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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 22, 2024 12:53:48 GMT
23 years... I still haven't listened to this one yet..
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Post by andy on Apr 22, 2024 12:56:13 GMT
It's now the same amount of time between Matt's second season with The Silence, Nixon, Kovarian etc and the time between the McGann movie and Matt's era.
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Post by mark687 on Apr 22, 2024 14:22:43 GMT
Regards
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 24, 2024 10:52:40 GMT
7 Years old today..The War Master: Only the Good..
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 25, 2024 10:16:33 GMT
Happy Birthday to Samuel Barnett.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 25, 2024 12:49:28 GMT
6 years ago Ravenous 2 started recording..
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 27, 2024 10:45:35 GMT
Happy Birthday to Jenna Coleman aka Clara !
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 28, 2024 1:13:17 GMT
Happy (delayed) birthday to Russell T Davies...
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 29, 2024 7:28:29 GMT
Happy Birthday to Jo Martin AKA "The Fugitive Doctor".. closer to the release date I will pre-order..
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Post by timleschild on Apr 29, 2024 8:22:57 GMT
Happy Birthday to Jo Martin AKA "The Fugitive Doctor".. closer to the release date I will pre-order.. Our Pre-Hartnel legend! Can't wait for her BF stuff, cautiously optimistic.
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Post by number13 on Apr 29, 2024 8:40:51 GMT
Happy Birthday to Jo Martin AKA "The Fugitive Doctor".. closer to the release date I will pre-order.. And me, hopefully! Just because I think the timeless child idea was rubbish, it doesn't stop me thinking she was a great new Doctor. From around 6B or the Unbound Universe...
Whether I buy or not is entirely up to BF so I'm waiting for the 'blurb'. If it's 'Exciting Missions with the Fugitive Doctor' then I'm all in. If it's 'Explore the Timeless Child Origin Mystery with the Fugitive Doctor' then, well, there are lots of other BF releases competing for my money aren't there?
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 29, 2024 9:02:40 GMT
18 years ago today, 10th Dr/Sarah Jane episode "School Reunion" aired..
What a great episode having them meet up again.
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Post by andy on Apr 29, 2024 10:08:41 GMT
I do want Jo Martin to be given adventures that explore the past. What's the point having her if you just give her stories any of the Doctors could be in?
Were you all against Bonnie or Colin doing Big Finish because they werent liked on TV? Isnt one of the best things about Big Finish the way they have rehabbed characters and stories? Seems so dull to just want Jo to do the same old stuff. Paul Cornells line about head-canon being head-in-the-sand-canon comes to mind often here.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 29, 2024 10:32:05 GMT
Happy Birthday to Anita Dobson aka "Mrs Flood" in the latest Xmas Who special. She also voiced "Eileen Klint" in the 8th Doctor Season 1 audios "Blood Of The Daleks".. (Her husband is also awesomely talentedly decidely famous too )
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Post by andy on Apr 29, 2024 10:45:45 GMT
Happy Birthday to Anita Dobson aka "Mrs Flood" in the latest Xmas Who special. She also voiced "Eileen Klint" in the 8th Doctor Season 1 audios "Blood Of The Daleks".. (Her husband is also awesomely talentedly decidely famous too ) Though Brian May could never dream of the ratings Anita got for her famous Eastenders Christmas episode, 30.1 million people. THIRTY million. More than half the country. And 28million came back the next week. Take the most successful David Tennant Who episode - double it and you're still 6 million away from the Den and Angie divorce storyline. Anita Dobson is legit TV royalty.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 29, 2024 11:10:17 GMT
Happy Birthday to Anita Dobson aka "Mrs Flood" in the latest Xmas Who special. She also voiced "Eileen Klint" in the 8th Doctor Season 1 audios "Blood Of The Daleks".. (Her husband is also awesomely talentedly decidely famous too ) Though Brian May could never dream of the ratings Anita got for her famous Eastenders Christmas episode, 30.1 million people. THIRTY million. More than half the country. And 28million came back the next week. Take the most successful David Tennant Who episode - double it and you're still 6 million away from the Den and Angie divorce storyline. Anita Dobson is legit TV royalty. We never got Eastenders here ;(
Over 30 million..!
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Post by andy on Apr 29, 2024 11:19:54 GMT
Though Brian May could never dream of the ratings Anita got for her famous Eastenders Christmas episode, 30.1 million people. THIRTY million. More than half the country. And 28million came back the next week. Take the most successful David Tennant Who episode - double it and you're still 6 million away from the Den and Angie divorce storyline. Anita Dobson is legit TV royalty. We never got Eastenders here ;(
Over 30 million..!
