XPost: rec.arts.drwho, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article ,   
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >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.   
   >   
      
   Streaming is just a poor model.   
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