The 7-day viewing figures have been revealed for the first episode of Doctor Who season 15, The Robot Revolution, with the episode being watched by 3.571 million viewers.
The episode’s ratings are similar to those for last season’s Boom, while they are down on last season’s premiere episode Space Babies, which was watched by 4.01 million. Further ratings will be revealed in future for viewership over the episode’s first 28 days since release.
The show fell in the top 50 most-watched programmes of the week, coming in at number 21. It was beaten by shows such as Grace, Britain’s Got Talent and The Apprentice, but beat out others like This City is Ours and Ten Pound Poms.
The episode introduced fans to Varada Sethu’s new companion character Belinda Chandra, who will be seen across the season travelling with the Doctor, but trying to get home.
[image id="2247309" size="full" title="Doctor Who: The Robot Revolutions" alt="Doctor Who: The Robot Revolutions" classes=""] Doctor Who: The Robot Revolutions.The most recent episode, Lux, saw the TARDIS land in Miami in 1952, with the Doctor and Belinda facing off against Alan Cumming’s Mr Ring-a-Ding AKA Lux.
Meanwhile, the next episode, The Well, will be set in the far future, with the duo visiting a devastated mining colony and facing “absolute terror”.
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Doctor Who guest star previously auditioned for a Peter Capaldi episode Doctor Who’s Mrs Flood promises terror ahead in intriguing new cameoIt will guest star Rose Ayling-Ellis, Caoilfhionn Dunne and Christopher Chung, and has been written by showrunner Russell T Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfall.
This season has already seen two appearances from Anita Dobson’s mysterious villain Mrs Flood, with Davies having revealed that we will see her pop up every week.
He said: “Last year, we had Susan Triad popping up every week, but she had no idea who she was.
“This is the complete opposite – this is someone who clearly knows very much [who she is]… she kind of unveiled herself at the end of the last series, standing on a rooftop, with a parasol, in a white fur coat, in the snow, saying ‘I’m going to bring absolute terror!’ – so the gloves are off, really!”
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