The Virgin Media Television thread

Elmo wrote: »

Will Life be on 3e?
I think the episodes at Christmas were mainly Holdiay episodes?

They flew through a lot of episodes between November and December. Some Sundays nearly had about 10 episodes. But they managed to show all the episodes until the last one, along with a few Xmas and NYE episodes. But since then, there's been none. Now it could be on a break, and could return - like what they do with That 70s Show.

Oh, sorry for confusion, Life will be on TV3, just put in under that comment earlier. Starting on a Wednesday - strange day to start. Maybe the Champions League is starting back that week. I feel they got a bit of a shock with The Lie and Nothing To Declare making no headway with ratings. There was reports that the lack of money made available by TV3 for this show meant that it won't be on till summer, but seems like it a been brought forward.

iseegirls wrote: »

Oh, sorry for confusion, Life will be on TV3, just put in under that comment earlier. Starting on a Wednesday - strange day to start. Maybe the Champions League is starting back that week. I feel they got a bit of a shock with The Lie and Nothing To Declare making no headway with ratings. There was reports that the lack of money made available by TV3 for this show meant that it won't be on till summer, but seems like it a been brought forward.

Only thing I heard was that it would be postponed because of other programming. With Nothing To Declare airing in its place until it starts. You'd wonder why TV3 don't mess around with Nothing To Declare, I know you said that they swapped them around with NTD previous on at 7 but surely TV3 know that stripped episodes of a repeat isn't going to hold an auidence. When it was on at 8pm between coro st, coro st viewers were waiting for the next ep of coro st, it wasn't a great love of NTD IMO.

BTW is NTD still part of TV3's schedule when Life starts?

1 FILM: Jack Reacher 145
2 The Cube 143
3 All Star Family Fortunes 131
4 Red Rock 130
5 The Restaurant 129
6 The National Television Awards 124
7 The People's Debate with Vincent Browne 116
8 Red Rock 112
9 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 107
10 Judge Judy 103
11 Tonight With Vincent Browne 102
12 Xpose 102
13 The Holiday Show 92
14 Tonight With Vincent Browne 91
15 All Star Mr & Mrs 86
16 Tonight With Vincent Browne 84
17 Judge Judy 82
18 FILM: Man About Dog 82
19 Xpose 81
20 Judge Judy 81

L1011 wrote: »

Red Rock really is collapsing in ratings.

Yeah! I actually like it though.
I thino if they had played it on better days like eg Monday and Thursday the viewings would be higher.

How does Ireland AM manage to do in the ratings?

L1011 wrote: »

Its numbers are very poor but its % share is huge as there's very few people watching TV at all at that time.

50,000 with a 25% AFAIK

irishmusicfeed wrote: »

Don't worry kids GMB is coming to UTV Ireland so instead of knowing what's happening in Ireland; you can now find out about the old granny who's loaf of bread was robbed in East Anglia and who's butt is bigger JLO's or Rihanna's... classy breakfast TV

Still sounds better than Ireland AM. I only usually watch Ireland AM for the news slots as the rest of the programme is very poor. Just seems to be endless product placements.

Any idea when GMB will be starting on UTV Ireland?

Elmo wrote: »

50,000 with a 25% AFAIK

If that is the average rating for Ireland AM, then it means it has higher viewership than all of UTV Ireland's weekend programming. Their highest show over Saturday and Sunday was Outnumbered with 49,000.

Gits_bone wrote: »

I actually like Ireland AM. BUt rarely get to see it.

The catch up ones they do at the weekend aren't too bad as they usually feature interviews and cut out all the other rubbish.

It will be interesting to see their viewing figures once GMB starts on UTV Ireland.

Carnacalla wrote: »

Yeah! I actually like it though.
I thino if they had played it on better days like eg Monday and Thursday the viewings would be higher.

Or as a Sunday omnibus, given the ratings dramas get on that night - it'll enter Ros na Run territory soon if it's left in mid-week!

It may be copying the One Show format, but the ratings can't fall any lower up against Emmerdale, so actually worth the gamble!

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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How would this indicate the beginning of the end for TV3? Surely having a live show at 7pm is a positive thing? An alternative for those who don't want to watch Emmerdale or Nationwide?

I actually cant see TV3 and UTV merging. If anything happens, I think UTV will bankrupt TV3 and then snatch up their programs.

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I would prefer to see it the other way around. UTV have made a string of bad decisions, and if this continues its possible that UTV might be the ones shutting up shop. UTV has one of the worst TV schedules I have ever seen, robots for news presenters and are now going to play Good Morning Britian every weekday morning. This will rival Ireland Am, but I can tell which will get the better viewing statistics pretty easily.

It will end up in a war between UTV and TV3 in the end, who wins is another question.

The cancellation of Late Lunch Live and replacing it with The 7 O'clock show is a smart and strategic decision by TV3. If its any good it may get a few viewers.