rated programme for the whole week. Only three programmes in the week rated more than 10 million.

Top of the list for the week was the revived sitcom Still Open All Hours, which had 12.23 million watching, while Mrs Brown's Boys topped the charts for Christmas Day itself, with 11.52 million viewers. ITV's highest-rated programme was Coronation Street, scheduled directly against Doctor Who, where it had 9.83 million watching.

Doctor Who was accessed on the BBC iPlayer around 1.9 million times in the week after transmission.

Congratulations to Alan Chapman from Scotland who predicted the ratings for The Time of the Doctor exactly. He wins three signed script fronts from recent Big Finish releases.

Doctor Who The Time of the Doctor achieved an Appreciation Index score of 83

The Appreciation Index is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the episode. The score of 83 puts the programme in the good category, even though it is one of the lowest scores of the Matt Smith era.

Highest scorers of the day included Call the Midwife and Mrs Brown's Boys, both of which scored 87.

The BBC Three repeat had an audience of 0.35 million viewers, a share of 1.5% of the total TV audience. The repeat had an AI score of 84.

The Time of the Doctor averaged 686,000 viewers in the five major Australian capital cities. It won its timeslot (beating the T20 Big Bash Cricket), was the highest rating drama of the day and the eighth highest rating program of the day overall. These ratings do not include regional or time-shifted viewers.

The Time of the Doctor was watched by 8.29 million viewers, according to unofficial overnight figures.

Doctor Who was the second highest rated show of the day, achieving an audience share of 30.7% of the total available TV audience. It won its time slot, beating the old enemy Coronation Street which had 7.9 million watching. If +1 figures are included, Coronation Street rose to 8.27 million viewers, but still couldn't overtake Doctor Who.

Top for the day was the comedy Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special, which had 9.4 million viewers and a 35.5% share. However, when taking into account specific time slots rather than show averages, Doctor Who achieved the highest overall viewing figure of the day with 10.2m (37%) tuning in to see the regeneration.

The Doctor Who episode scored slightly higher than last year's episode, The Snowmen, which had 7.59 million overnight viewers and came fifth in the list.

The BBC Two afternoon repeat of An Adventure in Space and Time had 0.5 million viewers while the Doctor Who Prom had 0.6 million watching.

Doctor Who News, in association with Big Finish Productions, is offering three signed script fronts from recent Big Finish releases, to the person who can most accurately guess the BBC One ratings for the UK premiere of The Time of the Doctor

The Time of the Doctor is being broadcast in the UK on Christmas Day at 7.30pm, later than recent Christmas Doctor Who episodes.

Previous Ratings:

For comparison, the ratings for the previous Christmas Day episodes are as follows: The Snowmen (9.87m), The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe (10.77m), A Christmas Carol (12.11m), The End Of Time: Part One (12.04m), The Next Doctor (13.10m), Voyage of the Damned (13.31m), The Runaway Bride (9.30m), The Christmas Invasion (9.84m), The Feast of Steven (7.90m).

Entering The Competition:

To enter the competition, please send the following details to comp-ratings@doctorwhonews.net:

• Your name and email address
• Your country (full address will only be requested if you are a winner)
• Your guess for the final viewing figure!

Terms And Conditions:

• The competition closes at 7.30pm GMT, 25th December 2013.
• Only one entry will be accepted per person.
• The competition is open worldwide.
• BARB figures are expected around 10 days after transmission; we will contact the winner once they have been published.

Full UK ratings are now available for the week of programmes leading up to the 50th Anniversary of the Doctor Who.

The final consolidated ratings include those who watch the programme within one week of transmission. iPlayer figures are also available where available.

The 50th anniversary episode Day of the Doctor, has set a new iPlayer record for getting the most requests in 24 hours, 1.27m which beats the previous high held by the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony. It is also 2013's most-watched drama and the most tweeted-about drama, generating 442,692 tweets.

The fifty year old repeat of An Unearthly Child gained impressive ratings for BBC Four, four times the average for the time slot and making Doctor Who the 4th, 6th and 8th highest rated programmes on the network for the week. All episodes had an excellent Appreciation Index score.

