Doctor Who: Season 2 (Series 15)

[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by pferreira

But...but...I keep being told the Christmas special was in the most watched TV shows on Christmas Day!

I think the key metric is that more than half (over 5m viewers) of the people that watched Wallace & Gromit straight afterwards actively avoided watching Doctor Who beforehand, whereas the last time they shared a schedule in 2008 there was something close to parity (DW had >80% of W&G's audience in 2008, and <50% in 2024 - no "viewer habits" spin can disguise that decline in audience interest). It's fairly damning when you can't get a jumpstart off something so massive as a world premiere W&G TV movie as a lead-out, and although 4m is a good rating in any other context, and other (also tired and old) shows suffered like Strictly and Corrie and also lost on the year before... over 2m still chose a game show repeat that had already rated well a few days earlier (and that they might well have already seen!) than watch a brand new Doctor Who Christmas special. That to me is the killer.

I'm just waiting to see how they spin the ratings next month because there's got to come a point where they stop gaslighting and admit what's happening and what decisions were taken last year. They are barely even bothering with the hype machine I notice. It's on in 12 days!