Re: Doctor Who: RTD in the Radio Times.

On 17/06/2024 13:05, The Last Doctor wrote:

solar penguin <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:

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The True Doctor Pangloss wrote:
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On 17/06/2024 00:38, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
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If you are telling us that Doomcock's numbers are the most accurate,

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Since they are the only numbers they must be the most accurate.
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Good of you to be so candid with us. Or do I mean ‘Candide’?
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Either way, this best-of-all-possible-worlds optimism is an
interesting change from you.
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 I’ve done a quick fag packet estimate for Disney+ based on iMDB
interactions for episode 7 in another thread. If we assume that people
rating 3 or more probably watched the episode, even if people rating 1 or 2
didn’t, then to date Disney+ has racked up about 2m viewers worldwide so
far for The Legend of Ruby Sunday - or about the same as the U.K.
 

Most people giving the episode 9 or 10 probably haven't watched it either, and that takes away 67.5% of the viewers along with another 5.5% thus your estimate doesn't hold water. Only 17% of your 2 million actually watched the episode for more than 10 seconds, ie. 340,000 and no more world wide. That's closer to Doomcocks figure but doesn't take into account the fact than when Whittaker finished her run she was only getting 100,000 views on BBC America.
A better worldwide estimate would be 75,000. 50,000 in the US and Canada and 25,000 elsewhere since it's not being shown on Disney+ in either the UK or Republic of Ireland.
And that still doesn't tell us how many people watched each episode all the way through from start to end. 300 maybe? Doctor Whoke doesn't represent British culture as the Americans and foreigners see it so that is probably a fair estimate.
Then you need to ask how many people actually watched the episode all the way through in the UK? Most of them probably switched out before the episode ended or tuned in at the end to watch the football. At best I would say only 200,000, most likely only 20,000.
Let Disney+ publish their numbers along with total duration viewed and let the BBC do the same, otherwise my and Doomcock's estimates stick. Doomcock after all said most viewers tuned out for various reasons before each episode ended.
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