Always have to remind myself that Television on Christmas is a big deal in the UK. Unlike here in Australia
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Interesting how GMB and Breakfast are still running in Christmas Day but they don’t on weekends through the year. Also the evening news services are gone. Very odd.
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The joys of a summer Christmas… actually I think Christmas TV is probably a bigger deal in the UK than anywhere else. I don’t think many countries go to the effort we do, with so many specials every year. A lot of other countries tend to just show films all Christmas.
Breakfast does run on weekends. GMB doesn’t. They did do a couple of weekends after the Queen died, but nothing since. It’s always been kids’ shows and (more recently) chat/cookery shows at the weekend. I think ITV has to show a token amount of kids’ shows each year, so weekend mornings is an easy way of achieving that. Though oddly enough they did run This Morning at weekends at one point. Nothing too special, just a pre-recorded ‘best of’. Didn’t last very long.
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When the sun sets at 3pm, you probably want something to watch.
The news is front and centre 364 days a year. Nobody needs it on Christmas Day, especially now you can look yourself anytime if you’re really bothered. In the UK half the bulletin is usually about the Kings Speech.
I think the 9 hour gap is a record though but the ratings show it was absolutely the right call. The news leading into Wallace and Gromit and out of Gavin and Stacey would have been terrible.
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Oh FFS.
Don’t sully the HIGNFY format.
At least get someone the level of Ian and Paul on the show. And get media training for some of the spoets peoples who probably be on the show.
Audience reach measures the number of people who watched a television service for at least three consecutive minutes in a month
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The Traitors now more popular than Strictly. Has maintained it’s overnight figures in week 2 as well.
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I don’t understand why they cancelled A Question of Sport… only to then turn around and commission this HIGSFY. First of all the name SUCKS, and secondly why not just retool AQoS? Typical BBC, they always pull stupid shit.
Exactly. AQoS has a track record. You know what you’re getting.
And of course the BBC does something stupid. Case in point: Jimmy Saville.
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What I hate (sorry you’ve got me on a roll now) is how they mess with successful shows, the ratings go down, and then they axe them. Over the years they’ve done it with:
- Top of the Pops
- Watchdog
- Crimewatch
- Doctor Who (original version)
- A Question of Sport
- Newsnight
- the BBC News channel
Like… WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? You’ve messed with all these shows, and now you wonder why the viewing figures are down?! Ugh… and the people who do this are paid hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money. I’m a big supporter of the BBC, and always will be, but at times they make a rod for their own backs. Some absolute f***wits occupying some very senior positions.
The final moments of London Live, the capital station under the failed ‘local TV’ initiative:
The station, owned by Evgeny Lebedev (who also owns Independent and London Standard), closed down last night after Local TV (Ltd, formerly Made TV) acquired the license and is to relaunch as London TV. The switch proved to be an unprepared one, as the 1960 comedy film Bottoms Up! was cut midway for True Crime channel.
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