Re: Cinema Ratings

The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:

In article <v66af2$2ppov$1@dont-email.me>,
The Last Doctor  <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:

 
https://www.blogtorwho.com/doctor-who-uk-cinema-box-office-data/?amp=1
 
Seems like somewhere between 25,000 and 45,000 people (depending on what
the ticket price was) thought it was a good idea to turn up to the cinema
late on a Friday night to rewatch “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” on the big
screen and follow it with the premiere of “Empire of Death” at midnight
(simultaneously with its worldwide streaming drop).
 
And before Aggie tries to turn that into “10 paying customers and 40,000
freebie giveaways that no one bothered to use” , that estimate is based on
cash takings. The double bill was the fourth biggest cinema draw of the
weekend it ran in the U.K. - even though it was just a single showing in a
limited number of cinemas in the dead of night.
 
Speaking as a lifelong fan, no way I would have done that unless the
tickets WERE free. And maybe not then, I’d probably fall asleep trying to
watch something in darkness at midnight, at my age.
 
So there’s a lot of love for the latest incarnation of the Doctor out there
somewhere - cos again, can that really be more than a couple % of the
audience willing to go out and pay good money for something they could
watch for free at home - at the same time?
 
--
“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor

 
I am a lifelong Doctor Who fan and Not a Timeless Child fan.

We can’t all like everything about the show Dave. I hated McCoy with a
passion and was deeply disappointed with Capaldi’s seasons 8 and 9, and
with the flat and dull work of Whittaker’s season 11. I could happily have
lived without the Timeless Children - at least as it was presented - and
with the confused mess that was Flux.

And I’m not all that keen on the pure fantasy RTD has been injecting into
the Gatwa era so far, either.

But in all of the above (except McCoy - I’ll give you Remembrance of the
Daleks as a near miss and The Curse of Fenric could have been great but was
badly mismanaged, but all the rest - meh at best, disastrous a lot of the
time) there have been highlights and jewels to enjoy.

But we get the show we get.

--
“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor