Originally Posted by SamuelW:
“It's not just any old Itv factual though. When it comes to prison shows, Itv knows for a fact that there is an audience of 5million+ who will watch any prison show on a Monday night after Coro St if they promote it as "shocking" and have fight scenes in the promo, as they do. The fact that the prison show beat the penguin documentary was as expected. But it only beat it by 0.1million which is much closer than expected. What I find frustrating about these prison shows is that they get a lot of critical acclaim from people with the memory of a gold fish who call it "groundbreaking" who cant remember that the channel did pretty much the same documentary a year ago, as well as two years and three years ago. It's lazy programming and Itv knows this shock value type of prison show will get the ratings, hence why they do it so often. Penguin Spy in the Huddle is at least more original and innovative.”
“It's not just any old Itv factual though. When it comes to prison shows, Itv knows for a fact that there is an audience of 5million+ who will watch any prison show on a Monday night after Coro St if they promote it as "shocking" and have fight scenes in the promo, as they do. The fact that the prison show beat the penguin documentary was as expected. But it only beat it by 0.1million which is much closer than expected. What I find frustrating about these prison shows is that they get a lot of critical acclaim from people with the memory of a gold fish who call it "groundbreaking" who cant remember that the channel did pretty much the same documentary a year ago, as well as two years and three years ago. It's lazy programming and Itv knows this shock value type of prison show will get the ratings, hence why they do it so often. Penguin Spy in the Huddle is at least more original and innovative.”
I must admit to being slightly bemused that ITV's factual output now almost entirely centres around docs set in prisons. Yes, we get they rate. But there isn't any desire there to find the next Strangeways it would seem. Just to keep doing stuff along the same lines.
Can't argue with the numbers though. It rated in line with all reasonable expectations.
And Emmerdale is only 0.3m behind it as well. Very poor EE rating for a Monday in February. Comparing y-o-y to the same episode, Corrie is pretty much flat/marginally up, whilst EE is down 0.7m.
