Doctor Who ratings - Episode 1

For ease of comparison I'm going to start posting here the Doctor Who ratings that I find. Grows week by week into a complete collection! Ahem, well, there's two sets of results here. The column labelled Consolidated are the official viewing figures from the BARB web site. These include time-shifting viewing and so take over a week to arrive. The other figures are the overnight values which come out on Sunday and I take from wherever I see them first. They include the average viewing figures, the peak audience and the audience share.

I'm listing the top 10 shows for BBC1 and ITV1 plus the competition - wherever it appears.

Lastly there'll be a bit of commentary on the figures from me.

So to the first week figures and the publicity blitz pays dividends with Rose being the seventh highest rated programme on TV that week being beaten only by two episodes of Eastenders and four episodes of Coronation Street (conversely managing to beat 2 episodes of Eastenders, 1 of Corrie and the whole of Emmerdale). The opposition (Ant & Dec) were soundly trounced despite their extra special guest star of David Beckham.