XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-03-06 05:28:37 +0000, Theory11 said:   
   > > On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 20:58:56 +0000, Your Name wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > For those few still interested ...   
   > >   
   > > I'm looking forward to the new Doctor Who season. I don't   
   > > know why  people assume there's only a few still interested.   
   > > It's a very popular  show around here.   
   >   
   > It depends on which figures you want to believe, but except   
   > for a few small bumps, viewer numbers have basically been   
   > steadily falling, especially since the move to Disney+ (partly   
   > thanks to international viewers simply not wanting to pay for   
   > streaming even if they still wanted to watch the show).   
   >   
   > Reportesdly, the 2024 season had the lowest viewer numbers for   
   > any season (including teh bad ol' days of Sylvester McCoy) and   
   > the 2024 Christmas Special had the second lowest viewer   
   > numbers for any of the specials.   
      
   That's the key word, "reportedly". With the exception of the UK,   
   where we know what the actual ratings were...and even then they   
   are only guesstimates at the end of the day. Nobody knows how   
   well "Doctor Who" did for Disney+ in its territories.   
      
   I did read somewhere that the "Doctor Who" 2024 Christmas   
   special did very well for Disney+ in Australia and New Zealand,   
   but with no official streaming figures published it's all   
   hearsay... and doing well on a streaming service that people   
   have to pay for is relative as it wouldn't be the same as doing   
   well on a traditional TV channel with wider audience exposure.   
      
   The only way we'll know for sure if Disney were happy with   
   "Doctor Who" is if they choose to order more episodes/seasons of   
   the show from the BBC.   
      
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