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Surprisingly though there is loads of US content available in HD which C5 only buys SD versions of. No doubt for financial reasons.
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The Wright Stuff, Gabby Logan Home and Away and Neighbours are all in HD.
Surprisingly though there is loads of US content available in HD which C5 only buys SD versions of. No doubt for financial reasons. |
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Crimewatch has been described as PSB at its best and certainly its proved its worth with many many convictions as a direct result of it existing.
It still works presumably because word must spread around the local areas where crimes are being highlighted, but for the rest its an immensely depressing watch and in parts pretty scary. Relentlessly hard hitting crimes and no reassuring "do sleep well" message at the end must put alot of people off filling their minds with the endlessly dreadful stuff humans get up to. |
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Yes, great ties for last 32.
But increased risk that Man U and Man C go out if they don't take it seriously - especially Man U with less squad depth due to numerous injuries. And C5 will want Man U - Man C will not draw anything like the same ratings. CL - Madrid play same night as Chelsea so ITV will have: - Arsenal 1st leg - Munich or Inter 1st leg - Barcelona 2nd leg - Chelsea 2nd leg http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/...0_DOWNLOAD.pdf |
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Raings roundup for last night
BBC 1 Doctors: 1.59m Eastenders: 7.89m The Manor Reborn: 2.22m Crimewatch: 2.91m BBC 2 Victorian Farm Christmas: 1.50m Masterchef the Professionals: 3.33m Rev: 1.62m Life's too short: 1.26m Frank Skinner Opinionated: 1.40m ITV 1 Emmerdale: 7.37m (104k+1) Tonight: 2.80m Emmerdale: 7.59m (202k+1) Coronation Street: 7.82m (224k+1) Without You: 5.11m (280k+1) Piers Morgan Life Stories: 1.05m Channel 4 Hollyoaks: 1.02m Grand Designs: 1.22m (360k+1) Living with the Amish: 1.48m (297+1) This is England 88: 1.05m (218k+1) Channel 5 Neighbours 1:45: 571k Neighbours 5:30: 1.23m Home and Away: 968k Highland Emergency: 673k Fairground Attractions: 756k The Mentalist: 1.46m It's All About Amy: 494k BBC 3 Eastenders: 851k E4 Bang Goes the Theory: 748k ITV 2 The X Factor USA: 513k |
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Gutted at that low rating for This Is England 88. I guess some people thought the first two episodes were boring. They are of course philistines and missed out on one of the best episodes of drama ever.
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the soaps look a bit low, expect for Neighbours, the Manor Reborn should really be in the Flop Zone.
channel 5 not launching HD on Freeview is IMO an example of very short term thinking. the BBC axing 25 minutes from Casualty is very strange. |
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I wonder if the slot will go to either ITV or Channel 4 or will Ofcom simply keep it back until Channel 5 is ready to launch a HD service.
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Gutted at that low rating for This Is England 88. I guess some people thought the first two episodes were boring. They are of course philistines and missed out on one of the best episodes of drama ever.
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At least BBC One had EastEnders to give the evening a little bit of respectability; The Manor Reborn and Crimewatch collapsed - considering other opposition has managed 4m+ against the soaps The Manor Reborn really struggled and had an impact on Crimewatch.
MasterChef picked up yet another great rating on BBC Two; the comedies are rumbling along but Life's Too Short seems to be losing the momentum it had early on. Rev and Frank Skinner Opinionated performed reasonably well. Emmerdale did ok, but seems slightly low for the time of year as do EastEnders and Coronation Street. Maybe it's because it's the Christmas Party period? Without You performed well; they'll be hoping it can maintain a 5m figure for the finale. On Channel 4, This is England 88 is losing viewers through the run; Living With The Amish did ok and I'm assuming Grand Designs was a repeat otherwise that's low for it. Hollyoaks is also dropping close to the 1m mark after a good spell well above it. The Mentalist was the high point for Channel 5 who, like their terrestrial rivals, had a quiet night otherwise. All About Amy has little to do with it's lead in and it really does show. Highland Emergency didn't perform badly considering it was in the 7.30pm slot; it's a shame Fairground Advantage couldn't take more of an advantage of it. |
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Brian Dowling is god in Channel 5's brand new promo for Celebrity Big Brother 2012:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hda-bFNpPSk C5 hasn't broadcast anything this cheesy since Sunset Beach used to be on.
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Brian Dowling is god in Channel 5's brand new promo for Celebrity Big Brother 2012:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hda-bFNpPSk C5 hasn't broadcast anything this cheesy since Sunset Beach used to be on. ![]() |
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At least BBC One had EastEnders to give the evening a little bit of respectability; The Manor Reborn and Crimewatch collapsed - considering other opposition has managed 4m+ against the soaps The Manor Reborn really struggled and had an impact on Crimewatch.
