Re: Cinema Ratings

On 04/07/2024 15:09, The Last Doctor 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

Stop deluding yourself and deceiving people reading. The BBC paid the cinemas for every one of those tickets when it booked the theatres for the showings and then tried to give them all away for free. Even if no one attended a single performance it still would have counted as 40,000 people watching. That's how the BBC, Disney, and all the major studios fiddle their cinema audience figures. What do you think the $200,000,000 publicity budget for a movie costing $200 million to make is spent on? I've never seen a single poster in town for any of them or a single trailer on TV.
The record companies do exactly the same thing to fiddle the charts by paying Spotify and other streamers and radio stations to insert the artists they want to be number 1 for a particular week into everyone's playlists, even if the people forced to listen can't stand the artist. All it takes is 10 seconds to count as a play.
Provide photographic evidence that all the seats were filled with real people.

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.
 

There you go. What more proof does anyone need that the statistics have all been fiddled by the BBC buying up tickets en mass. Even if they were given away for free the majority of fans would not have even bothered going just like you didn't. Who wants to sit though 2 hours of boring badly written mind numbing rubbish.

So there’s a lot of love for the latest incarnation of the Doctor out there

No there isn't. Gatwa's highest rating episode was the one he wasn't even in.

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?
 

No one wents to watch it. The cinemas were all empty. If people were there they would have posted photos of packed theatres. Where are they?
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