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After a three-week delay caused by the implementation of their new data collection system, the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) have at last released the final ratings for The End of Time - Part Two, broadcast on BBC One in the UK on the first of January. These final ratings are more accurate than the initial overnight figures, and include those who recorded the programme to watch within seven days of transmission.
The figures show that the episode achieved an average of 11.79 million viewers for its BBC One broadcast, placing it 2nd in the charts for that week, behind only the episode of EastEnders that immediately followed it in that evening's schedule, which gained 12.09 million. This figure makes the episode a third most-watched since Doctor Who returned in 2005, behind only Voyage of the Damned (13.31 million) and The Next Doctor (13.10 million).
An additional 482,000 viewers watched The End of Time - Part Two on its simultaneous showing in high definition on the BBC HD channel, making it that channel's most-watched programme of the week. Although BARB offers broadcasters the option to combine the figures for a simultaneous high definition broadcast with that on the parent standard definition channel, the BBC do not exercise this option, and so the official final figure for the BBC One broadcast of the episode remains at 11.79 million.