When the population was only 56million. No scripted programme comes close. I think the World Cup final when we beat Germany is the only higher rating. Maybe another but that's about it. It would be like a show today getting 35million with the increased population. The Tennant specials and Ncuti's first episode were massive hits with 8 million. Different times.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 29, 2024 11:41:25 GMT
We never got Eastenders here ;(
Over 30 million..!
When the population was only 56million. No scripted programme comes close. I think the World Cup final when we beat Germany is the only higher rating. Maybe another but that's about it. It would be like a show today getting 35million with the increased population. The Tennant specials and Ncuti's first episode were massive hits with 8 million. Different times. Another comparison :
"Scott and Charlene's wedding episode on "Neighbours" was broadcast on 1 July 1987 to two million Australian viewers. The episode aired in the UK on 8 November 1988, and was watched by 20 million viewers. Minogue said the wedding was what Scott and Charlene's romance had been building up to."
Then you have this ridiculous figure (worldwide I think?) :
"In “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” on Feb. 28, 1983, as the Korean War was ending, members of the 4077th MASH folded up their surgical tents, and characters said their bittersweet goodbyes. The episode drew 105.97 million total viewers — by far the largest number of people ever, watching a prime-time television episode.
“the ‘Cheers’ finale did 80 million, ‘Seinfeld’ was like 76 million, ‘Friends’ was like 52 million.”
Huge figures !
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Post by andy on Apr 29, 2024 12:02:45 GMT
When the population was only 56million. No scripted programme comes close. I think the World Cup final when we beat Germany is the only higher rating. Maybe another but that's about it. It would be like a show today getting 35million with the increased population. The Tennant specials and Ncuti's first episode were massive hits with 8 million. Different times. Another comparison :
"Scott and Charlene's wedding episode on "Neighbours" was broadcast on 1 July 1987 to two million Australian viewers. The episode aired in the UK on 8 November 1988, and was watched by 20 million viewers. Minogue said the wedding was what Scott and Charlene's romance had been building up to."
Then you have this ridiculous figure (worldwide I think?) :
"In “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” on Feb. 28, 1983, as the Korean War was ending, members of the 4077th MASH folded up their surgical tents, and characters said their bittersweet goodbyes. The episode drew 105.97 million total viewers — by far the largest number of people ever, watching a prime-time television episode.
“the ‘Cheers’ finale did 80 million, ‘Seinfeld’ was like 76 million, ‘Friends’ was like 52 million.”
Huge figures !
And with the size difference in population, Eastenders getting that 30million would be like MASH getting well over 150 million in the US We just can't imagine numbers like these - or anything like them anymore.
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Post by number13 on Apr 29, 2024 21:36:20 GMT
When the population was only 56million. No scripted programme comes close. I think the World Cup final when we beat Germany is the only higher rating. Maybe another but that's about it. It would be like a show today getting 35million with the increased population. The Tennant specials and Ncuti's first episode were massive hits with 8 million. Different times. Another comparison :
"Scott and Charlene's wedding episode on "Neighbours" was broadcast on 1 July 1987 to two million Australian viewers. The episode aired in the UK on 8 November 1988, and was watched by 20 million viewers. Minogue said the wedding was what Scott and Charlene's romance had been building up to."
Then you have this ridiculous figure (worldwide I think?) :
"In “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” on Feb. 28, 1983, as the Korean War was ending, members of the 4077th MASH folded up their surgical tents, and characters said their bittersweet goodbyes. The episode drew 105.97 million total viewers — by far the largest number of people ever, watching a prime-time television episode.
“the ‘Cheers’ finale did 80 million, ‘Seinfeld’ was like 76 million, ‘Friends’ was like 52 million.”
Huge figures !
For a long time, the highest ever viewing figures for any drama in the UK were for the final episode of 'To The Manor Born' in the early 1980s; around 24 million (and smaller population, and fewer TVs even by then.) The whole series had been amazingly popular but I can't imagine the BBC making a series about a posh landowner fallen on (for her) hard times now.
It took about 15 years for that to be topped for a non-soap, by cheery rogue Del-boy Trotter and his bruvver Rodney, and then only by a fraction of a million when there were many more viewers and TVs in the UK. So for non-soap drama seen by a percentage of the possible viewing population, Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton still has the last laugh and will presumably always do so.
I enjoyed the series a lot but I still find that rather astonishing. (She would no doubt say 'Quite right too!' and then ask Brabinger to serve tea as if nothing extraordinary had happened. )
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