Originally Posted by Steve Williams:
“But 6.45 is the early evening, and if it goes on into September it'll be on in the autumn! I don't see the difference between 7pm in August and 6pm in October.”
Millions of folk are on holiday right now. In October they won't be.
It'll be colder, wetter, greyer, darker. People will get used to spending more time in the house, putting the central heating back on, wearing jumpers.
Originally Posted by 5 a day:
“I'm surprised at just how low ratings are at the moment. Looks like the combined audience of BBC1 and BBC2 was only 2.9 million at 7pm yesterday. The 'main' five channels in total only had 8.8 million viewers. (Might have my sums wrong here).”
I find it quite heartening, actually.
Originally Posted by Pizzatheaction:
“Not sure how good BBC1 ever was in on Saturday nights in summer. I have memories of only one proper programme on Saturday nights from April to the end of August, with the rest of the evening taken up with imported rubbish like Wonder Woman/McGyver/Dukes of Hazzard, old films, cartoons and News.”
I'm intrigued as to what was the "one proper programme".
And what you have against Wonder Woman, McGyver and Dukes.., all of which I loved!
Originally Posted by dirtybits:
“random question,
what is the highest ratings a film has ever achived on primetime screening on bbc or itv ever?
what film was it?”
The archives show various James Bond film premieres (indeed, some repeats) getting enormous figures of over 20m on ITV in the 70s. I think the record is something like 28m but you have to take that with an enormous pinch of salt because the ratings then were compiled differently and anything before 1981 is subject to debate. More likely these films would have got 20-21m in the real world.
The one rating that still staggers me is the premiere of Crocodile Dundee on BBC1 on Christmas Day early evening in 1989, which got a bona fide 21m. Pretty sure that's the most-watched premiere of the modern BARB era.
Originally Posted by GeorgeS:
“How ironic, on the very day the BBC ballsed up the muppet show!”
They did acquire the Muppet show in the 1990s didn't they?
Sure I remember a big fuss about them bringing it back, Kermit and Miss Piggy and all, and it aired in a 7pm Friday slot IIRC.
I think it flopped then.
Originally Posted by GeorgeS:
“Well for you history started in 1992 for others it started before then. The 1st division wasn't that different from the premier league.
Of course it was the BBC sky axis that helped remove FTA live league football from the air, but that's another story.”
And it was ITV that sold football league clubs down the river with the disastrous OnDigital (ITV Digital) deal, then refused to make good on the millions that should have been guaranteed. It screwed over the 72 league clubs and made the gulf betwixt league and Premiership greater still.
We often forget how ITV ballsed up free to air digital telly over an aerial. Thank goodness the BBC came along and bailed out the project and gave us Freeview.
