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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: The Legend of Ruby Sunday - first thoughts
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:00:36 -0000 (UTC)
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The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> The Last Doctor  <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Not going to review or rate this properly yet as the story is only halfway
>> through - but my impressions overall are very positive if only the plot can
>> stick its landing.

[SNIP random thoughts]

>> OK, enough smoke and mirrors for now. More to follow next week.
>> 
>> Trajectory - 9/10. But let’s see.
>> 
> 
> So 1.5 +7 +8 +9 +9 -> 25.5 /5 -> 5.1 

Actually Dave, 1.5 +7 +8 +9 +9 -> 34.5 /5 -> 6.9, but thanks for playing. 

Since Aggie never properly watches the programme and never seems to
understand it, you should probably ignore him anyway and use a weighted
average that ignores his spurious outliers.

7 +8 +9 +9 -> 33 / 4 -> 8.25 

A bit below the 8.7 it is rated by IMDB today but close enough to show that
Aggie should definitely be disregarded as he is only representative of a
tiny minority of viewers (77.5% rated the episode 9 or 10, 22% 7 or 8, 5%
3-6, 5.5% 1 or 2).

Incidentally by reviews:

UK 1100 reviews, 8.8 average, 3.2% 1 or 2
USA 532 reviews, 8.7 average, 7.1% 1 or 2
Australia 120 reviews, 8.3 average, 8.4% 1 or 2
Canada 64 reviews, 8.4 average, 4.7% 1 or 2
Germany 65 reviews, 8.5 average, 7.7% 1 or 2.

Rest of the world and unknown therefore another 310 or so.

Now if we assume that about the same percentage of people around the world
compared to viewers will rate on iMDB, and that only people who have
watched a good portion of the show will rate it highly, then if UK
overnight viewers were 2m then US will have been 0.9m, Australia 0.2m,
Canada and Germany 0.1m each, rest of the world in total 0.6m. Giving a
finger in the air viewership on Disney+ for the first two days of
availability, of 1.9m - or slightly over 9,500 times the ludicrous
estimates given by Doomcock and Aggie.

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