Doctor Who Ratings from {New} Series One - Christmas Special

AfterToday

29-12-2005

I think its intresting looking at this, the christmas special got the second highest rating of all the episodes!! I think we could be looking at about 9.2 for the first episode of the second series!

Rose - 10.81m
The End of the World - 7.97m
The Unquiet Dead - 8.86m
Aliens of London - 7.63m
World War Three - 7.98m
Dalek - 8.63m
The Long Game - 8.01m
Father's Day - 8.06m
The Empty Child - 7.11m
The Doctor Dances - 6.86m
Boom Town - 7.68m
Bad Wolf - 6.81m
The Parting of the Ways - 6.91m
The Christmas Invasion - 9.4m

GARYW69

29-12-2005

Too early to say. Much will depend on what ITV schedule against it - Ant and Dec (?) - not to mention the weather.
Also don't think you can compare Christmas day figures with that of other days. I bet even green grass of home got higher figures than normal on Sunday!

AfterToday

29-12-2005

Originally Posted by GARYW69:
“Too early to say. Much will depend on what ITV schedule against it - Ant and Dec (?) - not to mention the weather.
Also don't think you can compare Christmas day figures with that of other days. I bet even green grass of home got higher figures than normal on Sunday!”

It didnt Actually lol, on christmas day it got 4. something Mil, where as series one averaged 7 Mil.. but i get what ur saying yeah!

DenWatts

29-12-2005

Originally Posted by AfterToday:
“I think its intresting looking at this, the christmas special got the second highest rating of all the episodes!! I think we could be looking at about 9.2 for the first episode of the second series!

Rose - 10.81m
The End of the World - 7.97m
The Unquiet Dead - 8.86m
Aliens of London - 7.63m
World War Three - 7.98m
Dalek - 8.63m
The Long Game - 8.01m
Father's Day - 8.06m
The Empty Child - 7.11m
The Doctor Dances - 6.86m
Boom Town - 7.68m
Bad Wolf - 6.81m
The Parting of the Ways - 6.91m
The Christmas Invasion - 9.4m”

Thanks for the figures - it is interesting to see them.

I don't suppose you have the audience shares, by any chance? Some of the later episodes were affected by lower audiences due to the good weather, so the figures on their own might look disappointing at first glance.

cuilean

29-12-2005

I'd be interested to know where Doctor Who came in the "whole year" ratings.

I'm sure I've seen things in previous years where the highest rated episodes for various series or serials were charted eg Doctor Who would be 10.4m against say Den's death in EE or whatever Corrie's highest rated ep was?

Eaglestriker

30-12-2005

And lets not forget, towards the last half of the series we were entering the early Summer, and it was boiling - which is rare.
So yes, the weather did damage the ratings, but most of the time it was the most watched show of the evening.

DenWatts

30-12-2005

Originally Posted by Eaglestriker:
“And lets not forget, towards the last half of the series we were entering the early Summer, and it was boiling - which is rare.
So yes, the weather did damage the ratings, but most of the time it was the most watched show of the evening.”

It beat everything the 'other side' put up against it every week it was shown, once the final figures were in.

Black Guardian

30-12-2005

Whilst I do want Doctor Who to perform well in the ratings there is a danger of people becoming obsessed with them in the same way they did with series one. Would people have adopted the same smug attitude say if Ant and Dec had annihilated Who in the ratings..I think not. As long as it performs well, we get some great writing and acting and a great story arc to whip everyone up into a frenzy then surely that is all that matters.