It doesnt no.
But still only 2.05 for an opener doesnt sound exactly too good,like space babies had 2.65.
People donât watch TV live anymore.
Yeah, since anyone outside the UK has to watch through Disney+ (I assume, Iâm not sure if there are countries where itâs on other services instead) and they donât release their watch numbers, itâll be hard to get any sense of the showâs actual viewership during this run.
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Disney+ has exclusive streaming rights everywhere outside of the UK (and Ireland, apparently).
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In that case, I guess the only way weâll have to gauge its streaming success is whether or not Disney renews its contract for distribution rights. Which, as long as the show continues to get renewed each season, I really donât care what the viewing numbers are. Iâll just keep having fun watching it.
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Exactly. I donât mind how many people are watching Doctor Who! Iâm just glad it exists and I get to see it.
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yeah however i hope 7+ figures are over 3m.
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I used to care abt viewing numbers but its not just Who, everything is down across the board. EastEnders for example a decade ago used to average 6/7 million an episode, now I think its around 2/3 excluding iPlayer. Lots of people just do Catch Up, or now that its available in the morning watch it before it airs on normal tv like Who now!
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Yeah i see what u mean,last year space babies had 4m 7+day figure but didnt get such a good word of mouth this year i feel it did so i could expect like 3.7 or 3.8 total figure.
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Viewing figures didnât really matter that much anymore by the Jodie Whittaker years because viewing habits have changed, people more content to catch it later on iPlayer, or wait for the whole season to drop on Max in the US for example, and it really doesnât matter anymore in the Disney+ era, where even more of the viewing has shifted to streaming.
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Yeah, it is a bit like saying that Taylor Swift is not a big artist because she doesnât sell that many CDs.
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Doing the first rewatch of âThe Robot Revolutionâ just now 
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Isnât it the coffeemaker Gatwa fiddles with after the time skipping? 
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He probably got skipped forward to a point where he needed his next cup of coffee.
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I can sympathise with that 
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But how does that compare with other programmes on that evening. It has been pointed out time and again that we canât compare ratings now with ratings âthenâ because the way people watch TV has changed massively. Ratings are practically pointless now in terms of assessing the showâs popularity (and they were never a great measure even when everyone was only watching three channels. Most of the showâs greatest ratings happened because ITV was on strike).
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i mean it said it was 4th of the week.
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The viewership marks it as the fourth most-watched programme of the day and second most-watched for BBC One, just slightly behind Gladiatorsâ 2.9 million viewers.
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Well thatâs pretty good when you consider how many TV programmes there are (and that the ones ahead of it were, I imagine, things like soaps or BGT).
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