adjusted for time-shifted recording, the episode was watched by 8.19 million people
This conjures up some excellent images.
I was in a pub at the time of the original broadcast* and watched it about 10am the following morning.
*Go to http://www.mjhibbett.com and check out the blog for the Cambridge gig on the 8th July, the barmaid turned the TV on at 7:42pm for the football and half the men in the pub shouted "NOOO! WE'RE VIDEOING THAT" as we caught a glimpse of Doctor Who...
Doomsday ratings are done. Go on my son. Sock it to 'em
The BARB this week released the official audience data for the week ending 9 July, with the climax of Series Two, Doomsday, outperforming just about everything on UK television that wasn't the World Cup. With the football in a category of its own (average audiences up to 14 million viewers, though that doesn't do justice to some of the peak figures and audience shares achieved), only a single episode of "Coronation Street" managed to outrate Doomsday's 8.22 million. That figure, which includes timeshifted viewings, puts "Doctor Who" in fifth place for the week on BBC One (after four World Cup broadcasts), and eighth for the week across UK television, beating all the remaining episodes of "Coronation Street" and every single edition of "EastEnders". Television audiences were down across the board, apart from the football, with nothing but sport, the two soaps and the Dalek-Cybermen war managing more than 5 million viewers, and the ratings have continued to collapse during the warm weather in the couple of weeks since then (notably for "EastEnders" which last week hit a record low below fourmillion viewers). "Doctor Who" is one of a tiny number of programmes to have its audience hold up in the face of soaring temperatures.
Did anyone see this last night and how Charlie gave Dr Who a real pasting? I think that we've our next Doctor Who once Tennant has had the boot.
A sarcastic bitter doctor, who goes on about how useless time travel really is, how the TARDIS controls and set don't work..and that you can be rather too smug about getting one over on the Daleks and Cybermen..
"Observation is the path to understanding. Self-observation is the path to self-understanding."
Did anyone see this last night and how Charlie gave Dr Who a real pasting?
Yes I did. Only he didn't really 'give it a pasting', in fact he was practically ebullient with praise, it was only a few elements that he 'gave a pasting' and a few of those were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Excellent program.
They're gonna taste gre-at
Even if you've cancer of the prostr-ate.
Did anyone see this last night and how Charlie gave Dr Who a real pasting?
Yes I did. Only he didn't really 'give it a pasting', in fact he was practically ebullient with praise, it was only a few elements that he 'gave a pasting' and a few of those were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I think that 'praise' would be going a bit far..but he pointed out what was wrong with it more than just slating it..and he said he liked it at the end.
I just caught the arse end of that Charlie Brooker show. Does anyone know what the music was that was playing in the background during his rant about aspirational TV? It seemed to be a slightly different version of the one in this video.
Flickr Photostream | 500px Portfolio "We deduce he was killed by a high speed avian projectile to the face."
"Break the murder weapon and make a wish!"
Quick heads up: Radio 5's obituary program, just started (or most likely downladable afterwards) has a slot on the original voice of the Daleks, Richard Hawkins.
pogo wrote:Quick heads up: Radio 5's obituary program, just started (or most likely downladable afterwards) has a slot on the original voice of the Daleks, Richard Hawkins.
He was one of the original voices of the Cybermen too, wasn't he?
