Closing Time: Australian ratings

Sunday, 2 October 2011 - Reported by Adam Kirk
Closing Time has debuted in Australia to respectable ratings. TV Tonight reports that the episode averaged 691,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It was the second highest rating drama and the ninth highest rating programme for the day overall. The corresponding Confidential Cutdown rated 469,000 viewers in the five major capitals. These overnight figures, however, do not include regional, rural and time-shifted viewers and hence significantly understate the actual national ratings.

Meanwhile in New Zealand, The Girl Who Waited and episode 5 of Torchwood: Miracle Day: (both on Prime) rated 102,210 viewers and 82,580 viewers respectively.




FILTER: - Torchwood - Ratings - Series 6/32 - New Zealand - Broadcasting - Australia

The God Complex: Chart Position

Friday, 30 September 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who RatingsFinal figures show Doctor Who: The God Complex was the 18th most watched programme of the week.

Final Figures include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days, but do not include those watching on iPlayer. ITV1 claimed all the top spots of the week with The X Factor, Downton Abbey and Doc Martin taking the top four spots. The main three soaps also did well pushing Doctor Who down to 18th place for the week.

The final episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day finished the week just outside the top 30 at number 32.




FILTER: - Ratings - UK - Series 6/32

Torchwood: Final Ratings

Monday, 26 September 2011 - Reported by Marcus
The final episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day has a consolidated audience of 5.13 million viewers, making it the 14th most watched programme on BBC One for the week.

With figures now available for the whole series, the 10 episodes averaged 5.17 million viewers each week. Highest rated was episode one, with 6.59 million watching and the lowest rated was episode 7 with 4.48 million.

Each episode ranked amongst the highest programmes accessed on the BBC iPlayer with over half a million requests each. Episode one was by far the most popular episode on the iPlayer with over a million programme requests. Successive episodes scored lower on the iPlayer, but were available for a shorter time.

Series Three of Torchwood, Children of Earth averaged of 6.60 million when it was shown on BBC One in 2009. Series One had its preimere on on BBC3 on Sunday evenings, achieveing an average of 1.42 million with Series Two on BBC Two averaging 3.78 million.

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Full Ratings data can be found in the Series Guide.




FILTER: - Torchwood - Ratings - UK - Miracle Day (Series 4)

Closing Time: Appreciation Index

Monday, 26 September 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: Closing Time had an Appreciation Index, or AI score of 86.

The AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the episode. The score puts the programme in the excellent category. It was the second highest on the two main channels for Saturday night, just behind Casualty which scored 87.

Overnights are now available for the whole week, with Doctor Who currently in 28th place. Final consolidated figures should be released next week.




FILTER: - Ratings - UK - Series 6/32

The God Complex - Official Ratings

Sunday, 25 September 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Last week's episode of Doctor Who, The God Complex had an official consolidated rating of 6.77 million viewers.

Although the programme was beaten by All Star Family Fortunes in the overnight charts, the official figures, which are much more accurate than the initially reported overnight figures, and which include those who record the programme and watch it within a week, showed Doctor Who actually outrated the game show by over a million viewers, with ITV getting 5.39 million watching.

Doctor Who had 28.3% of the available TV audience.

The figures do not include those watching on iPlayer where over 800,000 have so far accessed the episode.

Full figures which will reveal the chart position should be available later this week.




FILTER: - Doctor Who - Ratings - UK - Series 6/32

Closing Time: Overnight Viewing Figures

Sunday, 25 September 2011 - Reported by Marcus
5.3 million watched Doctor Who: Closing Time on Saturday, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The the programme had an audience share of 24.6%. It was the third highest rated show of the day and the highest rated programme on the BBC.

On overnights the episode lost out to All Star Family Fortunes on ITV1, which achieved an average of 5.6 million viewers. Doctor Who should regain the lead when final figures are released next week.

Doctor Who's lead-in Celebrity MasterChef had an average of 2.4 million viewers and the winner on the night was once more The X Factor, which had 10.0 million watching. Fourth for the day was Match of the Day with 3.9 million watching.

With one day to come Doctor Who is the 24th most watched programme of the week.




FILTER: - Doctor Who - Ratings - UK - Series 6/32

The God Complex: Australian ratings

Sunday, 25 September 2011 - Reported by Adam Kirk
The God Complex has debuted in Australia to respectable ratings. TV Tonight reports that, up against the football finals on the commercial stations, the episode averaged 591,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It was the second highest rating drama and the eighth highest rating programme for the day overall. The corresponding Confidential Cutdown rated 408,000 viewers in the five major capitals. These overnight figures, however, do not include regional, rural and time-shifted viewers and hence significantly understate the actual national ratings.

Meanwhile in New Zealand, the latest episodes of Doctor Who and Torchwood: Miracle Day (both on Prime) rated 119,850 viewers and 77,780 viewers respectively.





FILTER: - Torchwood - Ratings - Series 6/32 - Miracle Day (Series 4) - New Zealand - Australia

The Girl Who Waited: Chart Position

Friday, 23 September 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Ratings
Final figures show Doctor Who: The Girl Who Waited was the 13th most watched programme of the week.

Final Figures include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days, but do not include those watching on iPlayer where a million have so far accessed the episode. The included figures helped Doctor Who edge ahead of a episode of Coronation Street to take the 13th position.

Torchwood Episode Nine finished the week as number 36 in the chart.




FILTER: - Doctor Who - Ratings - UK - Series 6/32

The Gathering: Final Ratings

Monday, 19 September 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Episode Nine of Torchwood, The Gathering, had a final consolidated audience of 4.63 million viewers according to figures released by BARB.

The episode was the 17th most watched programme on BBC One for the week.

No figures have been published for ITV1 for the week, so a chart position for Torchwood and Doctor Who is not yet available. Figures should be released later in the week.





FILTER: - Torchwood - Ratings - UK - Miracle Day (Series 4)

The God Complex - Appreciation Index

Monday, 19 September 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: The God Complex had an Appreciation Index, or AI score of 86.

The AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the episode. The score puts the programme in the excellent category.

The latest figures, for the April to June quarter, show that the average AI for BBC One has risen to 82, the highest score in the channel's history.

The BBC collects appreciation index (AI) figures from an online panel of 19,000 adults, who are asked to score programmes they have watched or listened to out of 10. Responses are then averaged into a score out of 100.

The AIs for BBC One and BBC Two rose by a point each on the last quarter, to 82 and 84 respectively, while BBC Three, remained static on 84 and BBC Four dropped one point to 84.




FILTER: - Doctor Who - Ratings - UK - Series 6/32