TV Ratings - 5x03 (Victory of the Daleks)

[Jax]

Still no word on the final numbers from last week but this week so a slight drop because of the lovely weather we had...

Victory of the Daleks was watched by 6.2 million viewers, according to unofficial overnight figures

TV share of 32.7% the rating is the second highest of the day. Britain's Got Talent stole the night with 10.6 million viewers and a 44% share of the audience. Doctor Who was still nearly a million viewers ahead of the third placed programme

Last week it scored 6.7 million and 34%

An additional 231,000 watched the later showing on BBC HD, although as the showing wasn't simulcast

I would prefer a later slot but its not going to happen I guess . The finals will probably push between 6.5-7 million and expect a higher repeat/I player audience. Speaking of I Player...

Doctor Who has set a new record for BBC's iPlayer downloads. The Eleventh Hour has achieved the highest number of requests in a week, with 1.27 million

 

[Timofnine]

Not bad, but not good either tbh

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I have no doubt the official figures will be slightly higher, might even surpass last weeks, but that's still a very nice figure, its also nice to see so many watching the show in HD, i usually watch it on the TV then later on watch it on iplayer in HD.

Although i will say that 18:30 slot is just weird, why are they not starting the program on the hour slot.

 

[Jax]

Although i will say that 18:30 slot is just weird, why are they not starting the program on the hour slot.

7pm means Over the rainbow would conflict with Brit Got Talent and 6pm is too early with the current weather, we would drop to Impossible Planet levels of 5.5 million maybe even worse.

I do think the peak of Doc Who is gone of getting 7-8 million that was a number seen more often within the first 3 years of its return. The share being over 1 in 3 is great though

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Although i will say that 18:30 slot is just weird, why are they not starting the program on the hour slot.

7pm means Over the rainbow would conflict with Brit Got Talent and 6pm is too early with the current weather, we would drop to Impossible Planet levels of 5.5 million maybe even worse.

I do think the peak of Doc Who is gone of getting 7-8 million that was a number seen more often within the first 3 years of its return. The share being over 1 in 3 is great though

Bloody British public, why are they watching this shit and messing with my Sci-fi...

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Is the show running in the same time slot in Britain now that it has in past years?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

The TV show has had quite a varied time slot over its many years as well as changing its transmission days over and over again....the original time slot for the show was 17:15 on a Saturday evening.

 

[Shazam!]

Doctor Who being on during the Spring/Summer months is weird. I always thought it should be on in the winter when it's cold and dark outside.

 

[Jax]

^ Yeh I always thought that to be honest plus the break would be short for the Christmas special and we could even have a Easter special.

Start in the 1st week of September and end late nov/early Dec with the Christmas special and an Easter special so 15 episodes a year. They could trim the seasons to 12 I guess with X mas and Easter specials making 14 so the same we get now.

Also with Doc Who on Saturdays, have Torchwood on sundays so we have a Whoverse weekend .

 

[Savage Jaw]

Ever so slightly disappointing, but it seems that this season a lot more people are DVR'ing and watching it later, as the final figures released today show that The Beast Below had another huge timeshift like The Eleventh Hour. The Beast Below was watched by 8.42 million people (7.93m on BBC One, 0.494m on BBC HD). These figures do not include BBC Three repeats (of which the repeats on Sunday usually get a very respectable figure of more than half a million viewers) or iPlayer downloads.

Wouldn't be surprised if the timeshift for Victory of the Daleks was greater due to the lower overnight figures, so I would think somewhere between 7.0-7.5m at a minimum, but probably greater.

 

[Jax]

^ 8.42 million is a wonderful number and proves how bad the overnight system could be. I wonder if America could learn from our system and take upto 2 weeks for final final numbers instead of using there current set up.

So far then...

The Eleventh Hour - 10.08 million viewers
The Beast Below - 8.42 million viewers

VOTD will probably get around 8 million then most likely

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

^ 8.42 million is a wonderful number and proves how bad the overnight system could be. I wonder if America could learn from our system and take upto 2 weeks for final final numbers instead of using there current set up.

The "American system" also includes both overnights and later compiled ratings.

 

[Jax]

^ 8.42 million is a wonderful number and proves how bad the overnight system could be. I wonder if America could learn from our system and take upto 2 weeks for final final numbers instead of using there current set up.

The "American system" also includes both overnights and later compiled ratings.

Yeh but the final numbers are done like 24 hours after the fast nationals leading them to be still under what the real numbers most likely are. The BARB can wait upto 2 weeks for actual finals at a time.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I think we will see a comfy 8 mill plus for VOTD when the final figures come in....but its nice to see the previous two episode have done really well in the ratings.

 

[23skidoo]

The ratings numbers shouldn't bug anyone. First, the show has been renewed for another year. The BBC won't do anything unless it starts registering really low like 3 or 4. 6 million for initial ratings is about par for the course.

Problem is we've become spoiled by all the high ratings in the 10 million range this show has been seeing since Turn Left. But that's because every show since has been an "event" episode. The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks are the first "normal" episodes we've had since "Midnight". I was actually expecting numbers in the 5-6 range, and now the BBC is counting things like downloads and timeshifting, the numbers are getting a boost as well.

For whatever reason the UK is really talent-show crazy right now, so for DW to finish second is not a bad thing, especially when you're dealing with shows like Britain's Got Talent which seems to be the UK equivalent of Dancing with the Stars/American Idol these days.

I just hope there isn't a fan meltdown when we inevitably hit this year's equivalent of a "Fear Her". They won't all be classics and we need the occasional bad episode to remind us how good this show can get!

Alex

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

Still no word on the final numbers from last week but this week so a slight drop because of the lovely weather we had...

Or, alternatively, because of the drop in quality of the writing

 

[Jax]

^ I doubt it since the AI index scores have been high so seems your in the minorty, sorry.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Still no word on the final numbers from last week but this week so a slight drop because of the lovely weather we had...

Or, alternatively, because of the drop in quality of the writing

This is always someone's favored theory about a given TV show, and it's arrant nonsense. If an episode of a TV series is actually poorly enough written to trouble a large part of the audience (as contrasted with "I didn't like it so I'll call it poor") then it might affect later weeks' ratings.

The mechanism by which this might affect the ratings of the supposedly poorly-written episode itself - presumably by some audience members retroactively determining to unwatch it - must involve some timey-wimey physics unfamiliar to normal Earth people.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Problem is we've become spoiled by all the high ratings in the 10 million range this show has been seeing since Turn Left. But that's because every show since has been an "event" episode.

It's also possible that a significant portion of the recent DW audience were people who really liked David Tennant. This revival of Who has evidently pulled in a lot of new viewers, and simply because the viewing patterns of Who fans a generation ago represented loyalty to the series over the actor doesn't mean that this version will evolve the same way. It may experience, to some degree, the same "star syndrome" issues that enable popular TV actors in other venues to command increasingly higher salaries every year for staying with a successful TV series.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

This is always someone's favored theory about a given TV show, and it's arrant nonsense. If an episode of a TV series is actually poorly enough written to trouble a large part of the audience (as contrasted with "I didn't like it so I'll call it poor") then it might affect later weeks' ratings

I assumed they'd been put off by the previous two episodes