Re: Doctor Who: Season Two Announcement - Disney

On 2025-03-01 23:05:35 +0000, Hornplayer9599 said:

On 3/1/2025 16:34, Idlehands wrote:

On 2025-03-01 1:50 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:

Disney press release for the forthcoming Doctor Who Season 2...
or Season 15 if you're in the UK... or, a.n.other number that
makes more sense...
 [Quote]
"Doctor Who remains one of the most watched programmes on
iPlayer and was a top 5 series on Disney+ globally every week it
aired, as well as being the BBC’s top drama for under 35’s this
year making it one of the biggest programmes for the demographic
across all streamers and broadcasters."
[Unquote]
  https://press.disneyplus.com/news/doctor-who-season-two-premieres- april-12-disney-plus-and-bbc
  Roll on April 12th...

 But I thought it was in the toilet?  All the YouTube "Prophets" and their followers have declared it dead in the water.
 Could they be "gasp" wrong?

 Re-read the press release.  It says Doctor Who was a top 5 series...on Disney +...every week it aired.  When ratings were discussed by everyone, they were looking at the viewing figures for all shows from all streaming services.  While Doctor Who was being aired, no D+ show was even in the Top 10 viewed shows overall, let alone top 5.  The way they wrote that sentence is slanted in their favor.
 Remember, a press release is going to put the best possible spin on things they company can.  The show might have been top 5 just on D+, and that's it.  Otherwise, if the show was top 5 overall, Disney wouldn't be so indecisive about paying for a third (or more) season.

One news report said that popularity amoung current subscribers is less important than the ability for the show to bring in *new* subscribers. If Doctor Who (or any other show) has reach it's peak 'pullability' then there may be no desire for Disney to continue paying out for it.
Of course, as with most thing to do with subscription systems, that's simply garbage. There is always a limit to how many people will want to subscribe, no matter how great any new content supposedly is. Any company that relies on continual growth of their customer numbers shouldn't really be in business to begin with because it is a flawed business model and will ultimately fail - it's basically the same idea as an illegal pyramid scheme scam.