Doctor Who Ratings UP, Audience Figures DOWN: What Is Going On With The Great RTD Relaunch

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TV ratings up 580,000 in a week, having been down 560,000 previously.
Audience Figures Rumoured To Be Lower Than L:egend Of The Sea Devils in the wake of the Chibnall and Jodie era. What is going on with the programme relaunch of Doctor Who?
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@richardgale1287 Месяц назад

Ratings are messed up this year. Aside from this being the age of 'content reach' rather than TV overnights (we're never going to know Disney+ stats for +28 days), are they still calculating consolidated UK figures as Live +7 days? What happens if people watch 17 hours *before* 'live'? The more intrigue the show has - and this season’s set up that way - surely the more people will watch early. Is that factored in?

@daveboybrookes Месяц назад

Overnight ratings, plus iplayer and Disney+ streaming hits most likely add up to a healthy figure. In the age of streaming, overnights aren't indicative of success or failure. People simply watch TV differently these days.

@Andy.Gledhill.Models. Месяц назад

Only 3.58 million watched BOOM over 7 days. That includes those that watched on iPlayer. Also it is not doing well on Disney Plus because it ha snot even got into any top 10 streaming charts. Its not even got into the top ten Disney Plus charts.

@mw56101 Месяц назад

It was straight on after the FA Cup final it probably benefitted from that...

@paulbowler5345 Месяц назад

The numbers dont add up, quite literally anymore it seems .

@davidmullen6011 Месяц назад

It's an inexplicable rise really. The weather was good. So looking at the schedules both the BBC and ITV showed the news just before Doctor Who, meaning the show was up against bog-standard gameshow 'In For a Penny'. At 7.30 Britains Got Talent starts on ITV and I imagine some of the audience switches over to that... so the ratings given here are an average take, not an absolute one. (Do we know how much Britains Got Talent got overnight?). I was outdoors when it was on BBC1, so decided to watch it later that night on I-Player. What struck me about it was how baffling it must have been for the average BBC1 viewer to try watching this episode. I wasn't sure I was enjoying it myself, and the average person would surely be switching over, so I thought. So how it managed to hit this (relative) high in ratings I just don't know... it may just be one of those fluke's, and next week will see a return to normal averages of 2m...

@noblerees1 Месяц назад

The inconsistency of the ratings is perplexing and shows that RTD is surely failing to do what his job was - relaunch strongly and build a momentum to the climax of a short season

@Docktavion Месяц назад

From watching many reviews for 73 yards every last one have said they have needed to rewatch the episode multiple times. To get to grasp and for content for the reviews. One guy said he had to watch it over 4 times. Even watching the episode in fragments, it all add up to give exaggerated figures.

@noblerees1 Месяц назад

In some ways that is the very point. Dr Who is successful when it has cut through with the general public - not hoping that fans watch it obsessively making notes and joining the dots to make sense or appreciate its ‘value.’ People are watching TV less never mind watching 4 times to find love for it. I like to judge as an average punter. If dr who fans don’t like it or understand it after one watch that is appalling. It means it’s failed. No programme maker can expect our indulgence of more time

@demaupin Месяц назад

I'm in the US, so please excuse me if I have this wrong, but wasn't it on this week directly after the football? Could a decent amount of people have simply left it on after the game?

@davidmullen6011 Месяц назад

@@demaupin The football was on in the afternoon, by the time Doctor Who started it was all longsince finished and both the BBC and ITV had shown their news bulletins, before beginning the evenings entertainment programming...

@deanrwatson Месяц назад

In comparison to the immediate episodes previous to this, it wasn't badly written, it's a rehash, light version of "Turn Left", and by standards of legacy episodes it was woeful. However, it was a simple (but flawed) bit of story telling, with no push on agenda, and it seems just this slight reprieve from the holier than thou preaching, was enough to have, a slight positive upswing in ratings then.

@benjamindavis4974 Месяц назад

Do you have a source on the audience apparently index scores

@Docktavion Месяц назад

I do wonder if the burnt tree (the name sake of the Welsh pub) will come up on future episodes as some form of “bad wolf”.

@silverthorn9755 Месяц назад

I'd like to know how long into a show that came on straight after the FA Cup final did the 2.6 million viewers last.

@Andy.Gledhill.Models. Месяц назад

Only a small amount of people are watching it on iPlayer before transmission on BBC 1. Only about an average of 118,000 watched it. Only 78,000 watched BOOM on iPlayer before transmission lol. They said they would get millions of views on iPlayer lol. How wrong they were.

@Andy.Gledhill.Models. Месяц назад

It is hilarious that lots of people are celebrating the rise in overnights for 73 yards. But, lets not forget that 2.62 million is STILL a really low figure. Dr Who was getting double these figures in 2023 with the 3 specials and Xmas special.

