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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whovian" data-source="post: 399745" data-attributes="member: 57872">Yeah it's not perfect but seemed best to use the 'official' figures. Viewing habits are very different now. The ratings method was actually changed to account for this fact - and the fact that overnights were becoming less and less relevant with the birth of iPlayer and other streaming platforms. It's generally accepted to use consolidated figures where they are available (modern era) and the overnights for when they were the only available figures (Classic Era and early NuWho) - especially much of the original run you watched it live or missed it. Yes it's not perfect but it's definitely better to use +7s rather than overnights for the modern show as viewing habits have changed that much. It also helps when comparing it to other TV shows as that's how the ratings are calculated across the board now - and how we know Space Babies and Devil's Chord were beaten in the weekly chart by Coronation Street. People trying (not aimed at you by the way) to cite the overnights and compare them to old overnights usually seem to have an agenda to try and show the show up as doing badly so they can moan about the direction it's gone. We can accept the show's not in a great place without trying to make the statistics look even worse than they actually are. For example Boom had the worst overnight in Doctor Who history at 2.04m but it's very possible due to word of mouth it could end up beating Space Babies and The Devil's Chord in the consolidated ratings. The ratings should be reflecting that rather than using overnights just because that's what we used to use. The biggest impact on the list is actually the 1979 ITV strike which left the BBC as the only broadcaster and meant more eyes watching Doctor Who than normal and how City of Death got such high viewing figures.</blockquote>

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