Well yes, but they can control what is released via a press release. There may be more that hasn't been released that they don't want to get out through preview screenings.

Plus, not everyone reads press releases especially the casual viewer.

Anyway, as said 85 is still classed as excellent and is certainly not the lowest score ever for Doctor Who.

Yep spoiled for me as well through the press release although someone also posted a thread to a link which the first line of the link also revealed the spoiler so watch out people (I believe the thread has something to do with The Moff having a thing for tieing up Amy, I believe its called Pondage ) but it will still be interesting to see how the cliffhanger is done.

5.0m 24.4% last night, apparently.

K

I suspect The Champions League coverage had an effect of the ratings, I recoreded it to watch after the match.

No, those ratings include people that watched it before 2am, so if you had been a BARB member, watching your recording would be included in that 5m,

K

Smith/Moffat Series 1+2 Final Figures So Far:

The Eleventh Hour 10.08 / The Impossible Astronaut 8.86
The Beast Below 8.40 / Day Of The Moon 7.30
Victory Of The Daleks 8.20 / Curse Of The Black Spot 7.85
The Time Of Angels 8.59 / The Doctor's Wife 7.97
Flesh And Stone 8.50 / The Rebel Flesh 7.35

Average Series 5: 8.75m
Average Series 6: 7.87m

Average for the opening five episodes

Opening series for each Doctor:
[LIST][*](09) Series 1 - 8.65[*](10) Series 2 - 8.66[*](11) Series 5 - 8.76[/LIST]
Second (and third) series for each Doctor:
[LIST][*](10) Series 3 - 7.60[*](10) Series 4 - 7.85[*](11) Series 6 - 7.87[/LIST]
Well now, will you look at that...

Minus the 4% the BARB said viewing figures would increase by in November 2009: Average for the opening five episodes

Opening series for each Doctor:
[LIST][*](09) Series 1 - 8.65[*](10) Series 2 - 8.66[*](11) Series 5 - 8.4[/LIST]
Second (and third) series for each Doctor:
[LIST][*](10) Series 3 - 7.60[*](10) Series 4 - 7.85[*](11) Series 6 - 7.55[/LIST]
Oh would you look at that! I should say I am not actually making a point about viewing figures for series 5 and 6 I just think if we are going to use them they should at least be used with the comparable data. All we learn is they are pretty much the same shock horror.

Of course if you add iPlayer figures on the ratings look more or less the same.

The 4% wasn't an across the board increase for each an every show, but rather an average across reported channels, with a lot of that coming from previous under-reporting of viewership for lower rating shows and channels, and reporting more channels (in part the increase comes from better reporting in multi-channel homes), so it can't simply be used to lower any one show's post January 2010 rating by a fixed amount. It's also reflective of a ratings drift, which means that, if we had the data (and we don't - because the old and new BARB panels only ran in parallel for about two years), we'd have to adjust all TV ratings, for individual shows and channels, by different amounts.

There's also the complicating factor of non-BARB recorded viewing through iPlayer, which has rapidly increased but which we still can't assess very easily to count unique viewers.

But yeah - the central point is, as you say, that they...


...even if we were to apply a blunt 4% reduction like that.

To date the opening series for each Doctor has performed about on a par, on average, for the first five episodes, and so have the subsequent series for Ten and Eleven. And that's despite the longevity of the show now, and the fact that the (inevitable) rapid increase in digital take-up over the past couple of years has led to increased competition for the show (and everything else on the big five channels).

Which is inconvenient for stcoop's 'failure' agenda. Thus my post.

Probably - but we can't be sure of that. KezM is spot on to say that 'pretty much the same' is the safe assessment.

'The Almost People' scored an AI of '86'

Astonishingly consistent for a show in its 7th year. The Times newspaper said that the episode on Saturday was "the best thing on television today, nothing else comes close." The audience have given another "considered excellent" verdict. The size of the audience is about the same it's always been. It must be very difficult to maintain the viewing numbers status quo. To exceed an average that includes Matt's first few stories would have been a minor television miracle. It is slightly surprising to see people using it as a minimum benchmark for series 6.

People who don't like aspects of the current show but also expect viewing figures to always be at peak might comfort themselves that the previous people might not have managed it either.

The final postion for 'The Rebel Flesh' in the final weekly ratings.


(Thank to Andy Parish at Gallifrey Base.)

I think the final ratings for Who this year are excellent. I am really enjoying it too (I really didn't enjoy season 5 at all).

5.5 Million for last night (from the DS ratings thread and Rzt)

Not bad considering the opposition.

Held up pretty well given that ITV scheduled two guaranteed ratings winners against it. Certainly better than anything on last night that wasn't football or a crappy yet inexplicably popular talent contest.

I think that's brilliant. Can't wait to learn the final figures.

An Excellent AI of 88 for A Good Man Goes to War.

Good stuff!

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/06...to-war-ai.html

Final rating for 'The Almost People'

Quote:
“Final BARB Rating for The Almost People:

6.72m

21st for the week. Timeshift +1.68m”

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/06...-official.html


Plus I-Player requests for May

'The Doctors Wife 1.22m '
'The Curse of the Black Spot 1.21m '
'The Day of the Moon 1.18m'

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/06...-requests.html

The Eleventh Hour 10.08 The Impossible Astronaut 8.86
The Beast Below 8.40 Day Of The Moon 7.30
Victory Of The Daleks 8.20 Curse Of The Black Spot 7.85
The Time Of Angels 8.59 The Doctor's Wife 7.97
Flesh And Stone 8.50 The Rebel Flesh 7.35
Vampires Of Venice 7.68 The Almost People 6.72

Average 2010: 8.58
Average 2011: 7.68

Still trying to prove the Moffat-Era is failing?

Series 3: 7.5
Series 4:*7.7
Series 6: 7.68

Also, fun fact: Average of the final 6 episodes of Series 2:*6.95

Series 6 is still performing quite, quite well, and the ratings are holding up fantastically for a show in it's 7th year.

In 2008 you said that 7.5 million was "excellent "'

stcoop thinks this series is doing excellently well . He keeps saying so in this thread over and over .

Final ratings for Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes To War is 7.57 million.

The audience share was 31.0%.

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/06...es-to-war.html