Official figures released by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board or BARB, give Doctor Who – Thin Ice an official rating of 5.51 million viewers.

The rating includes all those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days.

Doctor Who is the 25th most watched programme for the week, and 10th most watched on BBC One

Top for the week was ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent with 10.60 million watching. Drama’s doing well include BBC One’s Line of Duty with 9.92 million and ITV’s Little Boy Blue with 7.17 million. Doctor Who sliped behind the soaps EastEnders and Emmerdale as well as Coronation Street.

Doctor Who was the second highest BBC One programme for Saturday night, just behind of the entertainment show All Round to Mrs Brown’s