Full ratings data for the week ending 28th April 2013 is now available and gives Doctor Who: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS an official rating of 6.5 million viewers, a share of 30.2% of the total television audience.

Once ITV HD and +1 figures are factored in, Doctor Who just slipped out of the top twenty as the 21st most watched programme on British Television for the week.

On BBC One, Doctor Who was the seventh 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.

On ITV the drama starring David Tennant, Broadchurch, had 10.46 million watching once HD and +1 figures are included, and was the second most watched programme of the week.

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

The last episode of the current series is to have a prequel, it was announced this afternoon.

Entitled She Said, He Said, it has been written by showrunner Steven Moffat and will feature Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara and Matt Smith as the Doctor.

According to the show's official website, it will be one of the longest prequels the show has had and will look at "how little Clara knows about the Doctor . . . and vice versa."

The minisode will be made available from the official website and via the BBC's Red Button service straight after Nightmare in Silver ends in the UK this coming Saturday at 7.45pm. Series finale The Name of the Doctor airs in the UK on Saturday 18th May, with the time still to be confirmed.

Based on these final figures, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS was the highest rating ABC program of the day and the ninth highest rating program of the day overall (it was also the ninth highest rating program based on its overnight figures of 725,000 viewers). These ratings do not include regional viewers.

France4 are to premiere Series 7 Part 1 over two days from the end of the month.

The 25th May sees the channel kick off with L’Asile des Daleks at 8:45pm, followed by Des dinosaures dans l’espace and La ville de la miséricorde. Then, the 1st June sees the broadcast of L’invasion des cubes, again at 8:45pm, followed by Les anges prennent Manhattan and last year's Christmas Special, La dame de glace.

In addition, the channel will be presenting the mini-story Pond Life on their Studio 4.0 website over the course of 20th-24th May.

This weekend's adventure for the Doctor and Clara will be Nightmare in Silver, written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Stephen Woolfenden. The episode will premiere on BBC One in the United Kingdom on Saturday at the later time of 7:00pm.


This weekend sees the FA Cup Final taking place on ITV, which kicks off at 5:15pm - in principle the game should be over as Doctor Who starts, though extra time could eat into the schedule. BBC2 will be showing Dad's Army from 7:05pm and then The Culture Show from 7:35pm, Channel 4 finishes up a marathon run of Come Dine With Me followed by the News from 7:15pm, and Channel 5's film Jesse Stone: Night Passage finishes at 7:10pm, followed by NCIS.


Internationally, Nightmare in Silver 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 Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS this Thursday on PRIME at 8:30pm.

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

The Crimson Horror had an Appreciation Index, or AI score, of 85.

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.

The Crimson Horror achieved an overnight audience of 4.61 million viewers, a share of 25.2% of the total TV audience.

The top spots of the day remain consistent, with Doctor Who beaten by the usual suspects for the evening. The highest-rated show continues to be Britain's Got Talent on ITV, with 9.52m (10.13m with +1) watching, capturing a 45.0%(47.8%) share of the audience. The BBC's talent show, The Voice, was watched by 7.99 million (35.3% share). Casualty swapped places with Doctor Who this week to become third, with 4.96m watching (23.9% share).

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.

Full ratings data for the week ending 21st April 2013 is now available and gives Doctor Who: Hide an official rating of 6.61 million viewers, a share of 29.2% of the total television audience.

Although the final audience was lower than previous weeks, the episode remained in the top twenty programmes for the week at number nineteen.

On BBC One, Doctor Who was the sixth most watched programme of the week, behind some episodes of EastEnders as well as The Voice and Countryfile.

On ITV the drama starring David Tennant, Broadchurch, had 9.56 million watching once HD and +1 figures are included.

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

Full figures for the previous week are still not available, but Doctor Who: Cold War had a final audience of 7.37 million viewers.

Based on these final figures, Hide was the second highest rating ABC program of the day and the ninth highest rating program of the day overall (this compares to it being the tenth highest rating program based on its overnight figures of 648,000 viewers). These ratings do not include regional viewers.