Interesting Doctor Who in the USA ratings tidbit

[kilodalton]

….. juuuuust waiting for the final ratings on The Name of the Doctor and I will update my geeky ratings spreadsheet for you guys! (But fwiw, I’m 99% sure those were the WORST finale overnights in NuWho history).

In the meantime, this is interesting. People have been super-hyping ‘DW is so popular in the US now ommggggggggggg’ for a while. BBCA

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[intrikate88]

Well, that is certainly interesting news.

I kind of home those comparative numbers aren't reported to Moffat because my dearest wish for him is that he gets too big for his British britches and thinks he can hack it in Hollywood and American TV.

Which, lol, NOPE. With his incoherent plots, he'd be lucky to get a series order, and probably wouldn't get past midseason wihtout being cancelled. And this really just goes to show it, even on a cable network for a show that is reasonably beloved on this side of the pond too, it's just not bringing in the viewers.

Teeheehee.

[kilodalton]

my dearest wish for him is that he gets too big for his British britches and thinks he can hack it in Hollywood and American TV.

Ha haaaaaaaaaa! He kind of reminds me a bit of Eddie Connelly from The Idiot's Lantern. Idiot, sexist and blowhard in his own backyard where he knows he can get away with it - but he'd never try that shit with anyone else because he knows he'd be beaten to a pulp.

And this really just goes to show it, even on a cable network for a show that is reasonably beloved on this side of the pond too, it's just not bringing in the viewers.

Yeah. To hear people talk you'd think there were 10, 20 million American viewers. Lmao. But of course we all the ~truth (according to the apologist fanboys at least) - the other 18 million viewers are just simply watching it on YouTube so they are not being counted. Or they're all cramming together, 300 people to a room, to watch it all together, and thus it's true popularity is grossly underestimated XD XD

[domluver]

Well that is just for people who watch it. BBCA is a premium channel and you have to have a cable box to watch it all all this stupid shit. I'm sure not everyone watches it on TV. I know I didn't until they started playing it regularly. Though I still rely more on downloads.

And I would say it's getting popular when most of the stores I visit have small Dr. Who sections.

[kilodalton]

Ehhh BBCA isn't premium - HBO is premium, so is Showtime and Cinemax. BBCA they sort of throw in there along with the other cheap channels in pretty much any package you buy nowadays.

And I would say it's getting popular when most of the stores I visit have small Dr. Who sections.

I'm glad you mentioned this - this helps prove my point. There was a small marketing blip a few months back when yes, stores like Hot Topic started promoting Whovian gear for a while. How hipster of them. Now however, it's relegated to teeny tiny columns that are barely visible, not even in the main section XD Typical of a marketing promotion that ran its course, tried its thing ... and is now still trying to unload its remaining stock before the NEW next-hipster-thing-on-TV/radio/movies comes in XD

[kilodalton]

So there is another bump in the ratings if you could ever get an accurate internet statistic. Which you probably never could.

Yeah exactly. Not only would there be no way to tease out duplicate viewers, but those numbers aren't available. (Of course, in the case of iPlayer they ARE available to the BBC - they have to be, the BBC has to restrict viewers based on UK IP address - but they don't tell us VIEWERS. They tell us VIEWS. Which is very, very, very different and most likely hugely inflated - I used to work for an internet media company, I am aware of these tricks XD)

I would love to see your graph with all the screw up results (x-mas specials, seasons openers and finales) just to see...I'll make one of the Xmas specials just for you >.^ But I've already done the minus-finales-and-premieres one, and the slope of s7 is still negative. Which NEVER happens. Has never ever ever ever ever before happened in NuWho - curious to see if it ever happened in Classic Who, I was able to find those numbers so I'll look there too. But yeah, s7

[kilodalton]

Hahahaaaaa!!! It's OK =) I updated it through Nightmare in Silver and it still shows a negative slope, which I would not be super happy about if I were the BBC.

Final ratings for the finale should be in by tomorrow I hope and I'll update my post then so that all graphs will be updated at once!!!! =)

[ericadawn16]

Two million for cable/satellite is actually extremely good.

Don't forget that Supernatural and PBS are FREE. They naturally would have more viewers.

Plus, making it even more difficult for BBCA, many providers have made BBCA a premium channel that requires a more expensive package. Even the Teen Mom 2 finale special earlier this month only got 1.8 million.

[kilodalton]

Ehhh as merryghoul pointed out, Game of Thrones is ALSO getting more than twice what DW is getting - and it's on HBO!!

BBCA is a pretty cheap cable channel which comes bundled with pretty much all the other cheap channels, unlike HBO which is $$$ and you have to buy in a special movie package.

[ericadawn16]

Okay, Game of Thrones is a more fair comparison since I still have many friends who complain they cannot afford BBCA and/or cable period but they are able to watch the free channels including PBS and CW.

When I was looking back in 2006, DirectTv was the only carrier who had BBCA in its basic package. As far as I know, Dish still does NOT have it in its basic package.

[kilodalton]

Yeah I'm glad she pointed that out, it's definitely a more apples to apples comparison!

I just looked it up on the Dish network website, it's currently in the $34/month package and included in every package other than the rock-bottom-minimum package.

[merryghoul]

Just wanted to correct you on one point--the 7B premiere was "The Bells of Saint John," not "The Rings of Akhaten."

And I agree a bit with ericadawn16 a bit--two million is pretty good for a cable show that's available on some cable and satellite packages, but it's nowhere near the numbers that a show like The Walking Dead, History's Vikings, Game of Thrones or Burn Notice, for instance, can pull. (On the flip side, a show pulling around half a million viewers on cable is pretty bad.)

[kilodalton]

Just wanted to correct you on one point--the 7B premiere was "The Bells of Saint John," not "The Rings of Akhaten."Ahhh oops thanks XD

[ericadawn16]

Yeah, like the last aired episode of Warehouse 13 only had 1.2 million viewers.

[asahifirsa]

That's bad right? I kinda enjoy that show though.