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Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Last updated 02 January 2017
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Featuring: Zoë Ball Ball, Colin Baker, Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Bernard Cribbins, Peter Davison, Mark Gatiss, Rufus Hound, Steven Moffat, Daniel Roche, Matt Smith
Watch the annoucnement of the next Doctor live.
Broadcast notes:
This timeslot was originally listed as the first part of a 60m repeat of The Eleventh Hour; whether this was the intention or just a subterfuge like the UK's Celebrity Mastermind to hide the live show is unknown, but once all had been revealed on the morning of Friday 2nd August, BBC America updated their schedule to reflect this, with a repeat of Doctor Who Revisited afterwards - though they placed another showing of The Doctors Revisited: The First Doctor in this timeslot to begin with by mistake!
Broadcast Source: BBC America
Ratings Information:
Initial figures: 0.895m viewers (overnight)
8th August 2013: BBC Media Centre reports that BBC America indicated 895,000 total viewers for the show which was broadcast at 2pm making it the best telecast ever outside of primetime among the 25-54 demographic - sitting only behind The Royal Wedding as the best non-prime telecast ever on the channel. (source: Nielsen Media Research, L+SD)
The special 30-minute TV event also claimed the top spot of most talked about TV show (outside of sport) on social media in the US beating the likes of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never on MTV and Keeping Up With The Kardashians on E! On Tumblr, there were 11.84 million views of the Official US Doctor Who Tumblr since the shows announcement, and fans created 3 million Doctor Who-related reblogs on the day of the show. Twitter activity around the special was double the hit sci-fi series season average for BBC America and at the peak of the activity, six out of the ten trending topics in the US were related to the announcement. Doctor Who continues to be the highest rating programme on the network. (source Trendrr.TV. Tumblr Analytics. Union Metrics)
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