BBC AMERICA’S DOCTOR WHO
50TH SPECIAL DELIVERS RATINGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
RECORDS
#1 HIGHEST RATED TELECAST EVER
FOR BBC AMERICA
#1 TELEVISION SHOW ON
TWITTER
#1 TELEVISION EVENT EVER ON
TUMBLR
DOCTOR WHO SETS FATHOM EVENTS
THEATRICAL RECORD
DOCTOR WHO GLOBAL SIMULCAST
SETS GUINNESS WORLD RECORD
ATLANTIS DELIVERS HIGHEST RATED
SERIES PREMIERE EVER ON SUPERNATURAL SATURDAY
New
York – November 25, 2013 – BBC AMERICA’s Doctor
Who and new Supernatural Saturday series Atlantis broke
records on Saturday, November 23. Doctor Who’s 50th
Anniversary special, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor, delivered
3.6 million viewers in L+SD for the daytime simulcast and primetime encore. On
Saturday, BBC AMERICA was the #1 cable network on Twitter, Doctor Who was
#1 on Twitter in all of television and the series set a record on Tumblr with
the highest level of activity of any televised event ever, surpassing the Super
Bowl and MTV’s Video Music Awards.
Doctor
Who: The Day of The Doctor global simulcast on BBC
AMERICA at 2:50pm ET delivered the channel its best telecast ever in L+SD, 2.4
million total viewers and 1.2 million among A25-54. In addition to its premiere
on BBC AMERICA, the channel presented sold-out RealD™3D
simulcast
screenings in eleven cities for eleven Doctors on Saturday.
Doctor
Who
earned
the Guinness World Record for the largest ever simulcast of a TV drama following
a massive global campaign which saw the episode broadcast in 94 countries across
6 continents.
“The fan
response on-air, in social media and in theaters across the country has been
nothing short of incredible. The 50th Anniversary of this
extraordinary program has cemented its iconic status for millions of American
viewers and we can't wait for the Christmas Special,” said Perry Simon, General
Manager for BBC AMERICA.
BBC
AMERICA’s new fantasy series, Atlantis, delivered the highest
rated series premiere ever for Supernatural Saturday with 838,000 total
viewers. From the creators of Merlin and Misfits, the
13-part series
airing Saturdays at 9:00pm ET, brings to life the vast store of
Greek myths and legends re-imagined for a new generation.
Doctor
Who’s
50th Anniversary celebration continues tonight (11/25) with BBC
AMERICA and NCM
Fathom Events presenting RealD™3D screenings in over 660 select movie
theaters across the US. Doctor Who: The Day of The Doctor is NCM
Fathom Event’s
most successful one-night event to date, with record-breaking pre-sales of
175,000+ tickets and the highest web traffic in FathomEvents.com history.
Theaters are sold out across the country from New York to Los Angeles; Chicago
to Orlando; and Dallas to Seattle, among many more markets.
Additional key successes include:
Additional key successes include:
·
Doctor Who: The Day of The
Doctor is the
#1 season and episode on iTunes and #1 episode on Amazon’s television chart
within 24 hours of release.
·
#1
most downloaded episode of 2013 for BBC Worldwide on iTunes (based on first day of
sale).
·
In
social media, BBC AMERICA ranked as the #1 entertainment network in U.S.
cable for the week.
·
On
Tumblr, there were 14.5 million views of BBC AMERICA’s Doctor Who Tumblr
on November 23.
·
On
Twitter, Doctor Who overall generated a total of 1.83 million tweets,
topping everything on cable for the week.
·
On
GetGlue, Doctor Who recorded the most
activity ever for a single show smashing the previous record held by Breaking
Bad.
·
On
November 23, BBCAmerica.com had its best day ever with
over 1.375 million global page views. BBCAmerica.com and its Anglophenia blog
had its best week ever in page views and uniques.
Doctor
Who: The Day of The Doctor will be available as a
Blu-ray combo pack or
DVD on
Tuesday, December 10. Written
by lead writer and executive producer Steven
Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor stars the Eleventh
Doctor, Matt
Smith, the Tenth Doctor, David
Tennant, companion Jenna
Coleman, with Billie
Piper and John
Hurt.
This
Christmas, BBC AMERICA will premiere Matt Smith’s final episode, Doctor Who’s Christmas
Special, where
Smith’s Eleventh Doctor will regenerate into the next Doctor played by Peter
Capaldi.
Sources:
Trendrr.TV. Tumblr Analytics.
Union Metrics.
Nielsen Media Research,
L+SD
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