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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who Ratings DISASTER | Episode 5 Loses 500,000
 Viewers with Ncuti Gatwa's Return!
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 10:45:32 -0000 (UTC)
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Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> 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.

No, Daniel. Doctor Who is not part of the Disney+ catalogue in the U.K. or
Ireland. It’s a BBC (and now RTE) exclusive property.

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“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor