The final episode in the recent series of Doctor Who, The Wedding of River Song has now been confirmed as the 16th most watched programme of the week, with a final audience share of 32.0%

Final Figures include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days, but do not include those watching on iPlayer.

ITV1 once more claimed all the top spots of the week with The X Factor, Downton Abbey and Doc Martin once again taking the top four spots. The main two soaps also did well and the start of the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing also scored highly. Doctor Who beat everything else during the week including all episodes of Emmerdale.

Series 5 of The Sarah Jane Adventures concludes next week with The Man Who Never Was; the final episodes of the series starring the late Elisabeth Sladen are broadcast on Monday and Tuesday at 5:15pm on the CBBC channel.


CBBC has released a preview trailer for the finale:


The BBC have also released a number of publicity photos for this episode:

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A number of videos have also been added to complement the series via the Sarah Jane Adventures website, including a Behind The Scenes video of the last day of the recording block made by Daniel Anthony and Anjli Mohindra:


Meanwhile, the second part of Ask The Cast has been released, plus an additional two challenges in the Gameathon:

Doctor Who's series finale, The Wedding of River Song, received a final audience figure of 7.67 million viewers, according to official statistics released by BARB this week; with 6.1 million reported for the initial broadcast, the episode's audience increased by an additional 26% over the course of the week.

The BARB ratings cover the period 26th September to 2nd October, during which Doctor Who was the seventh highest rated individual programme on BBC One and the third as a distinct series, with only episodes of Eastenders and Strictly Come Dancing achieving a higher figure.

Figures do no include those who watched the programme via the BBC iPlayer.

ITV1 programme details for this period have yet to be released; however if viewing patterns have remained consistent with previous weeks, The Wedding of River Song should fall within the Top 20 programmes of the week, and be the eighth most popular distinct series on television - Coronation Street, Emmerdale, The X Factor, Downton Abbey and Doc Martin normally claim higher figures for the commercial channel.

The consolidated chart position should be available later in the week.

Doctor Who: Closing Time has now been confirmed as the 20th 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 once more 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 with Doctor Who rating more than once episode of Emmerdale to make 20th place for the week.

The final audience share for Doctor Who was 29.4%

Series 5 of The Sarah Jane Adventures continues next Monday and Tuesday with The Curse of Clyde Langer on the CBBC channel at 5:15pm.

CBBC has released a preview trailer for this episode:


The BBC have also released a number of publicity photos for this episode:

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CBBC has released two videos as part of the Gameathon and Ask the Cast series on the Sarah Jane Adventures website. Parts One from both of these are now online to watch.

Doctor Who: Closing Time had a final official audience figure of 6.93 million viewers, according to figures released by BARB.

The episode was the fifth highest rated programme on BBC One for the week. When HD figures are counted it is likely to finish as 21st for the week.

Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song had an Appreciation Index score of 86

The score is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the episode. A score of 86 is considered excellent.

The Sunday repeat had an audience of 0.48 million viewers and a 2.2% share of the audience.

With overnight figures available for the whole week, Doctor Who is currently the 20th most watched programme. Final figures should be available next week.

The final Doctor Who Confidential had an overnight audience of 0.4 million on BBC Three on Saturday.

6.1 million watched the Doctor Who series finale, The Wedding of River Song, on Saturday, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The the programme had an audience share of 28.3%. It was the third highest rated show of the day and the second highest rated programme on the BBC.

Top of the day was The X Factor with 9.5 million watching and Strictly Come Dancing was second for the day with 7.5 million, giving Doctor Who a much better lead-in than the two previous weeks. The new series of Merlin had 5.2 million watching as was fourth for the day.

All Star Family Fortunes on ITV1, had an average of 3.6 million viewers, with its audience dented by Strictly Come Dancing. During the period it was placed directly against Doctor Who it achieved 5.5 million against Doctor Who's 6 million viewers.

With one day to come Doctor Who is the 17th most watched programme of the week.

Final official figures should be available next week.

Final 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.

Voting is now open in longlist for the 2012 National TV Awards. Doctor Who and Torchwood: Miracle Day have been nominated in the 'Most Popular Drama' category.

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, John Barrowman and Eve Myles have all been nominated in 'Outstanding Drama Performance' for their roles in Doctor Who and Torchwood: Miracle Day respectively.

John Barrowman has also been nominated in 'Most Popular Entertainment Presenter' while his show, Tonight's The Night, is up for 'Most Popular Entertainment Programme'.

Competition in the longlist will come from ITV's Downton Abbey. The period drama, featuring Hugh Bonneville (Henry Avery, The Curse of the Black Spot) recently won 6 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Voting in the longlist closes on 17 October 2011. The shortlist will be announced in January 2012.