What I don't completely understand is the First Look episode they show at 6.30 on 5* after the main showing on Channel 5. Surely everyone who wants to follow the show is going to end up watching it on 5* if they don't mind it being in SD, which most people don't.
What I don't completely understand is the First Look episode they show at 6.30 on 5* after the main showing on Channel 5. Surely everyone who wants to follow the show is going to end up watching it on 5* if they don't mind it being in SD, which most people don't.
Why break up the audience like that?
I can remember we had a talk about this a year ago in relations to Neighbours, how there were 7 different showing per episodes.
What I don't completely understand is the First Look episode they show at 6.30 on 5* after the main showing on Channel 5. Surely everyone who wants to follow the show is going to end up watching it on 5* if they don't mind it being in SD, which most people don't.
What I don't completely understand is the First Look episode they show at 6.30 on 5* after the main showing on Channel 5. Surely everyone who wants to follow the show is going to end up watching it on 5* if they don't mind it being in SD, which most people don't.
Why break up the audience like that?
Presumably to boost their multichannel share.
You'd think they'd do something similar with Neighbours seeing as it is the more high profile of the two Aussie soaps on the channel.
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Rob_Schneider
Good point. That daft start time is to pacify Neighbours, where they're keen to keep the same timeslots as the BBC more-or-less. Personally, it's been five years plus now, let's move on.
I'd drop the First Look stuff and première the episodes in the evening, with H&A at 5pm and Neighbours at 5:30, with repeats the following lunchtime between 1 and 2. Then, have a prime-time repeat on 5* between 7 and 8 or 8 and 9.
I suppose what you've got to remember is that the Aussie soaps are almost entirely propped-up by International sales - Channel 5 cover nearly all of Home & Away's production costs. Is it true that as result, in Ofcom's eyes, it counts as a "British" production?
Did the two "replacement" daytime soaps miss a trick here in order to make them more commercially viable? Had Crossroads and Night and Day secured some International sales, could they have stayed on the air?
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Just to point out there has never been a proper network daytime soap expect for the Families in 1990 and that never lasted long.
High road has been seen around the world but that never saved It. I just can see how people in France or sweden would want to watch crossroads, maybe night and day.
I'd drop the First Look stuff and première the episodes in the evening, with H&A at 5pm and Neighbours at 5:30, with repeats the following lunchtime between 1 and 2.
Why move Home and Away when it's success at 6? Lord knows no one would be watching Channel 5 at 6 if it wasn't there. The ratings for Animal A&E whilst H&A has been on its summer break have been abysmal.
What I don't completely understand is the First Look episode they show at 6.30 on 5* after the main showing on Channel 5. Surely everyone who wants to follow the show is going to end up watching it on 5* if they don't mind it being in SD, which most people don't.
Why break up the audience like that?
Don't Channel 4 still do the same with Hollyoaks on E4?
Just to point out there has never been a proper network daytime soap expect for the Families in 1990 and that never lasted long.
High road has been seen around the world but that never saved It. I just can see how people in France or sweden would want to watch crossroads, maybe night and day.
Families was not quite fully networked as in the last years of its 3 year life in Granada it was mainly shown at 510pm with the usual Thursday evening omnibus.
I still believed it could have continued much longer as it wasn't Granada's choice to cancel it but the ITV Network Centre as a part to freshen up daytime TV (they also axed the funding of High Road which was part network at 320/3/250pm during the same period that Families was.
What I don't completely understand is the First Look episode they show at 6.30 on 5* after the main showing on Channel 5. Surely everyone who wants to follow the show is going to end up watching it on 5* if they don't mind it being in SD, which most people don't.
Why break up the audience like that?
Don't Channel 4 still do the same with Hollyoaks on E4?
Yep, it doesn't help either C5 or H&A!
What H&A needs is a must-not-miss prigramme as 630pm or a very popular gameshow instead of Channel 5 News
What I don't completely understand is the First Look episode they show at 6.30 on 5* after the main showing on Channel 5. Surely everyone who wants to follow the show is going to end up watching it on 5* if they don't mind it being in SD, which most people don't.
Why break up the audience like that?
Don't Channel 4 still do the same with Hollyoaks on E4?
I wouldn't know, I thought they only did that for some episodes. It feels as though Hollyoaks should be on E4 permanently these days, like Neighbours moved in Australia from Ten to 11, as though it's Channel 4's shop window for E4. Of course, I know they won't.
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Do ITV still own all those films which Central, Carlton and other brought up over the years?