Date	Time	Network	Programme	Final Rating	Share	iPlayer	Appreciation Index
Thursday 14th	21:00		The Science of Doctor Who	3.19 Million	13.3%	0.62 Million	85
			The Night of the Doctor	0.89 Million		0.60 Million
Monday 18th	20:03		The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who	0.78 Million	2.8%	0.69 Million	86
Tuesday 19th	00:39		The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who (R)	0.34 Million	11.4%	--
Thursday 21st	21:02		An Adventure in Space and Time	2.71 Million	10.8%	0.52 Million	88
Thursday 21st	22:31		An Unearthly Child	0.83 Million	4.7%	N/A	85
Thursday 21st	22:55		The Cave of Skulls	0.71 Million	5.3%	N/A	86
Thursday 21st	23:20		The Forest of Fear	0.52 Million	5.1%	N/A	86
Thursday 21st	23:44		The Firemaker	0.46 Million	6.0%	N/A	87
Friday 22nd	19:02		The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who (R)	0.59 Million	2.5%	--	87
Friday 22nd	21:31		Me, You and Doctor Who	0.99 Million	4.1%	0.05 Million	85
Saturday 23rd	19.50		Day of the Doctor	12.80 Million	40.9%	2.81 Million	88
Saturday 23rd	21.07		Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty	1.58 Million	5.6%	0.14 Million	69
			Behind The Lens	0.10 Million		--
			The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot	0.49 Million		0.61 Million
Saturday 23rd	22:09		The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who (R)	0.83 Million	4.8%	--	85
Sunday 24th	19.12		Day of the Doctor (R)	0.68 Million	2.5%	--	92
Sunday 24th	20:31		Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty (R)	0.27 Million	0.9%	--	74

With full figures now available for the week ending 24th November 2013, The Day of the Doctor has been confirmed as the highest-rated programme on British television for the week.

The final confirmed rating of 12.8 million viewers puts the programme firmly at the top of the chart, more than a million ahead of the final rating for Strictly Come Dancing, which edged ahead of the Doctor in the overnights. ITV's chart was dominated by the reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here, which took the top five positions for the channel. The highest programme was Monday's, which had 10.04 million watching on ITV plus an additional 1.7 million on ITV HD and 0.7 million on ITV +1. Even when all these figures are taken into account, though, it still did not outperform Doctor Who.

The Day of The Doctor is now officially the 16th-highest-rated episode out of the 799 episodes of Doctor Who which have aired. Only two episodes, Voyage of the Damned and The Next Doctor, from the post-2005 series have outrated it. The remainder charting above Day of the Doctor all come from the classic era, and the period when BBC One was one of just three channels broadcasting.

Only three other Doctor Who episodes can claim to be top of the charts for the week: Journey's End - the series 4 climax broadcast in 2008 - and, provided the BBC HD simulcast figures are included in the total, both parts of David Tennant's swan song, The End of Time.

BBC Drama controller Ben Stephenson paid tribute to the production team.
Figures do not include the cinema screenings, or those who watched the programme on iPlayer.

The Day of the Doctor had a final confirmed audience on BBC One of 12.8 million viewers.

The rating is the highest for Doctor Who since the Christmas 2008 story The Next Doctor which had 13.1 million, and is the highest ever time-shift recorded for the programme. The rating is likely to make Doctor Who the highest rated show for the week, overtaking Strictly Come Dancing which beat it in the overnight figures. A full chart should be available tomorrow.

The episode has been accessed more than 2.7 million times on the BBC iPlayer, with over a million downloads on Sunday 24th November alone. It is the most accessed programme for the month with more than double that of EastEnders which is in second place. The episode is currently the third most accessed programme for the year.

Other high rated programmes on the iplayer include Doctor Who, An Ultimate Guide, with 0.69 million accessing, The Night of the Doctor, with 0.6 million, An Adventure in Space and Time with 0.54 million and The Five(ish) Doctors with 0.61 million.