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.

Staff and students had a surprise last week when they discovered a Dalek in their school, West Exe Learning Centre in St. Thomas, Devon. The prop appeared to have been abandoned, with no clue as to where it had come from.

Sue Willey, deputy manager of West Exe Learning Centre, said:

Police were also involved in the incident but were unable to trace the owner. Detective Constable Caroline Prince, of Exeter's burglary team, said:

With no owners having come forward to claim it, the Dalek now resides at a film and television memorabilia store in Exeter. Shop owner and Doctor Who enthusiast John Hadlow said:

If you have any information as where this Dalek may have come from, you can contact Detective Constable Prince at Exeter burglary team on 08452 777444.

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.

Details have been released of the 2010 series boxset which will be released in the UK on 8th November 2010 and in North America on November 9, 2010.

Branded The Complete Fifth Series the boxset is available in DVD and Blu-ray formats. In the UK, as well as the general release, a number of sets will be available in the form of a specially limited edition.

Special features include additional scenes written by Steven Moffat and exclusive to DVD.

• Additional scenes: Meanwhile in the TARDIS, written by Steven Moffat and featuring Matt Smith & Karen Gillan, telling the story of what happens between episodes. Why was Amy floating in Space above Starship UK, and what happened after 'that' kiss between the Doctor and Amy?
• Monster Files - The Monster Files will get under the skin and inside the minds of the latest Doctor's most challenging opponents. With previously unseen footage and exclusive comments from cast and crew, the Monster Files take fans old and new even further behind enemy lines.
• Outtakes
• In-vision commentaries
• Video Diary
• Confidential Cut Downs
• BBC Trails and Promos to New Series 5

See our full Release Schedule

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.

Final figures are now available for the BBC HD showing of Doctor Who: The Big Bang and give the episode an official rating on the channel of 0.58 million viewers. This, along with the previously reported figure of 6.12 million viewers on BBC One, gives the episode a total rating of 6.7 million viewers. Full details for the week are still not available, but it is likely this will make Doctor Who the 10th most watched programme of the week.

Final figures for the whole series show that, despite recent press speculation, Doctor Who is still achieving remarkable ratings for the BBC and remains one of its most successful products. Once consolidated figures are published then the five series of the show, shown since the return in 2005, have all achieved remarkably similar average ratings of around 8 million viewers. Matt Smith’s first series just out-rates David Tennant’s first two series but comes behind Tennant’s last series. The variable earlier start times given to Series 31 compared to recent series appear to have resulted in more of the audience recording the show for later viewing, meaning lower overnights, but balanced when final consolidated figures are published

In terms of Chart position, once HD figures are included, Doctor Who has finished in the weekly top twenty throughout the series, with seven episodes finishing in the top ten. The high was 3rd place for The Eleventh Hour and the low was 20th for The Lodger, shown against World Cup football. The average chart placing was 12th, which again is higher that achieved by three of the previous four series.

One of the big successes of the recent series has been the take up on iPlayer. This year was the first time the whole series has been available during its run. Over 2 million have now accessed The Eleventh Hour and it has become by far the highest accessed programme in the BBC iPlayer history. The iPlayer simply measures those who have accessed the programme and no data is available to covert this figure to ratings in the conventional sense. However the figure does give an indication of how popular the programme is with the audience.


Full ratings for the series can be found in Gallifrey Base.