Doctor Who Is Top Selling BBC Programme of 2014/15
The show was licensed to 189 territories and is listed alongside Top Gear, Orphan Black, Life Story, The Musketeers, Atlantis, Call the Midwife, Ripper Street, Sherlock and The Honourable Woman.
Other Doctor Who snippets from the report include:
- Series 8 was seen in the UK by an average consolidated audience of 7.4m, and aired in over 70 other countries.
- On BBC America, Doctor Who continued to grow with Series 8 delivering the show’s highest ratings to date – up 19.7% versus prior series, with an average of 2.2m viewers each week – while licensing sales on the title returned year-on-year growth of 29.1%.
- Doctor Who: The World Tour social media programme saw activity on Facebook generating 130m post impressions and more than 2m video views across Facebook and YouTube.
- Doctor Who remains the number one TV brand on Tumblr and ranks among Twitter’s top five most-tweeted about original dramas.
- S8 on the ABC in August delivered an increased audience, and Sydney was one of five international stops on the World Tour.
- The BBC have furthered investment in premium content, with key acquisitions on titles such as Doctor Who, Orphan Black and The Musketeers, contributing to an increase in distribution rights of £32.7m.
- The BBC secured new licensing deals for core BBC brands including a Doctor Who partnership with LEGO.
- During the year matters under review included plans to launch the global genre brands BBC First in Australia and New Zealand on Foxtel and BBC Brit and BBC Earth in Poland; and investments in The Musketeers S3 and Doctor Who S10.
- Global BBC brands will remain at the heart of BBC Worldwide, as well as continued exploitation of world-class programme brands from Dancing with the Stars to Doctor Who.
