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The World Doesn't End Because the Doctor Dances

“Asylum of the Daleks” Premiere Breaks BBC America Ratings Records

by Susana Polo | 11:46 am, September 6th, 2012


There was no doubt that after such a long wait, the Doctor Who fandom would be ravenous for the update to the nearly fifty year old series. With the cathartic ending to series six, the show disappeared from air for almost a year, promising to return with a half season of farewell to two thirds of its main characters followed by the introduction of a new series main in the spring.

But I wonder, after all that time, if anyone expected the first episode of the new season to be a record breaker not just for Who on BBC America, but for all of BBC America.

The Saturday night broadcast drew 1.6 million viewers, making it the most watched episode of the show in BBCA history, according to Entertainment Weekly, breaking the BBCA record for that timeslot. 1.6 million also puts it up 23% from 2011′s Series 6 premiere.

The Entertainment Weekly article doesn’t have any info on whether this is record setting or breaking for any show on the network, which is what I’m most curious about. Downton Abbey is another American favorite from the BBC that will be returning soon, and one wonders how the two will measure up.

And for full ratings dominance, might I suggest a crossover?

(via Entertainment Weekly.)

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  • Librarian_Mary

    While a crossover would be awesome, Downton Abbey is an ITV show, not a BBC show.

  • Anonymous

    My bad. You know what they say about assumptions…

  • John Wao

    The ultimate crossover:

    Doctor Who/Fringe/Eureka/Warehouse 13/BSG/BUFFY/Angel/The Middleman/X-Files/Inspector Spacetime/Babylon 5/Farscape/Star Trek/Firefly

    Did I leave anyone out?

  • http://twitter.com/EmberDione Kim Pittman

    I really wish they would count iTunes viewing within the first 24 hours as part of this. I don’t have BBCA so I got it on iTunes, and then stayed up until midnight when it popped up so I could watch it. :) I want my watching to count!

  • http://shadesofblank.com/ Michi Ligaya

    Sherlock and Supernatural. Because SuperWhoLock is a thing :) Or at least a tag on Tumblr :)
    http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/superwholock

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