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Robot Of Sherwood
7:30pm-8:15pm BST (18:30 GMT) < > « »
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BBC One
Featuring: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Ben Miller, Tom Riley
3/12 The Time Lord makes an alliance with Robin Hood when an evil plan threatens Nottingham, but he is left wondering who's real and who's fake.
Synopsis Source: Radio Times
Ratings Information:
Initial figures: 5.220m viewers (overnight), 25.4% audience share, 2nd place day
Consolidated figures: 7.277m viewers (+7 days), 31.1% audience share, 10th place - BARB Week Top 30 Chart, AI 82
Additional figures: 7.707m viewers (+28 days)
Online player figures: 1.38m requests as of 30th September 2014
Ovenights: the rating once more puts Doctor Who as the second rated programme of the day. ITV was top with The X Factor, which had 8.7 million watching, a drop of half a million from the previous week. The Chase: Celebrity Special was third with 4.4 million viewers. Casualty was the second highest programme on BBC One with 3.9 million watching.
BARB Live: 3.645m; Timeshift+7: 3.632m (7.277m total); Timeshift+28: 4.062m (7.707m total)
[first week breakdown: 5.220m(Sat), 6.360m(Sun) 6.657(Mon), 6.805m(Tue); 6.952m(Wed); 7.008m(Thu)]
BARB Consolidated Figures w/e 7 Sep:
9.95m The Great British Bake Off BBC1 3 Sep 8:00pm 9.60m The X Factor ITV 6 Sep 8:00pm [8:05pm] 9.48m Coronation Street ITV 1 Sep 7:30pm [7:32pm] 9.16m Strictly Come Dancing BBC1 7 Sep 8:00pm [7:59pm] 8.59m Coronation Street ITV 1 Sep 8:30pm 8.49m The X Factor ITV 7 Sep 8:00pm [8:02pm] 7.54m Coronation Street ITV 5 Sep 7:30pm [7:31pm] 7.46m Coronation Street ITV 5 Sep 8:30pm [8:31pm] 7.30m Eastenders BBC1 1 Sep 8:00pm 7.28m Doctor Who BBC1 6 Sep 7:30pm [7:32pm]Taking into account ITV+1 figures the chart alters slightly, but does not impact Doctor Who's position:
10.13m The X Factor ITV 6 Sep 8:00pm [8:05pm] 9.95m The Great British Bake Off BBC1 3 Sep 8:00pm 9.48m Coronation Street ITV 1 Sep 7:30pm [7:32pm] 9.23m The X Factor ITV 7 Sep 8:00pm [8:02pm] 9.16m Strictly Come Dancing BBC1 7 Sep 8:00pm [7:59pm] 8.59m Coronation Street ITV 1 Sep 8:30pm 7.54m Coronation Street ITV 5 Sep 7:30pm [7:31pm] 7.46m Coronation Street ITV 5 Sep 8:30pm [8:31pm] 7.30m Eastenders BBC1 1 Sep 8:00pm 7.28m Doctor Who BBC1 6 Sep 7:30pm [7:32pm]
BBC Live+Same Day: 5.26m; Repeat: 0.44m; Time-Shift: 2.03m; iPlayer: 0.51m; Live+7 Total: 8.25m
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 1.377m times to the end of the month, making it the fifth most requested programme in September, only beaten by The Great British Bake-Off (the figure does not include requests via Virgin Media or Sky).
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Mark Gatiss's Robot of Sherwood is a wonderfully breezy escapade with a witty script, a lot of heart and something really rather touching to say about the value of folk heroes. Tom Riley's Robin is very much in the Errol Flynn vein: handsome, jolly, with none of the angst of modern versions - much to the annoyance of the resolutely dour (and very funny) Doctor, who goes to great lengths to try and prove Robin is a fake. All essential boxes are ticked: Merrie Men, verdant glades, archery contest, foul dungeons, swordfights... Ben Miller is on dastardly form as the Sheriff, while Jenna Coleman makes for a gorgeous and resourceful ersatz Marian and Peter Capaldi's Time Lord steps out of the shadows in his finest episode yet.  Credit: Radio Times, p54 | |||||
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