MasterChef picked up yet another great rating on BBC Two; the comedies are rumbling along but Life's Too Short seems to be losing the momentum it had early on. Rev and Frank Skinner Opinionated performed reasonably well. Emmerdale did ok, but seems slightly low for the time of year as do EastEnders and Coronation Street. Maybe it's because it's the Christmas Party period? Without You performed well; they'll be hoping it can maintain a 5m figure for the finale. I think I may have overpredicted for tonight's The Big Quiz. I said 5.5m, but I now think it will be at least 1m less than that. The Manor Reborn has spent 3 weeks at 9pm, so some people may well have watched Masterchef then TMR or Emmerdale then Corrie then TMR. Then last night they find TMR on an hour earlier against the soaps or the Masterchef final, so it's no wonder its ratings plummetted. Stupid scheduling. They didn't think it through. |
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The BBC could do with it. They could could then launch BBC Two HD and keep BBC HD for their other channels simulcasts and 3D for the Olympics.
Only today we've heard that Blue Peter which recently converted to HD is going out first on CBBC which will have to be SD when BBC Two HD launches. |
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Apologies if this has been discussed and I missed it but a couple of points of interest from C4's January schedule.
Shameless returns with a two parter on Mon 10th and Tue 11th - with no E4 first look, so possibly an attempt to boost ratings, though it could always return the next week as this year they didn't air the first look edition for the launch week of episodes - though that made sense really. Secondly C4 are shunting Desperate Housewives to 11.05pm on Tuesday nights, though it keeps it's Sunday 9pm slot on E4. Ratings wise understandable I guess, but considering it's the final series and the cheap documentaries which will probably fill the slot won't rate much better it would have been good if they just took the hit - and actually aired a US series from start to finish without it ultimately being moved to a graveyard slot. And not sure when More4's revamp is due but no obvious dumbing down yet in the early January schedules. |
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I guess Crimewatch wasn't particularly the sort of thing folk want to watch on a Thursday night close to Christmas, and it had an appalling lead in too. I do wonder if Crimewatch really has much value in this news media/internet age - it was groundbreaking, relevant and important 30 years ago, and I do question its value now. Certainly in a prime time slot on BBC1, which I wonder if it really merits?
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I notice BBC1 has tweaked its schedule tomorrow night - each ep of SCD is now 65mins not 70mins, with the news expanded from 15mins to its usual 20mins. Means Merlin, Lotto, SCD Results and MOTD all start 5 mins earlier than billed.
Can't see it having particular implications for SCD, although anyone looking at their TV guide and tuning in at 9.05pm for the SCD results will have missed the first few minutes. Of course, our stopwatch fans will tell us whether it makes any real difference to actual transmission times... ![]() Perhaps they wanted us to get some practice in for Sunday week?
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Gutted at that low rating for This Is England 88. I guess some people thought the first two episodes were boring. They are of course philistines and missed out on one of the best episodes of drama ever.
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I did think the first two episodes were quite slow. I read the original plan was for TIE 88 to just be a 90 minute special to serve as prequel for the 1990 series. Perhaps that may have been better but the third episode was absolutely brilliant, deserves all the awards going.
I've never been a massive fan of the franchise, but I always thought the film was good and TIE86 was a great bit of telly as a follow up to the film. This one was a bit of a letdown after months of anticipation, if I'm honest. |
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Spent some time round at the folks' this evening. As ever, that meant a diet of constant ITV. As crap as the Big Soap Quiz was, I did find it strangely watchable. I think it could have rated much better than people think, with a Coro lead in. Just the sort of thing ITV's core demographic soap audience will have lapped up.
My mum and dad did anyway... ![]() Is 5-6m realistic? |
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Spent some time round at the folks' this evening. As ever, that meant a diet of constant ITV. As crap as the Big Soap Quiz was, I did find it strangely watchable. I think it could have rated much better than people think, with a Coro lead in. Just the sort of thing ITV's core demographic soap audience will have lapped up.
My mum and dad did anyway... ![]() Is 5-6m realistic? |
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Strictly has done well for newspaper front pages this Saturday. The Mirror, Star, Mail, Express and Telegraph all giving the SCD final front page treatment. (naturally The Sun went with an X-Factor cocaine story though.) Bodes well for Strictly's ratings; maybe even a chance it could beat last week's X-factor final I think.
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The Manor Reborn: 2.22m Crimewatch: 2.91m |
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Judging by Jonathan Ross' twitter he's not too happy with the British Comedy Awards, quite understandably given how terrible they were.
He's said various things, including that he "will be having words", replying to someone asking if he would do it next year with a blank response, agreeing with people complaining about various aspects of the show and saying that it felt too much like hard work. |
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Judging by Jonathan Ross' twitter he's not too happy with the British Comedy Awards, quite understandably given how terrible they were.
He's said various things, including that he "will be having words", replying to someone asking if he would do it next year with a blank response, agreeing with people complaining about various aspects of the show and saying that it felt too much like hard work. |
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the soaps look a bit low, expect for Neighbours, the Manor Reborn should really be in the Flop Zone.
channel 5 not launching HD on Freeview is IMO an example of very short term thinking. the BBC axing 25 minutes from Casualty is very strange. |
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