Why does Peep Show get such low viewing figures?
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It's won countless awards, is in something like its seventh series, is popular with critics and is given a good slot in the schedules. Most people I know watch it - if not every week, certainly often. So why does it fare so badly in the ratings? I read that the Christmas Eve episode at 9pm only got 700k viewers and was beaten by ITV3!
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The impression I got over the years from very occasional viewing was that it was simply strange and crass, and not worth the effort.
I suspect a lot of people just don't get it.
Scheduling? It's tended to be shown at 10.30 on a Friday which seems a bit too late?
Beaten by ITV3?! Ouch.
The strange thing is that I know lots of people who watch it too - other cult shows that I watch I understand rate low as I don't know anyone who watches, but for Peep Show that isn't the case.
Admittedly I only got into it around Series 3 or 4, but once I started watching I've never missed an episode.
It's a subtle, cult humor, and the mainstream don't like that.
They prefer stuff where the jokes are in your face, i.e. Come Fly With Me which got 10m viewers
The target audience is normally out on the lash that day.
Its a cult comedy due to directing and script.
The DVD sales more than make up for the low ratings
To be fair the Xmas Eve episode isn't the best example.
I'm a massive Peep Show fan but I was out on the piss on Xmas Eve as I expect a lot of other fans were.
The thing with Peep Show is that the episodes can vary and if you happen to choose the wrong one to start watching which isn't to your taste you're unlikely to watch again.
During later series there are quite a few jokes that refer to earlier happenings and so would not be found that funny by a new viewer.
Luckily I happened along Peep Show when series 2 was being shown on TV. It was the episode with Darryl the racist and when Super Hans described crack cocaine as being very moreish.:D
I found it hilarious, ordered the series 1 DVD and have been eagerly awaiting each series on TV and the accompanying DVD release ever since.
you know that's such a crazy idea ... it might just be true .
Perhaps its just cr-p which was your view of tramadol nights,which is why not a lot watch it.:D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29#Ratings
Completely untrue in both cases.
Did I?:rolleyes:
They should let Cowell produce it, he'd make sure they upped the emotional kick so that idiots would know when and what to feel.
I love X Factor, but I'm not sure the Cowell has much of a sense of humour. We have such fun on the live show threads taking piss out of it all. Shows like this really are enhanced by the internet.
Lyricalis looks up as something whooshes over his head. Hey, what was that?
It has a gimmick
The leads acting is often poor.
It's on CH4
It's only mildly amusing.
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The support actors are always excellent but Mitchell and Webb are not good enough actors for me to really get into it.
It really is just an OK show, although I sometimes watch it.
Its not bad or good enough to be compulsive viewing.
It's too clever for a lot of people.
Which was only for one episode wasnt it? And the Xmas Eve ep was 100,000 down on the ratings that got.
C4 only continue to make it as the DVD sales on it cover the cost - its a show that people want to watch in a sitting rather than a week at a time and thus no one watches it when its on the telly (see also Buffy and Mad Men)
Didn't you hear? Everything is being dumbed down now. The only thing that is getting more complicated are the operating instructions for gadgets and explanations of why economists keep getting things wrong.