‘The Rebel Flesh’ – ratings and reviews round up
The Rebel Flesh descended upon our television screens last night, and the episode was watched by 5.7million people according to overnight ratings, 29.3% of the total audience.
Part one of Matthew Graham’s two-parter has recieved an overall positive response from the press. The Telegraph have praised it for its “very traditional-style Doctor Who story”, and the Guardian were also impressed by the “classy, stylish and nicely unsettling” set-up. Digital Spy have given the “impressive” epispraiode 4 out of 5 stars.
Meanwhile, the Metro have described the latest episode as “enjoyable silliness”, and SFX have mirrored Digital Spy’s rating, noting: “This may be a more traditional episode than we’ve seen so far, but that’s no bad thing”. IGN have praised it for its “solid” story.
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Decent but not spectacular ratings. Not helped by the fact Doctor Who lacks a strong lead-in, with So You Think You Can Dance under-performing. Expect ratings to be worse next week when it’s up against the Champions League final.
People are so obsessed about the overnights, then are consistantly proved wrong when the final ratings are in.
They’ll go up by almost two million, like every other ep this year. Look at last weeks The Doctors Wife, finished on eight million.