424,000 Whovians watch early morning simulcast of 50th anniversary Doctor Who
The 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who simulcast to 75 countries around the world averaged 424,000 viewers for ABC1 at 6.50am eastern.
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor, starring Matt Smith and debut of new Time Lord Peter Capaldi, averaged 922,000 metro viewers when repeated in the prime time spot at 7.30pm and was second in its timeslot after 60 Minutes on Channel Nine.
Meanwhile Ten’s new episode of Modern Family had 731,000 metro viewers at 7.30pm and 740,000 for the repeat episode at 8pm. And Channel Seven’s Wild Planet: North America averaged 692,000 metro viewers.
The battle between the two David Attenborough programs on channels Nine and Ten was easily won by Nine sandwiched between Nine News and 60 Minutes, the top two programs of the night, each with more than 1.3m viewers.
David Attenborough’s Secrets of Wild India was third in all programs with 1.149m viewers from 6.30pm while Ten’s David Attenborough’s Living with Baboons dropped to 309,000 from 6pm.
Nine’s run of the first test of the The Ashes series made the top ten programs with the first and third session averaging over 1m metro viewers and the second held an audience of 962,000 according to OzTam’s preliminary overnight metro ratings.
Seven’s strongest performers were Seven News and Sunday Night, with both shows averaging more than 1m, followed by Bones which averaged 746,000 and was first in its timeslot ahead of ABC1’s one off Doctor Who drama travelling back in time to 1963.
However Nine had the largest share of the audience with 23.3 per cent ahead of Seven’s 20.3 per cent. ABC1 had a 14.4 per cent of the audience ahead of Ten which had 11.8 per cent.
Sunday’s top 15 programs:
- 60 Minutes Nine 1,380,000
- Nine News Sunday Nine 1,315,000
- David Attenborough’s Secrets of Wild India Nine 1,149,000
- Seven News Seven 1,124,000
- Sunday Night Seven 1,111,000
- The Ashes: First Test – Australia v England Session 3 Nine 1,064,000
- The Ashes: First Test – Australia v England Session 1 Nine 1,002,000
- The Ashes: First Test – Australia v England Session 2 Nine 962,000
- Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor ABC1 922,000
- ABC News ABC1 853,000
- The Cricket Show Nine 773,000
- Bones Seven 746,000
- Modern Family Repeat Ten 740,000
- Modern Family Ten 731,000
- Elementary Ten 707,000
Sunday’s share:
- Nine 23.3%
- Seven 20.3%
- ABC1 14.4%
- TEN 11.8%
- 7mate 5.0%
- SBS ONE 4.3%
- 7TWO 4.0%
- GO! 3.5%
- Gem 3.4%
- ONE 3.2%
- ABC2 2.4%
- ELEVEN 1.9%
- ABC News 24 1.1%
- ABC3 0.8%
- SBS 2 0.4%
- NITV 0.2%
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I think Matt Smith still has a Dr Who Christmas special coming up? So this isn’t technically his last – but this is Peter Capaldi’s first.
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Hi Niko,
Thanks for your comment, you’re quite right. I was mislead by a report on ABC News that had said it was his last…
Cheers,
Megan
You can only call it Peter Capaldi’s first episode if a (literally one-second) shot of his eyes and him saying “thirteen” is counted as being in an episode (I mean, it is, but still…).
The current Doc (Matt Smith) will regenerate into Peter Capaldi in the Christmas episode.
Non-Whovian, I forgive you 🙂 , but I could also offer you a ride 24 hours back in time in my police box so that that the mistake never happened at all…let me know…
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I was one of the people who woke up for this.
I have to say I don’t even remember watching it, it was far too early on a sunday for my liking – would of been better of waiting til the evening
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