Betting company Paddy Power have collated odds on which television programme will top the Christmas Day ratings this year; as of today Doctor Who is currently believed to be the fourth most likely show to claim the coveted spot.

Paddy Power Odds (30 Nov)
2/5   Eastenders
5/1   The Royle Family
      Coronation Street
8/1   Doctor Who
12/1  Emmerdale
      Upstairs Downstairs
14/1  Queen's Speech
      Top Gear
16/1  Strictly Come Dancing
20/1  The One Ronnie
25/1  Come Fly With Me
      BBC News
33/1  Rock and Chips
      Harry Hill's TV Burp
40/1  Top of the Pops
50/1  The Nativity

Last year saw similar expectations for the shows vying for the top; however the final result was controversial in terms of the ratings, as the launch of BBCHD gave viewers a choice of channel to watch the show on - thus Doctor Who was the most watched programme overall on television that day, but third in individual channel ratings (see our chart for details).

Not so much a problem in previous years, with clear-cut ratings breakdowns showing:

2005: Eastenders, 10.60m(1)
      The Christmas Invasion, 9.84m(2)
2006: The Vicar of Dibley, 12.39m(1)
      Eastenders, 9.40m/11.56m(3/2)
      The Runaway Bride, 9.35m(4)
2007: Eastenders, 14.38m(1)
      Voyage of the Damned 13.31m(2)
2008: Wallace and Gromit, 16.15m(1)
      The Next Doctor, 13.10m(2)

How will Doctor Who fare this year? The HD division should not be an issue this year (BBC1 and BBC1HD are considered to be the same channel, and not separate like the BBCHD channel), but the traditional competition is on hand to give us a good fight for the top spot on the day!

Series four of The Sarah Jane Adventures comes to Australia this Friday.

The Australian version of Nickelodeon will be showing the series starting with The Nightmare Man Part One at 7.00pm, followed by Part Two at 7.25pm.

Final ratings for the CBBC showing of the final two episodes of the series, give Part One of Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith a rating of 0.82 million with Part Two getting 0.81 million watching. Final figures for the BBC One showing will be out later this week.

The Sarah Jane Adventures continues its strong run on the digital Children's channel CBBC with final figures for the fifth story, Lost in Time, showing the series at the top of the weekly charts.

According to BARB, part one of the story had 0.98 million watching with part two getting 0.68 million viewers, slightly down on the previous week.

The Alien Files had 0.48 million watching.

Lost in Time was repeated later in the week on BBC One and figures for these showings will be available later this month.

Final Ratings - Series Four
-	-CBBC-	-BBC Two-	-BBC One-	-Total-
The Nightmare Man - 1	0.59m	0.28m		0.87m
The Nightmare Man - 2	0.67m	0.38m		1.05m
The Vault of Secrets - 1	0.73m		0.43m	1.16m
The Vault of Secrets - 2	0.61m		0.49m	1.10m
Death of the Doctor - 1	0.92m		0.48m	1.40m
Death of the Doctor - 2	0.96m		0.47m	1.43m
The Empty Planet - 1	0.99m		0.51m	1.50m
The Empty Planet - 2	0.81m		0.58m	1.39m
Lost in Time - 1	0.98m		TBC	TBC
Lost in Time - 2	0.68m		TBC	TBC

The current series of The Sarah Jane Adventures continues to top ratings with the first part of story four, The Empty Planet, topping the chart and becoming the most watched programme ever on the digital Children's channel CBBC.

According to BARB, part one of the story had 0.99 million watching with part two getting 0.81 million viewers. The story just beat last weeks Death to the Doctor, which had 0.96 million viewers.

The Alien Files had 0.49 million watching.

The Empty Planet was repeated later in the week on BBC One and figures for these showings will be available later this month.

Final Ratings - Series Four
-	-CBBC-	-BBC Two-	-BBC One-	-Total-
The Nightmare Man - 1	0.59m	0.28m		0.87m
The Nightmare Man - 2	0.67m	0.38m		1.05m
The Vault of Secrets - 1	0.73m		0.43m	1.16m
The Vault of Secrets - 2	0.61m		0.49m	1.10m
Death of the Doctor - 1	0.92m		0.48m	1.40m
Death of the Doctor - 2	0.96m		0.47m	1.43m
The Empty Planet - 1	0.99m		TBC	TBC
The Empty Planet - 2	0.81m		TBC	TBC

The third story in the current run of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Death of the Doctor, received the highest ratings ever on the digital channel CBBC.

