Doctor Who ‘A Christmas Carol’ Viewing Figures

The overnight viewing figures for this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, ‘A Christmas Carol’, showed that the programme was watched by 10.3 million viewers, the highest overnight result for an episode during Matt Smith’s tenure as the Eleventh Doctor.

The share of the audience was 39.8%, and it was the second highest rated programme of the day. The final viewing figures will be released in January 2011, and will also show the amount of viewers who watched the episode on BBC iPlayer.

Doctor Who A Christmas Carol Broadcast Time

The BBC has confirmed that this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, ‘A Christmas Carol’, with be broadcast on BBC One and BBC One HD on Christmas Day at 6pm.

This is an hour earlier than was previously reported by The Sun, who seem to get nothing right when concerning Doctor Who.

This year Doctor Who will be followed by a Christmas edition of Strictly Come Dancing, which features John Barrowman, and the usual Christmas EastEnders. ‘A Christmas Carol’ will be shown in the United States on BBC America at 9pm, on Boxing Day in Canada on SPACE at 9pm, and in Australia on ABC 1 at 7.30pm.