This actually has a chance of working with Radio Times involved. Free publicity sounds right up Channel 4's street. But only if they can get the rights cheaply and it'll probably be out of primetime.
One stumbling block could be the fact that More4 has recently rebranded as a 99% C4 repeats channel. Not sure how well The Daily Show will fair sat alongside endless repeats of Grand Designs, Kirsty and Phil and Come Dine with Me. On paper they don't sound too compatible.
At least last time it had a half relevant lead-in of sorts from the now defunct More4 News.
Another vote for never going to work as well but still, worth a vote.
I still watch it regularly anyway, but it would be nice to see it on a UK channel. The only reason I can see that Comedy Central don't pick it up is that Channel 4 are retaining the rights to it.
The bottom line is, I think, cost. The ratio of what it costs, plus getting it in daily doesn't equate to the number of viewers it'd pull in..
Which is why it's unusual that Comedy Central UK don't pick it up - I can't imagine that it would cost them a great deal to obtain the rights considering it's the same company.
Which is why it's unusual that Comedy Central UK don't pick it up - I can't imagine that it would cost them a great deal to obtain the rights considering it's the same company.
They’d probably get it cheap, but I suspect that the harsh truth is that a re-run of some random sitcom like Scrubs or Two and a Half Men will get more viewers and is less effort (remember with The Daily Show they have to receive and edit it every day before they can broadcast it).
How bad were the daily show ratings? MORE4 seems to show Come Dine With Me and housing show repeats all the time, surely the channel can't get huge ratings.
How bad were the daily show ratings? MORE4 seems to show Come Dine With Me and housing show repeats all the time, surely the channel can't get huge ratings.
Around 100,000. Grand Designs which replaced it early on got about 3 or 4 times that.
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One stumbling block could be the fact that More4 has recently rebranded as a 99% C4 repeats channel. Not sure how well The Daily Show will fair sat alongside endless repeats of Grand Designs, Kirsty and Phil and Come Dine with Me. On paper they don't sound too compatible.
At least last time it had a half relevant lead-in of sorts from the now defunct More4 News.
I still watch it regularly anyway, but it would be nice to see it on a UK channel. The only reason I can see that Comedy Central don't pick it up is that Channel 4 are retaining the rights to it.
Which is why it's unusual that Comedy Central UK don't pick it up - I can't imagine that it would cost them a great deal to obtain the rights considering it's the same company.
They’d probably get it cheap, but I suspect that the harsh truth is that a re-run of some random sitcom like Scrubs or Two and a Half Men will get more viewers and is less effort (remember with The Daily Show they have to receive and edit it every day before they can broadcast it).
But unfortunately I doubt it would happen within the foreseeable future.