Doctor Who tops BBC iPlayer

For the third month running, Doctor Who has topped the BBC iPlayer's most-requested list. The four of the Doctor Who episodes transmitted in June were all at the top of the list.

At number one was the the penultimate episode of the series 'The Pandorica Opens' with
1.3 million requests; in second place was 'The Lodger' with 1.29 million; in third place was 'Vincent and the Doctor' with 1.13 million and in fourth place, with 1.11 requests, was 'The Big Bang'.

The highest programme, not related to Doctor Who, was Top Gear with 0.88 million requests. During the month Doctor Who had 6.35 million requests in total, shared between 13 episodes, just behind EastEnders which had 7 million requests for one of the 22 episodes available.

The first episode of the series, 'The Eleventh Hour', is now the most-requested programme ever on the online video service with over 2 million views.

Top iPlayer requests January - June 2010

1 - Doctor Who 1 The Eleventh Hour - 2.16m

2 - Doctor Who 2 The Beast Below - 1.63m

3 - Doctor Who 4 The Time of Angels - 1.52m

4 - Doctor Who 7 Amy's Choice - 1.51m

5 - Doctor Who 3 Victory of the Daleks - 1.46m

6 - Doctor Who 5 Flesh and Stone - 1.40m

7 - Doctor Who 12 The Pandorica Opens - 1.33m

8 - Doctor Who 6 The Vampires of Venice - 1.32m

9 - Doctor Who 11 The Lodger - 1.29m

10 - Top Gear Series 14 Episode 7 - 1.26m

11 - Doctor Who 8 The Hungry Earth - 1.22m

12 - Outnumbered Series 3 Episode 1 - 1.16m

13 - Doctor Who 10 Vincent and the Doctor - 1.13m

14 - Doctor Who 9 Cold Blood - 1.13m

15 - EastEnders Live 19 Feb - 1.13m

16 - Doctor Who 13 The Big Bang - 1.11m

17 - Outnumbered Series 3 Episode 2 - 1.03m

18 - Outnumbered Series 3 Episode 3 - 1.00m

19 - Mock the Week Series 8 Episode 5 - 0.95m

20 - Doctor Who The End of Time Part 2 - 0.94m 

(Source: The Doctor Who News Page)