Doctor Who: Season 6 Spoiler Thread

NBC Today show host Meredith Vieira will make a cameo on Doctor Who, for a 'globetrotters' feature on the show.



other anchors are taking part in TV programmes in Australia, Colombia, Denmark and Jamaica.

Probably going to be controversial here - but I'm sure many of you will agree - Last night's figures show Doctor Who got 6.5 million viewers (not bad but down on last year) and So You Think You Can Dance got 3.5 million viewers and the results show got 2.9 million viewers.

Why doesn't the BBC switch these shows around immediately so Doctor Who can get a more sizeable audience?? As when Christopher Ecclestone started, it used to be on at 7.00pm every week! Last few years, it been on at the 6.00pn hour. Why does an underperformng show get preferential treatment?? Even Graham Norton's dance shows used to get more viewers than this.

So put Doctor Who on at 7.00pm and put the dancing on at 6.00pm!! Sorted!! Come on!!

Call me cynical, but it would appear to me that Auntie Beeb is using Doctor Who to prop up the ailing dance show.

Even using the Sonic Screwdriver on maximum power couldn't prop up that steaming pile of equine excrement!

The warm weather probably had a substantial impact on the overnight figures, but I agree, a 7pm (or even 6.30pm) start would be preferable, however in the past two years or so the BBC strategy seems to be to use Doctor Who as a lead-in to try and prop-up their otherwise mostly crappy Saturday night programming, something that seemingly hasn't worked, and sometimes causes Doctor Who to take a hit on its overnight figures, even when its not warm.

On the bright side, a lower than expected overnight figure for Doctor Who has in the past few years usually resulted in a very large timeshift, and also larger audiences for BBC Three repeats. Also, Doctor Who usually gets large numbers of people watching on the iPlayer, and the BBC now has the Live Plus 7 measurement which combines all those who in the seven days from broadcast watched on TV (both the main BBC One broadcast and repeats, including PVR viewings) with those who watch it on iPlayer.

A great opener (although so was last year's and it turned out to be the best, for me) - did anyone else see that they swapped the usual white-blocked BBC over the first few seconds for a smaller silver one integrated into the main titles? I wasn't expecting the BBC America co-production either, though I assume that'll just be the first couple of episodes.

David

The BBC logo swap is as it isn't compulsory anymore, like it once was? It looks neater without the white BBC logo, although it did look a bit bizarre having a BBC logo beneath the Doctor Who logo. A good episode, all in all.

While i'm not a massive fan of putting the BBC logo under the Doctor Who logo, i'm hoping the one advantage it will have is that the massive multi-coloured animated BBC logo won't be slapped on the titles on the international versions and the DVDs, when they come out. Not only does it slightly ruin the title sequence for me, but they also put an endcap with that logo on it too at the end of the episode, and because it's clearly jobsworths who put it there, the title theme is cut off before it's finished.

Yes little things like that annoy me

To me it jarred - <daft mode> as though the programme title is now 'Doctor Who BBC' </daft mode>

I feel it would be better to keep the standard white blocks in their usual format.

I suppose looking at the logo in full, you could call it 'Doctor DW Who BBC' Longest. Title. Ever!

It is odd. Like how Top of the Pops got a little "TM" symbol on it - is that actually necessary?

Was there anything from the CA about scary scenes? Seeing your hero could put a dampener on an impressionable mind's evening (but I'm okay now), not to mention I seem to recall some broohaha over The Unquiet Dead being unreasonably scary, but I'd put the Silents a notch or two above them on the behind-the-sofa-o-meter.

David

With regards scheduling, I'm of the school of thought that Doctor Who should be moved to Sunday evenings rather then Saturdays. I realise that there's 'traditions' around Saturday nights but it's gotten really hard these days to have a solid fixed schedule on a Saturday night, but Sunday schedules are more fixed especially in the Winter.
Case in point would be 'The Waters of Mars' from 2009, 9.1 million overnight rating and combined with other programs that showed that night, the media dubbed it Super Sunday as it was the best TV ratings seen anywhere for nearly a decade.