TV Ratings - 5x03 (Victory of the Daleks)

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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

Ah, well if you 're thinking the previous shows were poorly written as well your logic is reasonable (not that I agree). There's been such negativity toward Gatiss' story that I assumed you were just criticizing that one.

 

[Jax]

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

Well since a DT episode once dropped to 5.5 million then I guess they must of been pissed about the 10th Doctor then . Weather patterns affect saturday night TV in the spring and early summer.

The AI index created so BBC can keep an eye out on reception since its not just ratings that bother BBC since they don't get money from ad revenue shows Doctor Who is much loved.

 

[Tulin]

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.

Yeah - it IS here(as I say every year!).

DW started a couple of weeks ago here(most up to date EVER here in Australia!)and it is cool in the evenings and a lovely respite from 42 degree summers!!!

By the end of the run in about ten weeks we will be in the middle of winter and it will be cold and rainy outside - LOVELY and toasty!!!!!!

GOD I LOVE winter!!!!

 

[23skidoo]

Well since a DT episode once dropped to 5.5 million then I guess they must of been pissed about the 10th Doctor then . Weather patterns affect saturday night TV in the spring and early summer.

The AI index created so BBC can keep an eye out on reception since its not just ratings that bother BBC since they don't get money from ad revenue shows Doctor Who is much loved.

Yeah, and the AI for Time of Angels was the highest yet for the season, and it's only a point or two higher than Victory.

The Doctor Who News Page report on the final ratings adds a note of perspective: although it's the first non-top-10 episode since Silence in the Library there have been huge increases in iPlayer viewership since then.

http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/victory-of-daleks-final-ratings.html

Indeed, whether it's UK we're talking about, or North America, the nature of TV viewing has changed so rapidly in the last 2 years there's no point making any sort of comparison. Pretty soon in the US a show may be considered a hit with a couple million viewers on a standard network (as, indeed, DW is considered a hit on BBC America with just over a million). The days of 30-40 million viewers for a show aren't completely gone, but they're pretty much confined to one-off "experience" style special events such as the Super Bowl. I bet the 7.82 million Victory scored would have been the equivalent of 9 million back in the old days of Donna Noble...

As I've said elsewhere I'll only become concerned if one of two things happen:

1. An utter collapse in viewership sending the ratings down to 2-3 million in the UK

2. The BBC turning around and saying "never mind, we're not going ahead with Series 6/fnargle after all"

The question does have to be raised, though, as to why the BBC insists on showing DW at such an early hour, when past broadcasts even a half-hour later had notably higher ratings. Even if the BBC insists that its main target market is kids, I don't know many kids over the age of four who go to bed at 7 PM on a Saturday anymore...

Alex

 

[Starkers]

I don't mind the time so much, it's kinda where I remember Who being when I was a child (although I could be compleyely wrong about that!) At least it seems to have been fairly consistant this year so far. I'm sure it was last year when sometimes Merlin would be on before Strictly, and other times it's be the other way round!

 

[Jax]

Final numbers are in and they are just under the 8 million I expected but only because HD audience was not counted due to the episode not being simulcast with the BBC One showing

So because of that the final audience was...

7.82 million viewers watched it with the total being over 1.5 million higher than the initial overnight reported figure

This is the first time the programme has dropped out of the top ten since the series four story, Silence in the Library, which was 27th. Since then the number of iplayer requests for the programme have dramatically increased

Time of Angels will most likely be around 8.2 million am guessing if the HD audience is taken into account this time. Still going strong