Am not sure about Outcasts cause I didn't keep up with the ratings but I was under the impression the show even with the finals was under 6 million and the I player stuff only really kicked it when it was moved to sunday?
Series 6 Viewing Figures
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Am not sure about Outcasts cause I didn't keep up with the ratings but I was under the impression the show even with the finals was under 6 million and the I player stuff only really kicked it when it was moved to sunday?
BARB do have ratings including timeshifted viewing, BBC have also recently started using Live+7 ratings internally.
I would watch it on iplayer and contribute to the ratings, except that my iplayer has annoying horizontal artifacts when playing in HD, so I download it instead.
I don't know why it does this, I thought it used Flashplayer which makes it unlikely that it is conflicting with other codecs on my PC.
I don't know why it does this, I thought it used Flashplayer which makes it unlikely that it is conflicting with other codecs on my PC.
You can download the HD version from iPlayer can't you?
Yep, just looked, you can download the HD version from the website, 918mb.
Hmm, that's strange.
The BBC America broadcast drew 1.26 million viewers, far and away BBC America's biggest telecast ever. Obviously, it's a far less impressive number than the official BBC number, but it's fantastic for BBC America and has to justify the costs of co-production. If the BBC's support starts slipping and these numbers keep up, BBC America might be persuaded to put more money into Who.
Those are excellent numbers for BBC America, which still isn't available in a lot of places in the US.
No, it's Matt's second series.
Sure you are mate.
I guess if you did actually watch it, you'd know it's the beginning of Smith's second year.
But that's why there is such a thing as consolidated ratings - it's been like that for years.
SFX Magazine in the UK just posted an article on its blog that really does a good job of putting the whole ratings issue in perspective. As well as illustrating how "overnight ratings" these days serve only a single purpose, and that's to provide anti-franchise TV media with an excuse to bash popular shows.
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/05/03/pur...s-falling-overnight-ratings-are-a-good-thing/
Alex
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/05/03/pur...s-falling-overnight-ratings-are-a-good-thing/
Alex
Loved the last line in the SFX mag link above.
"oh, and the Daily Mail? Didn’t that recently record its lowest circulation in 10 years?"
The Doctor Who News Page is now reporting that BBC One has blinked, and will be moving Doctor Who to a slightly later timeslot and swapping it with So You Think You Can Dance, starting with the May 14 broadcast of The Doctor's Wife. (The BBC by the way is saying 6:30, not 6:40 as mentioned above).
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/05/dwn0405170012-new-schedule-from-week.html
Another reason for the move is to put as much space between it and the BBC's apparent stinkbomb Don't Scare the Hare, which had been DW's lead-in the first couple of weeks.
I was curious what type of show that was, so I went onto YouTube and saw a glip.*
Oh. My. God.
There's a legend in American TV about a game show Jackie Gleason once hosted called You're in the Picture, which was so awful Gleason unilaterally cancelled it after one broadcast and spent what was to be its second episode giving a 30-minute apology to the viewers. (This really happened - you can find clips online.)
Well, someone at the BBC should consider doing the same. Even in this brief clip, I can see why this thing was so toxic it was even bringing down Doctor Who:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSM5pqAZlQ
Alex
* I spotted this typo but I like it so I'm keepin' it!
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/05/dwn0405170012-new-schedule-from-week.html
Another reason for the move is to put as much space between it and the BBC's apparent stinkbomb Don't Scare the Hare, which had been DW's lead-in the first couple of weeks.
I was curious what type of show that was, so I went onto YouTube and saw a glip.*
Oh. My. God.
There's a legend in American TV about a game show Jackie Gleason once hosted called You're in the Picture, which was so awful Gleason unilaterally cancelled it after one broadcast and spent what was to be its second episode giving a 30-minute apology to the viewers. (This really happened - you can find clips online.)
Well, someone at the BBC should consider doing the same. Even in this brief clip, I can see why this thing was so toxic it was even bringing down Doctor Who:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSM5pqAZlQ
Alex
* I spotted this typo but I like it so I'm keepin' it!
