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See broadcasts for BBC OneKill The Moon

Last updated 02 January 2017
Broadcast: Saturday 4th October 2014
8:30pm-9:15pm BST (19:30 GMT) < > « » Premiere < > « »
(actually broadcast at 20:29:10)
BBC One
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Featuring: Peter Capaldi, Samuel Anderson, Jenna Coleman, Hermione Norris, Tony Osoba

7/12 After the duo find a mining base full of corpses on the Moon and spider-like creatures poised to attack, the Time Lord gives Clara the shock of her life.


Synopsis Source: BBC Media Centre listing

Broadcast notes:

Intro: "Yes, for our Casualty team it's the worst case scenario in 45 minutes, and the situation isn't looking better now here on BBC1 as we head to the dark side of the moon."

Broadcast Source: BBC

Ratings Information:


Initial figures: 4.816m viewers (overnight), 21.5% audience share, 3rd place day, 26th place week
Consolidated figures: 6.914m viewers (+7 days), 26.6% audience share, 20th place - BARB Week Top 30 Chart, AI 82
Additional figures: 7.248m viewers (+28 days)
Online player figures: 1.36m requests as of 31st October 2014

Overnights: Doctor Who was the third most watched programme of the day, with Strictly Come Dancing once more taking the top slot with 8.84 million watching. ITV's top prpgramme was The X Factor with 7.18 million viewers. Casualty was just behind Doctor Who with 4.74 million watching. The Appreciation Index for the episode showed an average of 82; overall, it rated slightly higher with Women rather than Men and scored the highest within the 16-35 age group. 45% of the sample thought the programme felt 'Fresh and New'.

BARB Reports

BARB Live: 3.689m; Timeshift+7: 3.225m (6.914m total); Timeshift+28: 3.559m (7.248m total)
[first week Breakdown: 4.816m(Sat); 6.020m(Sun); 6.354m(Mon); 6.586m(Tue)]

BARB Consolidated ratings for w/e 5th October:

10.67m  The Great British Bake Off           BBC1  1  Oct  8:00pm [8:02pm]
 9.93m  Strictly Come Dancing                BBC1  4  Oct  6:25pm [6:23pm]
 9.66m  Downton Abbey                        ITV   5  Oct  9:00pm [9:02pm]
 9.58m  The X Factor (Series 11)             ITV   5  Oct  8:00pm [7:59pm]
 9.35m  Strictly Come Dancing: The Results   BBC1  5  Oct  7:20pm
 8.44m  Coronation Street                    ITV   29 Sep  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 8.16m  The X Factor (Series 11)             ITV   4  Oct  8:00pm [8:02pm]
 8.00m  Coronation Street                    ITV   29 Sep  8:30pm [8:29pm]
 7.97m  Coronation Street                    ITV   1  Oct  7:30pm [7:32pm]
 7.96m  Coronation Street                    ITV   3  Oct  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 7.82m  Coronation Street                    ITV   3  Oct  8:30pm [8:29pm]
 7.75m  Eastenders                           BBC1  29 Sep  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 7.69m  Eastenders                           BBC1  3  Oct  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 7.68m  Cilla                                ITV   29 Sep  9:00pm
 7.65m  Eastenders                           BBC1  30 Sep  7:30pm [7:25pm]
 7.47m  Eastenders                           BBC1  1  Oct  7:30pm [7:28pm]
 7.28m  The X Factor (Series 11)             ITV   3  Oct  9:00pm
 6.91m  Doctor Who                           BBC1  4  Oct  8:30pm [8:29pm]
 6.31m  Countryfile                          BBC1  5  Oct  6:20pm [6:19pm]
 6.24m  Emmerdale                            ITV   29 Sep  7:00pm [6:59pm]
 5.94m  Emmerdale                            ITV   1  Oct  7:00pm
 5.79m  Emmerdale                            ITV   30 Sep  7:00pm
 5.74m  Casualty                             BBC1  4  Oct  9:15pm [9:16pm]
 5.74m  Emmerdale                            ITV   2  Oct  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 5.74m  Who Do You Think You Are?            BBC1  2  Oct  9:00pm

