Sarah Jane Adventures Ends Third Season With 790.000 Veiwers
Written by Ian Cullen on November 24, 2009 – 10:00 am -The third season of Sarah Jane Adventures drew to a close last friday with approximately 750.000 viewers according to Digital Spy.
The Doctor Who spin off which airs on CBBC during pre watershed children’s schedule for BBC One has remained a firm favourite with both kids and adults alike.
The episode, titled ‘The Gift: Part Two’, averaged 788k (6.4%) at 4.35pm, while the first part, which aired on Thursday afternoon at the same time, drew 822k (6.5%).
In other ratings news the first part of BBC Ones annual charity fundraiser Children In Need attracted an average of 9.79ma viewers in the segment that ran from 7pm to 10pm. Some of these viewers were probably waiting for the 3 minute preview of the Doctor Who Christmas special, which have included below.
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Tags: Children In need, Doctor Who, Ratings, Sarah Jane Adventures
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By Alex on Nov 26, 2009 | Reply
For folks in the US for whom anything less than 10 million viewers is a failure, it should be noted that those ratings figures for CBBC are considered excellent for the amount of viewership the network gets around that time. Similarly, the 10.3 million-viewer rating for The Waters of Mars places it among the top-5 episodes of the revived Doctor Who since it returned to TV in 2005. I’m told that to find an equivalent rating in the US, you’d have to multiply the numbers something like a factor of 4.
By Ian Cullen on Nov 26, 2009 | Reply
As someone who lives in the UK I can pretty much confirm most of that.
The SJA series airs during the childrens television segments which is primarily watched by younger viewers.
Fact is the UK is a mere blip on the map when compared to the USA. So for us 10 million is a big audience.
Interestingly enough BG when it aired on Sky One was only pulling in about 350,000 per airing. The highest rating on Sky One is close to 1 Million. And the highest a scifi series ever got was Enterprise with a round million when Sky One first aired it.