Doctor Who’s new streaming home is a huge success

celebrate doctor whoLast year for the 60th anniversary, the BBC did a Huge, unprecedented move: first, Almost all of doctor whoEpisodes from 1963 right up to the anniversary specials aired at that time can be streamed from one location in the UK via the BBC’s own streaming platform, iPlayer. Doing so has proven to help the BBC break streaming records over the festive period.

The company has announced doctor who——The most specific is doctor who Episodes dating back to 2005 – were streamed 10.01 million times in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, helping the platform break its previous record for streaming content in the week between January 2 and January 8, 2023, with 1.77 Billion shows were streamed that week, all of them.

doctor who is the fifth most popular streaming series this week, and its latest episode is the Christmas special “church on ruby ​​road” is also the fifth most viewed episode of the long-running soap opera. eastendersRick Astley’s New Year’s Eve special, period drama call the midwifeand police dramas Night watchmanAccording to statistics, there are 1.79 million streams TV Zone. Although the final ratings for the week have yet to be combined (taking into account overnight live ratings, streaming data, and data on on-demand viewers in its first week of airing), “Ruby Road” ranks third. -Watched the show on Christmas Day in the UK, with 4.73 million people watching live.nice to see this doctor who is booming not only because of a renewed interest in 60th Anniversary Special Offer and Nuti Gatwa’s new doctorbut the simple fact is, if you put as much content as possible in one place to watch, then… people are going to check it out.

However, it is difficult to say how this success was achieved internationally. BBC’s new deal with Disney will see streaming doctor who All on Disney+ except UK and Ireland Only new episodes covered 60 Years Since – Other Contemporary and Classic doctor who Access is distributed elsewhere on various platforms, such as Britbox Classic doctor who and the maximum value after 2005 doctor who. The last we saw was when Special Issue 60 was released,”Star Beast,” doctor who Consistently among the top five most popular shows on Disney+ in multiple markets, seems like good news At least that’s the case around the world so far.

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