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Last updated 02 January 2017
Asylum of the Daleks
Broadcast: Saturday 8th September 2012
7:30pm-8:20pm AEST (09:30 GMT) < > « » Premiere < > « »
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Featuring: Matt Smith, Arthur Darvill, Karen Gillan, Jenna-Louise Coleman

Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission - to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter, the Asylum. A planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane. CAST: Matt Smith
Synopsis Source: ABC
Broadcast Source: ABC

Ratings Information:


Initial figures: 0.549m viewers (overnight), 8th place day

The figures above only include viewers in the metropolitan areas of Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. These are referred to as the "5 City Metro" ratings.

Asylum of the Daleks has debuted in Australia to good ratings. The series debut averaged 549,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. Up against the football finals, it was the top-rating drama of the day and the eighth highest rating programme of the day overall. These figures follow the episode setting a daily viewer record for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation iView internet TV service, recording 75,900 plays on its first day. All episodes of series 7 will debut on iView immediately after their broadcast in the UK.

Fans have noted that when the weekly episode is on made available to viewers on Sundays via ABC iView, it is at approximately 5am or 6am local time - making it very close to the transmission time in the UK!