The Dr Who thread

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:11 pm 0

ITV suffers worst ever viewer share

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Sto ... 39,00.html

(Thanks in no small part to Dr Who)

Related as it's the same publication, though they've not put it online for some reason and I've no way to scan it: today's large editoral cartoon in the Guardian portrayed Tony Blair as a Cyberman. Funny but disturbing at the same time, extreme even by the Guardian's standards for Blair remodelling. Ususally they put them online the same day, so I wonder if the BBCs lawyers got to them first.

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:31 pm 0

'Ang on a mo.. I never said the doc used the watcher to reset his regenerations - reference post : http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?p=882517#882517

I said I thought 10 was too far cos I have a vague memory of someone saying 9 lives, like a cat. If thats 13, fair do's, im not into fanwank so much, these are just memories from DECADES ago

- like I remember the tardis turning up in the davidson era in a junkyard with peri and peter hopping out of it... another memory has adric dying in a spaceship hitting a planet, another has the doc running through recurring tardises... but i'll be damned if I can call any of that fact, or even relate that stuff to any particular story ! As I said back here, vague memories: http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?p=882915#882915

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:36 pm 0

Matrixxx wrote:like I remember the tardis turning up in the davidson era in a junkyard with peri and peter hopping out of it...

Sounds a bit like Attack of the Cybermen, but that was with Colin Baker's Doctor (with Peri).

Matrixxx wrote:another memory has adric dying in a spaceship hitting a planet,

Earthshock.

Matrixxx wrote:another has the doc running through recurring tardises...

Logopolis.

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:40 pm 0

Yeah it could well have been Colin... the two outfits were very colourful after Tom's hat coat n scarf deal; as I said though, vague memories. Tell you what though - that Peri - WHOA - fit eh

*cough* for some reason I never forgot that tight white top

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue May 16, 2006 9:18 am 0

According to unofficial overnight figures, Saturday's episode on BBC One, Rise of the Cybermen was watched by an average audience of 8.6m, an audience share of 39.7% and comfortably ahead of the 3m viewers for the ITV1 competition, another showing of The X Men. Beginning 23 minutes later than scheduled, it was the highest-rated show of the day and looks likely to appear in the week's top ten, behind Coronation Street and EastEnders. The five-minute breakdowns for the evening show the effects of the overrunning football match earlier in the day, with most programmes gaining viewers around the time that the next programme was due to start - Strictly Dance Fever ended at 7.20 with an audience of 7.61m, which Rise of the Cybermen gradually increased to a peak of 9.65m in its own last few minutes; that audience, however, immediately dropped to 6.51m when Doctor Who finished. The 9.65m peak is far short of the 11.3m that were watching the climax of the FA Cup Final - that match's average figure of 6.55m takes into account the entire Match of the Day programme that ran from 1pm, not just the match itself, although a proportion of the 11 million viewers had presumably switched on for the scheduled evening news. Rise of the Cybermen was watched by 0.6m more people than Father's Day on the same weekend in 2005, continuing Series Two's improved performance against last year's ratings success.

The audience Appreciation Index (AI) for the episode was 86. This is not only the highest of the second series, it is also among the highest for Doctor Who since the series return - only The Parting of the Ways (89) scored higher.

Meanwhile, Saturday's edition of Doctor Who Confidential on BBC Three was the top-rated multichannel programme of Saturday, with an audience of 712,500 (4% audience share). Sunday's repeat of Rise of the Cybermen on BBC Three was watched by a further 624,900 viewers (3.9% audience share), peaking at 758,000 viewers in its last five minutes, and was third-placed in the multichannel top ten for the day, while Sunday's Confidential repeat scored 331,100 viewers (1.9% audience share).

Driller · Post by **Driller** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:40 pm 0

Matrixxx wrote: another memory has adric dying in a spaceship hitting a planet,

Fucking good memory to have

defsdoor · Post by **defsdoor** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:55 pm 0

I'm impresed with my Sky+ box for still recording it even though it was on 20 odd minutes late

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:07 pm 0

defsdoor wrote:I'm impresed with my Sky+ box for still recording it even though it was on 20 odd minutes late

well just wait til you want to record something on paramount comedey 2, they over run by upto 10 mins and sky+ DOES NOT compensate LOL

the horror of not knowing the ending to an episode of Seinfeld is horrible, terrifying (cue halloween music)

i never forget the concorde episode of Dr Who. with Teh MASTER!!11!!1 LOL

bring back the master bring back the master <repeat ad infinitum>

DM · Post by DM » Tue May 16, 2006 3:44 pm 0

Mmmm, did someone mention Peri?

stx · Post by **stx** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:09 pm 0

pogo wrote:ITV suffers worst ever viewer share

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Sto ... 39,00.html

(Thanks in no small part to Dr Who)

Related as it's the same publication, though they've not put it online for some reason and I've no way to scan it: today's large editoral cartoon in the Guardian portrayed Tony Blair as a Cyberman. Funny but disturbing at the same time, extreme even by the Guardian's standards for Blair remodelling. Ususally they put them online the same day, so I wonder if the BBCs lawyers got to them first.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:14 pm 0

DM wrote:Mmmm, did someone mention Peri?

Just try not to remember Tegan. Oh, how I cheered at the end of Resurrection of the Daleks!

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed May 17, 2006 11:31 pm 0

Whomosexuals may "dig" this:

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/GEN ... type=genre

Duck Turkin · Post by **Duck Turkin** » Wed May 17, 2006 11:50 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:Whomosexuals may "dig" this:

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/GEN ... type=genre

Whomosexuals

Still, I do like that cookie jar.

carolen · Post by **carolen** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:06 pm 0

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:11 pm 0

DM wrote:Mmmm, did someone mention Peri?

Meh...nice to look at but God was she annoying...Tegan didn't even have the nice to look at aspect, although Evil Tattooed Tegan in Kinda was kinda cool...

Oh shit....I can't beleive I just typed all that...this is starting to sound like a Buffy forum!

Was Logopolis the one where Teh Master had the cool gun that turned people into little dolls? That was kewl