Channel 4

At least some of the late night comedy shows of recent weeks (e.g. 8 Out of 10 Cats, Very Important People, Stand Up for the Week) have often been preceded by the Trafalgar Square ident, IIRC.

I guess the "humour" of how the "4" scares off the pigeons makes it a popular choice to precede comedy programmes?

I'd say the way it squashes them makes the junctions it can be used in fairly limited.

This may sound random, but did anyone hear the Sims 3 soundtrack on Secret Eaters last night? Please tell me if I'm in the wrong thread.

Non pres related but....8 Out Of 10 Cat's could be interesting this week.

I've heard Sims 3 soundtracks in the apprentice before now so I wouldn't be surprised.

That'll make a change. And on a related note can't believe they've recommissioned 10 o'clock Live. The first didn't rate too well but I could understand why they'd want to give it a second shot - but then it did even worse.

Watching The Million Pound Drop on C4HD there is a new version of the DOG with Live under the HD in place of the usual MPD style graphic.

It's in an odd place on SD.

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I thought that was a mistake, looks terrible! Much better when it was at the bottom right.

Agreed.

I presume the idea is for channel 4 to add it rather than endemol so that it doesn't show on +1 or on demand.

Well, that didn't work then because it appeared on Channel 4+1 too. It did look like Channel 4 were adding it though as it sometimes leaked on to the sponsor credit which I assume was being played out by Channel 4.

What was all that noise from the audience on Saturdays show? There seemed to be someone screaming or generally making noise at various points in the programme. It sounded like a child or a baby.

The final question of the programme was...

What was the most watched TV show on Christmas Day 2011, according to official audience figures?

The options were Doctor Who, Absolutely Fabulous, Queen's Speech or EastEnders. The contestants put most of their money (£600,000) on Queen's Speech and lost it because the correct answer was EastEnders.

It was stated on the programme that Queen's Speech had 8.2 million viewers and EastEnders had 10.2 million. I assume these are Barb figures being quoted but since the question didn't state "in the UK" surely the correct answer should have been Queen's Speech. This is assuming it was viewed by at least 2 million viewers in other parts of the common wealth and indeed the rest of the world on Christmas Day 2011, you could even go as far as count YouTube viewers since the question doesn't state that it only includes viewers watching on a television set.

The question was vague and although the contestants seemed to assume it only referred to UK viewers, I think that question should be declared void at the start of the next episode. The question would have been perfectly clear if they just said "according to Barb figures" rather than "according to official audience figures" which is meaningless.

Saying that, I am not a fan of the "According to..." style questions. It just seems like lazy research.