Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[Samurai8472]

There is another photo that seems to support that so be careful out there...

Maybe Varada is a sleeper agent/Harbinger? Next season is the Doctor running away with her like she's a fugitive or being hunted.


Ah. Maybe that's why there's more than one Varada/ Mundy. Maybe i'm getting close? I don't know.

An evil version of Splinter Clara's?

 

[JoeZhang]

Going well

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[Starkers]

Even before we factor in the Disney numbers I guess

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Countdown to despairmongering in 3...2...1...

 

[Turbo]

That's excellent news. Glad that it's doing so well in the demo.

 

[Rich Watson]

Still won't have any effect on the people who refuse to accept that TV viewing now is nothing like it was nearly 20 years ago. But screw them.

The only question outstanding is, has it met Disney's expectations or not? Given that they probably spent as much on one episode of "The Acolyte" as they contributed to eight episodes of DW it's not like it needs to hit Number 1 on Disney+ to be worth it to them.

 

[jaime]

Most watched BBC Drama of the last six months or so doesn’t carry quite the cachet it used to. And streaming figures adding to an audience is… an inaccurate metric at best. (Repeated views etc.) They may as well be declaring Clarkson, May and Hammond the most popular television personalities of all time, because Top Gear never leaves the front page of iPlayer, and I don’t think it’s the post trio stuff people are watching. I can’t imagine them doing that somehow.
I do suspect that atm the shows current audience is very much mid twenties to mid thirties, but that that audience is smaller than the family audiences it was getting before by its very nature. As to how sustainable that is? Who knows.
Family audience dried up after Tennant was shown to be gone again, and the six to ten that a family audience gets has gone with him.
I think we may well be on less than 2m overnights by the time Ncuti’s second series is done. Especially as the media presence of controversy, baiting, backlash and goodwill tours, targeting demographics, as well as star-of-the-moment wears off.
But hey ho. Could be worse.

 

[Rich Watson]

Looking at the most recent BARB Live+7 numbers it was in the Top 20 of all broadcasts, the Top 10 of individual programmes* and was the second most watched drama.

And regarding the final Live+28 figures, most of the programmes above it aren't going to put on the number of additional views it will get.

So for the people who actually matter in regard to deciding the series future past next year, I don't see anything to make them unhappy.


*And that was with the Euros taking up multiple spots.

 

[Starkers]

I know it doesn't really matter but I notice they've stopped releasing the AI numbers (not Artificial Intelligence!)

 

[Rich Watson]

I know it doesn't really matter but I notice they've stopped releasing the AI numbers (not Artificial Intelligence!)

It was the only show on television I ever heard those for. And as I understand it shows with lower numbers of viewers actually get higher AI figures.

 

[Starkers]

It's mildly interesting because they were still releasing them up to the end of the specials. Like you say they didn't mean a whole lot (although there was a definite drop during Chibnall's era)

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

The ratings-crisis Ive been seeing is, to put it mildly, a complete shitfest. Absolute nonsense hysteria over nothing.

 

[jaime]

The thing to remember about ratings, is that SF fans of a certain age, and Who fans in particular have their importance drummed in. Even RTD himself isn’t immune.

 

[Brendan Moody]

The AI numbers we used to get were leaked, not released; unlike viewing figures, they’re not meant to be public information. The person who had been leaking them changed jobs and no longer has access.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

I mean, given that the episodes were streaming before the broadcast is a clue as to the actual non-importance viewing figures actually have. Some moron on some Facebook page claimed that DW became missable, and I was flabbergasted. Its more present now than its ever been!

 

[jaime]

The Barb figures are showing at 3 million averages I think, rather than the six millions. This all feels like political polls.

 

[Brendan Moody]

The BARB +7 figures, which count people who watched the episode live on BBC1 or on iPlayer during the week following release, are in the 3-4 million range. The “ approaching 6 million” figure for Space Babies is total reach between BBC1, BBC3, and iPlayer in the 40-odd days since release. They’re different metrics, both of which play a role in how performance is evaluated.

 

[jaime]

The BARB +7 figures, which count people who watched the episode live on BBC1 or on iPlayer during the week following release, are in the 3-4 million range. The “ approaching 6 million” figure for Space Babies is total reach between BBC1, BBC3, and iPlayer in the 40-odd days since release. They’re different metrics, both of which play a role in how performance is evaluated.

If only they’d counted VHS recording for us poor kids competing with mum for the telly (and against coronation street therefore) in 1989 the same way. And then how many times we watched as individual figures too. It’d probably work out at the population of a small country every week for the McCoy era if we just used the modern way of counting.

 

[Rich Watson]

Apologies if if I just missed this being posted previously but here's a very very mildly spoilerly behind-the-scenes preview of the Christmas Special.

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[The Nth Doctor]

Not much of a surprise, but Mrs. Flood will return in "Joy to the World" and we'll learn why she was standing on Ruby's roof:

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