The ratings for Doctor Who continue to fall. The most recent episode “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” posted the worst overnight ratings of the entire season.
Millie GIbson as Ruby Sunday and Michelle Greenidge as Carla in Doctor Who (2024), BBC
According to Doctor Who TV, “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” only brought in 2.02 million viewers overnight in the United Kingdom. The poor ratings comes in the wake of the show’s fifth episode “Dot and Bubble” having the worst ratings of the entire season after a full week across all devices with just 3.38 million. Its overnight ratings were 2.12 million.
The sixth episode “Rogue” had overnight ratings of 2.11 million. Weekly ratings for the episode have not been released yet.
The previous worst performing episode was in overnight ratings was the third episode, “Boom.” It garnered 2.04 million viewers and eventually brought in 3.58 million after a week.
Yasmin Finney as Jason Noble in Doctor Who (2024), BBC
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The episode’s poor performance also comes in the wake of showrunner Russell T. Davies hinting the show might be scrapped. Davies attempted to spin the show’s previous poor ratings telling Radio Times, “I’m very proud of it! You know, they might not be the ratings we’d love. We always want higher. But they are building over the 28-day period. Episode 1, Space Babies, is already up to 5.6 million and counting. So it is getting there.”
He then touted how the show was allegedly reaching younger audiences, “I was brought back in to bring in a youthful audience. That’s been massively successful.”
“The audience no one ever gets are the under-30s. They just don’t watch television anymore. But those figures are astronomic for Doctor Who, it’s their top programme in that bracket,” he explained.
He then revealed the show might not move forward informing the outlet that the future of the show is “still up in the air.”
Russell T. Davies via BBC Newsround YouTube
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The poor ratings come in the wake of actor Ncuti Gatwa telling people to not watch the show if they were not a fan of his casting.
He informed Variety, “Don’t watch. Turn off the TV. Go and touch grass, please, for God’s sake.”
Alexander Devrient as Colonel Ibrahim, Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor, and Lenny Rush as Morris Gibbons in Doctor Who (2024), BBC
Drag performer Jinkx Monsoon also told viewers off and predicted that for every viewer that the show lost it would bring in three people interested in content aimed for people who do not know that men cannot become women and vice versa.
Monsoon told Slate, “To the people who have issues: The show that you love was created by a queer person. Get over it! A lot of people are going to really love this, and I think this season is going to create a lot of new Doctor Who fans. And if we lose some” Monsoon continued, “don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”
Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge Stewart, Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday, and Yasmin Finney as Jason Noble in Doctor Who (2024), BBC
What do you make of the latest episode of Doctor Who having the worst ratings of the entire season?
