Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,uk.media.tv.sf.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who Ratings DISASTER | Episode 5 Loses 500,000 Viewers with Ncuti Gatwa's Return! Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:58:13 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:58:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="43c73b18e1410625d7004ce16c5b239f"; logging-data="2136234"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QX1yFkMaICaSLdLseh+/WhjwvTOW/Lso=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ijRbym0Zjeg1AqPAH3Vmx9U+Jqg= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2499 Blueshirt wrote on 7/6/24 12:30 am: > Daniel70 wrote: >> Blueshirt wrote on 6/6/24 11:02 pm: >>> Daniel70 wrote: >>>> >>>> Are the figures you quote now still those same BBC/BRITISH >>>> org figures or are they Disney+ figures or something >>>> entirely different?? >>> >>> It's still BARB and they are for the UK only. >>> >>> Disney haven't released any official streaming figures for >>> the worldwide territories where they stream Doctor Who on >>> Disney+. >>> >> Hmm! So might it be the British Whovians (with Disney+) have >> deserted the BBC, so deflating the BARB figures .... but, >> eventually, inflating the Disney+ figures?? > > No, as Doctor Who is not streamed on Disney+ in the UK. It is > transmitted on BBC1 and streamed on the BBC iPlayer. So a > Disney+ subscriber in the UK (& Ireland) does not get to see > Doctor Who as a featured show at the top of the Disney+ home > page. > But a British viewer who ALSO has Disney+ would still be able to view 'Doctor Who' on Disney+ if they so wanted to, surely!! (Maybe they'd think Disney+ had a better quality Picture/Sound, or some such!!) So then would have no need to watch 'Doctor Who' on BBC. -- Daniel