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Corrie- 'Biggest Deal in NZ tv history'
LiverpoolFCGirl
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Just thought someone might be interested in this story I just found. Its about a different channel trying to nick Corrie in New Zealand but it has stayed in its home of 40 years in what is described as the biggest deal in the history of New Zealand tv.
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A divorce over not seeing a soap?
How far behind is New Zealand?
Thanks for that, I was reading the story last week about there being a bidding war for it and was wondering who would get it. Didn't realise how big Corrie was in New Zealand.
Thanks for that info. Does sound intresting.
BTW, Corrie gets about 700,000 viewers here for every episode. In a country of 4 million, thats equivilent to around 12 or 13 million in the UK
If they do, does that work well or would you rather they showed them as half hour episodes?
oh and whats the adverts like -How many breaks are there?
The breaks...hmmm...I think theres about three per hour...which is unusual but I guess they keeping with the UK ad breaks (Ie one in the middle of each episode as the Uk does it and then one in between to seperate the two)...although each ad break is much longer than it would be in the UK...with the ads its actually 1 hour and five minutes long.
When I go to NZ I rarely watch Corrie, I think it is on at an unfamiliar time of day ie. not early evening. I never met anyone who mentioned it and am surprised at the following attributed to it. Maybe I was too far out in the wop wops.
I don't suppose Emmerdale is that popular there, is it? I imagine it would cater to their taste though and I know it IS shown in NZ.
Thanks, I was just gonna ask that.
Thats a good quality viewing figure.
How about Shortland Street?
http://www.cbc.ca/coronation/
one hour per night 4 nights per week! imagine the uproar that would cause here
The radio interview on that web page is quite good to listen to in the background
There would be absolute uproar here because there is already an overload of soap yet in the states/canada, the soap air in daytime so it wont be that bad.
Shortland Street gets around 500,000...not bad considering its competition (Three current affairs shows by respective journalists on three different channels -don't ask)
Emmerdale does ok, but as someone said its shown at 12:30 in the afternoon. But its after the midday news, so I would imagine it would get good ratings for that time of day.
As for Canada showing more episodes...they wouldn't care as they are used to soaps screening for an hour and stuff, plus they would be happy to catch up...Like NZ Canada only usually shows 4 episodes of Corrie a week so they are falling further behind as well.