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Last updated 02 January 2017
Broadcast: Saturday 30th August 2014
7:30pm-8:15pm BST (18:30 GMT) < > « » Premiere < > « »
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Featuring: Peter Capaldi, Samuel Anderson, Jenna Coleman

As the Time Lord's greatest enemies close in on a lone rebel ship, his conscience is troubled by a decision that could change the Daleks forever.


Synopsis Source: Radio Times
Broadcast Source: BBC

Ratings Information:


Initial figures: 5.200m viewers (overnight), 24.7% audience share, 2nd place day, 22nd place week
Consolidated figures: 7.286m viewers (+7 days), 30.4% audience share, 9th place - BARB Week Top 30 Chart, AI 84
Additional figures: 7.672m viewers (+28 days)
Online player figures: 0.84m requests as of 30th September 2014

Overnights: Doctor Who was the second highest rated programme of the night, which was won by the return of the talent show The X Factor on ITV, which had 9.3 million watching. Against the Doctor, The Chase: Celebrity Special had an audience of 4.2 million.

BARB Reports

BARB Live: 3.762m; Timeshift+7: 3.523m (7.286m total); Timeshift+28: 3.910m (7.672m total)
[first week breakdown: 5.195m(Sat), 6.474m(Sun), 6.806m(Mon), 7.000m(Tue), 7.106m(Wed), 7.179m(Thu)]

BARB Consolidated Figures w/e 31 Aug:

10.08m   The X Factor                  ITV   30 Aug  8:00pm [8:05pm]
10.25m   The Great British Bake Off    BBC1  27 Aug  8:00pm
 8.84m   The X Factor                  ITV   31 Aug  8:00pm [7:58pm]
 8.07m   Coronation Street             ITV   25 Aug  7:30pm [7:32pm]
 7.96m   Coronation Steeet             ITV   29 Aug  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 7.94m   Coronation Street             ITV   25 Aug  8:30pm
 7.75m   Coronation Street             ITV   27 Aug  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 7.53m   Coronation Street             ITV   29 Aug  8:30pm
 7.29m   Doctor Who                    BBC1  30 Aug  7:30pm [7:29pm]
 6.82m   Eastenders                    BBC1  25 Aug  8:00pm

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

10.64m   The X Factor                  ITV   30 Aug  8:00pm [8:05pm]
10.25m   The Great British Bake Off    BBC1  27 Aug  8:00pm
 9.53m   The X Factor                  ITV   31 Aug  8:00pm [7:58pm]
 8.07m   Coronation Street             ITV   25 Aug  7:30pm [7:32pm]
 8.02m   Coronation Street             ITV   27 Aug  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 7.96m   Coronation Steeet             ITV   29 Aug  7:30pm [7:31pm]
 7.94m   Coronation Street             ITV   25 Aug  8:30pm
 7.78m   Coronation Street             ITV   29 Aug  8:30pm
 7.29m   Doctor Who                    BBC1  30 Aug  7:30pm [7:29pm]
 6.82m   Eastenders                    BBC1  25 Aug  8:00pm
BBC Reports

BBC Live+Same Day: 5.16m; Repeat: 0.40m; Time-Shift: 2.21m; iPlayer: 0.50m; Live+7 Total: 8.26m
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 845,000 times to the end of the month, making it the seventeenth most requested programme in September (the figure does not include requests via Virgin Media or Sky). Note: this figure does not include the request made for the last two days of August, which do not feature in that month's report (less than 801,000); based on other episodes in this series it is expected to have been between 1.2-1.4m.


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30 Aug 2014Saturday Choices: Doctor Who, 7:30pm BBC1, by Patrick Mulkern

 

Credit: Ray Burmistan, BBC Worldwide 2014DRAMA OF THE WEEK Tonight, the Doctor must enter the most dangerous place in the universe - along with a band of soldiers he is miniaturised and put inside a sickly Dalek. It isn't the first time Doctor Who has plundered the Raquel Welch movie Fantastic Voyage (Tom Baker's Doctor went inside his own head in 1977), but this is a journey into the heart of darkness, where the Time Lord hopes to heal old wounds but ends up facing unpleasant truths about himself.

There are plenty of stunning visual effects for the young ones, and a spark of romance. Back on Earth, Clara takes a shine to a newcomer at her school, Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson). But this is oh so welcome, distilled to match Peter Capaldi's Scotch-on-the-rocks Doctor - chilly, stinging on the palate but warming on the way down.

LinkCredit: Radio Times, p53