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Last updated 18 June 2023

Listing entries including Saturday 27th December 2014


EpisodeBroadcast  Viewers Share Pos
The Age of Steel Wed 24 Dec 2014 12:00pm  EST    
The Christmas Invasion Wed 24 Dec 2014 1:00pm  EST    
The Runaway Bride Wed 24 Dec 2014 2:00pm  EST    
Voyage of the Damned Wed 24 Dec 2014 3:00pm  EST    
The Next Doctor Wed 24 Dec 2014 4:40pm  EST    
A Christmas Carol Wed 24 Dec 2014 6:00pm  EST    
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe Wed 24 Dec 2014 7:20pm  EST    
The Snowmen Wed 24 Dec 2014 8:40pm  EST    
The Day of The Doctor Wed 24 Dec 2014 10:00pm  EST    
A Christmas Carol Wed 24 Dec 2014 11:40pm  EST    
The Next Doctor Thu 25 Dec 2014 1:00am  EST    
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe Thu 25 Dec 2014 2:20am  EST    
The Snowmen Thu 25 Dec 2014 3:40am  EST    
The Christmas Invasion Thu 25 Dec 2014 5:00am  EST    
Doctor Who: Earth Conquest: The World Tour (Factual) Thu 25 Dec 2014 8:00am  ESTCANCELLED
Deep Breath Thu 25 Dec 2014 8:00am  EST    
Into the Dalek Thu 25 Dec 2014 9:45am  EST    
Robot Of Sherwood Thu 25 Dec 2014 10:45am  EST    
Listen Thu 25 Dec 2014 11:45am  EST    
Time Heist Thu 25 Dec 2014 12:45pm  EST    
The Caretaker Thu 25 Dec 2014 1:45pm  EST    
Kill The Moon Thu 25 Dec 2014 2:45pm  EST    
Mummy On The Orient Express Thu 25 Dec 2014 3:45pm  EST    
Flatline Thu 25 Dec 2014 4:45pm  EST    
In The Forest Of The Night Thu 25 Dec 2014 5:45pm  EST    
Dark Water Thu 25 Dec 2014 6:45pm  EST    
Death in Heaven Thu 25 Dec 2014 7:45pm  EST    
Last Christmas Thu 25 Dec 2014 9:00pm  EST  2.30m  Premiere
The Time of the Doctor Thu 25 Dec 2014 10:25pm  EST    
Last Christmas Thu 25 Dec 2014 11:45pm  EST    
The Time of the Doctor Fri 26 Dec 2014 1:10am  EST    
Last Christmas Fri 26 Dec 2014 2:30am  EST    
The Impossible Planet Fri 26 Dec 2014 4:00am  EST    
The Satan Pit Fri 26 Dec 2014 5:00am  EST    
Fear Her Fri 26 Dec 2014 8:00am  EST    
Army of Ghosts Fri 26 Dec 2014 9:00am  EST    
Doomsday Fri 26 Dec 2014 10:00am  EST    
Smith and Jones Fri 26 Dec 2014 11:00am  EST    
The Shakespeare Code Fri 26 Dec 2014 12:00pm  EST    
Gridlock Fri 26 Dec 2014 1:00pm  EST    
Daleks in Manhattan Fri 26 Dec 2014 2:00pm  EST    
Evolution of the Daleks Fri 26 Dec 2014 3:00pm  EST    
The Lazarus Experiment Fri 26 Dec 2014 4:00pm  EST    
42 Fri 26 Dec 2014 5:00pm  EST    
Human Nature Fri 26 Dec 2014 6:00pm  EST    
The Family of Blood Fri 26 Dec 2014 7:00pm  EST    
Blink Fri 26 Dec 2014 8:00pm  EST    
Silence in the Library Fri 26 Dec 2014 9:00pm  EST    