@TheSenseSphere Месяц назад

@@Andy.Gledhill.Models. I did think that a lot of hope had been put on this streaming strategy. Being older I was not sure if i was missing the point, but surprise, surprise, people in the UK do not want to stay up till 1am watching Dr Who! Who would have thought!

@Andy.Gledhill.Models. Месяц назад

@@TheSenseSphere Not many are watching over 7 days on iPLayer either. 200,000 for Boom if the TV only rating of 3.38 million is correct.

@user-gx9yn1vx8x Месяц назад

I’ve watched Doctor Who from the very first episode on Saturday the 23rd of November 1963 as a nine year old. And I was hooked from the beginning and William Hartnell remains my favourate Doctor. Having said that I’ve watched every episode of Dr Who, and Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy stand out for me as amongst my favourates. Peter Cushing didn’t work for me, Jodie Whittaker didn’t work either and the Ncuti Gatwa series just feels so poorly written and acted that I really don’t see anything of Doctor Who and wonder what Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat are thinking. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking this isn’t working for me and why I’m I bothering to tune in on a Saturday night.

@davidmullen6011 Месяц назад

It's four episodes in now, so I do think we are at the point where criticisms and observation on how the return of Russell Davies are more than fair to make. It isn't working I have to agree, it may be that Davies has too much power now, that there is no one acting as a moderating force over his thinking and decision making, or it may be that he has simply lost all of his onetime good judgement and that ability to connect with his audience out there... But if this is all he can do for his first season, what in the world is his second season going to be like?! I can't imagine people being happy behind the scenes, and I do expect some real drama to come out over the next 12 months. Either Davies steps down, of Gatwa goes. That would be my feeling. There is too much money at stake, and too big a BBC brand to let die on the vine like this.

@user-gx9yn1vx8x Месяц назад

@@davidmullen6011 I fear it’s too late, season two is already written and maybe in the can.

@DorisDay-lw4xs Месяц назад

Have you got Evil Of The Daleks stashed under your bed ? 😂. I started with Patrick (The Wheel In Space) but Jon is my Doctor. Love Tom, Bill and Peter too. Don’t mind Ecclestone and I really like Jodie. The rest can be binned 😊

@redfieldblair Месяц назад

I really enjoyed Moffats episode. I mean it felt familiar, I badly want to see new writers (or Big Finish/New Adventure writers ala RTDs first run) - but I'd have no complaints if that was the norm. The show desperately needs to seperate out the roles of showrunner, script editor and writer again.

@dougsims4242 Месяц назад

1963 was my starting point too, I was 6. I've hung on amongst the highs and lows of this great series, but it's becoming a struggle. It's nice to know I'm not alone in feeling this way, but also sad that so many fans do.

@Andy.Gledhill.Models. Месяц назад

Where did you get these AI figures from? I thought that they haven't released any AI figures yet?

@Andy.Gledhill.Models. Месяц назад

Never mind. Seen that you say they are rumours lol. The fact that they haven't released the AI figures tells me that they must be shite.

@ScottX68000 Месяц назад

@@Andy.Gledhill.Models. The AI figures aren't released, they leak, we don't have them yet because no one has been able to leak them. There used to be someone at the BARB who was able to routinely post them 2 days after broadcast but I guess they left or got fired or whatever so now we have to wait a lot longer to get access to the numbers.

@Andy.Gledhill.Models. Месяц назад

@@ScottX68000 They used to release the AI figures at the same time as the 7 day ratings in the past. I suspect they are holding onto them because they must be really bad lol. I suspect they are lower than the suggested 73 figure. Same reason why Rotten Tomatoes has stopped showing any audience reviews after the 14th May. They have been paid to lock them up lol.

@TiggyTabbycat Месяц назад

This series is trash

@steve8510 Месяц назад

Pfft it'll be around in a 100 years in one form or another

@codyw1 Месяц назад

Probably. But this version of it is almost certainly coming to an end.

@steve8510 Месяц назад

@@codyw1 WHO don't do endings, only twists, and there will be another no doubt

@sooty8992 Месяц назад

Boom was terrible and 73 yards was worse. It actually created it's own paradox. It must become a fixed point in time. Or it didn't happen. My reasoning for this at the end it was reset so rubys story never happened. Or they are in a loop constantly going around. It must be one or the other it can't have both one must be true.

@redfieldblair Месяц назад

I loved Boom, and I loved 73 yards until the ending - then my opinion soured immediately when I realised RTD had nothing to support that episode of mysteries. I assume it didn't happen and it was never really about Mad Jack? But maybe RTD just didn't realise it would be undone if the loop was broken. Who knows. I think maybe he didn't care.