Ratings Information:

Initial figures: 8.199m viewers (overnight), 40.1% audience share, 2nd place day, 3rd place week
Consolidated figures: 10.960m viewers (+7 days), 45.1% audience share, 1st place - BARB Week (Four Screen), AI 83
Additional figures: 11.456m viewers (+28 days) (1st place)
Online player figures: 2.96m requests as of 31st October 2018

Overnights: The audience grew throughout the episode, peaking at 8.52 million for the final fifteen minutes.The rating makes Doctor Who the third highest rating of the week, just behind two editions of Strictly Come Dancing.It is the highest overnight rating for the series for a regular episode for over ten years. The debut episode of the Twelfth Doctor, Deep Breath, had an overnight rating of 6.8 million viewers, while the debut episode of The Eleventh Doctor, The Eleventh Hour, had 7.7 million, with 0.3 million also watching on BBC HD, making a total of 8.0 million. The last regular episode to top this figure was Journey's End in 2008, with an overnight figure of 9.4 million.The highest rating for Sunday was for the results show of Strictly Come Dancing with an average of 9.04 million watching.ITV's highest-rated programme was The X Factor, with 4.69 million watching. Against Doctor Who, 5 Gold Rings had 2.71 million watching. [source: Doctor Who News]

7 Day Consolidated: Strictly Come Dancing took the next two places with a total of 10.88 million watching the Saturday edition and 9.90 million watching the Sunday results show. Channel 4 took 4th place with the ex BBC production The Great British Bake Off scoring 8.91 million.The highest ITV show was Monday's Coronation Street with 7.80 million watching.In its entire history Doctor Who has only topped the TV Rating chart for the week on four occasions, the last time was in 2013 for the 50th Anniversary special The Day of the Doctor.Doctor Who's audience was split 49% male/51% Female, the reversal from the 2017 figures which had a small majority male audience. [source: Doctor Who News]