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From 29 May to 23 July 2018 Twitch ran a marathon of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from the classic era starting with the 1963 episode ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' to the 1989 episode ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''. The marathon began at 7pm UK Time/11am Pacific Time and ran for a seven week period from Monday to Friday. While watching, people could speak to fans all over the world who were also watching.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/classic-doctor-who-comes-to-twitch-for-seven-week-marathon</ref> | From 29 May to 23 July 2018 Twitch ran a marathon of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from the classic era starting with the 1963 episode ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' to the 1989 episode ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''. The marathon began at 7pm UK Time/11am Pacific Time and ran for a seven week period from Monday to Friday. While watching, people could speak to fans all over the world who were also watching.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/classic-doctor-who-comes-to-twitch-for-seven-week-marathon</ref> | ||
This has led to new evaluations of many stories with previously bad reputations. It also at one point caused The Web Planet to be the #2 trending topic on U.K. Twitter. This is | This has led to new evaluations of many stories with previously bad reputations. It also at one point caused ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'' to be the #2 trending topic on [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] [[Twitter]].{{fact}} This is an interesting parallel to the serial's original airing when at 13.5 million viewers episode 1 was the highest rated [[1960s]] ''Doctor Who'' episode. | ||
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Revision as of 17:20, 6 June 2018
twitch was a live streaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive and created in June 2011. The website was primarily known as a site where people would share themselves playing videogames. However the platform has a wide variety of users from Vloggers to chefs to reviews of Bernice Summerfield novels.
From 29 May to 23 July 2018 Twitch ran a marathon of Doctor Who from the classic era starting with the 1963 episode An Unearthly Child to the 1989 episode Survival. The marathon began at 7pm UK Time/11am Pacific Time and ran for a seven week period from Monday to Friday. While watching, people could speak to fans all over the world who were also watching.[1]
This has led to new evaluations of many stories with previously bad reputations. It also at one point caused The Web Planet to be the #2 trending topic on U.K. Twitter.[source needed] This is an interesting parallel to the serial's original airing when at 13.5 million viewers episode 1 was the highest rated 1960s Doctor Who episode.
