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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: USA Election
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:03:40 -0000 (UTC)
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Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
> Daniel70 wrote:
> 
>> Your Name wrote on 17/11/24 8:11 am:
>>> On 2024-11-16 20:07:13 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>>> 
>>>> Well, I don't live in the UK, I don't pay for a TV licence
>>>> - British or Irish - and I still watch the TV show that I
>>>> have loved since I was a child... so it can be done! ;-)
>>> 
>>> You pay your "TV licence" to Disney instead.  ;-)
>>> (Unless you use the naughty web to download the episodes.)
>>> 
>> Doesn't the current BBC/Disney contract provide free
>> distribution of "Doctor Who" to Ireland .... or is that only
>> to Northern Ireland??
> 
> Not exactly, but close. BBC1 is available in all of Ireland and
> has been since forever... so anyone could watch Doctor Who on
> BBC1 as broadcast at whatever time it is shown. The thing you
> are on about is the streaming deal which allowed [delayed]
> streaming of Doctor Who S1/14 on RTE's "RTE Player" because the
> BBC's iPlayer service is only [legally] available to people
> within the UK.
> 
> So despite the much publicised BBC/Disney "exclusive" deal for
> Doctor Who I can turn on the RTE Player this afternoon and
> re-watch any episode of the RTD 2.0 era.
> 
> Incidentally, on the RTE Player Ncuti Gatwa's first season is
> listed as Doctor Who "Season 24"  and the four 2023 special
> episodes are listed as "Season 23"...
> 

So really, by year. That would make the first six episodes of the classic
show “Season 63”. 


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