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RE: Doctor Who - Rdd - 14-10-2023
(14-10-2023, 11:54 AM)ckck1704 Wrote: The bbc is setting up a limited on demand service for sky Ireland. Presumably for streaming dr who as the Disney plus deal does not apply to Ireland.
It’s been in place a while now - since March - but is basically catch up and it’s not exhaustive (or wasn’t anyway when I had Sky - the news wasn’t even on it, although I’m given to understand they’ve sorted Match of the Day now which is the most asked). The rationale has nothing to do with Doctor Who - it’s to facilitate Sky Stream’s playlist feature and was apparently asked for by the BBC in preference to enabling cloud recording on their channels.
(14-10-2023, 01:38 PM)JMT1985 Wrote: I have read some Irish fans are very disappointed at the new Disney+ deal as it didn't cover them - I believe the BBC forgot, that even though BBC One is available in the Republic of Ireland on Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media Ireland, Eir TV and Vodafone TV but not their streaming service BBC iPlayer.The BBC don’t forget things like that!
Hopefully if this new on demand service is launched, it might fix this issue.
There is quite a bit of disappointment as we’re one of the few countries in the English speaking world Doctor Who can’t be streamed - it was on Netflix for about a decade but pulled at the same time as it was in the UK (Netflix operates a virtually identical catalogue in UK and Ireland).
RE: Doctor Who - Gallunach - 14-10-2023
(14-10-2023, 01:38 PM)JMT1985 Wrote: I have read some Irish fans are very disappointed at the new Disney+ deal as it didn't cover them - I believe the BBC forgot, that even though BBC One is available in the Republic of Ireland on Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media Ireland, Eir TV and Vodafone TV but not their streaming service BBC iPlayer.There's plenty of people around the border and on the east coast ( especially Wexford where virtually every house has one aerial pointing inland and another pointing seaward ) where tying it to a service like sky won't fix the issue .
Hopefully if this new on demand service is launched, it might fix this issue.
Set up an Irish portal for iplayer or sub licence it to someone in the Irish streaming market already with an option just for iplayer content or people will just continue to get a VPN and the BBC get nothing
RE: Doctor Who - JMT1985 - 14-10-2023
If RTE or Virgin Media Television had bothered to show new Doctor Who, then the issue of streaming rights wouldn't be a problem - shame it seems Doctor Who didn't rate well on TV3 when they aired Series 1 (2005)
RE: Doctor Who - Rdd - 14-10-2023
It never has in Ireland, for some reason. Sci-fi doesn’t generally and RTE and TV3 had no real interest in it. Unless you count The X-Files (which probably had as many episodes with no sci-fi elements whatsoever as ones that did), the last sci-fi show to air in prime time and be really “water cooler TV” on an Irish channel was Star Trek TNG and that’s thirty years ago.
RE: Doctor Who - JMT1985 - 14-10-2023
(14-10-2023, 07:04 PM)Rdd Wrote: It never has in Ireland, for some reason. Sci-fi doesn’t generally and RTE and TV3 had no real interest in it. Unless you count The X-Files (which probably had as many episodes with no sci-fi elements whatsoever as ones that did), the last sci-fi show to air in prime time and be really “water cooler TV” on an Irish channel was Star Trek TNG and that’s thirty years ago.
Yes, I have seen on Classic RTE Guides on Facebook that Star Trek, The Next Generation used to occupy an early prime time Saturday slot on RTE 1, with episodes airing a year or two after US transmission - used as a lead in to their big hitters back then of Winning Streak Lotto game show and the chat show Kenny Live.
RE: Doctor Who - chinamug - 14-10-2023
Sci-fi does do well in Ireland just not on RTE or TV3. If you were a fan of any Sci fi you were watching Sky One or other Satellite channels, Not RTE. Doctor Who would be the exception to that rule. It really didn't have a following in Ireland in general. When Alan Shatter the former Justice Minster (and big Doctor Who fan) made a joke about being Minster for Time back in 2013, it went right over the head of most people.
Star Trek, The Next Generation was only a few days/weeks behind US transmission for most of it's run on RTE. Generally US shows in the 80's and 90's from the states were only weeks behind and a few times were shown before US transmission.
RE: Doctor Who - JMT1985 - 14-10-2023
(14-10-2023, 07:36 PM)chinamug Wrote: Sci-fi does do well in Ireland just not on RTE or TV3. If you were a fan of any Sci fi you were watching Sky One or other Satellite channels, Not RTE. Doctor Who would be the exception to that rule. It really didn't have a following in Ireland in general. When Alan Shatter the former Justice Minster (and big Doctor Who fan) made a joke about being Minster for Time back in 2013, it went right over the head of most people.How could RTE afford to get US shows so ahead of the UK? Star Trek, The Next Generation took until 1990 before it premiered on BBC 2, meaning come 1990 the BBC were three seasons behind the US.
Star Trek, The Next Generation was only a few days/weeks behind US transmission for most of it's run on RTE. Generally US shows in the 80's and 90's from the states were only weeks behind and a few times were shown before US transmission.
RE: Doctor Who - chinamug - 14-10-2023
(14-10-2023, 08:45 PM)JMT1985 Wrote: How could RTE afford to get US shows so ahead of the UK? Star Trek, The Next Generation took until 1990 before it premiered on BBC 2, meaning come 1990 the BBC were three seasons behind the US.Small english speaking audience on the west coast of Europe. Plus RTE had good relationships with various US production houses. It was common to see European Premieres to US shows on RTE, often on the same week. It was handy for US companies as well as they could give actual figures that the show did well in an english speaking market outside of America. However what normally tended to happen is that RTE held back showing the shows until November, December and January because of the long gaps in showing episodes in America. So they'd be about 3 months behind when a series started and 5/6 days behind when it finished in May.
RE: Doctor Who - MorganLamia - 17-10-2023
Well, Stef Coburn got his wish. The BBC has confirmed that "An Unearthly Child" will not be included on iPlayer.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-an-unearthly-child-iplayer-newsupdate/
Quote:A spokesperson for the BBC said: "This massive iPlayer back catalogue will be home to over 800 hours of Doctor Who content, making it the biggest ever collection of Doctor Who programming in one place but will not include the first four episodes as we do not have all the rights to those."
He's loving it and carrying on as always, of course.
https://twitter.com/Stef_Coburn/status/1714014097115660738
RE: Doctor Who - James2001 - 17-10-2023
Sounds like a charming person.