TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
Doctor Who
Scored from 578 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
A British science fiction series following the Doctor, a Time Lord who travels through time and space in the TARDIS with human companions. The 2005 revival follows the Ninth Doctor as he adventures through time and space, encountering alien species and threats while searching for survivors of a devastating Time War.
Russell T Davies created Doctor Who, a science fiction, adventure and drama television series from 2005. It stars Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper and John Barrowman. It was made in the United Kingdom. It is rated TV-PG. A typical episode runs 45 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,358 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 578 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 645 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Doctor Who lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 578.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
