OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
So it kind of makes sense why it was dropped.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
And then Six Nations only did 14 million.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
So literally a full half of Breakpoint, which wasn't even seen as a success in itself.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
So that kind of just shows you, from a Netflix point of view, why are they...
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
Getting rid of things.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
But then also, I thought it was interesting.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
There was an article on golf.com, which spoke about, obviously, we know why the documentaries are good for Netflix.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
But as you were saying earlier, why the Netflix shows are kind of good for the sport.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
And it said...
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
The viewership data that I was talking about about Full Swing shows that if every audience member watched Full Swing in its entirety and only once, which apparently is a statistical impossibility, but this author says it was worth using for the sake of demonstration, the show would have reached 6.63 million viewers in the first four months of its existence, which makes it one of the most watched pre-produced golf shows ever.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
And only the Masters and its 12.1 million viewers averages a higher total than that number.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
So the amount of people watching golf through this show just basically blows out of the water the amount of people watching golf on TV in a normal event.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
That's a very good point, because there was something else somewhere I was reading that said, you know, fans are being priced out of stadiums, which we're seeing all the time.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
Like in rugby, especially the tickets are astronomical.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
So you can't go.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
So this is a way of being part of the experience when you're not able to kind of get your bum on a seat.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
But that's also a separate thing when you can't even watch it on TV because you don't have a TV or you're not going to pay for seven different.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
It's probably quite polarising, you know, if people... It could be intimidating.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
You're not just going to tune in.
OTB Football
WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
The Masters and the Ryder Cup may be an exception because it's such a technical game.