Next time someone from the BBC argues that it is worth spending vast amounts of the licence fee on the football (the last round of FA Cup rights cost the BBC and BSkyB £300 million, ITV won them away for £425 million), rather than spending it elsewhere, or they argue that moving popular shows for the football is a good idea because ‘more people will watch the football’, show them these figures from last night. The viewing figures increase by almost a third – nearly 1.9 million extra viewers for Doctor Who over the FA Cup game, and by 8pm there were another 0.4 million again.