The 2014 Christmas special Last Christmas finished in ninth place on the BBC iPlayer Christmas chart, bringing in an extra 1.07m viewers.

Winning the iPlayer ratings battle for the past two Christmases, Doctor Who was beaten in the chart by the controversial Argentinan jaunt by Jeremy Clarkson and crew on Top Gear, by four episodes of Eastenders, by the Christmas Day edition of Miranda and The Apprentice Series Finale.

The BBC have reported a record 227m iPlayer requests [...]

The 8th Series of Doctor Who has broken the record and become the highest rated series of Doctor Who broadcast on BBC America.

The series, broadcast last year and starring Peter Capaldi in the title role, scored an average overall audience of 2.04 million viewers in Live+3 for each episode, showing further growth in the brand in the United States.

The good news continues as Last Christmas [...]

The final consolidated Christmas Day ratings in the UK show a dramatic increase in viewers for the 2014 Christmas special, Last Christmas.

Gaining 1.94m extra viewers, the episode finishes sixth for the day with 8.28m viewers, behind the heavily promoted Eastenders in 5th with 8.60m viewers (up 1.05m on the overnights) and ahead of Coronation Street‘s 8.01m viewers including those viewing on +1.

Christmas Top [...]

Last Christmas scored an overnight rating of 6.3m viewers (27.5% share), placing seventh for the night.

Doctor Who was beaten in the overnights by Coronation Street, Miranda, Call the Midwife, Strictly Come Dancing, Eastenders and Mrs Brown’s Boys.

There are few comparisons that can be fairly made given Time of the Doctor‘s special status as Matt Smith’s finale and the nature of on-demand television growing massively since just two years ago, but [...]