XPost: rec.arts.drwho, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-02-08 19:30:10 +0000, Tim Merrigan said:   
   > On 2/7/2025 5:16 PM, The Doctor wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Your Name   wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-02-07 14:52:24 +0000, Blueshirt said:   
   >>>> Ubiquitous wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The last season of Doctor Who had the lowest ratings in the   
   >>>>> history of the series across multiple metrics, which is not   
   >>>>> what Disney bargained for. Here's what a long-time source has   
   >>>>> told me about the alleged future of Doctor Who on Disney Plus.   
   >>>>> #disney #doctorwho #disneyplus   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> https://youtu.be/AyxRpy1uzfg?si=SLq66WdzkXBZO-eg   
   >>>>   
   >>>> According to RTD (Doctor Who Executive Producer) in the latest   
   >>>> DWM [#613] the "first order from Disney was for 26 episodes",   
   >>>> which will be completed once the spin-off "The War Between the   
   >>>> Land and the Sea" has aired. So if Disney are not happy with   
   >>>> what they have been getting from their partnership with the BBC   
   >>>> then there won't be a second order... the deal will have been   
   >>>> completed and both Disney and the BBC can move on. I assume it   
   >>>> will be the ratings for S2/S15 this spring that will be   
   >>>> decisive, but if the ratings/viewing figures are in the same   
   >>>> ball-park as they were for S1/S14 then I would expect Disney to   
   >>>> move on...   
   >>>   
   >>> A complete NON-surprise that the ratings are lower than the pre-Disney   
   >>> seasons. Disney of course bought into Doctor Who because they stupidly   
   >>> believed it would raise their number of subscribers, which it wasn't   
   >>> ever going to do and anybody with more than one braincell could have   
   >>> told them the 'ratings' would drop dramatically. The only legal way for   
   >>> international viewers to watch "Doctor Who" currently is to subscribe   
   >>> to Disney+, which most people simply weren't going to bother doing,   
   >>> especially for just one show and continual prices rises (both for   
   >>> Disney+ and general retail prices for everything).   
   >>>   
   >>> Subscription-based streaming services themselves weren't really a good   
   >>> idea to begin with, let alone numerous services all with their own   
   >>> 'exclusive' content. The old cable and satelitte TV services have been   
   >>> struggling for decades to retain and grow subscriber numbers.   
   >>   
   >> So Disney+ is not as popular as hoped.   
   >   
   > Streaming, and other "beamed" services" are not as popular as   
   > expected/hoped.  The way to go is ad paid broadcast, that anyone with a   
   > receiver can get.   
      
   Paid streaming was never going to be sustainable (as already proven by   
   many cable and satelitte services in the past). Most people cannot   
   afford to keep paying out to 20 different streaming services just to   
   watch a few shows on each one.   
      
   What has happened is "churning" - with some people signing up to a   
   streaming service for a week / month, binge watching the new season of   
   the shows they want, then unsubscribing and moving to another service   
   for a week / month. You've now got some streaming services that are   
   moving back to ye olde "release one new episode per week" format, but   
   that's not going to save them either.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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