Doctor Who- what a success!
Well in the end any ratings fears for season 4 evaporated in the last few episodes. It was rather gratifying to see the show to reach number one in the weekly ratings for the first time in its forty five years. One interesting phenomenon was in the week where Who actually lost out to ITV. People flocked to ITV to watch the finale of Britain's got talent which was a live show. The next day the doomsayers were out in force on the ratings thread of the forum predicting that there was no way that people would bother to watch the second part of Steven Moffat's excellent two parter. As it happened people had caught up with the episode afterwards either on V+, Iplayer or Sky plus. The second parter gained a massive increase of the audience from the week before. I believe this is indicative of a growing trend amongst audiences to select the tine when they watch their programmes. It will be interesting to see how television producers will respond to this particularly in the commercial s