In The News-- Doctor Who Ratings
Jun. 29th, 2010 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stFinally, the gun-ho press is beginning to notice what I've been saying here all along. The changes in the show are putting off the audience. This is a problem for Matt & Moff. And hiding our fandom heads in the sand and pretending it is not a problem, because people are watching it later, isn't going to help matters.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7859990/Doctor-Who-loses-1.2m-viewers.html
The overall, series long numbers are down, but worse, the penultimate episode lost viewership number not only in first time viewing but in complete viewership. The mark of declamation is after Cold Blood. Until that two part episode, many viewers had been sticking with the show hoping that there would be some improvement in the characters, some connection would be made or the show would simply be entertaining enough for the kiddies. But something happened there, perhaps the unlamented death of Rory, to kick start the giving up process. Will enough people watch recorded or repeated episodes and pick up on the clever aspects of the series as a whole...in time for Christmas numbers to recover?
Another problem is the HUGE oversell that the BBC did with Matt and Karen. Part of that could be just an over zealous, over geeky press wanting to praise what wasn't really great accomplishment, but only a change of the guard. Always comparing Matt and Karen and Moff to the previous crew didn't help. Claiming that they were so very superior really hurt their case. They aren't superior at all. But they are certainly competent and you can certainly count on Moff to deliver on what he sets up in earlier stories. I think if you keep saying someone is amazing, great, mysterious, wonderful and better than anything the audience has seen before...when the audience has already seen and loved someone else...you had best deliver on that promise. Or, after waiting for the show to improve, the audience begins to think you are full of crap.
Rae
still not sure the show will last out three seasons. I do believe that we will drop to 4 million next season as I've predicted.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7859990/Doctor-Who-loses-1.2m-viewers.html
The overall, series long numbers are down, but worse, the penultimate episode lost viewership number not only in first time viewing but in complete viewership. The mark of declamation is after Cold Blood. Until that two part episode, many viewers had been sticking with the show hoping that there would be some improvement in the characters, some connection would be made or the show would simply be entertaining enough for the kiddies. But something happened there, perhaps the unlamented death of Rory, to kick start the giving up process. Will enough people watch recorded or repeated episodes and pick up on the clever aspects of the series as a whole...in time for Christmas numbers to recover?
Another problem is the HUGE oversell that the BBC did with Matt and Karen. Part of that could be just an over zealous, over geeky press wanting to praise what wasn't really great accomplishment, but only a change of the guard. Always comparing Matt and Karen and Moff to the previous crew didn't help. Claiming that they were so very superior really hurt their case. They aren't superior at all. But they are certainly competent and you can certainly count on Moff to deliver on what he sets up in earlier stories. I think if you keep saying someone is amazing, great, mysterious, wonderful and better than anything the audience has seen before...when the audience has already seen and loved someone else...you had best deliver on that promise. Or, after waiting for the show to improve, the audience begins to think you are full of crap.
Rae
still not sure the show will last out three seasons. I do believe that we will drop to 4 million next season as I've predicted.