Stuart Murphy to leave Sky

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Brekkie 17 October 2015 10:22pm

Dream Team and Mile High both successful dramas for Sky one before Murphey was anywere near SKY

Sorry, I didn't mean that he started it just that under him original productions have increased substantially. Certainly before him the few original programmes that Sky had didn't have any great critical acclaim or win any awards.

Comedy especially has gown under him, before the only one I can think of was Time Gentlemen Please

I not certain but I think Dream Team might have won an award. It a shame Stuart Murphey dident do any original shows for Pick TV that channel is a complete mess. I know it only to stop anyone else getting freeview place but putting a few things from Sky sports and the older series of game of thrones wont hurt.

Would hurt their subscriber numbers.

Pick TV has to do enough to act as a shop window for Sky but not enough to offer content which stops people subscribing, which I think it is fair to say there is no danger of. They do go through phases of showcasing Sky's original content - most of the Martina Cole series have aired on Pick TV, along with the Ross Kemp documentaries and a few other things too. At the moment they're showing Chicaco Fire too, though off peak it seems.

MD

mdtauk 18 October 2015 9:07am

Paddy posted:

They have 4 main general entertainment channels and they don't seem to know what to do with them.

Sky 1 is a mess.
Sky 2 is like the long lost relation who has found his family, but they aren't interested in reconnecting with him.
Sky Atlantic is a mish-mash of UK & US programmes, some of which could/should be on Sky 1/Living and vice versa.
Sky Living is trying to be more general rather than female but the name and majority of the content isn't helping change perception.

My two pence worth...
Sky 1 Mix of quality UK and populist US entertainment, focus on Original UK productions.
Sky 2 Focus on populist UK and US TV, with a bent toward US shows.
Sky Atlantic US only programmes. Focus on HBO and Quality shows.
Sky Living Lifestyle programmes and more niche genres like Sci-Fi, Reality TV and "life stories"

PF

PFML84 20 October 2015 9:54am

But how does sci-fi fit in on a channel called "living" where the remaining programmes are reality and lifestyle pap?

I think having names for the channels is hurting them. Maybe keep Sky Atlantic (even though I still don't like that name) and have Sky 1, 2 and 3 again, with 1 being mostly UK shows, 2 being mostly US shows and 3 being the home of their reality and lifestyle programming. That, or even get rid of Sky 2 and keep Sky 1 as UK content only, Sky Atlantic as US content only and Sky Living as lifestyle/reality content only.

MD

mdtauk 20 October 2015 10:05am

Paddy posted:

But how does sci-fi fit in on a channel called "living" where the remaining programmes are reality and lifestyle pap?.

Living second lives...

I had shows like Alias, Warehouse 13, etc in mind. The cheap sci-fi, as opposed to quality shows like Fringe, Star Trek, or Twilight Zone etc.

WH

Whataday Founding member 20 October 2015 11:03am

mdtauk posted:

Paddy posted:

They have 4 main general entertainment channels and they don't seem to know what to do with them.

Sky 1 is a mess.
Sky 2 is like the long lost relation who has found his family, but they aren't interested in reconnecting with him.
Sky Atlantic is a mish-mash of UK & US programmes, some of which could/should be on Sky 1/Living and vice versa.
Sky Living is trying to be more general rather than female but the name and majority of the content isn't helping change perception.

My two pence worth...
Sky 1 Mix of quality UK and populist US entertainment, focus on Original UK productions.
Sky 2 Focus on populist UK and US TV, with a bent toward US shows.
Sky Atlantic US only programmes. Focus on HBO and Quality shows.
Sky Living Lifestyle programmes and more niche genres like Sci-Fi, Reality TV and "life stories"

I say move the sci-fi and anything that doesn't fit on Atlantic to a new Sky Bravo (which I think was mooted earlier this year?)

MD

mdtauk 20 October 2015 11:20am

Whataday posted:

mdtauk posted:

Paddy posted:

They have 4 main general entertainment channels and they don't seem to know what to do with them.

Sky 1 is a mess.
Sky 2 is like the long lost relation who has found his family, but they aren't interested in reconnecting with him.
Sky Atlantic is a mish-mash of UK & US programmes, some of which could/should be on Sky 1/Living and vice versa.
Sky Living is trying to be more general rather than female but the name and majority of the content isn't helping change perception.

My two pence worth...
Sky 1 Mix of quality UK and populist US entertainment, focus on Original UK productions.
Sky 2 Focus on populist UK and US TV, with a bent toward US shows.
Sky Atlantic US only programmes. Focus on HBO and Quality shows.
Sky Living Lifestyle programmes and more niche genres like Sci-Fi, Reality TV and "life stories"

I say move the sci-fi and anything that doesn't fit on Atlantic to a new Sky Bravo (which I think was mooted earlier this year?)

Bravo and Living were the Men and Women's channels - I don't think they should return to that, but is adding another channel the solution. Is there enough content these days to fill em?

IN

Interceptor 20 October 2015 12:13pm

Often forgotten - but Living and Bravo were both repositioned to be less gender specific by VMTV before Sky took over, closed Bravo and rebranded Living in hot pink.

JA

JAS84 20 October 2015 12:23pm

They were using hotpink before Sky rebranded it.
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/a/a2/Living_logo_2009.png/revision/20101222175941

PF

PFML84 20 October 2015 2:52pm

Perhaps rename Sky 2 as Sky Bravo, but then that's just another channel they won't know quite what to do with. Too many channels, not enough content/scope to run them successfully.

WH

Whataday Founding member 20 October 2015 3:32pm

sky.com/bravo redirects to a blank skybravo.com for some reason.

MF

Mad_Frank 20 October 2015 6:53pm

Was there not talk of Sky bringing Bravo back a while ago, maybe they just have the domain in case it happens.

I really dislike Sky 2.

LL

Larry the Loafer 20 October 2015 7:42pm

Mad_Frank posted:

Was there not talk of Sky bringing Bravo back a while ago, maybe they just have the domain in case it happens.

I really dislike Sky 2.

I think certain registrations were made but rumour had it that it was just to preserve the Bravo brand.

(October 2015)