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Last updated 18 June 2023

Listing entries including Friday 31st December 2021


EpisodeBroadcast  Viewers Share Pos
The Woman Who Fell to Earth Tue 21 Dec 2021 4:30am  EST    
The End of Time Fri 24 Dec 2021 6:15am  EST    
Last Christmas Fri 24 Dec 2021 9:15am  EST    
The Return Of Doctor Mysterio Fri 24 Dec 2021 10:40am  EST    
Twice Upon A Time Fri 24 Dec 2021 12:05pm  EST    
The Beast Below Sat 25 Dec 2021 5:00am  EST    
Last Christmas Sat 25 Dec 2021 6:00am  EST    
The Husbands of River Song Sat 25 Dec 2021 7:25am  EST    
A Christmas Carol Sat 25 Dec 2021 8:45am  EST    
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe Sat 25 Dec 2021 10:10am  EST    
The Time of the Doctor Sat 25 Dec 2021 11:35am  EST    
A Christmas Carol Sun 26 Dec 2021 1:30am  EST    
The Day of The Doctor Sun 26 Dec 2021 2:50am  EST    
The Time of the Doctor Sun 26 Dec 2021 4:30am  EST    
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe Sun 26 Dec 2021 6:00am  EST    
Voyage of the Damned Sun 26 Dec 2021 7:25am  EST    
The Christmas Invasion Sun 26 Dec 2021 8:58am  EST    
The Girl in the Fireplace Mon 27 Dec 2021 6:00am  EST    
Rise of the Cybermen Mon 27 Dec 2021 7:05am  EST    
The Age of Steel Mon 27 Dec 2021 8:10am  EST    
The Impossible Planet Mon 27 Dec 2021 9:15am  EST    
The Satan Pit Mon 27 Dec 2021 10:20am  EST    
Doomsday Mon 27 Dec 2021 11:25am  EST    
Smith and Jones Mon 27 Dec 2021 12:30pm  EST    
The Shakespeare Code Mon 27 Dec 2021 1:35pm  EST    
Gridlock Mon 27 Dec 2021 2:40pm  EST    
Human Nature Mon 27 Dec 2021 3:45pm  EST    
The Family of Blood Mon 27 Dec 2021 4:50pm  EST    
Blink Mon 27 Dec 2021 5:50pm  EST    
Silence in the Library Mon 27 Dec 2021 6:52pm  EST    
Forest of the Dead Mon 27 Dec 2021 7:55pm  EST    
Midnight Mon 27 Dec 2021 8:57pm  EST    
The Stolen Earth Mon 27 Dec 2021 10:00pm  EST    
Journey's End Mon 27 Dec 2021 11:05pm  EST    
Voyage of the Damned Tue 28 Dec 2021 12:10am  EST    
42 Tue 28 Dec 2021 1:42am  EST    
Utopia Tue 28 Dec 2021 2:45am  EST    
The Sound of Drums Tue 28 Dec 2021 3:50am  EST    
Last of the Time Lords Tue 28 Dec 2021 4:55am  EST    
The Eleventh Hour Tue 28 Dec 2021 6:00am  EST    
The Beast Below Tue 28 Dec 2021 7:03am  EST    
Victory of the Daleks Tue 28 Dec 2021 8:03am  EST    
The Time of Angels Tue 28 Dec 2021 9:03am  EST    
Flesh and Stone Tue 28 Dec 2021 10:03am  EST    
The Vampires of Venice Tue 28 Dec 2021 11:03am  EST    
Amy's Choice Tue 28 Dec 2021 12:06pm  EST    
The Hungry Earth Tue 28 Dec 2021 1:10pm  EST    
Cold Blood Tue 28 Dec 2021 2:11pm  EST    
Vincent and the Doctor Tue 28 Dec 2021 3:13pm  EST    
The Lodger Tue 28 Dec 2021 4:16pm  EST    
The Pandorica Opens Tue 28 Dec 2021 5:16pm  EST    
The Big Bang Tue 28 Dec 2021 6:18pm  EST    
The Impossible Astronaut Tue 28 Dec 2021 7:20pm  EST    
Day of the Moon Tue 28 Dec 2021 8:22pm  EST    
The Curse of the Black Spot Tue 28 Dec 2021 9:27pm  EST    
The Doctor's Wife Tue 28 Dec 2021 10:32pm  EST    
The Rebel Flesh Tue 28 Dec 2021 11:37pm  EST    
The Almost People Wed 29 Dec 2021 12:40am  EST    
A Good Man Goes to War Wed 29 Dec 2021 1:45am  EST    
Let's Kill Hitler Wed 29 Dec 2021 2:50am  EST    
Night Terrors Wed 29 Dec 2021 3:55am  EST    
The Girl Who Waited Wed 29 Dec 2021 4:57am  EST    
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe Wed 29 Dec 2021 6:00am  EST    
The Day of The Doctor Wed 29 Dec 2021 7:25am  EST    
Night Terrors Wed 29 Dec 2021 9:10am  EST    
The Girl Who Waited Wed 29 Dec 2021 10:12am  EST    
The God Complex Wed 29 Dec 2021 11:15am  EST    
Closing Time Wed 29 Dec 2021 12:20pm  EST    
The Wedding of River Song Wed 29 Dec 2021 1:25pm  EST    
The Bells of Saint John Wed 29 Dec 2021 2:30pm  EST    
The Rings of Akhaten Wed 29 Dec 2021 3:35pm  EST    
Cold War Wed 29 Dec 2021 4:40pm  EST    
Hide Wed 29 Dec 2021 5:40pm  EST    
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS Wed 29 Dec 2021 6:45pm  EST    
The Crimson Horror Wed 29 Dec 2021 7:47pm  EST    
Nightmare in Silver Wed 29 Dec 2021 8:52pm  EST    
The Name of the Doctor Wed 29 Dec 2021 9:57pm  EST    
Deep Breath Wed 29 Dec 2021 11:00pm  EST    
Listen Thu 30 Dec 2021 12:44am  EST    
Time Heist Thu 30 Dec 2021 1:45am  EST    
The Caretaker Thu 30 Dec 2021 2:47am  EST    
The Magician's Apprentice Thu 30 Dec 2021 3:49am  EST    
The Witch's Familiar Thu 30 Dec 2021 4:55am  EST    
Under the Lake Thu 30 Dec 2021 6:00am  EST    
Before The Flood Thu 30 Dec 2021 7:00am  EST    
The Girl Who Died Thu 30 Dec 2021 8:00am  EST    
The Woman Who Lived Thu 30 Dec 2021 9:05am  EST    
The Zygon Invasion Thu 30 Dec 2021 10:10am  EST    
The Zygon Inversion Thu 30 Dec 2021 11:15am  EST    
Sleep No More Thu 30 Dec 2021 12:17pm  EST    
Face The Raven Thu 30 Dec 2021 1:20pm  EST    
Heaven Sent Thu 30 Dec 2021 2:25pm  EST    
Hell Bent Thu 30 Dec 2021 3:40pm  EST    
The Pilot Thu 30 Dec 2021 5:05pm  EST    
Smile Thu 30 Dec 2021 6:15pm  EST    
Thin Ice Thu 30 Dec 2021 7:20pm  EST    
Knock Knock Thu 30 Dec 2021 8:20pm  EST    
Oxygen Thu 30 Dec 2021 9:20pm  EST    
Extremis Thu 30 Dec 2021 10:20pm  EST    
The Pyramid At The End Of The World Thu 30 Dec 2021 11:20pm  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