With ITV+1 factored in Emmerdale preformed more strongly, bringing Doctor Who into 20th place in the chart:

10.67m  The Great British Bake Off           BBC1  1  Oct  8:00pm [8:02pm]
10.15m  Downton Abbey                        ITV   5  Oct  9:00pm [9:02pm]
 9.97m  The X Factor (Series 11)             ITV   5  Oct  8:00pm [7:59pm]
 9.93m  Strictly Come Dancing                BBC1  4  Oct  6:25pm [6:23pm]
 9.35m  Strictly Come Dancing: The Results   BBC1  5  Oct  7:20pm
 8.63m  The X Factor (Series 11)             ITV   4  Oct  8:00pm [8:02pm]
 8.54m  Coronation Street                    ITV   29 Sep  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 8.21m  Cilla                                ITV   29 Sep  9:00pm
 8.19m  Coronation Street                    ITV   3  Oct  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 8.14m  Coronation Street                    ITV   1  Oct  7:30pm [7:32pm]
 8.11m  Coronation Street                    ITV   29 Sep  8:30pm [8:29pm]
 8.05m  Coronation Street                    ITV   3  Oct  8:30pm [8:29pm]
 7.75m  Eastenders                           BBC1  29 Sep  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 7.69m  Eastenders                           BBC1  3  Oct  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 7.65m  Eastenders                           BBC1  30 Sep  7:30pm [7:25pm]
 7.65m  The X Factor (Series 11)             ITV   3  Oct  9:00pm
 7.47m  Eastenders                           BBC1  1  Oct  7:30pm [7:28pm]
 7.20m  Emmerdale                            ITV   29 Sep  7:00pm [6:59pm]
 6.97m  Emmerdale                            ITV   1  Oct  7:00pm
 6.91m  Doctor Who                           BBC1  4  Oct  8:30pm [8:29pm]
 6.82m  Emmerdale                            ITV   2  Oct  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 6.79m  Emmerdale                            ITV   30 Sep  7:00pm
 6.68m  Emmerdale                            ITV   3  Oct  7:00pm [6:59pm]
 6.52m  Emmerdale                            ITV   2  Oct  7:00pm [7:02pm]
 6.31m  Countryfile                          BBC1  5  Oct  6:20pm [6:19pm]
BBC Reports

BBC Live+Same Day: 4.82m; Repeat: 0.32m; Time-Shift: 1.99m; iPlayer: 0.70m; Live+7 Total: 7.83m
The Live+7 figure is calculated by the BBC to try to get an accurate estimate of the total unique audience for an episode of a programme. Unlike official BARB figures the Live+7 uses data to include those who watched one of the broadcast repeats of the episode and those who watched the episode on iPlayer all within 7 days of the original transmission.

The BBC's iPlayer performance figures reported that the episode was requested 1.364m times to the end of the month, making it the eighth most requested programme in October(the figure does not include requests via Virgin Media or Sky).


Notes


List:
Trailer
04 Oct 2014Saturday Choices, by Patrick Mulkern

Next Time Trailer
The Doctor and Clara face vicious spider-like creatures... and a terrible dilemma.

Teaser
The Doctor and Clara crash land on the Moon to find a world of horror awaiting them.

Credit: BBC Worldwide 
 

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) (Credit:  Adrian Rogers, BBC/BBC Worldwide )DRAMA In the year 2049, strange changes to the Moon are wreaking havoc upon the Earth's tides and weather systems. Weary astronaut Captain Lundvik (Hermione Norris) is on a suicide mission to sort things out with nuclear bombs. This is the perilous situation into which the Doctor plunges Clara and her disruptive pupil, Courtney - and that's before the giant spiders appear.

Arachnophobes everywhere will cringe in revulsion at the vicious and horribly convincing creatures pouncing from the shadows, while physicists may have a conniption at Kill The Moon's fantastical denouement. But hey, this is Doctor Who at its creepiest best and you can't fault the imagination and audacity of newbie writer Peter Harness, nor Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi for pushing the Doctor to the edge of darkness - and beyond.

LinkCredit: Radio Times, p55