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Doctor Who confirms overnight ratings for Lux – lowest in series history (www.radiotimes.com)

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The second episode of Doctor Who's 15th season suffered a fairly substantial drop in ratings – with just 1.58 million viewers tuning in to watch Lux on BBC One last night (Saturday 19th April).

That's down from the 2 million who watched last week's season premiere The Robot Revolution and marks the lowest overnight viewership ratings in the show's history, the first time ever that the figures have dipped below 2 million.

Of course, it's worth noting that these figures don't tell the whole story, given the figure doesn't take into account anyone who watched the episode on BBC iPlayer, where it debuted at 8am on Saturday prior to its BBC One broadcast.

The consolidated ratings, which include iPlayer, devices and catch-up, will be released at a later date.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

After how good the first episode was, I’m surprised there was a downturn at all. This second episode was also high quality even if I don’t completely dig the harbinger plot line. One off mystical enemies aren’t as exciting to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

“Of course, it’s worth noting that these figures don’t tell the whole story, given the figure doesn’t take into account anyone who watched the episode on BBC iPlayer, where it debuted at 8am on Saturday prior to its BBC One broadcast.”

I suspect many Whovians stream these days

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, exactly. Plus the BBC changed the iPlayer release from midnight to Saturday morning to accommodate early streamers, so that might account for a bit of the apparent decline in broadcast viewings.