FIRST RATE!
The premiere of Doctor Who destroyed in the ratings on April the 5th. Doctor Who did extremely well on the CBC with over 986 000 viewers. Compared to the 9.9 million in UK this number might seem small…but for Canadian television numbers, and for the CBC this is HUGE, and exactly where we wanted the show to come in at.
Doctor Who did not win the evenings rating’s war across the board…it did, however, win for the network. Four shows on other major Canadian networks beat Doctor Who. They were American Idol (2 508 000) which was in the same time slot, The Amazing Race (3 140 000), LAW AND ORDER:SVU (1 294 000) and CTV National News (1 428 000). Three of those shows are big US productions, with an established following while the news is…THE NEWS! 
Put it another way Doctor Who DESTROYED House, Judging Amy, CBC’s News, Jag, The Outer Limits, Blue Jays baseball, and a host of other programs in and around that time slot.
So this fan is very happy indeed, and I’m sure the CBC is as well. Doctor Who won CBC’s night, and reportedly did more than double what programming that slot normally gets on a Tuesday evening. On any day 986 000+ viewing the CBC is amazing… I can only think of Hockey getting better numbers than Doctor Who. And this number only reflects what the industry can measure…so I’m sure the numbers are even higher here in Canada, as well as in the UK.
It’s this fan’s opinion that Doctor Who will have a nice run on the Mother Corp, and that we’ll be seeing Series two on the Ceeb before too long.
Woo-Who!
Posted by Rod on Thursday, April 7 at 10:18 pm
5 Comments...
Woohoo!
Posted by Richard on 04/08 at 02:38 AM
Wow. I am impressed. My pessimistic side—okay,I only have a pessimistic side—expected around 200,000. I thought it was a great time period, since it wasn’t competing with Canada’s number one show—AMAZING RACE—and could act as a lead into it. (In fact, someone mentioned on TWOP that Tuesdays now rocked because of Who and Amazing Race).
Colour me surprised. With a pleasant shade.
Posted by Sean on 04/08 at 09:06 PM
I did my best to get the word out. i draped my Baker scarf on my cubicle and told everyone I knew to tune in. Thanks to time shifting I watched it 2 1/2 times that night.
Looking forward to more episodes and for the show to build it’s audience.
Posted by Halden on 04/12 at 03:28 AM
Hey I’m stunned that it got such high rating considering what it was up against
Posted by ElfgirlJen on 04/14 at 02:38 PM
Jenny B as I live and breathe! Glad to see yer still keeping tabs on the Doc.
Posted by rod on 04/14 at 03:15 PM
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