Originally Posted by Steve Williams:
“It's on the cover of the Radio Times! It baffles me when people say stuff has had "hardly any promotion", especially on BBC1, they promote all their new stuff. The only stuff they don't bother with are the 7.30 things, mostly.”
I watch most of my shows on the iPlayer and I watch quite a bit of BBC stuff but wouldn't have a clue what was promoted or not.
Originally Posted by
GeorgeS:
“Quoted for truth!
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And you seem to watch The One Show every day despite pretending to hate it.
Originally Posted by
iaindb:
“Despite its audience drop CFWM is still a firm ratings hit, especially for a comedy. It's hardly the first comedy to be a ratings success despite getting a critical mauling - e.g, My Family and 80% of every hit comedy ITV has ever produced.
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80% was very kind to ITV.
Originally Posted by ZoeMcCallister:
“Yeah. The last 2 dramas to air in that slot (L&O and The Bill) both flopped really, the latter more so and they were established dramas. The subject material didn't look too viewer friendly either. I think I predicted 4m in the RPG too.”
L+O had tough competition and was an established show that had never been a huge hit. The Bill was a show on the way to the scrapheap. Murder and Kidnap and Ransom or whatever its called is a much hyped (Trevor Eve has been on every show going promoting it this week), big name star and had a Corrie lead-in. How you could expect only 4m is baffling.
Originally Posted by Roscoe Barnes:
“I never saw one advert for it. I dunno how you can say 9m is a poor result when EE and Corrie are usually a few million away from Emmerdale, whereas last night, the gap between all three was 0.7m. Honestly Robbie, your hatred over any show on ITV is beyond ridiculous!!”
Come come now Roscoe, your bias for ITV and it's soaps shines rather bright. Have you purposely used a tape-check rating for Emmerdale and a whole slot rating for Eastenders to compare (it should be a gap of 1.3m if compared correctly) or made a genuine mistake?