Doctor Who Ratings Released

The BARB have released an official rating (the amount of viewers who watched it) for Matt Smith's opening Doctor Who episode- "The Eleventh Hour"- on the BBC website. The episode, starring Smith; Karen Gillian and Caitlin Blackwood, saw the Eleventh Doctor crash to Earth, introducing a new companion, TARDIS, story arc and theme sequence (which has garnered much criticism from fans according to BBC News), achieved a rating of 10.03 million viewers, making it the most watched television programme of the night, and the sixth most-watched of the entire week. Also, overnight ratings have been released for both "The Beast Below" and "Victory Of The Daleks": the former, taking the time travellers into the distant future of the United Kingdom, received 6.7 million viewers, and the latter, setting up future returns for the Time Lord's deadliest adversaries and taking place in the powerful setting of World War II, received a rating of 6.2 million. While the drop in viewers may seem disconcerting to fans, bear in mind that the original overnight rating for "The Eleventh Hour" was only just over 8 million, so increased by a further 2 million when each of the week's showings were added together, meaning that Episodes 2 and 3 likely both gathered ratings of over 8 million viewers, still a staggering high for the revamped series. Roll on "The Time Of Angels" and "Flesh And Stone"...