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On 07/07/2024 23:13, Blueshirt wrote:
> The True Doctor wrote:
> 
>> On 07/07/2024 14:02, Daniel70 wrote:
>>> The True Doctor wrote on 7/7/24 2:19 am:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>> Solar Penguin posted links for WERE NOT ACTUALLY IN THE
>>> CINEMAS??   [corrected]
>>
>> That was not my question. Did the cinema managers actually
>> count everyone sitting in the seats. Yes or No?
> 
> That would not be normal behaviour for a manager at a cinema
> complex now would it? Their booking system would tell them how
> many tickets they had sold, be it online in advance or on the
> day through the tills.
> 

Their bookings system would tell them they had sold the entire hall and 
all the seats in it to the BBC. So it counts as a full house even if 
it's empty. When royalties are paid to the actors it's for the full 
capacity. You don't get a refund if there are empty seats. This is how 
the system works. It's the same when books are sold in book shops. It 
counts as all the books the retailer orders as being sold and full 
royalties are paid even if not a single book is sold to the public.

> Mangers manage, they don't go around counting people in seats. So
> obviously the answer to your question is, no they did not.

Correct.

Cinema attendance is counted on the basis of seating capacity of the 
theatre not on how many people are actually seated. There is no count 
ever made. The cinema is booked for a certain number of weeks by either 
the studio or the management based on what they think the attendance 
will be. If the manager thinks no one will attend in the second week 
then the theatre is only booked for a week or a number of days, and a 
full house is counted for every room booked even it not one single 
person buys a ticket. That's how the media knows what the takings are 
even before the film has been shown.

It's all a con. No one has to buy a single ticket and it will still 
count as a full house. When the cinema managers or studios fuck it up in 
the first week it might still take a month or up to three months to 
cancel room bookings if they can still be cancelled. Normally they can't 
so the cinema takes a loss and tries to cover it up by double booking 
the same room for another movie. So people can't even buy tickets or go 
to watch the original movie because the cinema is showing a different 
one that's actually selling tickets, but it still counts as a full house 
for the original movie despite it being totally impossible for anyone to 
watch that movie. That's how Captain Marvel made a billion dollars 
despite every one that went to see it reporting almost completely empty 
theatres. Disney bought up all the rooms or the theatre managers were 
conned into booking them for the movie and they all lost money because 
they were all empty.

> 
>>> 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!!
>>
>> Anyone could watch the episodes at midnight on iPlayer.
> 
> Which is why the the BBC distributing the Doctor Who season
> finale through cinema chains was about allowing people to see
> Doctor Who on a big screen and not a made-up stunt like you

It was nothing more than a publicity stunt.

> claim it was. As why would the BBC bother doing something that
> might take away from their online iPlayer views?
> 

No one watches anything on iPlayer. I already explained that to you. In 
fact it is in the BBC own interests that no one watches because then 
they don't have to pay for the bandwidth used because none is.

>>>> 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!!
>>
>> Which I have done. No one watches Doctor Whoke except to hate
>> on it.
> 
> Says Mr Negative, who spends all of his time here hating on
> Doctor Who in every post he makes, and who watches YouTube

Doctor Who ended in 2017 so how can I be hating on it?

> channels of people who hate on Doctor Who in every video they
> make, and hasn't a good word to say about a show that he
> professes to be a fan of. Nobody can like everything about

Today's episode of House of the Dragon was a very good episode. The 
Turkish Detective was all good. No degenerate workery in either of them. 
In fact the woketards could take lessons from both on how to write 
properly. Further still they could lean from Turkish culture and fathers 
should whip their daughters with their belts if they try to behave like 
whores on the internet.

> Doctor Who, but you come across as a guy who hates everything
> about everything!
> 

Wrong. See above. There is actually stuff I like. Fallout was good too.

> You need to get a life. Being grumpy about absolutely everything
> is not a healthy way to be.

What am I grumpy about? House of the Dragon, The Turkish Detective, 
Fallout, and Reacher all get positive reviews from me.

-- 
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