Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: [NEWS] Doctor Who named one of top British TV exports Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 09:30:56 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 79 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 21:30:57 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="acc0207ad978562902dc53a07089c957"; logging-data="1311888"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX199NbjRizRM25CKlvJkFELBwcfDZi1bdgs=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:j1pbONk2QWhgtPeqo2jpxgc9sOg= Bytes: 4278 Below is yet another example of the misuse and bad reporting of statistics. Of course Doctor Who made piles of money this financial year ... Disney paid out a massive fee for the show (even when weighed against the loss of the money from the various international networks used to pay). Plus that Disney money should have statistically been spread across the two year contract, rather than treated as one lump sum in this financial year. All the other shows are still sold as they previously have been. Statistics can be manipulated to "prove" anything the person paying for the result wants it to prove, and eyecatching headlines can sell 'newspapers' even when they're misleading. :-\ The reality is that Doctor Who was sold to one international streaming service with a relatively small potential audience, rather than numerous smaller international networks who previously bought the show with a combined bigger potential audience. Doctor Who named one of top British TV exports as UK show sales hit record US high ---------------------------------------------- Other series that were flagged as selling well include Planet Earth III and Got Talent. A report has found that sales of British shows to the US hit a record high in 2023, with Doctor Who flagged as a series that performed particularly well. The latest UK TV Exports Report from Pact showed that UK distributor revenues from the US went up by 13 per cent to £593m ($751m) during 2023, topping the £574m generated during 2020, the first year of the pandemic. Amongst the series which were noted as performing well in the report were Doctor Who, in the first year of the BBC's deal with Disney Plus to produce and distribute the show, as well as the likes of Boat Story, Planet Earth III and the Got Talent franchise. Pact found that despite success in the US, British TV exports around the world fell slightly in 2023-24, down two per cent on the previous 12 months. Scripted drama dominated the genre share of exports, although fell from 49 per cent to to 43 per cent from the previous year, while entertainment saw the biggest increase from 21 per cent to 27 per cent. The Disney Plus Doctor Who deal is set to continue into 2025, with a second season of the show having already been shot. Meanwhile, a spin-off series, The War Between the Land and the Sea, has also been produced. Beyond that is less clear - the show has yet to be officially renewed by Disney for a third season under the deal, season 16, although showrunner Russell T Davies has assured fans this is nothing to worry about. He previously told SFX Magazine: "It's an industry decision, it's like any business - these things take time. I think the decision will come after the transmission of season two. That's what we're expecting, that's what we've always been heading towards." Before this, Doctor Who will be back at Christmas for this year's festive special, Joy to the World, which has been written by Steven Moffat and stars Nicola Coughlan, alongside Fifteenth Doctor actor Ncuti Gatwa.