The latest 28 day viewing data confirms that not only is Gavin and Stacey: The Finale at an astonishing 20.9m viewers after 28 days, but Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl has also broken through the 20m mark reaching 21.6 million already and seeing a huge uplift with audiences, particularly children, as they discover the much loved content on iPlayer and across the BBC’s channels.
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Nobody is making anything here, if you’re freelance, you are fucked.
From CH 4
Gen Z: Trends, Truth and Trust
Meet Gen Z: a diverse generation facing rapid cultural and technological change in a hyperconnected world – one where misinformation runs rampant and trust hangs in the balance.
Channel 4’s new landmark study, Gen Z: Trends, Truth and Trust, reveals why this matters for all of us, and why urgent action is needed.
Explore the key findings from Channel 4’s research, watch CEO Alex Mahon’s powerful call for action, and discover how we can build a future that Gen Z can believe in.
Press release - Urgent industry action and new regulation needed - Gen Z: Trends, Truth and Trust
Research summary and call to action - Gen Z: Trends, Truth and Trust
Speech by Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon - Gen Z: Trends, Truth and Trust
Channel 4 research report - Gen Z: Trends, Truth and Trust
Gen Z voices will shape the future. We have a responsibility, as public service media, to lead and to act, to restore bonds between young people and reliable sources of information. If not now, then when? And if not us, then who?
Alex Mahon, CEO, Channel 4
netflix seems to be
Alex could do well to re-tool her own networks news output to appeal to a median age younger than 65.
who in their right mind who lives on line on apps and on netflix would go to channel 4 for news
C4 News is probably the most trusted broadcast news source and it’s reputation is built on not dumbing down to chase viewers.
It’s not chasing viewers. It’s going where they are in a format younger people want. It’s not one hour weekdays at 7pm on TV
This is insane.
Rather than make quality news in short form on platforms people want to consume news like TikTok and X, she wants the government to decide what news is factual and wants government regulation to force algorithms to push Channel 4, BBC and ITV News to the top of your feed - so you just see news and information from public TV networks.
Why not make the best quality factual news you can - put it everywhere - and let people decide if they want to view your product rather than having the government regulate what news and info people get.
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Trustmark: Introduce a trustmark as an indicator of factual, trusted accuracy for content that emerges from professionally produced, regulated media. This could allow tech companies, their algorithms, advertisers and consumers to distinguish instantly between what is checked and true and what is not.
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Algorithmic prominence on social media: Regulate for PSM content to be prominent on social media platforms. This is already being implemented for PSMs on TV platforms and algorithmic prominence could use the same principle to ensure high-quality, trusted content is boosted – not throttled – on social platforms and rises to the top. Regulators should also explore mechanisms for a fair revenue share, ensuring PSMs are compensated for the value and engagement their content generates.
C4 are there more than most.
The latest report suggests that ITV could merge Studios with All3Media, which operates labels including Studio Lambert and Neal Street Productions with RedBird IMI, which is run by Jeff Zucker, and ITV holding stakes.
New Zealand medical drama Shortland Street is returning to UK screens for the first time since 2010. The series will stream on STV Player.
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From 2026, Corrie and Emmerdale will be cut back to 5 hours a week (currently it’s 6). Each will air 5 half hour episodes a week - Emmerdale at 8 and Corrie at 8.30, Monday-Friday.
Presumably this will mean more changes to ITV’s schedule - currently the soaps run from 7:30-9 most nights. I think it would be smart if they shifted Tipping Point to 5, The Chase to 6 then moved the newshour to 7, cutting the national news back to 30 minutes. Deal or No Deal could maybe go all year round to fill the gap at 4.
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Well there has been rumours of All3Media buying ITV Studios and vice versa so a merger could make sense.
As for the soap changes - long overdue but would prefer them in the 7pm hour and new formats at 8pm, but the budget probably isn’t there for that.
Remains to be seen what happens in the 7pm hour but news going through to 8pm is a depressing thought. If so it’ll probably be achieved by adding half an hour to the lunchtime bulletin then knocking the afternoon schedule back half an hour, although that would put the regional news in competition with the BBC again for the first time since 1999. If they cut the news back to 30 minutes I’d imagine The Chase would go to 7pm, Deal or No Deal to 5pm and the recently recommissioned Tipping Point, reclaiming the 4pm slot it’s largely been bumped from over the last year.
The only problem is Deal doesn’t repeat well due to the bature of contestants appearing for weeks, so repeats are much more obvious than The Chase and Tipping Point.
shifting the evening news to 7pm probably isn’t a bad idea. Clears it from any direct competition with news on BBC1 and caters for those who’re maybe home a little later.
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Interestingly, it seems ITV are actually looking at commissioning new shows for the 7.30 slot next year, so the news will presumably be staying where it is. I’m a bit surprised by that as the whole point of extending it in the first place then having the soaps was to reduce the number of half-hour slots they had to commission for. Still. Everything old becomes new again…
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