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BUT what's really important is what happens now with the trend which will determine if Smith, Gillian and Moffat are regarded as a winning team by the public. |
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It's not bad - but it ain't great ... and it's certainly not I'd've expected given the level of promotion the show has had. I'm surprised more people weren't watching to sample the new Doctor. Don't say they were watching Harry Potter on ITV? :eek..
Doctor Who had well over two million more viewers than any other show on last night and again they are comparable with other series openers. Those figures are very good. I expected 8 - 8.5 million, and think anyone expecting more was being unrealistic tbh. |
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It's not bad - but it ain't great ... and it's certainly not I'd've expected given the level of promotion the show has had. I'm surprised more people weren't watching to sample the new Doctor. Don't say they were watching Harry Potter on ITV?
![]() I can't help but wonder if these figures might have been better had the series premiered sooner (i.e. not on a holiday weekend) ... |
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Just look how many didnt stick around for Over the bloody rainbow..that dropped to 5.9million..ITV got owned by BBC last night.
DW is the Stand out figure of the evening. |
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I still think it would have done better in a later slot. A lot of potential viewers either work or go out on Saturday afternoons. The time slot has sabotaged it slightly. But, hey, another crap talent show is obviously more important...
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i think your not including the hd figures there.
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It was 7.7m for standard TV viewers and 0.3m for HD.
It does seem there was a small error in the initial reporting of the figure though. |
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Comparisons with earlier series hardly matter - the fact is that 8million+ on a sunny holiday weekend is a fantastic figure for any programme, particularly one which has just overhauled its entire cast and production team.
I agree that the AI is the important thing at this point. And next week's figures will be telling as well though. I just don't think that 100k or so is any cause for alarm at all, and some people need to calm down and not panic - in the words of Eleven, everything's going to be fine
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Sorry but again there is no proof of this and your view is simply not backed up by past data around start time.
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Comparisons with earlier series hardly matter - the fact is that 8million+ on a sunny holiday weekend is a fantastic figure for any programme, particularly one which has just overhauled its entire cast and production team.
I agree that the AI is the important thing at this point. And next week's figures will be telling as well though. I just don't think that 100k or so is any cause for alarm at all, and some people need to calm down and not panic - in the words of Eleven, everything's going to be fine ![]() Next week will probably dip as the weather improves and the "event" factor means people will record/watch the BBC3 repeat/catch-up episode now that they know the series is back on cracking form. |
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Next week will probably dip as the weather improves and the "event" factor means people will record/watch the BBC3 repeat/catch-up episode now that they know the series is back on cracking form. I suppose I should have said in my introduction to the ratings for this series I am expecting the average to be down a little on series 4, because the second half especially had some pretty remarkable figures (JE has the most impressive figures of any episode since the reboot for me - over 10 million in the summer time is out of this world!), but I think my expectation is it will perhaps compare well with series 3. Next week I think we will see about 7- 7.5 million all in on overnights. I think the Dalek/Churchill episode might see bigger ratings than this week though. |
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Decent figure and the more likely of yesterdays predictions going by previous years, the average casual viewer won't know or care about the change in showrunners and so although hoped for, dramatically higher figures were always unlikely.
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Doctor Who finishes in 8th place for the week in the TV ratings on overnights, the only non-soap to make it in to the top 10:
1. Coronation Street (19:30) ITV 1 - MON - 9.5 (40.7%) 2. EastEnders (20:00) BBC One - MON - 9.4 (36.6%) 3. Coronation Street (20:30) ITV 1 - MON - 9.1 (36%) 4. EastEnders (19:30) BBC One - MON - 8.5 (36.3%) 5. EastEnders (20:00) BBC One - FRI - 8.4 (35%) 6. Coronation Street (19:30) ITV 1 - FRI - 8.3 (36.0%) 7. Coronation Street (20:30) ITV 1 - FRI - 8.0 (31.8%) 8. Doctor Who (18:20) BBC One (7.7 + 0.3 HD) - SAT - 8.0 (38.4%) 9. EastEnders (19:30) BBC One - THU - 7.9 (34.7%) 10. Coronation Street (20:30) ITV 1 - THU - 7.6 (30.6%) I think with final ratings it may finish as high as 4th for the week, but should at least move up to 6th at least. I think that puts in context what a good result it was for DW tbh. Also, the AI for this episode was 86, which is a very good result for the openeing episode of an era, if slightly down on the AI's the show has enjoyed in recent times. |
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Considering the new timeslot (which I think we can all agree is a mistake and is going to hurt the show as the evenings get warmer in May and June), I think the figures are very impressive.
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I expected more then eight million to be honest considering it's a new doctor and a new companion
Oh well. |
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Considering the new timeslot (which I think we can all agree is a mistake and is going to hurt the show as the evenings get warmer in May and June), I think the figures are very impressive.
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I expected more then eight million to be honest considering it's a new doctor and a new companion
Oh well. Furthermore, these are only overnights. We could be looking at as much as 9 million as a final figure. |
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Considering the new timeslot
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For the 100th time the show is not in a new time slot. It is in exactly the same bloody time slot that series 4 started in! And it got very similar figures to that episode.
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I'm glad you came in here Muttley as I was just scratching my head!! I was wondering what people were going on about here!
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The thing that gets me is that people seem to be deliberately ignoring the truth on that issue. It's bizarre!!!!
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Very bizarre.
Plus, in terms of ratings averages, some over on GB worked out that excluding specials there is no difference whatsoever in the ratings the show gets pre and post 7pm. Not one single percentage point! |
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Furthermore, DW hasn't had a fixed 7pm start time since series 1: half the episodes in series 2 didn't even start at 7pm.
Plus, in terms of ratings averages, some over on GB worked out that excluding specials there is no difference whatsoever in the ratings the show gets pre and post 7pm. Not one single percentage point! |
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Also, the AI for this episode was 86, which is a very good result for the openeing episode of an era, if slightly down on the AI's the show has enjoyed in recent times.
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I'd guess that some people who are not Who fans would have tuned in just because of the hype about the new Doctor, and that would explain the slightly lower AI - I mean it's not much different, is it? I'd guess that we'd get a drop in ratings next week as well, just because of the people who only watched out of curiosity, I think that always happens, but going on the massively positive reaction to the first ep, I'd hope it would keep most of the 8 million.
Normally the show does lose viewers between episodes 1 and 2, I think this time around there is a bit of competition from the fa cup semi finals on ITV. I think far to say the overnights will be around 7 - 7.5 million at best, but thats to be expected really. |
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