Ratings Information:

Overnights: The rating, representing 20.0% of the total viewing audience made Doctor Who the sixth most popular show on British Television yesterday. Doctor Who was beaten by its ITV opposition, Dancing on Ice, which had 4.52 million viewers.Top for the day was Call the Midwife, with 6.33 million viewers. Countryfile, the lead into Doctor Who, had 5.23 million. The drama The Trial of Christine Keeler had 3.46 million watching. The late News managed 4.38 million viewers, pushing The Doctor into sixth place.The episode was the 50th highest rated programme for the week on overnight figures.

Consolidated: The episode achieved 5.201m/5.071m(TV only); it was the 11th most watched programme on BBC Television.Unlike last week its lead-in Countryfile did slightly better, watched by 5.326m viewers overall, whilst the following programme Call The Midwife topped the chart for the week with 8.218m viewers. ITV's White House Farm took the second spot this week with 7.894m, followed by the BBC's Death in Paradise with 7.615m. As with last week, the other high-hitters were BBC's Mon/Tue Silent Witness (4th/7.598m and 6th/7.427m), and ITV's Vera with 7.198m viewers. ITV's Coronation Street and Emmerdale filled up the rest of the high chart spots.