Forest of the Dead Fri 26 Dec 2014 10:00pm  EST    
Midnight Fri 26 Dec 2014 11:00pm  EST    
Turn Left Sat 27 Dec 2014 12:00am  EST    
The Stolen Earth Sat 27 Dec 2014 1:00am  EST    
Journey's End Sat 27 Dec 2014 2:00am  EST    
The Next Doctor Sat 27 Dec 2014 3:00am  EST    
Planet of the Dead Sat 27 Dec 2014 4:00am  EST    
The Waters of Mars Sat 27 Dec 2014 5:00am  EST    
The Eleventh Hour Sat 27 Dec 2014 6:00am  EST    
The Beast Below Sat 27 Dec 2014 7:00am  EST    
Victory of the Daleks Sat 27 Dec 2014 8:00am  EST    
The Time of Angels Sat 27 Dec 2014 9:00am  EST    
Flesh and Stone Sat 27 Dec 2014 10:00am  EST    
The Vampires of Venice Sat 27 Dec 2014 11:00am  EST    
Amy's Choice Sat 27 Dec 2014 12:00pm  EST    
The Hungry Earth Sat 27 Dec 2014 1:00pm  EST    
Cold Blood Sat 27 Dec 2014 2:00pm  EST    
Vincent and the Doctor Sat 27 Dec 2014 3:00pm  EST    
The Lodger Sat 27 Dec 2014 4:00pm  EST    
The Pandorica Opens Sat 27 Dec 2014 5:00pm  EST    
The Big Bang Sat 27 Dec 2014 6:00pm  EST    
The Impossible Astronaut Sat 27 Dec 2014 7:00pm  EST    
Day of the Moon Sat 27 Dec 2014 8:00pm  EST    
The Doctor's Wife Sat 27 Dec 2014 9:00pm  EST    
The Rebel Flesh Sat 27 Dec 2014 11:00pm  EST    
The Almost People Sun 28 Dec 2014 12:00am  EST    
The God Complex Sun 28 Dec 2014 2:00am  EST    
Closing Time Sun 28 Dec 2014 3:00am  EST    
The Wedding of River Song Sun 28 Dec 2014 4:00am  EST    
Doctor Who: Earth Conquest: The World Tour (Factual) Sun 28 Dec 2014 5:00am  EST    
Into the Dalek Sun 28 Dec 2014 6:00am  EST    
Robot Of Sherwood Sun 28 Dec 2014 7:00am  EST    
Listen Sun 28 Dec 2014 8:00am  EST    
Time Heist Sun 28 Dec 2014 9:00am  EST    
The Caretaker Sun 28 Dec 2014 10:00am  EST    
Kill The Moon Sun 28 Dec 2014 11:00am  EST    
Mummy On The Orient Express Sun 28 Dec 2014 12:00pm  EST    
Flatline Sun 28 Dec 2014 1:00pm  EST    
In The Forest Of The Night Sun 28 Dec 2014 2:00pm  EST    
The Christmas Invasion Sun 28 Dec 2014 3:00pm  EST    
The Girl in the Fireplace Sun 28 Dec 2014 4:00pm  EST    
Doomsday Sun 28 Dec 2014 5:00pm  EST    
Journey's End Sun 28 Dec 2014 6:00pm  EST    
A Good Man Goes to War Sun 28 Dec 2014 7:00pm  EST    
Let's Kill Hitler Sun 28 Dec 2014 8:00pm  EST    
The Girl Who Waited Sun 28 Dec 2014 9:00pm  EST    
The Angels Take Manhattan Sun 28 Dec 2014 10:00pm  EST    
The Name of the Doctor Sun 28 Dec 2014 11:00pm  EST    
Listen Mon 29 Dec 2014 12:00am  EST    
Time Heist Mon 29 Dec 2014 1:00am  EST    
The Caretaker Mon 29 Dec 2014 2:00am  EST    
Kill The Moon Mon 29 Dec 2014 3:00am  EST    

