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Subject: Re: Doctor Who 2024 and its position in the UK TV charts
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:45:29 +0100
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On 25/06/2024 11:12, Squealer squealed:
> I'm not going to talk about the absolute numbers - TV viewing in the UK 
> has undergone a seismic shift over the last few years, with all shows 
> having a marked decline in ratings in the official surveys. the raw 
> numbers don't tell a story any more.

No one is watching them because they've gone totally woke. Look at 
EastEnders which has gone from 20 million to only 2 million.

> 
> Instead, let's concentrate on Doctor Who's relative performance compared 
> to other TV. So, looking at the BBC's preferred measure of 7-day 

Squealer is doing his numbers trick trying to pretend the productivity 
on Animal Farm is higher than ever despite there being a famine and all 
of the animals suffering of hunger, except of course for the pigs.

> consolidated ratings, in terms of short-run scripted scripted fiction 
> (excluding factual and non-fictional light entertainment, and the 3- and 
> 4- times a week soaps) - how is Doctor Who ACTUALLY performing?
> 

Short-run scripted scripted fiction... LOL

Why don't you narrow it down further Squealer. Short-run scripted 
scripted fiction stating a black effeminate gay male actor in the lead 
role but written as a woman and a crying baby.

> Week 0 (Christmas):
> 
> 8 (mostly specials) scripted fiction episodes in the top 50, all but one 
> on the BBC. Doctor Who came in 2nd overall, and 2nd for the BBC, with 
> 98% of the audience for perennial ratings winner Call the Midwife.
> 

2nd out of short-run scripted scripted fiction which hardly anyone 
watchers and costs hundreds of millions of Licence Fee Payers' money to 
make.

> Week 1:
> 
> 5 scripted fiction episodes in the top 50. Doctor Who came in 3rd and 
> 4th of those: but 2nd and 3rd for the BBC (ITV's Red Eye was in a league 
> of its own) with 96% and 93% of the audience for the top rated Blue Lights.
> 

Blah, blah, blah...

> Week 2:
> 
> 10 scripted fiction episodes in the top 50 (because Bridgerton Season 3 
> part 1 dropped on Netflix and stormed the charts). Doctor Who came in 
> 5th for the week but 2nd for the BBC, behind Blue Lights again with 83% 
> of its audience.
> 

Blah, blah, blah...

> Week 3:
> 
> Back to 5 scripted fiction episodes in the top 50: Doctor Who comes in 
> 3rd, but 2nd for the BBC behind - you guessed it - Blue Lights, with 88% 
> of its audience.
> 

Blah, blah, blah...

> Week 4:
> 
> Red Eye had ended. Blue Lights had ended.
> Just THREE dramas in the top 50 this week, all on the BBC. Doctor Who 
> was #1. The most watched short-run scripted fiction in the UK for the week.
> 

Blah, blah, blah...

> Week 5:
> 
> Just TWO dramas in the top 50 this week, both on the BBC. Doctor Who was 
> #1. The most watched short-run scripted fiction in the UK for the week.
> 
> 

Blah, blah, blah...

> We're still waiting for +7s for the last two weeks, but just so we're 
> all clear - the audience numbers are lower than ever before, that's 
> true. But that goes for ALL TV, not just Doctor Who.
> 
> In terms of its performance for the BBC, the new season of Doctor Who 
> has achieved, in the 6 weeks reported to date since Ncuti took the baton 
> from David as the lead:
> 
> #2, #2 and #3, #2, #2, #1, #1.
> 
> Don't believe the doomsayers. The total audience numbers aren't what 
> they were - but Doctor Who remains an enduring success for the BBC and 

Aren't what they were? They're 1/5 of what they were. Gatwa has less 
viewers over 7 days plus mobile devices than than the low figurers 
Whittaker was getting overnight which were half the overnights of 
Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi before he went woke.

2 million viewers on average for a series costing $100,000,000 to make 
is totally laughable.

Get Woke, Go Broke!

> RTD. Disney may renew after next year, or they may not - but the show's 
> not going anywhere. No wonder RTD has half a dozen scripts in 
> development for 2026 already.
> 

Since Doctor Who is dead of course it's not going anywhere Squealer.

Doctor Who ended in 2017 and the woke trash is has been replaced with 
which nobody watches, it's just on in the background just like 
EastEnders while people do far better things like cooking, eating, doing 
the housework and the washing up.

If Davies want people watching and isn't just doing it as an ego trip 
for himself and to sexually groom children then he must totally remove 
the Timeless Child monster from canon and get rid the woke, stop writing 
the show just for women, get rid of Gatwa, and write the show for it's 
actual audience who are mainly white heterosexual men which means basing 
it on the hero's journey and not irrational and illogical sentiment and 
emotion and stupid mystery boxes which when you open them are always empty.

-- 
The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it 
stands for." -William Shatner