All articles by Stephen Price – Page 110
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FeaturesFunny debuts still fractured
In this, The Jetsons age of multichannel, push VoD, MobileMovies and fingernail DVD (I made that one up), digital channels might seem to have the advantage when connecting with those prepared to experiment.
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FeaturesRatings: Money-taking and making
BBC2 and Channel 4 bequeathed us a contrasting week of riveting end-of-the-world stuff and spooky predictions - somewhat summing up the 21st century thus far.
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RatingsMore 4’s food for thought
The nature of digital channels is that they are focused on a specific audience, and this obviously determines programme strategy. But there are times when that pesky free-thinking audience confounds things.
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FeaturesBattle of autumn begins
ITV and BBC line up their big hitters in a bid to attract the viewing public now that summer is over.
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RatingsDragons lead way forward
All things must come to an end and Big Brother has officially passed on. There may be rueful grins if that final series, stops fully out, pulls in the numbers of yore. Farewell BB; we really knew ye.
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FeaturesFootball, fillers and repeats
In a barren week of TV listings, only the presence of the X Factor hinted at the battles to come.
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FeaturesReap rewards from re-runs
Acquired programmes play a significant role for digital channels. They are able to buy programming in at a relatively cheap rate compared with terrestrial networks and can play the stuff many times in a week to squeeze out value.
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FeaturesWeek telling a tale of yore
A tale of yore I think. The location (location, location) was the coast and it was here that I found the dragons’ den (lair, surely?).
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FeaturesDigital repeat contenders
When Galileo first gazed at the stars through his telescope 400 years ago, he probably said: “Crikey, there’s a lot.” He might have said the same about digital channels; frighteningly, there are well over 300 channels measured by Barb.
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FeaturesNot waging a weekend war
Generally BBC2, C4 and Five don’t go too bonkers at the weekends, what with the entertainment behemoths taking lumps out of each other on ITV1 and BBC1 for much of the time.
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FeaturesHolidays exodus is overrated
Figures show using the holidays as an excuse for a summer ratings lull is not always justified.