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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7910347" data-attributes="member: 4348">Most of Doctor Who in the earlier years (first series 1-26) hovered around 7 million viewers with highs at almost 12 million some seasons and the worst down to around 5 million.  When it dropped below 5 million consecutively was when it was finally cancelled.This season seems to be headed more towards the direction of series 10 right now, but it is mid-series so it might prop up soon.  None of them have been below season 23-25 yet of the older Doctor Who series in viewership.I think that series 10 was being hampered (or they saw it was) with an older doctor when previous doctors were younger, and putting in a younger doctor again (Whitaker) propped up the ratings once more for series 11.I'm not sure what's happening with the flagging viewership this season right now, though it may be a continuation of the slowly declining ratings of series 11 (started at almost 11 million and decreased to around a little over 6.5 million, a point where series 12 started a little higher than for the first episode).I'm not sure why the sinking viewership/rankings to be honest, nor what is causing it or could help it.</blockquote>