New pictures have been released from the next Doctor Who episode In the Forest of the Night.

Doctor Who Flatline had an Audience Appreciation Index or AI score of 85.

The Appreciation Index or AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the programme. The score, out of a hundred, is compiled by a specially selected panel of around 5,000 people who go online and rate and comment on programmes.

Overall Doctor Who rated slightly higher with men than women, the opposite of all other episodes in this series, and scored the highest within the 16-34 age group. 51% of the sample thought the programme felt 'Fresh and New'.

The Sunday repeat of Flatline on BBC Three had an overnight estimate of 0.23 million viewers, a 0.9% share of the audience.

Flatline averaged an impressive 971,000 national viewers in Australia (these figures include the five major capital cities and regional and rural viewers). It was the ABC's highest rating drama of the day and the tenth highest rating program of the day overall. Excluding regional and rural viewers, this story averaged 637,000 viewers in the five major Australian capital cities and was also the twelfth highest rating program of the day overall in the big cities. These ratings do not include time shifted viewers.

7.11 million watched the UK transmission of Mummy On The Orient Express according to consolidated figures available today, which include those recording the programme and watching within one week of transmission.

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

4.55 million viewers watched Flatline, according to unofficial overnight figures.

Doctor Who was fourth for the day, slipping behind Pointless Celebrities which managed 4.94 million viewers at the earlier time of 5.45pm.

Top for the day was Strictly Come Dancing with 9.03 million, while on ITV The X Factor had 7.71 million viewers.

Doctor Who had a share of 19.9% of the total television audience.

Final figures should be available next Sunday.

The BBC have released an introduction to the latest episode of Doctor Who, Flatline, which premieres tonight on BBC One. Full global broadcast details here.



Meanwhile the latest Radio Times free downloadable retro poster, created by designer Stuart Manning is now available.

Manning told Radio Times:

Doctor Who Kill the Moon was the twentieth most watched programme for the week on British Television, according to figures provided by Barb, maintaining the run of top twenty places for the programme.

The Great British Bake off took top position with 10.67 million viewers, ahead of the Drama Downton Abbey which had 10.15 million watching, once ITV HD and ITV+1 figures are added in. The docu-drama on the life of Cilla Black had 8.21 million watching. The X Factor also did well with all three editions rating higher than Doctor Who. The top soaps, Coronation Street, EastEnders and episodes of Emmerdale all entered the top twenty.

Full Ratings Data for week

The BBC have confirmed that the tenth episode in the current run of Doctor Who, In the Forest of the Night, will broadcast in the UK on 25th October at the slightly earlier time of 8:20pm.

The programme will once more follow Strictly Come Dancing and will be followed by Casualty. On the other main UK channels the episode is scheduled against ITV's The X Factor (which airs from 8:00pm to 9:20pm), a repeat of Dad's Army, on BBC2, Walking through History on Channel 4, and World War II in Colour on Channel Five.

The BBC have released a number of publicity photos for the forthcoming episode Flatline; as well as Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara, images also feature Christopher Fairbank as Fenton, Joivan Wade as Rigsy, Matt Bardock as Al, and Raj Bajaj as George.


The episode airs from 8:25pm on BBC One this coming Saturday, 18th October.