Doctor Who Ratings VS The World Cup
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rabid1stA bit more about the ratings slump. It seems that there was an England World Cup match up against Doctor Who in 2006. According to the dreaded Wikipedia...
Overnight ratings for "The Satan Pit" came in at 5.5 million viewers. While these are the lowest to date, the good weather, combined with the first England game of the 2006 World Cup are factors to be considered. Moreover, "The Satan Pit" had an audience share of 35%, meaning that its overall share has remained static and it was the third most watched programme of the day, after the England vs. Paraguay game and Casualty.[1] The audience Appreciation Index for the episode was 86. The final consolidated rating was 6.08 million. This episode was the lowest rated episode of Doctor Who since it was revived in 2005 until The Hungry Earth in 2010, which rated 6.01 million viewers on BBC1.
There it is again, good weather and World Cup game taking the first viewership down to 5.5 million on a two part episode. Now it has taken it down to 4.6 million on a one part episode. Not that big a difference, right?
But where you see a big difference in the popularity of the show is in first time viewers vs those who just record it to watch later. The Satan Pit was watched by 6.08 total...so less than a million people recorded it, despite weather and World Cup. Skip ahead to Turn Left...7.0 million or so people watched in the overnights and 8.09 million watched in the final figures. So 1.09 million or so recorded the show. This figure pretty much remains consistent through 5 years of the show. Now, the numbers are coming in with 3 million or more recording the show. And the audience share is 23%, down quite a bit for this episode. Because people are just not that interested anymore. Doctor Who is no longer must see TV. The parents know nothing will happen, so they don't mind putting off watching with the kids. Other shows are more interesting.
EDIT TO NOTE Vincent and the Doctor came in with a final figure of 6.76 million. So the final figures are also starting to dip. Though, again, good weather. I am expecting people to return for the finale and Christmas. But we must note how far the numbers go up and how quickly they fall again next year. Too much depends on this finale, in my opinion.
Overnight ratings for "The Satan Pit" came in at 5.5 million viewers. While these are the lowest to date, the good weather, combined with the first England game of the 2006 World Cup are factors to be considered. Moreover, "The Satan Pit" had an audience share of 35%, meaning that its overall share has remained static and it was the third most watched programme of the day, after the England vs. Paraguay game and Casualty.[1] The audience Appreciation Index for the episode was 86. The final consolidated rating was 6.08 million. This episode was the lowest rated episode of Doctor Who since it was revived in 2005 until The Hungry Earth in 2010, which rated 6.01 million viewers on BBC1.
There it is again, good weather and World Cup game taking the first viewership down to 5.5 million on a two part episode. Now it has taken it down to 4.6 million on a one part episode. Not that big a difference, right?
But where you see a big difference in the popularity of the show is in first time viewers vs those who just record it to watch later. The Satan Pit was watched by 6.08 total...so less than a million people recorded it, despite weather and World Cup. Skip ahead to Turn Left...7.0 million or so people watched in the overnights and 8.09 million watched in the final figures. So 1.09 million or so recorded the show. This figure pretty much remains consistent through 5 years of the show. Now, the numbers are coming in with 3 million or more recording the show. And the audience share is 23%, down quite a bit for this episode. Because people are just not that interested anymore. Doctor Who is no longer must see TV. The parents know nothing will happen, so they don't mind putting off watching with the kids. Other shows are more interesting.
EDIT TO NOTE Vincent and the Doctor came in with a final figure of 6.76 million. So the final figures are also starting to dip. Though, again, good weather. I am expecting people to return for the finale and Christmas. But we must note how far the numbers go up and how quickly they fall again next year. Too much depends on this finale, in my opinion.
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Date: 2010-06-14 07:23 pm (UTC)Maybe its Matt Smith,maybe its the focus of the stories but I and lots of other friends ,who would have previously put off other things to watch it are now changing their thinking to put off the Doctor.
Shame really, cos I love Stephen Moffats' writing and he has great twists and turns in his stories. There's just some sort of dynamism
missing that really made a difference.
Quite where the World Cup fits in I'm not really sure. sorry *hasty exit*
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Date: 2010-06-14 10:46 pm (UTC)I don't really come here as a vulture. I really would like to offer shows like Doctor Who some help, but they don't even know that they need help until it is far too late to save them. And then they usually do something stupid like have Amy and Eleven fall in love and get married...or whatever. Something out of left field that they do because they believe all of the fandom mythos about UST and romance and good stories.
Most viewers don't really know what makes a story work or not. They just know that they love a show or they can take it or leave it. Some of them have things they can focus on not liking...Matt, Moffat, Amy or the lack of Tennant. But the real problem with a show is often just that it loses what drew people in the first place. In the case of Doctor Who...romanticism. The Doctor was re-imagined by RTD as a romantic figure. Not in the gushy sense (though in that too) but in the sense of a lonely man who needed love and acceptance. He finds both with Rose...loses her...nearly loses himself...but finds he can go on with a friend by his side.
Then, we sort of wander away from the story and we don't really bother coming to any conclusions. Then, we get a new guy who whatever else he is...is not a romantic figure. It is small wonder people are left feeling sort of...blah about the show now.
Rae
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Date: 2010-06-15 07:29 pm (UTC)Yes,I totally agree that most people know that there's something not quite right but can't put their finger on what it is.Those people that have influence and control over content aren't seeing a problem as they congratulate themselves on a job well done.So how to fix the problem? Trouble is, even if you did offer some advice/interest/etc, Moffat et al would not receive it kindly or pay attention to it at all. Shame.
Thinking about the romanticism angle... you may have a point. I hadn't picked up on it before but even from the very (new) beginning there was always sexual tension of some sort between the Doctor(9 or 10) and the assistant. Amy and Eleven have the sexual chemistry of peat and sugar.Pretty flat.
There's no sign of romanticism either though. Their flirting was clunky and hideous and then with the Rory theme...well hardly surprising no-one really cares what's gonna happen.
Oh dear. managed to make myself thoroughly depressed about it all.On that note....England for the Cup!!