Matthew Stott
Tuesday 26th April 2011 9:12am [Edited]
19,296 posts
Quote: chipolata @ April 26 2011, 9:34 AM BST
The ratings were down on last years opener. They blamed the sunshine but New Who has always gone out in the sunshine.
Those were only the overnights, which yes were down on last year, but the consolodated ratings will rise by a few million, and that won't count the many people who will have chosen to watch on IPlayer, on which Who is wildly popular.
The very hot weather and early timeslot most certainly did affect it though. If you look at the show before, it got one and a half mill in the overnights, so a huge amount of people chose to come in and watch TV specifically for Who, not just because they were channel flipping.
Look at the consolodated figures that will be out in a week, plus the iPlayer number which isn't counted, and it will give a truer figure of how many people actually want to watch the show. Audience share-wise, Who still pulled in almost 40% of all the people choosing to watch TV at that time.
A lot of people I know, even those who claim to be huge fans, didn't bother watching it as it went out, they went on to iPlayer later. I think it's indicitive of how the way people watch TV is changing, now they have other options than having to watch at the time of broadcast.
Obviously this will be a problem for commercial channels, but hopefully shouldn't matter as much to the BBC.
Quote: KLRiley @ April 26 2011, 9:47 AM BST
And Smith has been nominated for a BAFTA. But its a bit of a Moff fest. Sorry, but hope it goes to Cumberbatch instead. Sherlock was streets ahead of Who last year.
You can appear in a poorer show and still give a better performance. Not that I'm saying Smith did, Cumberpatch was brilliant as Sherlock.