Overnights for Saturday April 3rd 2010:
Last night's Doctor Who (Fifth Series), which I found surprisingly good, launched to strong 7.66 million viewers and a 36.90% share according to the BBC. It also states that the show had a peak audience of 8.45 million viewers. The article also refferences the fact that the last Doctor Who special (which saw David Tennant leave as the Doctor) logged 10.40 million viewers, it was also down slight on the fourth series debut on BBC1 back in 2008 (two years ago) which took 8.40 million viewers. Update: A further 338,000 watched Doctor Who on BBC HD.
The article also states that Harry Hill's TV Burp hit 3.5 million viewers (down 40% in overnight figures on the previous week) for ITV1. Update: However it was clip show
BBC1's The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins took 5.32 million viewers, while just before it Over The Rainbow took 5.41 million viewers. Then at 9.30pm Casualty took 5.52 million viewers for BBC1.
ITV1's Push The Button (a double bill) took took 3.95 million viewers, then The Door logged 3.50 million viewers.
Sky's 3D channel (launched in 1,000 pubs) launched at 3pm to 1.737 million viewers during midday.
More overnights (for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to come - again very sorry for delay).
For previous days UK TV ratings click here
Note: Channel 4’s and E4’s ratings are boosted slight thanks to their +1 timeshifted channels but I include them together due to the fact its only timeshifted by one hour (similar to the 9/8c ratings in america). Also these are unoffical overnight ratings and will subject to change in BARB final ratings due to timeshift audience.
