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Agree, it's all kinds of YIKES and HORRID.ENOUGH with the airtime for Gary's awful opinions.
Agree, it's all kinds of YIKES and HORRID.ENOUGH with the airtime for Gary's awful opinions.
I don't think given what has come out about him there was much he could REHABILITATE but he is somehow managing to add more hate fuel to the fire.Isn’t he here to REHABILITATE his image?!?? Coming out as a TRUMP FAN isn’t gonna help darling.
Based on literally nothing but I don’t like the twink!
ITV certainly wanted a bigger audience on ITV1 than ITV2, or they wouldn't have shunted it - I'm quite certain that they knew they would have the hardcore fanbase (who would watch on ITV2) locked in, and are trying to appeal outside of that to the more typical ITV1 viewer. It didn't work with the last civilian series when they simulcast, so I'm not sure why they are repeating it now. There's no shame in it being an ITV2 show.I didn't think it would be over 3, but that's not bad for ITV1 in the current climate. Big Brother is a bit like the soaps, there's probably not many entirely new viewers, just a fluctuating fan base that go back and forth. Moving it to ITV1 wasn't likely to attract many more new viewers than it already had. A bit like if Love Island moved to the main channel, it would make almost no difference.
ITV certainly wanted a bigger audience on ITV1 than ITV2, or they wouldn't have shunted it - I'm quite certain that they knew they would have the hardcore fanbase (who would watch on ITV2) locked in, and are trying to appeal outside of that to the more typical ITV1 viewer. It didn't work with the last civilian series when they simulcast, so I'm not sure why they are repeating it now. There's no shame in it being an ITV2 show.
Down to 2.1m in the overnights for Tuesday. In terms of percentage share (16.8%), that's nearly 5% below the ITV1 average, and less than half what Breathtaking got in the same slot last week.
The issue of demographic is the concern, I'd say - ITV2 serves them very well already, so unless moving it to ITV1 attracts a new audience, what's the point? Wiping out a month of primetime main channel and devoting it to the show feels like it's being set up to fail, unless it brings in bigger numbers.Oh yeah I'm sure they wanted more, I just dont know where those other viewers were supposed to come from. They're there already on ITV2 and Big Brother is unlikely to be attracting brand new viewers in 2024. Definitely agree it should have stayed on ITV2.
I still think they'll probably be aiming for the different demographics over raw numbers, and maybe they see it as a way to drive more people to ITVX or whatever it's called now, but presumably that would have happened had it remained on ITV2 anyway.
Also aren't we a bit beyond the benefit of shows being "promoted" to a bigger channel these days. The main channels are capable of rating so low now, it's not like years ago when a popular BBC2 sitcom would get upgraded to BBC1. I know it can still happen and have its uses but it feels increasingly redundant
And look at EastEnders, which lost 25% of its audience last year, the week it was 'demoted' to BBC2. That I find really crazy - and then even more so that those viewers didn't then seek it out on iPlayer.
I didn't know this - how utterly bonkers in this day and age.
You’re forgetting how big a tv watching demographic are older people. My Mum would never think of going to iPlayer to watch anything and if something is on a minor channel, it’s definitely “less” visible to her.
It was Wimbledon, which charted higher than EastEnders for one of the evenings they were in direct competition.You’re forgetting how big a tv watching demographic are older people. My Mum would never think of going to iPlayer to watch anything and if something is on a minor channel, it’s definitely “less” visible to her.
But one thing lolly’s point missed is that for the likes of Eastenders to be shunted to BBC2 in the first place, there had to be something big on another channel sucking its audience anyway, it’s not just a direct swap.
I showed my mum how you can turn a programme on halfway into it, and simply just restart it. May as well have been trying to explain nuclear fission.Mine is the same. And she still prefers to build things up on her recordable Freeview box rather than watch it on iPlayer.
I even set her up with the latest Apple TV+ box at Christmas, and when she forgot to set Call The Midwife to record, I showed her the literal voice command to “Play Call The Midwife”, where it loaded up iPlayer instantly. She said that was too complicated.
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