|  After the airing of the first three
stories: "Rose", "The End of the World"
and "The Unquiet Dead" the BBC has announced that
the viewing figures so far have been very good.
Below are the average viewing figures
(in millions) for each story:
"The Unquiet Dead" was another
strong ratings scorer, beating "The Royal Wedding"
(6.2 million), "The Grand National" (7.3 million),
"Casualty" (8.0 million) and "Ant and Dec's
Saturdaynight Takeaway"(7.1 million).
The programme followed the trend of
previous weeks, and gained over a million viewers across the
episode, starting out at 7.7 and climbing to 8.9.
This makes this the third time
that Doctor Who has been the top favourite Saturday
programme which has now made an avearge of 8.5 million viewers
for the whole season to-date.
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