Full ratings data for the week ending 5th May 2013 is now available and give Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror an official rating of 6.47 million viewers, a share of 31.5% of the total television audience.

Once ITV HD and +1 figures are factored in, Doctor Who was the 20th most watched programme on British Television for the week.

On BBC One, Doctor Who was the sixth most watched programme of the week and it was the third most watched programme of Saturday, behind the two reality shows Britain's Got Talent and The Voice.

Figures do not include iPlayer viewings, figures for which will be available later.

Figures for the week ending 14 April are also now finally available, giving Cold War a final placing of fifteenth for the week.

With 24 hours to go until we learn the answer to the question (maybe), here is a roundup of videos and new publicity images to promote tomorrow's The Name of the Doctor.

Based on these final figures, The Crimson Horror was the second highest rating ABC program of the day and the tenth highest rating program of the day overall (it was also the tenth highest rating program based on its overnight figures of 787,000 viewers). These ratings do not include regional viewers.

This weekend's adventure for the Doctor and Clara is the series finale, The Name of the Doctor, written by Steven Moffat and directed by Saul Metzstein. The episode will premiere on BBC One in the United Kingdom on Saturday at 7:00pm.


This week's episode sets up the evening before the annual Eurovision Song Contest, which kicks off from 8:00pm on BBC1 (bridged by The National Lottery Draw at 7:45pm). After last week's focus on football, ITV returns to its usual programming of You've Been Framed from 6:30pm, followed by the continuing search of Britain's Got Talent from 7:30pm. BBC2 will be showing Flog It! from 7:00pm, and in a change from the previous week pattern this time Channel 4 is showing a film, Rise of the Silver Surfer, from 7:15pm, whilst Channel 5 offers Cricket (England vs New Zealand).


Internationally, The Name of The Doctor will be broadcast in the United States and Canada on BBC America and SPACE respectively at 8:00pm ET the same evening, and then on Sunday it can be watched in Australia via ABC at 7:30pm, Poland via BBC Entertainment at 6:00pm, and South Africa via BBC Entertainment at 7:00pm. Meanwhile, New Zealand viewers will see The Crimson Horror this Thursday on PRIME at 8:30pm.

See This Week in Doctor Who for more details on scheduling and repeats.

Next week's edition of the Radio Times (18-24 May 2013) sees Jenna-Louise Coleman grace the front cover. with the actress being featured as part of the publicity for the series finale, The Name of the Doctor.

Talking about being the public spotlight, she said:
Commenting on advice from her co-star, Matt Smith:



The full interview can be read in the new edition, out today.

Nightmare in Silver had an Appreciation Index, or AI score, of 84.

The Appreciation Index or AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the programme. The score, out of a hundred, is compiled by a specially selected panel of around 5,000 people who go online and rate and comment on programmes.

Doctor Who again scored higher than most of Saturday's output. The highest scoring programmes of the day were Casualty with 87, Dad's Army with 89 and Avatar with 86.

Nightmare in Silver has debuted in Australia, averaging 696,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It was the ABC's second highest rating drama of the day and the fourteenth highest rating program of the day overall. These ratings do not include regional or time-shifted viewers.

Some fans in America have been enjoying the Doctor Who series finale early due to a mistake in the American distribution of the Series 7 Blu-rays and DVDs.

The Name of the Doctor, which concludes the current series of the show, is due for transmission next weekend in the UK, North America and Australia. The episode is included in the Series Seven - Part Two Blu-ray and DVD sets, which were due to be released on 28 May.

However a distribution error has meant some copies of the discs have already been sent out in North America giving some fans a sneak preview of the final episode.

Doctor Who's brand manager, Edward Russell, has appealed to fans who have seen the episode to keep the show's secrets until it is broadcast at the weekend. On twitter he said
Update Monday. The BBC have now added on Twitter: "Steven Moffat has promised if fans help keep the finale’s secrets, we’ll release a special video featuring Matt and David right after the ep!". This was also detailed via their Facebook page:

Update Tuesday. An email has been sent to recipients of the boxed set, as follows:

Nightmare in Silver achieved an overnight audience average of 4.7 million viewers (with a peak of 5.6m), a share of 21.4% of the total TV audience during its broadcast.

Britain's Got Talent remains the nation's favourite programme to watch on Saturday evenings with an average of 10.9 million (47% share. 12.3m peak). The late afternoon FA Cup Final on ITV1 (the match finish overlapping Doctor Who) saw a peak viewing of 9.4 million (42% share), though its overall average was 4.96 million viewers (31.3% share). Meanwhile, The Voice remained BBC One's top show of the evening with 7.4 million viewers.

Final ratings will be released next week, which normally sees a substantial increase in Doctor Who's audience once those who timeshift the programme are factored in.

The BBC have now released She Said, He Said, the mini episode to set the scene for next week's The Name of the Doctor, which is available to watch on television in the UK via the Red Button service.

The times scheduled are as follow:

Saturday	7:40pm-midnight
Sunday	6:15pm-8:00pm
Monday	5:10pm-5:45pm
Tuesday	6:30pm-Midnight
Wednesday	Midnight-6:00am
Thursday	4:00am-5:10pm
Thursday	7:15pm-7:55pm
Thursday	9:30pm-10:25pm
Friday	4:00am-12:00pm

The service is available on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media, and is available online via the BBC iPlayer and YouTube.

The trailer for The Name of the Doctor is also available to watch via the BBC iPlayer and YouTube.