The Satan Pit Overnights

Overnight ratings for The Satan Pit, the season's ninth new Doctor Who episode of Doctor Who, are in: the episode was watched by 5.5 million viewers with a 35.6% audience share. Though the ratings are down from last week's series low (5.94 million), the audience share is still high and the show is relatively strong given the rest of the day's numbers: on this summer Saturday, Doctor Who was third overall on the Top 30 Programs by Audience on all UK networks, behind "World Cup Match of the Day Live" and "Casualty", and second overall for today by audience share totals, behind the World Cup program (which had enormous share/ratings numbers for UK programming).

Also tonight: the ninth episode of Doctor Who Confidential on BBC Three scored 445,200 viewers, with a 3.6% audience share (number two for the day's non-terrestrial channels). More details later. (Thanks to 'Shaun Lyon,' Andy Parish)