pulling in nearly 6M less viewers than in 2018. The Doctor Who New Year's Day special suffered its worst ratings since the show was rebooted 17 years ago. The episode - which starred current Time Lord
The Doctor Who ratings continue to plummet as now the show has the worst ratings and has lost 1 million viewers in a matter of four weeks.
Of the 253 episodes of Doctor Who produced by the BBC between 1963 and 1969, 97 are missing. This number had stood at 106, until the news broke in 2013 that nine lost episodes had been returned to the BBC after being located in Nigeria.
D octor Who has slumped to its lowest ratings since the programme was revived in 2005, according to new viewing figures. The final episode of the 12th series of the BBC's sci-fi show attracted a TV audience of just 4.6 million.
Doctor Who is one of the most popular shows on BBC iPlayer and has been streamed 50 million times in the past year, with 7 million streams so far for the latest series, as audiences increasingly value the option to choose when and where they watch it.
Sadly, declining ratings led the BBC to cancel Doctor Who in 1989. An ill-fated TV movie starring Paul McGann failed to breathe new life into the show, and it lay dormant until Russell T. Davies relaunched it in 2005.
Many fans of the show believe the series has become too Politically Correct. Some fans have stopped watching because they don't like the story lines and the writing. Many believe the story lines were too politically driven and I have to say, I agree.
The BBC has claimed its science fiction drama Doctor Who is now one of the world's biggest TV shows after a special 50th anniversary episode on Saturday was watched in 94 countries and simultaneously screened in 3D to more than half a million people in cinemas across Latin America, North America and Europe.
David Tennant (Tenth Doctor, 2005-2010)
Ushering in a Golden Age of Doctor Who, David Tennant takes the number one spot. Widely considered the most popular Doctor ever, Tennant brought a whole new audience to the already beloved show.
According to that list, Capaldi, who's been the Time Lord since 2013, earned somewhere between around $232,000 to $290,000 in the last year. For comparison's sake, Matt Smith — who was the Doctor before Capaldi — earned about the same amount per year while Tenth Doctor David Tennant earned over $1 million per year.
Every series that has aired since the revival in 2005 is currently available to stream on HBO Max. That includes series 1-12, with the only series that is currently missing being series 13 (also known as Doctor Who: Flux).
Alien Doctor: Although Time Lords look human, they are aliens, and they have quite a few physical differences: the Doctor has two hearts, a "respiratory bypass system" that allows him to go without air for much longer than a human, an internal body temperature of 15-16C, and the ability to absorb, withstand, and expel ...
The series is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science-fiction television series in the world, as well as the "most successful" science-fiction series of all time, based on its overall broadcast ratings, DVD and book sales, and iTunes traffic. The series originally ran from 1963 to 1989.
The numbers for Doctor Who have gone down consistently with each new episode as the series has lost near one million viewers since the debut episode for Season 12 on New Year's Day. Reasons cited for the show's continued demise include bad writing, poor acting, and its “woke” approach.
Using 2020 figures to better compare its current performance, “The View” is down the most of any daytime broadcast series in Total Viewers with a loss of -364,000 viewers from two years earlier, and is also down the most in both demos, losing -0.14 in Women 18-49 rating (tie with “The Young and the Restless”) and down ...
David Tennant (Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor)
David Tennant was so good as The Doctor, that he's the first to play it twice!
Paul McGann - Eighth Doctor
The Doctor with the shortest time on our screen, McGann took part in a 1996 TV film which was meant to relaunch the franchise. Sadly, US audiences didn't take, though it was popular in the UK.
1. David Tennant. Regularly topping polls for the most popular Doctor Who incarnation of all time – at least the polls that Tom Baker doesn't win – the David Tennant era marked the most successful in the show's recent history.
One of the reasons why Doctor Who has been so successful, and what differentiates it from more traditional sci-fi fare like Star Trek, is that the Doctor always travels with one or more companions. There have been dozens of companions, but most of them are humans from the present time of the Doctor.
The episode ended with credits that read "introducing David Tennant as The Doctor." “If you thought the appearance of David Tennant was a shock, we've got plenty more surprises on the way!" Davies said in an October press release.
'Time and the Rani' began the Seventh Doctor era with just 5.1 million viewers, and by the time 1989's 'Battlefield' came around, the Doctor Who ratings hit an all-time low with just 3.1 million tuning in for its opening episode – the lowest figure in the series' history, and a record that 'Battlefield' still holds to ...
IMDb Rating: 4.1
"Orphan 55" is the worst-rated episode in the entire show, being panned by both critics and fans alike.
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