Re: [Overlord DVD] Disney Ready to Dump Doctor Who? Terrible Ratings Making Mouse Want To Bail, Sources Say!

On 2025-02-08 15:41:29 +0000, Blueshirt said:

The Doctor wrote:
 

In article <vo5tr1$3lv3f$1@dont-email.me>,
Your Name  <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

 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.

 Or more accurately...
 Doctor Who is not as popular as Disney hoped!

Even more accurately, streaming services are, unsurprisingly, not as popular as the greedy fools in management thought they were going to be ... mainly because there are simply far too many streaming services.
They can't get the amount of subscribers to maintain the services, so now most are shifting towards advertising, which will simply push even more people to stop bothering to subscribe. Some service are also looking at sharing their "exclusive" content, but it's just far too late. The number of streaming service will continue to dwindle until only those with very deep pockets remain and only for as long as those pockets can sustain the loses via the profits from the conmpanys' other businesses (the theme parks for Disney, but even those are struggling with rising costs).