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"'Doctor Who' named most-downloaded US iTunes show over 'Modern Family'"
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[news]'Doctor Who' named most-downloaded US iTunes show over 'Modern Family'[/news]Title is per a story on this very web site.
Having sat through at least a couple of years of people coming on here alleging that the programme is on the verge of cancellation because the overnight figures are fractionally down in absolute terms, I thought maybe we could enjoy some [vicarious] triumphalism?
Related questions: is anyone here in the US and, if so, have they noticed any uptick in Who's popular standing? I was in San Francisco on the day of the start of 6B and am still pretty sure someone else on the bus was deliberately dressed as the Doctor, but I didn't get a chance to ask as it was quite a crowded bus.
Having sat through at least a couple of years of people coming on here alleging that the programme is on the verge of cancellation because the overnight figures are fractionally down in absolute terms, I thought maybe we could enjoy some [vicarious] triumphalism?
Related questions: is anyone here in the US and, if so, have they noticed any uptick in Who's popular standing? I was in San Francisco on the day of the start of 6B and am still pretty sure someone else on the bus was deliberately dressed as the Doctor, but I didn't get a chance to ask as it was quite a crowded bus.
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It's great, great news. So there's a big audience in America, the show's made a lot of money and gained a lot of attention. Can only be a good thing. And in my opinion, it deserves the success. Hope it continues to thrive over there as it does here.
It's clearly a ratings failure, everyone obviously hates Matt Smith and Steven Moffat is the most unpopular writer the show has ever had!
Doctor Who could not possibly survive another year. Not with these consistently poor ratings!
:rolleyes:
I guess Community's Abed (via Inspector Spacetime) counts as the former, but now that you've made me think about it didn't classic Who get a shout out from Dr Taub in House last year? He definitely doesn't fit the weird or cool mould.
I agree, they badly need to save the programme. I recommend they fire everyone and move production three offices to the left.
There was an episode of Grey's Anatomy recently, I think, where a subplot revolved around a guy losing his ear after being trampled on by a convention crowd stampeding to get a TARDIS toy signed by RTD.
Family Guy has made few jokes about it - the show's ratings are boosted after cannabis is legalised, for example.
Just type Doctor Who reference into YouTube and a load should crop up.
Most of the American kids who watched Who back in the day are likely to be the ones who are downloading the show now. I think that's pretty cool!
And I assume the BBC gets paid for the downloads?
Also, on most platforms, it still isn't in HD, so you end up with a "postage-stamp" picture in SD, since it's still in widescreen. And of course you've got the ad breaks, the BBC America logo, and other than the first time it's transmitted, a bit of editing to fit it into an hour (42 min without ads).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2011/12/iplayer_bbciplayer_iphone_android.html
BBC announcing iPlayer coming to iPhone (and 3G streaming for all their mobile iPlayer clients) and they choose to advertise it with... yep, Doctor Who front and centre. Better yet they go with a shot of Amy (partialy one suspects because it's a head shot, is a very bright scene so it jumps out and scales well to thumbnails). What does it say about the show that the companion is recognisable enough to get away with that?
On the US popularity question, one thing I have noticed is when you see photos from the big sci-fi conventions over there Who is just exploding in terms of cos-play. Granted that's the geek audience rather than the general public but that audience is so much larger over there it's capable of supporting a show all on its own if necessary. At ComicCon this year the Who panel was in hall H which has a capacity around 6,500 people! Similarly I was in Canada a few months ago and the Who presence surprised me. All the comic / gaming stores seemed to stock merchandise, bookstores had a decent selection available (a couple had a whole rack) and it wasn't uncommon to see a large chunk of shelfspace in HMV and the like given over to DVD's of both new and classic series. More and more of my Canadian friends have heard of or seen the show and it's definately much bigger than it was the last time I was over there in 2008.
Sorry if this is old news, but I can't see a thread on it in this forum (link is Digital Spy but not our forum). Anyway isn't that great?
In case it has already been done as a thread (and so as not to waste this thread) I have a quick quiz question.
I was watching Talons of Weng Chiang the other day and noticed that upon leaving the Tardis the Doc and Leela leave the door wide open. So the question is, just how many stories has this same thing occurred in?.... now that will keep someone busy over christmas
Do you have the answer, or are you looking for someone else to do the work?
I suppose he must have left the door open when he fell out in Spearhead from Space.
I reckon the only way to find out the true answer is if we all put a shift in watching a series or episode each. I really can't see that happening though.
I feel like it's happened a few times as I'm sure I've said to myself on several occasions 'put wood in t'hole bone heads'
It must have an automatic closing thingy that operates when he gets a certain distance away.
Mmmm my love life is a lot like that at the moment
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1598076
'tis on the first page....
fair do's.... so the backup plan kicks in with the question about the tardis doors left open.
Or, I suppose, an easier question, have the doors been left open in any episode of modern who?
The Doctor left the door open to the Tardis in 'The Masque of Mandrogora'
And we all know what happened then don't we....:rolleyes: