Doctor Who: Hell Bent had an official consolidated rating of 6.17 million viewers.

The rating issued by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, or BARB, includes all those who watched the programme within one week of transmission. It does not include those watching online via iPlayer

Doctor Who was the 10th most watched programme on BBC Television, and 4th overall on Saturday, again overtaking Pointless Celebrities.

The episode finished at 29th in the weekly chart.

Strictly Come Dancing topped the ratings for the week with 11.93 million viewers. Once again the top ten was dominated by the latest series of I'm a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here taking seven of the top ten places.

Although Mickey's gun doesn't look particularly light,
It looks like he's ready for any snowball fight.

Willy Phantom, 14th December 2015

A number of regions have now confirmed the time of broadcast for this year's Christmas special, The Husbands of River Song:

The Husbands of River Song: Known Broadcast Details
United Kingdom	BBC One	Fri 25 Dec 2015	5:15pm
United States of America	BBC America	Fri 25 Dec 2015	9:00pm EST	(2:00am GMT) [tbc]
Canada	SPACE	Fri 25 Dec 2015	9:00pm EST	(2:00am GMT)
Asia Pacific	BBC Entertainment	Sat 26 Dec 2015	10:00am SGT	(2:00am GMT)
New Zealand	PRIME	Sat 26 Dec 2015	7:35pm NZDT	(6:35am GMT)
Australia	ABC	Sat 26 Dec 2015	7:30pm AEDT	(8:30am GMT)
South Africa	BBC First	Sat 26 Dec 2015	6:00pm SAST
Europe (Benelux)	BBC First	Sat 26 Dec 2015	8:05pm CET
United Kingdom	BBC Two	Tue 29 Dec 2015	2:50am	(British Signed Language)
Finland	YLE2	Sun 3 Jan 2016	7:10pm EET
Germany	FOX	Thu 28 Jan 2016	9:00pm CET	(dubbed into German)

Of the other channels which have been showing Series 9 this year, FX in India reach Hell Bent on the 20th December, but whether they intend to broadcast The Husbands of River Song the following weekend is unknown at present (this was later confirmed to be the 27th at 11:00pm local time); similarly, Denmark's DR3 are expected to complete Series 9 in early January, and may well show the Christmas special afterwards.



FRANCE4 in France will kick off Series 9 on 26th December; RAI4 in Italy is also expected to show the series in the next few weeks. Both channels will be dubbed into their respective languages.

Live +7 Figures are now available for the first half of Series Nine.

The Live+7 figure is calculated by the BBC to try to get an accurate estimate of the total unique audience for an episode of a programme. Unlike official BARB figures the Live+7 uses data to include those who watched one of the broadcast repeats of the episode and those who watched the episode on iPlayer all within 7 days of the original transmission.

The figures show an average of 60% of the audience watch Doctor Who on the day of transmission, either as a Live broadcast or as a delayed viewing via a PVR. A further 26.8% of the audience watch the programme, via a recording, within 7 days of the original transmission. 11.9% now watch on iPlayer, up from an average of 9% last year.

The number watching a scheduled repeat has dropped sharply this year, from an average of 4% last year, to an average of just 1.3% this year. With on demand services now so readily available, the audience no longer needs to seek out a scheduled repeat to catch up with the programme. The decline of the audience watching on BBC Three caused the BBC to cancel the regular repeat on BBC Three from episode four onwards. The only repeat was the late night. signed version on BBC Two, which had an average of 40,000 viewers.

Overall Doctor Who's total Live +7 ratings are down around 1.5 million on the 2014 figures, to average a total of around 6.8 million watching each episode.

Further analysis of the Appreciation Index figures are available, with a marked difference in appreciation between different age groups. The 16-34 age group appeared to enjoy the series far more than the over 55 group. While there have been small differences in AI figures previous years, the contrast this year is quite large, with the lower age group scoring the series around 5 points higher than the older viewers.

The most marked difference was for the penultimate episode featuring just the Doctor, Heaven Sent, which scored an AI figure of 85 for viewers aged 16-34, but only 76 for those aged over 55.

The female viewers rated the series slightly higher than the male viewers, although the programme is now watched by slightly more male viewers than female with an average of 52% of the audience being male, in contrast to a 50/50 split in past years.

The AI panel is also asked questions on how they see the series, with around 59% thinking it is high quality and 50% felt it was fresh and new. Around 20% of the audience felt the initial stories were thought provoking, with the figure rising to over 30% near the end of the series. 1% found them offensive.

Martha likes the festive way that this Judoon is dressed,
Although l'd have to say it doesn't look too impressed.

Willy Phantom, 13th December 2015

Semi-finalist Jay McGuiness with dance partner Aliona Vilani danced the Charleston to 'Dr Jazz' tonight on Strictly Come Dancing, including a Doctor Who motif.

The BBC have published the scripts for the final two episodes of series 9 of Doctor Who.

The scripts for Heaven Sent/Sell Bent, by Steven Moffat, are now available to download from the BBC Website.

• Link to Heaven Sent
• Link to Hell Bent

Also released are some storyboards from the series conclusion Hell Bent, showing part of the process employed in bringing the script to life.

Other scripts available from the site include the opening stories of this series, the script for Face the Raven, and scripts from series three.

The Adipose are cute and really rather sweet,
So the Doctor has decided to give them all a treat.

Willy Phantom, 12th December 2015

Santa's in his grotto spreading Christmas joy,
But he didn't expect a visit from this little boy...

Willy Phantom, 11th December 2015

The BBC have released interviews with Peter Capaldi, Alex Kingston and Steven Moffat to promote the forthcoming Christmas special, The Husbands of River Song.