Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens - Overnight Ratings

Unofficial overnight viewing figures indicate that Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens was watched by 5.4 million viewers on BBC One, with an additional 0.5 million on the BBC HD channel, giving the episode a total rating of 5.9 million viewers.

Doctor Who was the most-watched programme of the day on British TV, beating the Cameroon v Denmark World Cup match which only managed 5.2 million despite a slightly later time slot than Doctor Who over on ITV1.

Doctor Who Confidential was watched by 0.78 million (inc HD), making it the 5th Most watched programme of the day on all digital channels.

Final figures - which are usually much higher - will be published next week.

(Source: GallifreyNewsBase)