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[[File:Doctor Who Exhibition (4429341755).jpg|thumb|left|The Dalek Sec prop, on display at a Doctor Who exhibition.]]
[[File:Doctor Who exhibit (1986850266).jpg|thumb|right|Preacher prop, on display at a Doctor Who exhibition.]]
To protect as much information concerning the episode as possible, the final scene of "Army of Ghosts" was withheld from all pre-screeners given to reviewers. The BBC website's Fear Forecasters, a panel who rate the episodes, were not allowed to see "Doomsday" before its airing,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2006/fear/f-armyofghosts.shtml |title=Fear Forecast: "Army of Ghosts" |access-date=25 February 2007 |work=BBC Doctor Who website |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> and access to copies was restricted; the website thus does not have a Fear Forecast for the episode.<ref name=FFMissing>{{cite web|title=Fear Forecast|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/fearforecast.shtml|publisher=BBC|access-date=5 July 2011}}</ref> Despite this, the Dalek Sec prop, which had been previously unused in the series, had invaded the stage at the 2006 [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA Television Awards]] while the production team were collecting an award.<ref name="pod" /> A similar moratorium would be placed on the following series' finale, "[[Last of the Time Lords]]".<ref name="lizo">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6760000/newsid_6763700/6763787.stm|publisher=[[CBBC (TV channel)|CBBC]]|title=What did Lizo think of Doctor Who?|date=18 June 2007|access-date=21 June 2007}}</ref>
The episode's finalised average viewing figure was 8.22 million viewers and was, excepting World Cup games, the second most-watched television programme of the week, behind an episode of ''[[Coronation Street]]'', and eighth most-watched overall. The companion episode of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' gained just over one million viewers, making it the second most watched programme on a non-terrestrial channel that week.<ref name="ratings">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216151446/http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EEVFuyAyZybLSaHPyi&tmpl=newsrss|url=http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EEVFuyAyZybLSaHPyi&tmpl=newsrss|title=Doomsday Final Ratings, and Series Two Recap|work=[[Doctor Who News Page]]|last=Lyon|first=Shaun|date=20 July 2006|archive-date=16 February 2009}}</ref> The ratings for the episode were higher than the following [[2006 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] match between [[Germany national football team|Germany]] and [[Portugal national football team|Portugal]], which had a million fewer viewers.<ref name="regi">{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/14/geektv_14_july/|title=World Cup streaming fails to score|first=Jane|last=Hoskyn|publisher=[[The Register]]; TV Scoop}}</ref>
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