Part one of The End of Time rules supreme!
January 8th, 2010
BARB have today released the final Christmas ratings, which confirm that part one of the The End of Time was the most watched programme in the UK not only on Christmas Day itself, but also for the whole of Christmas week!
Altogether - taking into account the extra audience share on BBC HD – a whopping audience of 12.04million tuned in for the episode, which saw the Doctor’s psychotic nemesis, the Master, being reborn.
The figure also makes Doctor Who the 5th most watched programme of the whole of 2009, being beaten only by episodes of The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent.
Nice. Go Doctor Who!
If you add in repeat screenings and I Player apparently the figure is up to 15.99 Million … now that is awesome!!!!
To be the most watched programme of Christmas week is very impressive. The audience figure is great, especially in this time of numerous other channels & DVDs.
Although accepted by the TV community, the figures provided by BARB is generally inaccurate, based on less than 4% of the UK public viewers. In these days of digital TV, a radical overhaul is required to obtain accurate figures. As Doctor Who is now shown across multiple channels, it is doubtful that the BBC1 figure will ever match the heady heights of the Tom Baker period, where at one point, the figure reached 14.5 on BBC1 alone.
That is absolutely brilliant! Well done Doctor Who! Good news it beat all the soaps too.
@Bridget
15.99,?!?!? That’s about quarter of the population!
@TSG
What on Earth are you going on about?
Considering that there were only three Doctor Who episodes throughout the whole of 2009, that’s quite an achievement.