Re: OT: Amazon to take over James Bond

On 2025-02-22 14:59:01 +0000, Blueshirt said:

The Doctor wrote:

In article <vpbi9i$3qao9$1@dont-email.me>,
Your Name  <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2025-02-22 00:03:46 +0000, Blueshirt said:

 The BBC don't have the money to compete with the likes of
Netflix, Amazon or Disney+ (etc.) when it comes to making
top quality drama shows... which is why they don't make a
lot of the big dramas you see on BBC1 themselves these
days. Generally they outsource and commission shows from
independent production companies instead.
 The BBC do not have a lot of spare cash lying around the
place and for them to do so the UK government would have to
put the TV licence fee up!

 Yep. Which is exactly why they signed the Doctor Who deal
with Disney.  In the short term, an instant infux of cash
looked good on paper to the bean counters and management
morons ... in the long term though, that bad decision could
come back to bite them in the backside and cost them, and
the dwindling number of remaining fans, very very dearly.

 Who is buying Dsiney+ just for DW?

 If you mean subscribing, then I wouldn't think there would be
too many.

I think the dimbulb "The Doctor" got the wrong end of the stick, as usual.
I said the BBC got an instant influx of cash from Disney.

I can believe that some people in the US subscribed to Disney+
for the Star Wars or Marvel stuff. I find it highly unlikely
that many people subscribed to Disney+ 'just' for Doctor Who
though. Maybe when Disney did their $1.99 a month trail offer
some fans might have tried it out? "Doctor Who" is more niche
than Star Wars and the MCU, so no matter how much was spent on
promoting "Doctor Who" in the USA I doubt it was 'the' show to
bring in many new subscribers to Disney+.

The US audience was likely a minor part of Disney's decision. Disney may have thought they would get more subscribers joining up in places like Australia and New Zealand, but that was a fallacy that was never going to happen.

OTOH, I do know someone who subscribed to Disney+ for a month
just for The Beatles "Get Back" a few years ago, and then
unsubscribed after they watched the episodes... so it does
happen.

A few people do sign-up for short term just to watch a season of a show, then swap to another streaming service for another show, etc. There are also some people who simply have more money than sense, but most people are not in that category.
There was an auction here recently that included a framed feather from an extinct New Zealand bird. The auction estimate was about NZ$2000-$3000, but some loonies pushed the winning bid out to NZ$45,000!!