The Doctor Who viewing figures dipped to 6.3 million last night - *gasp* - which obviously means that nobody's watching it anymore and the BBC are about to axe it just like they did in 1989 and Steven Moffat will only have himself to blame. Blah blah blah. There are plenty of Doctor Who related statistics out there for you to analyse these days (that is, if you're actually bothered about that sort of thing!), what with the fact that the show has been breaking ratings records around the world for about half a decade or so now. You're more than welcome to make of the latest figures what you will, of course, but you know you've crossed the line into the realms of uncharted numerical nonsense when you sit through a new episode wondering how many others are watching too, and what smarmy remark you're going to post on Gallifrey Base when it's revealed that the audience share is 300,000 down on last week. Oh, sorry. 300,001.
Dan Butler is the Doctor Who Editor at WhatCulture.com. When he isn't writing his own articles or editing other people's, he can be found trawling the internet for gifs of Steven Moffat laughing. Contact him via dan.butler@whatculture.co.uk.
