Full ratings data for the week ending 7th April 2013 is now available and puts Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten as the sixteenth most watched programme in the UK for the week.

The episode achieved 7.45 million viewers had 34.8% share of the available Television audience.

On BBC One, Doctor Who was the sixth most watched programme of the week, behind EastEnders and Jonathan Creek.

On ITV five episodes of Coronation Street took the top five places with Broadchurch and Ant and Dec's Saturday Takeaway getting into the top ten.

The title for the concluding episode of Series 7 has been revealed this morning with the release of accompanying movie posters in both landscape and portrait formats.

Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Saul Metzstein, the story is called The Name of the Doctor, with the posters also carrying the teaser line "His Secret Revealed" and confirming that Alex Kingston will be guest-starring in the story.

The episode is scheduled to air on BBC One on Saturday 18th May at a time yet to be confirmed.


Posters for the preceding three episodes were revealed yesterday.

The BBC have now released the "movie" posters for the forthcoming stories Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror and Nightmare in Silver:


At the time of writing the series finale is currently being kept well under wraps (but was to be revealed the following day!).

Based on these final figures, Akhaten was the second highest rating drama of the day (after Downton Abbey), the top-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 727,000 viewers). These ratings do not include regional viewers.

This weekend's adventure for the Doctor and Clara will be Hide, written by Neil Cross and directed by Jamie Payne. The episode will premiere on BBC One in the United Kingdom on Saturday at the later time of 6:45pm.


This week sees a change of schedule on BBC One, with The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins! swapping places with The Voice to follow Doctor Who at 7:30pm. The later scheduling of Hide straddles the end of You've Been Framed and the start of the second audition show of Britain's Got Talent at 7:00pm on ITV. BBC Two has the tail end of Flog It! followed by World Championship Snooker at 7:00pm, Channel 4 finishes off Come Dine With Me followed by the News at 7:00pm and Grand Designs at 7:20pm. Channel 5, meanwhile, continues its Saturday evening film offering with Cahill, United States Marshall.



Internationally, Hide will be broadcast in the United States and Canada on BBC America and SPACE respectively at 8:00pm ET on the 20th April, and then on the 21st it can be seen 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 Rings of Akhaten this Thursday on PRIME at 7:30pm.

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

Final ratings data for the week ending 7th April 2013 released by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board, or BARB, gives Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten a final rating of 7.45 million viewers.

The final rating includes all those who record the programme and watch it within a week. It does not include the BBC Three repeat, where around 300,000 watched. Nor does it include those watching on iPlayer where over 1.7 million people have accessed the episode so far.

Doctor Who was the sixth highest rated show on BBC One for the week, where the top rated programme was Jonathan Creek with 8.75 million watching.

A full ratings chart will be available later in the week.

Full Ratings Data

Cold War 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.

The score is identical to last week's Doctor Who and scored higher than most of Saturday's output. The highest scoring programmes of the day were Casulty with 88, Walking Through History with 85 and Dad's Army with 89.

Cold War has debuted in Australia, averaging 728,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It was the ABC's top-rating drama of the day and the tenth highest rating program of the day overall. These ratings do not include regional or time-shifted viewers.

Cold War had an overnight audience of 5.7 million viewers, a share of 26.7% of the total TV audience.

Doctor Who was again third for the day. where top honours were taken by the return of ITV's talent show, Britain's Got Talent, which had 10.5 million watching and a massive 41.5% share of the audience.

The BBC's talent show, The Voice, had 6.7 million watching.

Doctor Who once more won the time-slot with You've Been Framed! And Famous 4 getting 4.0 million watching.

Final ratings will be released next week, which should see Doctor Who substantially increase its rating once those who timeshift the programme are factored in.

Full ratings data for the week ending 31st March 2013 is now available and puts Doctor Who: The Bells of Saint John as the eighth most watched programme in the UK for the week.

The episode achieved 8.44 million viewers had 35.8% share of the available Television audience.

The only thing to beat Doctor Who on BBC One was one episode of EastEnders. On ITV it was beaten by five episodes of Coronation Street and an episode of the detective series staring David Tennant, Broadchurch.

On Saturday 30th March, Doctor Who was the highest rated programme getting 120,000 more viewers than Ant and Dec's Saturday Takeaway, even though the ITV programme had a later start time.

On iPlayer The Bells of Saint John has so far been accessed over 1.4 million times.