As I said Boris is a lying corrupt PM and he should be be forced out by his party or by the people - but not by the national broadcaster. The clearly have it in for him. They can’t hide it
Meaning what exactly?
I’m all for funding public broadcasters appropriately, but is a tax that is backed by an incredibly large enforcement regime and potentially criminal charges for not paying really an appropriate means of gathering the funds?
I agree with this, taxation in this country is insane
I just cancelled Britbox again. I watched all of Outnumbered and The Armstrong and Miller Show as well as Stath Lets Flats and W1A … even found Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy the original…
Not much else on there. I’m more into comedy than crime.
I’m sure I read that all The Bill was coming but obviously somewhere the rights are held with someone else as seems to be the case with this service as we only ended up with Season 15 . Streambly website said 11 February 26 seasons were coming . If this had been the case it might be a drawcard for people who are into that type of thing. One random season was unusual.
It does have a much more limited appeal than the bigger streamers. That said they have noteably cranked up the original drama series here in the UK which I assume get released internationally the same day - probably already had more in 2022 than all of last year.
Back to what’s happening on British screens and the biggest shake up to primetime programming in over two decades occurs from the 7th March. As previously announced ITV are extending their evening news to an hour at 6.30pm, pushing back Emmerdale to 7.30pm with Coronation Street reformatted as hour long episodes three days a week at 8pm. This meant they were taking all of the slots the BBC traditionally has aired EastEnders in. The soaps long avoided clashing, but ITV have been more agressive in recent years as EE’s audience fell.
The BBC have now announced their response and will go head to head with Emmerdale at 7.30pm from Mon-Thu, leaving the 8pm hour free for a greater mix of programming. (In reality not much changes there other than a couple of 7.30pm shows moving to 8pm). However in a surprise move they’re also adding a primetime airing for Doctors on BBC2 at 7pm, with it having only aired in the afternoons on BBC1 for the last 20 years.
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Would EastEnders soon be axed since it rating so dismally when they clash against Emmerdale?
I don’t know much about UK ratings, but I’m pretty sure that Eastenders is almost always the most watched programme on the iPlayer.
Because younger generation prefer to watch EastEnders on iPlayer than the BBC One Broadcast that pales in comparison to Coronation Street which drew larger linear TV audience than other soaps. EastEnders have not been on FTA TV for 13 years where it moved to UKTV in May 2009 in New Zealand whereas Coronation Street is shown on TVNZ 1 on Tuesday-Thursday
not having the bill is a massive oversight. it would make me resub to britbox. the offerings are very tiny and the bill will lift it
You don’t how much the rights cost or who else has the rights to them.
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Bargain Hunt is at 12.15pm, not 9am, so that’s not quite right.
These figures may look impressive in the context of Australian figures but they are significantly down on even just a couple of years ago when the soaps were regularly over 6m.
UK ratings are for 67 million people, Australia’s quoted figures are for markets totalling about 17 million - 4 times smaller.
So Coronation St with 4.7 million is like 1.175 million in AU (not such a stretch - AU’s number one show for the day would get 1.1 million or so)
Police Night Shift (ranked 20th) with 1.4 million on Channel 5 is like 350,000 in Australia.
The UK has higher FTA viewing than Australia and the US.
Not sure if it’s that FTA channels get higher share than say Sky, streaming etc - or if the UK just over consumes TV. I think it is the later - weather here is so awful people seem to stay in a lot more and watch TV
Yes and even young people seem to watch so much more television I’ve noticed. But yes it sucks here most of the year
I can’t believe those figures for The One Show. I’ve seen snippets and it’s like, the most useless show on TV.
something to have on in the background while eating dinner perhaps…dip in and out but not have to focus too much…and just before prime night time viewing…the 15 minute breakdown would be interesting
New Zealand commercial channels had nosedive in the past 7 years where TVNZ 2, Three and Prime had falling ratings due to younger people moving on streaming services with these two latter running at the loss which these channels line up now suck too like you guys in Australia, but TVNZ 1 has still drawn large audience which is much like the UK’s situation since it is older skewing. Djohns2740 Brits are just too overindulging
The Bill is an interesting one - its an ITV show (and ITV are a partner in Britbox) produced by one of the ITV franchises (Thames) - but it when Thames lost the ITV London weekday franchise in 1993, Thames became a production company and continued to produce the show (and others) - ITV may not hold the rights to the show.
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