Anyway, I meant to put this the other week but I forgot.
Just on a presentational level [this is a tv presentation forum, so..] -- it seems, as you know, Shortland Street have their own specially adapted break static with the SS logo in the front square.
I've not noticed any other daytime/imported/weekend programmes either national or regional have this, just the four squares with the front square plain blue. Films often don't even have that -- just blue clouds. The Sixth Sense had a special one though.
I think its good Carlton and ITV have bothered to do one TBH as for years we just got a still of the SS logo .
Ive seen ITV use a simulat thing for films and other overseas stuff but like you say they have never put anything in the blue square like with SS
Between October and December when HTV were still showing the 1998 episodes they also used that ITV break thing even though they were using the same eps Central showed years before. Im not sure what Border used? This may be a Carlton thing.
Only my 2nd post I know, so maybe not a time to be embarassing myself... but I actually went to a Shortland Street exhibition in a museum in Dunedin in NZ a couple of years back and they made a big point about it being popular in the UK.
They were talking out of their buttocks.
Well actually I was talking to Carlton a couple of years ago and they told me that Shortland Street in the Central region was getting 25% of the network share, and they said it was extremely popular in Central & HTV regions. Maybe not "popular in the UK", but certainly popular in the regions that show the programme properly, ie. NOT GRANADA... It was popular on Border as well, but as Granada have a non-SS policy, as soon as their contract expired, it was axed! And do you think people in NZ are going to care about their being Carlton, Granada and different regions, when you can just say "popular in the UK"????
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Shortland Street will still run
Tuesday April 08, 2003
The television series Shortland Street is shown on Fiji One TV for adult viewers.
And Fiji One programme director Richard Broadbridge says the series is the longest running and a favourite for many viewers. He said the attempted suicide of a young woman last week after she was not allowed to watch the programme by her brother was regrettable. However, Fiji One carries a recommendation nightly that cautions viewers on contents.
Mr Broadbridge said the time allocated for the Shortland Street slot had been well researched and the show was well received by adult viewers. He added that Fiji One was comfortable with the slot given to the soap opera. Meanwhile, on the repetition of movies by Sky Fiji, he said the distributors sold them to Fiji One to run for not more than three times for allocated periods. He said this was a practice common even in overseas where some television companies ran movies six times in a week.
Mr Broadbridge said this allowed the distributor to benefit financially and allowed Fiji Television to also have enough movies to show. He said that otherwise, it would be a very expensive exercise because purchasing the rights to was not a cheap exercise. Mr Broadbridge said Fiji Television was fortunate its viewers were being given three movies only to watch repeatedly after intervals.
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Shortland Street will still run
Tuesday April 08, 2003
The television series Shortland Street is shown on Fiji One TV for adult viewers.
And Fiji One programme director Richard Broadbridge says the series is the longest running and a favourite for many viewers. He said the attempted suicide of a young woman last week after she was not allowed to watch the programme by her brother was regrettable. However, Fiji One carries a recommendation nightly that cautions viewers on contents.
Mr Broadbridge said the time allocated for the Shortland Street slot had been well researched and the show was well received by adult viewers. He added that Fiji One was comfortable with the slot given to the soap opera. Meanwhile, on the repetition of movies by Sky Fiji, he said the distributors sold them to Fiji One to run for not more than three times for allocated periods. He said this was a practice common even in overseas where some television companies ran movies six times in a week.
Mr Broadbridge said this allowed the distributor to benefit financially and allowed Fiji Television to also have enough movies to show. He said that otherwise, it would be a very expensive exercise because purchasing the rights to was not a cheap exercise. Mr Broadbridge said Fiji Television was fortunate its viewers were being given three movies only to watch repeatedly after intervals.
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Gareth
Well thats not much good for those of us who dont have Sky Fiji - ie us in the UK.
The show is no longer popular with HTV viewers I think as they missed out so many episodes - not HTV's fault but Carlton's. And the Central region has also lost viewers probably cos of the 2.30pm slot and maybe cos the cast and storylines are not so good as they once were.
and they made a big point about it being popular in the UK.