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Broadcast: Saturday 20th September 2014
7:30pm-8:15pm BST (18:30 GMT) < > « » Premiere

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(actually broadcast at 19:33:00)
BBC One

Featuring: Peter Capaldi, Samuel Anderson, Jenna Coleman, Jonathan Bailey, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Keeley Hawes

A shapeshifter and a cyber-augmented gamer help the Time Lord try to break into a bank where a creature that can detect guilt is the ultimate security.

Synopsis Source: Radio Times

Broadcast notes:

Intro: "Now on BBC1, prepare to be sent on a guilt trip. It's got the Doctor in a spin..."

Broadcast Source: BBC

Ratings Information:

Initial figures: 4.937m viewers (overnight), 23.8% audience share, 2nd place day
Consolidated figures: 6.993m viewers (+7 days), 29.6% audience share, 14th place - BARB Week Top 30 Chart, AI 84
Additional figures: 7.378m viewers (+28 days)
Online player figures: 1.19m requests as of 30th September 2014

Overnights: Doctor Who was second for the day with ITV's The X Factor taking the lead with 8.4 million viewers. Doctor Who's direct opposition, The Chase: Celebrity Special, was third with 4.2 million watching. The Doctor Who lead in Pointless Celebrities had 3.9 million viewers, giving the programme a higher inheritance than last week. Overall Doctor Who is currently 20th for the week.

BARB Reports

BARB Live: 3.583m; Timeshift+7: 3.409m (6.993m total); Timeshift+28: 3.795m (7.378m total)
[first week breakdown: 4.937m(Sat); 5.997m(Sun); 6.444m(Mon); 6.565m(Tue); 6.635m(Wed); 6.683m(Thu)]

BARB Consolidated Figures w/e 21 Sep:

10.28m  Downton Abbey                      ITV  21 Sep  9:00pm [9:02pm]
10.28m  The Great British Bake Off         BBC1 17 Sep  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 9.70m  The X Factor (Series 11)           ITV  20 Sep  8:00pm [8:05pm]
 9.35m  The X Factor (Series 11)           ITV  21 Sep  8:00pm [7:59pm]
 8.20m  Coronation Street                  ITV  15 Sep  8:30pm
 7.99m  Coronation Street                  ITV  15 Sep  7:30pm [7:32pm]
 7.81m  Cilla                              ITV  15 Sep  9:00pm [9:01pm]
 7.68m  Coronation Street                  ITV  19 Sep  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 7.40m  Eastenders                         BBC1 16 Sep  7:30pm [7:29pm]
 7.34m  Coronation Street                  ITV  19 Sep  8:30pm [8:31pm]
 7.22m  Coronation Street                  ITV  17 Sep  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 7.07m  Eastenders                         BBC1 18 Sep  7:30pm
 7.03m  Eastenders                         BBC1 15 Sep  8:00pm
 6.99m  Doctor Who                         BBC1 20 Sep  7:30pm [7:33pm]
 6.77m  Eastenders                         BBC1 19 Sep  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 5.47m  New Tricks                         BBC1 15 Sep  9:00pm

Taking into account ITV+1 figures the chart alters slightly, but does not impact Doctor Who's position:

10.71m  Downton Abbey                      ITV  21 Sep  9:00pm [9:02pm]
10.28m  The Great British Bake Off         BBC1 17 Sep  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 9.95m  The X Factor (Series 11)           ITV  20 Sep  8:00pm [8:05pm]
 9.76m  The X Factor (Series 11)           ITV  21 Sep  8:00pm [7:59pm]
 8.57m  Cilla                              ITV  15 Sep  9:00pm [9:01pm]
 8.20m  Coronation Street                  ITV  15 Sep  8:30pm
 7.99m  Coronation Street                  ITV  15 Sep  7:30pm [7:32pm]
 7.68m  Coronation Street                  ITV  19 Sep  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 7.46m  Coronation Street                  ITV  17 Sep  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 7.40m  Eastenders                         BBC1 16 Sep  7:30pm [7:29pm]
 7.34m  Coronation Street                  ITV  19 Sep  8:30pm [8:31pm]
 7.07m  Eastenders                         BBC1 18 Sep  7:30pm
 7.03m  Eastenders                         BBC1 15 Sep  8:00pm
 6.99m  Doctor Who                         BBC1 20 Sep  7:30pm [7:33pm]
 6.77m  Eastenders                         BBC1 19 Sep  8:00pm [8:01pm]
 5.47m  New Tricks                         BBC1 15 Sep  9:00pm

BBC Reports

BBC Live+Same Day: 4.94m; Repeat: 0.28m; Time-Shift: 2.07m; iPlayer: 0.66m; Live+7 Total: 7.96m
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 1.194m times to the end of the month, making it the eighth most requested programme in September (the figure does not include requests via Virgin Media or Sky).

Notes

List:

	Trailer
20 Aug 2014	Pick Of The Day: Doctor Who 7:30pm BBC1, by Patrick Mulkern

Next Time Trailer
The Doctor and Clara must rob the bank of Karabraxos - the deadliest bank in the cosmos!

Official Trailer
The Doctor turns bank robber when he is given a task he can't refuse.

Credit: BBC Worldwide

Wednesday, 20th August 2014 - by Patrick Mulkern

DRAMA In July, I visited the warehouse of monster-makers Millennium FX (based in the very same road where I grew up in Chesham, Bucks) and spotted in a corner a tangle of latex-rubber limbs and a hideous head with eyes on stalks. Even in a dishevelled heap, this latest addition to the Whoniverse looked pretty impressive. One of the selling points of tonight's episode, the Teller is a creature who can detect guilt, drain your brain of memories and leave you with a concave bonce.

Keeley Hawes is the other main draw, playing Ms Delphox, head of security at the Bank of Karabraxos. She is reunited with her Line of Duty director Douglas Mackinnon but don't expect anything like the same heights of dramatic tension. Time Heist (co-written by Steve Thompson and Steven Moffat) sees the Doctor and Clara forced to raid "the most dangerous bank in the galaxy", but long before they breach the vault it's clear someone's forgotten the combination for what produces solid-gold Doctor Who.

Credit: Radio Times, p54