A Good Man Goes to War - Final Ratings

Sunday, 12 June 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes To WarDoctor Who: A Good Man Goes To War had a final rating of 7.51 million viewers, 2 million more than the initially reported overnight figures.

The audience share was 31.0%

The final figure is much more accurate than the overnight one, and includes all those who record the programmme and watch it within a week. It does not include iPlayer viewings.

Official ratings should be released tomorrow which will give the chart position of the episode, likely to be around 20th for the week.




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

A Good Man Goes to War: Australian ratings

Sunday, 12 June 2011 - Reported by Adam Kirk
The mid-series finale A Good Man Goes to War has debuted in Australia to excellent ratings. TV Tonight reports that the episode averaged 815,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It won its timeslot and was the top rating drama and ABC programme for the day. 'A Good Man' was the third highest rating programme for the day overall (only beaten by two commercial evening news programmes). The corresponding Confidential Cutdown also rated a very strong 619,000 viewers in the five major capitals (8th highest rating programme for the day overall). These overnight figures, however, do not include regional, rural and time-shifted viewers and hence significantly understate the actual national ratings.

Meanwhile, ABC TV has launched its own official Doctor Who website.




FILTER: - Ratings - Series 6/32 - Broadcasting - Australia

Chart Placing - The Almost People

Friday, 10 June 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who RatingsDoctor Who just missed out on a top twenty place for the week ending 29th May, seeing Episode Six The Almost People, become the 21st most watched programme of the week.

The episode, which had a share of 29.5% of the total audience, was just edged out of the top twenty by Emmerdale, which has a particularly good week, with all its episodes inside the top twenty.

The chart does not include iPlayer figures which have seen over a million people access the episode. Final figures for the last episode before the series break should be out on Monday.




FILTER: - Ratings - UK - Series 6/32

May iPlayer Requests

Monday, 6 June 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: iPlayerDoctor Who took the top three places of the most requested programmes on the BBC iPlayer in May.

Top of the chart was the Neil Gaiman written episode, The Doctor's Wife, which was requested over 1.242 million times during the month. Close behind was The Curse of the Black Spot with 1.239 million requests and Day of the Moon with 1.120 million requests.

The highest non Who programme was The Apprentice Episode 2 which came in fourth with 1.18 million requests. The Rebel Flesh was fifth with 1.145 million requesting and The Almost People crept into the top ten with 0.848 million requesting, dispite only being available for the last four days of the month.

The most requested programme this year is still Episode 2 of the Matt Lucas, David Walliams comedy, Come Fly With Me which has been requested 1.86 million times. Hot on its heals is The Impossible Astronaut with 1.79 million requests so far, needing just another 70,000 before it goes off line at the end of this week to take the top place. Day of the Moon is currently 6th for the year.

Nothing has yet come near toppling the Matt Smith début episode, The Eleventh Hour, which still holds the record for the most requested programme ever with over 2.5 million requests.

The complete request analysis for iPlayer in May are available from the BBC Internet Blog




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The Almost People - Official Ratings

Monday, 6 June 2011 - Reported by Marcus
The Almost People achieved a final official rating of of 6.72 million viewers.

The figure, which includes those who watched the programme within seven days of broadcast, makes Doctor Who the 6th most watched programme on BBC One for the week.

Overall it was either 20th or 21st for the week, depending on the numbers watching Friday's edition of Emmerdale on ITV1 HD. Figures outside the ITV1 HD Top Ten are not yet available. An ITV1 HD audience of over 290,000 would see Fridays Emmerdale push Doctor Who out of the top twenty for the first time since Silence in the Library in 2008.

Full figures, which will reveal the final chart position of the episode, should be available in the next few of days.




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A Good Man Goes To War - AI

Monday, 6 June 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes To WarDoctor Who: A Good Man Goes To War had an Appreciation Index, or AI score of 88, the joint highest of the series so far.

The AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the episode. The score was the highest of the day on the two main channels with only Dad's Army on BBC Two and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King scoring higher, albeit with lower audiences.

The Sunday BBC Three repeat had 0.66 million watching, with an additional 0.05 million watching on BBC HD.

Sunday saw two programmes score higher ratings than Saturday's Doctor Who, pushing the programme into 30th place for the week.

Official ratings should be released next Monday which will include those time-shifting the episode, and should see the programme in a much higher position in the charts.

Saturday's Doctor Who Confidential had an audience of 0.56 million with 0.02 million watching on BBC HD.






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

A Good Man Goes To War - Overnight Ratings

Sunday, 5 June 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes To War5.5 million viewers watched episode seven of Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes To War, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The final story before the mid season break attracted 25.4% of the overnight audience.

Doctor Who was the sixth most watched programme of the day with ITV1 taking the top five places and Britain's Got Talent results show winning the day with 12.5 million watching. The new talent show Popstar to Operastar and Euro 2012 Qualifier Live also beat the Doctor, although Doctor Who had higher figures than the football during the period they were both on together. This was after the game itself had finished, while post-match analysis was being broadcast.

The weekly chart was dominated by ITV1 which won every one on the top twenty places, thanks to the daily showing of Britain's Got Talent. Although Doctor Who is currently 28th for the week on overnight figures it is the 3rd most watched show on the BBC for the week.

Official figures for the story, which will include those time shifting the programme and should see the programme enter the top twenty, should be available next Sunday.





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

The Almost People: Australian ratings

Sunday, 5 June 2011 - Reported by Adam Kirk
The Almost People has debuted in Australia to solid ratings. TV Tonight reports that the episode averaged 718,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It was the sixth highest rating programme for the day overall (only beaten in its timeslot by the Channel Nine movie, '17 again'). The corresponding Confidential Cutdown also rated a respectable 541,000 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.





FILTER: - Ratings - Series 6/32 - Broadcasting - Australia

The Rebel Flesh - Chart Position

Tuesday, 31 May 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who RatingsBARB have now issued final ratings for the week ending 22nd May making Doctor Who: The Rebel Flesh the 13th most watched programme of the week.

The show was once again the highest non-soap drama of the week and held the 6th position in the BBC One chart.

The chart does not include iPlayer figures where over 1 million have already accessed this episode.




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The Almost People - Appreciation Index

Monday, 30 May 2011 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: The Almost PeopleDoctor Who: The Almost People had an Appreciation Index or AI score of 86, once more putting into the excellent category. The score was one of the highest of the day.

The Sunday evening BBC Three repeat had 0.39 million watching, a 1.6% share of the audience.

Sunday night was a much stronger night than Saturday in terms of overnight figures, with 4 programmes rating higher than Doctor Who, pushing the programme down into 32nd place for the week.

Britain's Got Talent was the highest rated show of the week with 10.3 million watching.

The official figures will be published next Monday which should see Doctor Who rise considerably in the weekly chart.





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