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Live season comes to an end. (September 2011)

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NG
noggin Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
Ben posted:
I don't think things have been the same eversince his Noel's HQ outburst, and its subsequent removal from repeat broadcast. But he stated in that interview that Christmas Presents was the highest rating digital programme ever, which is either pure spin from him or an indication he thinks he can take it to a bigger channel.

Either he's making it up or he's been misinformed.

Its production company says it got a million viewers: http://www.twofourbroadcast.com/archives/327 The following figures all from Wikipedia:
ITV2's highest is 2.5 million in 2008
BBC3 reached over 4 million for the Eastenders live episode followup in 2010.
E4 got 3.7 million for The Inbetweeners in 2010

It's not even the most rated Sky 1 programme, which was an episode of friends in 2000 with 2.8 million


Could have been Sky 1's highest rated home-grown (commissioned not acquired) at the time. It's not like they have that many... (Huge amounts of income yet they still make next to nothing... Their recent trail for how great their original programming demonstrated that - some of the shows aren't due to broadcast until NEXT year)

However Sky Sports, BBC Three, E4, ITV2 etc. all significantly outrate it with their own home-grown stuff (though EastEnders wouldn't count as a BBC Three commission as it is a repeat of a BBC One commission)
BR
Brekkie
noggin posted:
There were some great ideas in NHP - but also some were terrible. Plus some aspects of it would be much more difficult to do these days (NTV in particular)

Yes - it's ridiculous really that "progress" has led to this digital delay which makes NTV and many competition type features of shows in the 90s virtually impossible to do now.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Brekkie posted:
noggin posted:
There were some great ideas in NHP - but also some were terrible. Plus some aspects of it would be much more difficult to do these days (NTV in particular)

Yes - it's ridiculous really that "progress" has led to this digital delay which makes NTV and many competition type features of shows in the 90s virtually impossible to do now.


Why in bibble's name is the word progress in inverted commas? Surely that's unquestionable?

Anyhoo, Noel's thing was always that he was wildly ahead of the curve. NTV is an old idea, and if the show ever came back (and I'm not sure it would), he'd have his team develop something we've never seen that *could* be done.
PT
Put The Telly On
Larry the Loafer posted:
I'm starting to find them a tad unbearable on all of this Cowell-driven sh!te.


Ditto.
JO
Jon
nok32uk posted:
Larry the Loafer posted:
I'm starting to find them a tad unbearable on all of this Cowell-driven sh!te.


Ditto.


You mean the two series per year and this years one off Red or Black?
NG
noggin Founding member
Brekkie posted:
noggin posted:
There were some great ideas in NHP - but also some were terrible. Plus some aspects of it would be much more difficult to do these days (NTV in particular)

Yes - it's ridiculous really that "progress" has led to this digital delay which makes NTV and many competition type features of shows in the 90s virtually impossible to do now.


Hmm - give me HDTV, DVD / Blu-ray and lossless PVR recording any day. I can live with the compromise of a few seconds of delay on a compressed link if it avoids PAL composite footprints, analogue noise etc.

Why are the laws of physics and information science "ridiculous"?
PT
Put The Telly On
Jon Wells posted:
nok32uk posted:
Larry the Loafer posted:
I'm starting to find them a tad unbearable on all of this Cowell-driven sh!te.


Ditto.


You mean the two series per year and this years one off Red or Black?


Yes. I mean exactly that.

22 days later

JO
Jon
Sky Bet are now taking bets surrounding these games, it'll be intresting to see what other innovation this live fortnight well bring.

Here's Noel walking down a street.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QIEt3dceec
Last edited by Jon on 9 October 2011 12:23pm - 4 times in total
JO
Jon
Some new plasmas up in the dream factory. I think I saw one of the former players on the wings in the live trail trail during countdown. Betting sites taking bets. All very exciting.
JC
JCB
It's even more annoying live than when it isn't. Appart from that, IMO, being live has added nothing to the show.
JO
Jon
JCB posted:
being live has added nothing to the show.


I agree to an extent. But I think that's partly due to what a slick operation the filming of DOND is. The live link with the barbers was a nice touch as well as the surprise element and getting randoms to go to the dream factory to open boxes.

I think being live makes the show feel a bit more unpredictable and spontaneous.

I hope this fortnight is a success and we see more in the way of this sort of thing from DOND.
MA
Markymark
JCB posted:
It's even more annoying live than when it isn't. Appart from that, IMO, being live has added nothing to the show.


Just how exciting can you make, what is essentially, someone tossing a coin ?

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