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Subject: Re: Cinema Ratings
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 23:02:56 +1000
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The True Doctor wrote on 7/7/24 2:19 am:
> On 06/07/2024 09:09, solar imbecile wrote:
>> The True Doctor wrote:
>>> On 05/07/2024 10:33, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>> The True Doctor wrote:
>>>>> On 05/07/2024 08:49, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Why would the BBC pay cinemas for thousands of tickets
>>>>>> just to give them all away when they broadcast the exact
>>>>>> same episodes on BBC1 and it's available on their iPlayer.
>>>>>> That doesn't make any sense!
>>>>> 
>>>>> It was a failed publicity stunt. The BBC expected huge
>>>>> numbers to take the tickets off it but no one did. The seats
>>>>> were empty and the BBC has not pictures to show for it.
>>>>> Nothing.
>>>> 
>>>> Have you any evidence for this claim?
>>> 
>>> I am not the one making the claim. The BBC is. It is therefore
>>> the BBC who is obliged to provide evidence, not me.
>> 
>> The BBC is claiming that “it was a failed publicity stunt”? Are you
>> sure? When did they make this claim? And why would they claim it
>> failed? Wouldn’t it be in their own interest to claim it was
>> successful?
> 
> The claim we were talking about imbecile was that concerning the
> cinema ratings as stated in the title. Do you understand English?
> 
>>> My claims are perfectly rational. Where are the bums on seats? I
>>> want to see photos off full theatres with Doctor Whoke showing on
>>> the big screen. Where are they? Surly, by now, fans would have
>>> posted them all over social media, and the BBC itself. Real
>>> pictures, not AI generated ones.
>> 
>> Since you only trust random strangers on YouTube, try this:
>> 
>> https://youtu.be/IG40B9PbHe8
>> 
>> or this:
>> 
>> https://youtu.be/hC1HljB7-84
>> 
>> People who hated the episode when they saw it in the cinema.
> 
> So if they hated it there can't have been many people there with
> them. They probably all left before it ended if there were any others
> there at all. But none of that matters as you shall see below.
> 
>> (And if you’re gonna claim they’re BBC plants, then why didn’t
>> they say they loved it?)
> 
> None of the people there count because the BBC paid to hire the
> theatre so it counts as a full house even if not a single viewer
> attended.
> 
> Do you seriously think the cinema managers counted everyone actually
> sitting there through the whole performance and sent the stats back
> to the BBC? It counts as a full house because the BBC bought all the
> tickets even when completely empty.

Do you seriously think the two guys (and their mates) that Blueshirt
posted links for WERE NOT ACTUALLY IN THE CINEMAS??

Bit hard to give reviews of programs they haven't actually watched .....
Oh, but hang on, YOU, Aggy, are always doing that, aren't you .... for 
our benefit, of course!!

> Do you understand that this is how the statistics are always all
> fiddled for publicity? The BBC have wasted licence fee payers' money
> and should be condemned for it.
> 
No, I thought YOU, Aggy, were supplying us with all the Stats we needed!!
-- 
Daniel