From Doctor Who News:
BBC America have revealed that Doctor Who had its highest rated season ever on the channel, finishing with the Christmas Special which delivered over 2.3 million total Viewers and was the number 1 non-sports telecast in all of cable during the time period among Adults 25-54 in Live+3.
2.616 million Viewers in Live+3 when combining the 9:00pm premiere with the 11:45pm and 2:30am replays. The Twelfth Doctor’s first Christmas special more than doubled the viewership of the Eleventh Doctor’s first Christmas special, A Christmas Carol in 2010.
Doctor Who: Last Christmas was the #1 show on both platforms in all of television in Primetime (excluding sports) on December 25. Doctor Who is pacing as one of Twitter’s top 10 most-tweeted original dramas in all of cable for 2014.
Peter Capaldi’s first season as the Doctor, with co-star Jenna Coleman as Clara, delivered BBC AMERICA its highest rated season ever with an average of 2.035 million Total Viewers in Live+3.
Skitch Commentary: I actually felt a great deal of joy when reading this story. All season, “news” sources like the Mirror have been jumping on the Doctor Who is failing bandwagon. They even went so far as to suggest BBC is going to ditch the “edgy” stories they have been doing in a desperate attempt to reclaim lost viewers. The absurdity of this, of course, is that Doctor Who’s ratings have basically been solid in the UK. But, Mirror seems to have some kind of grudge against Doctor Who, so they try and reshape the truth to suit their needs.
But, here in America, there is no doubt that Doctor Who is getting bigger and bigger. Many stores I go to these days have huge displays of Doctor Who merchandise. And year after year, BBC America has seen the ratings for Doctor Who go up. I thought this was one of the best seasons of Doctor Who, so I am glad to see the ratings reflecting that.
