With regard to TV ratings, I don't know how it works in America but here in England-land we have - or at least had, if we still don't - two methods for judging a programme's success. There's the ratings (which we called "viewing figures"), of course, which tells the people concerned how many people were tuning in. Then there's the Audience Appreciation figures, which gives the percentage of those viewers who actually enjoyed the programme. So a programme might attract, say, two million viewers but maybe only 20% of those viewers thought it was any good. Back in the seventies and early-to-mid-eighties, the pre-digital age, a programme was considered a failure if it attracted less than about five million viewers. Doctor Who - proper Doctor Who - regularly had figures of between eight and twenty million viewers; viewing figures undreamed of nowadays.
How this relates to the topic at hand I have no idea, I just thought I'd throw it out there.
How this relates to the topic at hand I have no idea, I just thought I'd throw it out there.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
