Doctor Who Named Favourite Show To Watch On The Go

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Oh, the daily commute to work: the cramped train compartment, the endless traffic jams, that one person who thinks their bag deserves a seat on the bus. Pure nightmare fuel but, it seems, travellers have been remedying the misery with a dose from the good Doctor.

Research carried out by O2 on behalf of the BBC Store has found that as many as 1 in 3 workers watch TV on their public transport journey to their desks.

With half of Brits now thought to be watching on-demand TV more than live broadcasts the morning commute is now seen as a golden opportunity to catch-up on favourite shows – with Doctor Who topping the list of over 2000 respondents, followed by The Office, Planet Earth, Only Fools and Horses and Little Britain completing the top five.

I’m Alan Partridge and The League of Gentlemen are also proving popular, alongside dramas Orphan Black, Poldark and Call the Midwife.

It isn’t just the Doctor that’s livening up commuters, on no, research also found that 78% of respondents aren’t too embarrassed to watch sex scenes on their mobiles or tablets on-the-go. Yes, not even a crowd of people all clutching disposable coffee cups and the Evening Standard will embarrass us into fast forwarding through the mucky parts.

Anyway, the study comes hand-in-hand with O2 Priority’s new partnership with BBC Store, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Google Play, which gives customers a wide range of content through the loyalty scheme.

“BBC Store is the largest collection of BBC content that has ever existed available to download, buy and keep,” said the BBC Store’s Sara Holt.

“We are delighted to be giving the O2 customers some of the best of the BBC as a free download to take with them on the go.”

Well at least we can savour the old episodes as we wait for spring 2017 to roll around.

 

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