Series 3 Ratings

[Abi]

Unofficial overnight figures show that the first episode of the new series was watched by 8.2 million viewers, a 39.5% share of the audience.

The programme was the most watched on Saturday, beating the second placed Any Dream Will Do by 1.5 million viewers.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on ITV1 was watched by 4.7 million viewers.

The programme also had the highest audience share of the day.

The five minute breakdown shows the audience grew by over 2 million throughout the programme to peak at 9.1 million between 7.35 and 7.40.

SOURCE: Outpost Gallifrey

They normally go up a bit in the final ratings, because of the people who recorded it and watched it later, or watched the repeats on BBC3.

And if you want to compare it with the other series, then "New Earth" had an overnight rating of 8million (So this one did better), which rose to 8.62 million in the final ratings.

[Gordy..//]

im not surprised!it was a really good entrance for martha and i hope her intelligence isn't a match for the doctor(not that it will be!)

[Abi]

Unofficial overnight figures show that episode two, The Shakespeare Code, was watched by 6.8 million viewers.

Although the figure was down on last week the programme was still the most-watched programme of the day, both in terms of audience and share. The Easter Holiday and good weather in the UK saw audiences drop across the day.

Doctor Who comfortably beat its main rivals on ITV1, with Grease is the Word getting just 4 million viewers and Harry Hill 3.9m.

BBC One took all of the top five positions in the day's ratings chart, with Casualty getting 6 million and Any Dream Will Do 5.9m.

During transmission, Doctor Who's audience rose to peak at 8.1m during the last five minutes. It also was top of the children's chart with over double the audience of under 16s of its nearest rival.

In the Multi Channel charts, Doctor Who Confidential was once again the second most watched programme of the day with 617,000 viewers.

[Abbie]

looks like this series of doctor who has had a good start with the ratings

[DaVeyWaVey]

Brilliant ratings for Doctor Who again, i have a feeling that they'll keep doing well with ratings over this series.

[Abi]

The final ratings for Smith and Jones are out from BARB.. And as if by magic, here they are :D

Figures released by BARB make Episode One of the new series the ninth most watched programme of the week with an official rating of 8.71 Million viewers. This makes it the fourth episode in a row to achive a top ten place, a new record for the series.

As in the overnight figures the programme was only beaten by the soap giants Coronation Street and Eastenders.

And for those of you interested, this was the top 20 for the week Smith and Jones was shown..

1 CORONATION STREET (MON 2029) - 11.59 - ITV1
2 CORONATION STREET (FRI 1934) - 10.89 - ITV1
3 CORONATION STREET (MON 1934) - 10.63 - ITV1
4 CORONATION STREET (WED 1930) - 10.37 - ITV1
5 CORONATION STREET (SUN 1929) - 9.93 - ITV1
6 EASTENDERS (TUE 1931) - 9.77 - BBC1
7 EASTENDERS (MON 2001) - 9.35 - BBC1
8 EASTENDERS (FRI 2000) - 8.94 - BBC1
9 DOCTOR WHO (SAT 1859) - 8.71 - BBC1
10 EASTENDERS (THU 1930) - 8.48 - BBC1
11 THE ROYAL (SUN 2000) - 8.06 - ITV1
12 EMMERDALE (MON 1902) - 7.97 - ITV1
13 EMMERDALE (TUE 1902) - 7.94 - ITV1
14 EMMERDALE (THU 1903) - 7.91 - ITV1
15 EMMERDALE (FRI 1903) - 7.90 - ITV1
16 EMMERDALE (WED 1859) - 7.78 - ITV1
17 ANY DREAM WILL DO (SAT 1945) - 6.85 - BBC1
18 CASUALTY (SAT 2106) - 6.69 - BBC1
19 THE NATIONAL LOTTERY PEOPLE'S QUIZ (SAT 2045) - 6.61 - BBC1
20 LIFE ON MARS (TUE 2100) - 6.56 - BBC1

[Abbie]

Thats great :D (Never realised Corrie has been doing really well )

[DaVeyWaVey]

That's brilliant. If you disregard the soaps, Doctor Who was the most watched weekly programme of that week! Well done Doctor Who! :thumbsup:

[Chloe O'brien]

That's brilliant. If you disregard the soaps, Doctor Who was the most watched weekly programme of that week! Well done Doctor Who! :thumbsup:

I agree Davey plus the fact that soaps are shown on a week night. Not prime time on a Saturday when most people would be going out. If Dr Who was to be shown on a monday or Tuesday it would thrash the soaps no problems.

[Abi]

Doctor Who was once more top of the charts with unofficial overnight figures showing that Episode Three, Gridlock, was watched by 8.0 million viewers, a 39.5% share of the total audience.

The programme was the most watched of the day by nearly two million viewers, beating Any Dream Will Do, which gained 6.2 million.

The programme had almost double the viewers of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? on ITV1.

In terms of share it was fourth, just being beaten by the sporting events of the afternoon.

With one day to go, this makes the programme the seventh most watched of the week, beating three episodes of EastEnders, and gives Gridlock a high probability of bringing Doctor Who once more into the week's top ten.

Doctor Who was again top of the children's top ten, with 1.4 million under 16s watching, double the second placed Any Dream Will Do

Doctor Who Confidential was top of the multichannel charts, with a rating of 0.56 million viewers, over 50% more than the second placed Inspector Morse.

[Chloe O'brien]

Another fantastic week for Dr Who. Its about time there was more programmes on tve that the whole family could watch together. Not one of the strongest episode of the series but still ejoyable.