The story, which featured Matt Smith as The Doctor and Katy Manning playing Jo Jones nee Grant, had 0.92 million watching part one and 0.96 million watching part two according to official figures from Barb. The previous high for the channel was 0.83 million for Tracey Beaker Returns in January.

The Alien files had 0.388 million watching. The various repeats over the week allowed The Sarah Jane Adventures to dominate the chart taking 8 of the top ten places.

Death of the Doctor was repeated later in the week on BBC One. Figures for these showings will be available later this month.

The second story in the current run of The Sarah Jane Adventures once again topped the weekly ratings for CBBC.

Part One of The Vault of Secrets had a confirmed audience of 731,000 viewers with Part Two getting 606,000 watching. Both episodes were repeated later in the week on BBC One where they had around 400,000 watching according to overnight figures. Final figures for the BBC One showing will be out later in the month.

The Sarah Jane Alien Files had 420,000 watching.

The Sarah Jane Adventures topped the weekly ratings for CBBC with both parts of the series opener getting a confirmed rating of over half a million viewers according to figures released by BARB.

The Nightmare Man Part Two topped the charts with 0.67 million viewers with Part One getting 0.59 million watching.

The score is the highest rating for the channel since January and the third highest of the year so far, beaten by Tracey Beaker Returns.

The two episodes were repeated later in the week on BBC Two where overnight figures give the story an additional 0.21 million for Part One and 0.31 million for Part two. Final figures for these broadcasts will be out later this month.

The ratings are slightly higher than the series opener last year although are split over two showings.

The extended edition of the Doctor Who Prom was broadcast on BBC Three yesterday where it was watched by an average of 0.28 million viewers, according to unofficial overnight figures. The programme had a 1.4% share of the audience. The audience rose steadily throughout the 90 minute programme with the final half hour wining the timeslot on multi-channel television.

Monday's 60 minute version of the programme had an Appreciation Index of 89.

The Prom is now available to viewers in the UK on the BBC iPlayer and a High Definition version of the 60 minute programme will be broadcast on BBC HD today at 5.25pm.

The BBC have also added several clips from the Prom onto their YouTube site. Clips may not be available outside the UK.

Doctor Who Theme Tune
David Tennant regenerates into Matt Smith
Symphony of The Daleks
Monsters and Female Vampires

The Doctor Who Prom was broadcast on BBC Three on Monday where it was watched by 0.52 million people, according to unofficial overnight figures. The programme had a 2.2% share of the audience and it was the tenth most watched programme on multi-channel Television for the day. The first half was the most watched programme on multi-channel TV between 8.30 and 9.00pm, but the second half was out-rated by Benidorm on ITV4.

The Prom is now available to viewers in the UK on the BBC iPlayer and an extended edition will be broadcast on Friday on BBC Three at 7pm.

A High Definition version of the 60 minute programme will be broadcast on BBC HD on Saturday 11th September at 5.25pm.

Extra material is now available on the BBC Red Button service at the following times.
The service is not available on Freesat.

For the third month running Doctor Who has topped the monthly iPlayer request charts with the final four episodes of the series being the top four requested programmes for June.

Top of the list was The Pandorica Opens with over 1.3 million requests during the month, followed by The Lodger, Vincent and the Doctor and The Big Bang all with over a million requests. The highest programme, not related to Doctor Who, was Top Gear with 0.88 million requests. During the month Doctor Who had 6.35 million requests in total, shared between 13 episodes, just behind EastEnders which had 7 million requests for one of the 22 episodes available.

Figures for the year so far, give Doctor Who the top nine places in the download charts, and 14 of the top twenty places. The Eleventh Hour tops the list with over 2.1 million requests, by far the highest requested programme in the BBC iPlayer history. Because the whole series was on iPlayer from transmission date until July, the early episodes of the series were available for much longer and therefore had higher iPlayer figures. The final two episodes of the series will get a boost when the July figures are available.
Full ratings for the series can be found in Gallifrey Base.