Curse of the Black Spot - 7.85m (35.5%)

Very nice timeshift (thanks to Muttley for finding this)

meaning?

Oh, and as Moff oversees the entire series...yes, he did deliver!

On the ratings on DS it said 6.09 Million so very good ratings,

So far this series...

The Impossible Astronaut - 8.86m (43.3%)

Day of the Moon - 7.30m (36.7%)

Curse of the Black Spot - 7.85m (35.5%)


Average so far this series: 8.0m

"Doctor Who" Premiere Sees Big Jump In Live + 7 Ratings On BBC America

Final ratings 1.8m

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...america/91971/

Love the comment on that page:


Doctor Who is just a Back to the Future rip off…… I can not understand why people like it so much. I guess originality doesn’t count for anything anymore. They can’t even change the name of the person that makes the time travel possible…. Doc and The Doctor…. Pure garbage.

And of course, the countless rebuttals and the fool's gasp of "my bad".

The Eleventh Hour 10.08M / The Impossible Astronaut 8.86M
The Beast Below 8.4M / Day of the Moon 7.3M
Victory of the Daleks 8.2M / Curse of the Black Spot 7.85M

Average 2010 8.89M / Average 2011 8M

Yep. Interesting. Still dont know how the series is going to pan out. Can Someone tell me whether the numbers quoted above for S6 are the "final final" numbers, so to speak? Is there to be any further adjustment or do we now take these as the total viewership for these stories?

I never know when the music stops with overnights then final overnights then Reach and all that.

Still - 8 million is good. I know you believe a long term nose dive is taking place. The core audience is still there at the moment.

My word... only 8 million?! Quick, the dream is over, cancel the show and lets get Don't Scare the Hare a double-bill.

Never said "nose dive". Slow erosion on the other hand...

Yes the numbers quoted above are the final final ratings (so overnights plus those who recorded but not iplayer).

8 million is very good, only soaps and x factor/bgt get those sort of figures regularly (although who would actually watch those I'm not sure )

Stand corrected. You said "plunge" not nose dive, but to be fair that was about overnights, which has been gone over quite alot. The slow erosion thing is a slightly different tack and is very difficult to discern from these numbers. Given that 8 million is far from cult obscurity and the show has bobbed up and down before. Previously you were asking us to stop making excuses and accept a plunge has taken place. So we'll put that to one side for now and concentrate on the slow erosion thing. We'll see. Problem with "slow erosion" is that we now have to wait for the end of this year and probably the first few episodes of next year. Good thing about slow erosion is that the BBC will have plenty of opportunity to do something about it. They may take the view that a core of around 8 million is dandy and the peaks generated by the likes of DT's final episodes are bonus.

I still think with the early time slot DW is missing out on the casual viewer who'll sit down at 7pm and watch whatever is on.

It's OK to keep banging on about iPlayer and Sky+ as genuinely interested viewers will always find a way to watch the show if they're not at home but the casual viewer won't. It's not rocket science to know that if DW was on at say 7:30 in the Winter it would attract well over the 6 million it's getting now in the overnight figures.

Yes, it might (although I don't that it's as clear-cut as that), but does it really matter, other than as a 'my show's more popular than yours' exercise? The BBC are not going to allocate prime-time slots that can be filled by shows that depend on casual viewers when they can get the same end results where they are.

'The Doctors Wife' had an AI of 87

That is a rather disingenuous comparison.

How does it compare to previous seasons as well.

Rather favourably I would guess.

I think rather than comparing ratings for the episode number, we could perhaps look at the equivalent episode from around this time last year which was Amy's Choice, which got 6.2 in the overnights. In comparison we are looking at only a 300k difference between the equivalent episode last year. The ratings are pretty stable this year, with quite large time shift figures. This series has started later and rather than viewer fatigue, to me, it is just a case of people are able to be out doing more things in the middle of may rather than earlier in the previous year when the numbered episode aired.

'The Curse of the Black Spot' just missed out on a top 10 spot in the final ratings.

Considering that nine out of the top ten places are virtually already spoken for every week by CS and EE that's pretty good going!
Unfortunately if DW is always going to be on while either BGT or XF is on it will struggle to make the top ten as they will always take the one "spare" slot.

Or 4th in terms of programming.

So MiltonBlake has an account there.

So does Trevor Eve

Well I think that proves that Doctor Who's viewing figures are tied to the ebb and flow of how many people watch TV and that it gets a reliable 34ish% of the viewing public.

Not that that will stop people claiming "Doom!"

That top 10 makes me sad.