Re: Cinema Ratings

On 05/07/2024 08:49, Blueshirt wrote:

The True Doctor wrote:
 

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

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https://www.blogtorwho.com/doctor-who-uk-cinema-box-office-data/?amp=1

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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).
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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

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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.
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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.
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Provide photographic evidence that all the seats were filled
with real people.

 <face palm>
 You are being a bit silly now...
 Why would the BBC pay cinemas for thousands of tickets just to
give them all away when they broadcast the exact same episodes
on BBC1 and it's available on their iPlayer. That doesn't make
any sense!

It was a failed publicity stunt. The BBC expected huge numbers to take the tickets off it but no one did. The seats were empty and the BBC has not pictures to show for it. Nothing.

 So, people had cinema tickets to watch Doctor Who... but they
didn't turn up to watch it?
 

They may not have even bothered to apply for them.

Just WTF are you on?!
 

Common sense.

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.
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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.

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

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

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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?

 You really are a nut case aren't you?

Provide photographic evidence that all of the cinemas were not empty. Where is it?
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