Speaking as someone who hardly watched any live TV, I 100% DISAGREE with this statement. Everyone should be made to watch Doctor Who when it is convenient for me!
(I mean @shauny wants it fitting around his social life so why can’t it fit around my lack of one…)
If we are going to be like that, the best thing for me would be if it dropped at 11:30 CET on Fridays. I often work from home then and have the house to myself and have my lunch then.
As @Tian said, I also think it would be better to focus on the streaming service angle rather than terrestrial TV broadcasting schedules if they want to expand their viewer base. I really like waking up and the new episode of whatever series I’m watching being available to watch when it’s convenient for me
I definitely preferred the midnight releases of last season, and honestly I don’t really care about which day of the week it drops. Let’s call back to the 80s and make it Tuesdays again.
Oh I’d love everything to stop, I just haven’t been able to convince friends and family about that yet 
If it were a football match it would be acceptable for me to stop everything to go and watch it. But not a TV episode 
Philistines!
It’s half the length too!
@Tian @BillFiler Tbh I don’t know what more they coud do to expand viewers. Would changing the day it streams do much? Dropping a whole season? & lets bear in mind the streaming world is at breaking point. Streaming services are losing subscribers, some are losing money. & some have turned their back on whole season drops & binging in favour of more terrestrial tv style weekly release schedules, & they have adverts which subscribers have to pay extra to avoid! In fact I think one of the reasons Disney chose to part-fund Doctor Who was to generate more subscribers worldwide, & of course retain those subscribers. That is the bottom line for Disney.
Personally I am not convinced that changing how/when it is streamed would significantly increase viewers. I actually think the show is just not as popular as it used to be & little can change that tbh. Its been around now for 20 years, so hard to sustain the same popularity.
Even though Doctor Who is part financed by other producton companies a good chunk of the funding comes from the Licence Fee. This means it must be broadcast in a traditional appointment to view slot accessible by all. Saturday nights is currently that slot & I cannot see it moving. So any talk of changes to how it is broadcast/streamed are just theoretical unless the Licence Fee model of funding changes. That is the only way I can see its streaming release date having more flexibility.
Just because of this suggestion I think they should region lock Doctor Who to be UK only
So what you are saying is that, for non-UK viewers Doctor Who would basically, “be lost in another universe, frozen in a single moment. [They’d] have nothing.”
At least until The Master has a strop and destroys them
Pah! Like that would stop us tech-savvy Scandinavians 
If that happened, I would move to the UK /j
I don’t know what adjusting to be streaming first would mean, to be honest. I don’t believe in releasing one season at once. The only one that does this is Netflix, and even they have begun to do it in batches. But it can’t be a coincidence that all streaming platforms drop their high-profile shows on Fridays. Also, forcing the episode to be 43 minutes long can affect the pacing of the episode, whereas a more streaming-focused approach could leave a little room to adjust the length of an episode.
This is probably the number one reason I’m for a streaming-first policy. We could see episodes that are the length they need to be to tell a good story, and there would be fewer episodes that feel rushed.
Okay this is a genuinely good argument in favour of it
Streaming services don’t seem to like to release viewing figures. So not sure if that would significantly impact on viewing numbers.
I agree it would be nice if we could have longer episodes, then again I think we should have a set length. Just arbitrary lengths of episodes doesn’t work for me. I’d just prefer a longer season.
Problem with that is, I think it leads to really undisciplined writing. When an episode can be as long as it wants things get self-indulgent (yes I’m looking at you Black Mirror & especially USS Callister). I think there’s a real skill in telling a story within a defined running time. I can only imagine how bad an RTD episode would be if he was told it could be as long as he wanted 
I still think that they would have changed it if another say would work better. With the amount of A/B testing they are doing I would assume that they would test that as well.
I agree that any length would not work either. But maybe 40-65 minutes as a span would work better.
Me too.
