Doctor Who series averages 2005 to 2015

This year's series of Doctor Who scored the lowest ratings and chart positions for the show since it returned in 2005.  Although averaging over a respectable 6 million UK viewers per episode (within seven days and not counting iPlayer views), over one million viewers seem to have deserted the show.  The highest rated episode of the series (The Girl Who Died with 6.56 million) performed worse than the lowest rated episode of last year's series (Flatline with 6.71 million).

Doctor Who series (2005 to 2015): average ratings:

Television audiences are continuing to fragment but the fall in the average weekly chart position shows that Doctor Who ratings are now less competitive compared to other leading shows.  The average chart position was 24th, falling 10 places from last year. Only two episodes made the weekly Top 20 (The Magician's Apprentice and The Girl Who Died) compared to four episodes last year (Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Robot of Sherwood and Listen).

Doctor Who series (2005 to 2015): average weekly chart position

Hopefully a new timeslot and a popular new companion will help Doctor Who perform better when it returns in 2016 or 2017.