Notes


A breakdown of the different types of rating figures found for US Television. We show the total viewer figure and the mosrt commonly used Nielsen A18-49 chart position.

 

Rating: Ratings are essentially percentages, measuring the portion of a given group — be it households, adults 18-49 or women 25-54 — watching a given show. Adults 18-49 is the primary demographic by which ad rates are set for entertainment programming, so it's the most commonly reported (one point in that demo equals 1.28 million people). So a 2.0 rating for The Masked Singer means that 2 percent of people in that age range, roughly 2.56 million people, watched the show.

Share: The percentage of a given group who are watching TV at that time and are tuned into a given program. Wednesday's Masked Singer had a 10 share in adults 18-49 (10 percent of adults under 50, who had their TVs on at that hour, watched it). It's typically written as "rating/share," so 2.0/10 for The Masked Singer.

Total viewers: Pretty self-explanatory — the average number of people watching a program in any given minute while it airs.

Overnight metered market ratings: These are the first ratings released each morning — or they were, anyway, until Oct. 3. Nielsen is planning to include out-of-home viewing in these numbers from now on (the first day of the new system didn't go well), which means they'll be released around midday now. Metered market ratings only take measurements from 44 markets (56 previously) for households and 25 markets for adults 18-49, so they're best considered as a first draft on how programming performed rather than definitive. They had been useful for gauging live events since they measure programs instead of just time periods.

Live-plus-same-day: The ratings that get reported each day, first as "fast nationals" in the morning and then as final numbers in the afternoon. They include both live viewing from the previous night and delayed viewing until 3 a.m. local time. Fast nationals are generally pretty accurate for entertainment programs, with occasional small adjustments in the finals.

Live-plus-3: Same-day ratings with three additional days of DVR and on-demand viewing added in. The majority of delayed viewing that Nielsen measures happens in this timeframe, with most shows growing their audiences by a good amount.

Live-plus-7: The same as live-plus-3, extended to a full week. In the 2018-19 season, two dozen series at least doubled their 18-49 ratings after seven days.

C3 and C7 ratings: Arguably the most important ratings numbers that the public doesn't usually see. These ratings track the number of viewers who actually watch commercials — which is why Nielsen ratings exist in the first place — over three or seven days. They play a big role in setting rates for advertisers buying commercial time. The occasional glimpses at C3 and C7 ratings in recent years have suggested they're higher than same-day numbers but a good distance short of live-plus-3 and live-plus-7 numbers.

Live-plus-35: An even longer-tail measurement that takes into account viewing that happens up to five weeks after a show airs. It's not a huge piece of the viewing pie, but it's not tiny, either.

Multiplatform ratings: Things can get a bit fuzzy here, as multiplatform ratings can include streaming and digital viewing via a network's app or third-party service like Hulu, plus on-air replays. The digital audience is growing — some shows get more viewers there than from their on-air showings — but no company in the business willingly offers up definitive streaming or digital viewership. It's only included as part of a whole. (It is possible to subtract, say live-plus-7 ratings from a multiplatform total to get a rough estimate of how many people watch something via nontraditional platforms).

Furthermore, each network has its own way of calculating cross-platform viewing, and timeframes can get murky. HBO touted a massive audience of 44 million viewers for the final season of Game of Thrones, but that included up six weeks of streaming and replays of the season premiere, five weeks of episode two and so on.

Streaming ratings: Are not really a thing. Nielsen does measure the audience for streaming shows, but Netflix and other platforms have disputed the ratings service's numbers as they don't take into account viewing on other devices.

Netflix has reported some viewership figures in recent quarterly earnings reports, but they're not really analogous to Nielsen ratings. Netflix considers a piece of content as having been "viewed" when a member account watches at least 70 percent of one episode of a series or 70 percent of a feature film. It also counts subscribers around the world rather than just the domestic viewers that Nielsen measures. The numbers can be useful in comparing one Netflix show to another, but the service has thus far only publicly released highlights, not a full tally.

For live events that include a streaming option, networks or other providers will often cite an "average minute audience" for a live stream. That's the closest thing to Nielsen's average total viewers statistic.

Social ratings: Nielsen measures social engagement around TV shows, counting the number of posts about a given episode and the reach of the conversation. As with all ratings, higher is better, but heavy social conversation and high on-air ratings don't necessarily go hand in hand.

Third-party measurements: A number of companies measure things like out-of-home viewing or binge viewing, but they can rely on users to opt in to sharing data, which can lead to a less representative sample.

LinkCredit: Hollywood Reporter