Originally Posted by mediarat:
“you'd get a blank cheque if you could guarantee a bake off audience. the show defies all logic and reason, it's almost as though it's complete lack of any recognisable draw is it's strength.
i've been looking into the production company who make it (it may come as a shock that it is not solely the bbc who are responsible for it's success!) and there is not a lot on their resume to suggest they saw this coming either! mostly the usual five/bbc3 type factual shows.”
Love had a lot of success over the years, often with controversial docs but they really hit the jackpot with Bake Off. Their only real dabble with heavily formatted entertainment before that was Cirque De Celebrite for Sky1 way back around 2006/2007 time.
Originally Posted by Score:
“Apparently Rita Ora is replacing Kylie on The Voice.
Can't say I'm particularly overwhelmed with the signing. She's not a bad signing but I wasn't overly impressed with her guest stint on X Factor in 2012 and I can't see her particularly enhancing the ratings for the show (in the way Kylie certainly helped to achieve in the early episodes of this year's run).”
The concern for The Voice is a bit like X Factor US season 3 - they pinned the shows revival to one person (Britney/Kylie), it didn't really play out that way in the end and then they left to be replaced by a far inferior "star". It's a bugger for momentum and it's why IMO X Factor needs to hold onto Cowell/Cole next year, almost regardless of how this year plays out.
Originally Posted by D.M.N.:
“Ahead of Judge Rinder's first week average, here is ITV's recent first week figures in the 14:00 slot...
- Dickinson's Real Deal (w/c 20/01) - 1.02m (13.8%)
- Auf Wierdersehen My Pet (w/c 17/03) - 614k (9.7%)
- Storage Hoarders (w/c 14/04) - 539k (9.2%) [4 episodes]
- Family Matters (w/c 28/04) - 633k (10.2%)
- Celebrity Jeremy Kyle (w/c 09/06) - 706k (12.2%)
- Peter Andre's 60 Minute Makeover (w/c 16/06) - 511k (9.1%)
- The Speakmans (w/c 14/07) - 569k (9.3%)
- Judge Rinder (w/c 11/08) - 1.03m (14.6%)*
* will change slightly tomorrow”
And of course Rinder is growing from that first week unlike most of those shows. 1.04m yesterday (inc +1). Come November, ideally itv would be running:
2pm: Judge Rinder
3pm: Dickinson's Real Deal
4pm: Tipping Point
5pm: The Chase
Which would make for a fairly decent afternoon.
Originally Posted by johnnymc:
“I think Mark Wright will provide a draw to the show and a younger audience that may not be used to watching. TOWIE figures seemed to have attracted attention to reality shows previously. I think that's a good signing, in fact I think he would probably draw a younger audience to BBC one in general on another show but I don't know what his presenting skills are like.”
Every year there's stuff about Strictly going for younger viewers and every year the show gets about a 10% 16-34 profile. Replacing Brucie might change the profile a bit I guess.
As Mark Wright has been utterly unable to draw an audience even on itv2, I doubt he'll start doing it for BBC1.
