Official figures released by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board or BARB, gives Doctor Who – The Pilot an official rating of 6.68 million viewers.

The rating includes all those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days. It is over 2 million higher than the initially reported overnight figure.

Doctor Who is the tenth most watched programme for the week, the highest chart position for a non-Christmas episode since Listen in 2014.

Top for the week was ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, which had 11.04 million viewers. Incoming showrunner Chris Chibnall’s Broadchurch, starring David Tennant, was 2nd for the week.