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'Doctor Who' viewership plummets after woke star tells viewers, 'Don't watch. Turn off the TV.'
The Blaze ^ | May 14, 2024 | Andrew Chapados

Posted on 05/16/2024 1:27:08 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain

The beloved British series "Doctor Who" did not live up to ratings expectations after its star told viewers not to watch if they had a problem with the progressive messaging of the show. Its cast, former lead, and director have been promoting progressive ideologies recently, while the show's viewership has been cut nearly in half.

Lead actor and Doctor Who character Ncuti Gatwa already had the second-worst premiere for a season of "Doctor Who" in December 2023's Christmas special titled, "The Church on Ruby Road." According to the BBC, the episode had 4.7 million viewers.

As That Park Place noted, however, this only beat out the original "Doctor Who" premiere, "An Unearthly Child," that aired all the way back in 1963 to the tune of 4.4 million viewers. That same season saw a significant increase in viewership as it progressed, peaking at over 10 million viewers by episode 10.

The same upward trajectory cannot be said for Gatwa's iteration, who famously told critics not to watch if they didn't like the woke direction the series was taking.

"Don't watch. Turn off the TV. Go and touch grass, please, for God's sake," he told Variety. "As the world darkens — and I do think the world is darkening around queer rights — there is a joy and a celebration, and there’s a community," he continued.

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Doctor Who has been completely destroyed by Russell T. Davies and Ncuti Gatwa. Davies is buckling down on making the show as queer as it possibly can get and his boy toy Gatwa is all too happy to ruin one of science fiction television's greatest heroes. Gatwa told the "haters" to not watch the show. Its first two proper episodes of the Gatwa era got less than a quarter of Matt Smith's first episode in 2010. So apparently "the homophobes" took Gatwa and Davies at their word.

#RIPDoctorWho now trends regularly on X/Twitter. All the original fans have packed up and left. They don't want to see hard left wokery not only kill the show but rape its corpse.

There might not be so vicious an example of liberalism destroying everything it touches at this moment in time than what "progressives" are doing to Doctor Who.

1 posted on 05/16/2024 1:27:08 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: Ciaphas Cain

And the viewership of the two new Doctor Who episodes on Disney+ is said to be abysmal. Maybe only around 30,000 who tuned in.


2 posted on 05/16/2024 1:28:57 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America needs deliberalization like Germany needed denazification.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I think the show should have ended after Tom Baker left.


3 posted on 05/16/2024 1:32:02 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Happy to abide. Though I haven’t watched Dr. Who since it was on PBS decades ago with Tom Baker as the Dr. Use to watch it with my parents.


4 posted on 05/16/2024 1:32:02 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

It’s a show made by and for pederasts. One would assume that’s a narrow audience.


5 posted on 05/16/2024 1:32:35 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I heard it that it should be called “Nurse What” now.


6 posted on 05/16/2024 1:35:42 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Been done with it for a while. Too bad, I used to love that show.


7 posted on 05/16/2024 1:37:08 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: Ciaphas Cain

After David Tennent and Matt Smith the show turned to crud.


8 posted on 05/16/2024 1:41:54 PM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I don’t think there is enough room in a phone booth for “queer rights” to physically happen. Even though they do seem to be able pull it off in bathroom stalls?

Yuck.


9 posted on 05/16/2024 1:43:09 PM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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So, Doctor “them/them/whatever” is doomed, eh?
Perhaps they should resurrect the next Doctor as a talking turd. And it can identify as a socialist.


10 posted on 05/16/2024 1:43:13 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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The new series since 2005 had been pretty good, in large part. Ironically it was Davies who was the first showrunner of the modern era. Apart from one character being openly bisexual (Captain Jack Harkness) the first Davies era emphasized solid story and characters.

But that was almost 20 years ago. Davies left and the amazing Steven Moffat became showrunner, and with him came Matt Smith and then Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.

Then came the Chris Chibnall era which only lasted for the female Doctor (that wasn't even half of what went wrong on Chibnall's watch).

Now it's Davies again, and the man has changed. Has become a raging progressive waging war against the true Doctor Who fans who have watched the show since its original run 1963-1989. Ncuti Gatwa ticks off all the right D.E.I. boxes: homosexual, liberal, minority (I have no problem with a black man playing the Doctor so long as he properly respects the character and the show's history). It's also been strongly hinted that he was on Davies' casting couch if you know what I mean.

11 posted on 05/16/2024 1:46:14 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America needs deliberalization like Germany needed denazification.)
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“ I think the show should have ended after Tom Baker left.”

It did, as far as I am concerned.


12 posted on 05/16/2024 1:46:29 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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I gave up on Dr Who after Matt Smith left. I did watch a few episodes with the female Dr.


13 posted on 05/16/2024 1:47:31 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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The final words of the Twelftn Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, before regenerating were "Doctor, I let you go."

Then he regenerated.

A lot of fans have said that the blinding white flash was the Doctor's real final moment and that the Jodie Whittacker/Ncuti Gatwa era is just a dream like Bobby Ewing in the shower.

14 posted on 05/16/2024 1:53:15 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America needs deliberalization like Germany needed denazification.)
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Suicide by DEI.


15 posted on 05/16/2024 1:54:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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The character is NOT gay. I like the show so far. It is fun again. On the watch for wokness, none yet. The Specials were VERY woke, not a fan of Tennant anyway, overated emo Doctor.


16 posted on 05/16/2024 1:54:53 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: rightwingcrazy

+1


17 posted on 05/16/2024 1:55:18 PM PDT by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights... )
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To: Ciaphas Cain

The show suck from the time Clara left. Pesbian Bill was unwatchable. The new Companion is one for the Dads


18 posted on 05/16/2024 1:57:07 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
"F*** off, and let people be!"

You have to love the hypocrisy of Leftists - why can't they let people be and stop forcing upon them things they don't want?

They don't mind destroying things to make a point. Leave things and people alone!

19 posted on 05/16/2024 1:57:33 PM PDT by scott7278 (Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Did you even watch it?


20 posted on 05/16/2024 2:02:43 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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