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RE: Doctor Who - JMT1985 - 15-03-2024

I knew this would happen, as Doctor Who is now more concerned with international audiences, especially in the USA and Canada, than it is with the UK audience, who actually pay for the show through the enforced licence fee.

British television now seems to always cater for the US audience - you never see any US show cater for us do you?

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RE: Doctor Who - Joe - 15-03-2024

What’s the big deal? We are talking hours. And you can watch it online at the same time as the rest of the world.

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RE: Doctor Who - AaronTV - 15-03-2024

(15-03-2024, 06:36 PM)JMT1985 Wrote:  I knew this would happen, as Doctor Who is now more concerned with international audiences, especially in the USA and Canada, than it is with the UK audience, who actually pay for the show through the enforced licence fee.

British television now seems to always cater for the US audience - you never see any US show cater for us do you?

Again, what’s your source for this?

Evidently there are international considerations to be made, which is to be expected given the partnership with Disney+, but we have literally seen no evidence whatsoever to support what you’re suggesting here.

Even without the Disney+ deal, there’s certainly a possibility the BBC would have gone for an iPlayer first strategy anyway - which would mean the episodes landing on iPlayer at a random time in the morning in any case.

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RE: Doctor Who - UTVLifer - 15-03-2024

It's definitely no accident though that midnight drop in the UK lines up very nicely with the time zones being 4pm in LA and 7pm in New York on a Friday night

It is quite a shame though, after the success of last year's specials, to lose the collective viewing experience from yet another flagship BBC programme (with EastEnders and Casualty having already moved to early iPlayer releases)

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RE: Doctor Who - RhysJR - 15-03-2024

There was a short trailer issued alongside the announcment.

Though I think this will suit me, I don't think I really like this. One would imagine the BBC (and Disney+) viewing data would see that this could work, but I think the proliferation of content and spoilers circulating before the average British person has woken up will be hard to avoid.
I'm also not a fan of having two episodes airing on the first day. This has reduced an already shorter series to seven weeks. I guess this is designed to get the whole series out of the way before Euro 2024, but seems a waste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUgqH3a75c 

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(15-03-2024, 10:46 PM)AaronTV Wrote:  Again, what’s your source for this?

Evidently there are international considerations to be made, which is to be expected given the partnership with Disney+, but we have literally seen no evidence whatsoever to support what you’re suggesting here.

Even without the Disney+ deal, there’s certainly a possibility the BBC would have gone for an iPlayer first strategy anyway - which would mean the episodes landing on iPlayer at a random time in the morning in any case.

I'd presume the fact that episodes are premiering in the middle of the night UK time would be their evidence.

There was suggestions ahead of the Flux series that that would be released first on iPlayer, but that never transpired.

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RE: Doctor Who - JAS84 - 16-03-2024

Yeah. I won't be surprised if I get a phone message from X or Facebook with spoilers. This sucks.

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RE: Doctor Who - RhysJR - 19-03-2024

Now officially announced that Steven Moffat has written an episode that will air in the new series in May.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/doctor-who-steven-moffat-julie-anne-robinson-new-season 

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RE: Doctor Who - RhysJR - 19-03-2024

(19-03-2024, 07:45 PM)RhysJR Wrote:  Now officially announced that Steven Moffat has written an episode that will air in the new series in May.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/doctor-who-steven-moffat-julie-anne-robinson-new-season 

Chris Chibnall was also asked to write for the new series

https://twitter.com/BadWolfArchives/status/1770175304679485615?t=K-CXdcu4UK2jvex74Dim0w&s=19 

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RE: Doctor Who - RhysJR - 22-03-2024

New full trailer for the new series.

Not on the show's channels yet, so Disney+ have got it first...

https://youtu.be/xhL5ihOUUcs 

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RE: Doctor Who - JMT1985 - 22-03-2024

And again, US gets it first - yes it just a trailer, but it does feel the US is moving towards catering towards the US audience first, international audience second, and the British audience third. Always happens. Just look at how RTD destroyed Torchwood in their fourth season by moving it all to the US and really butchering the plot.

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