Channel 6 is changing its name to 3e on 5 January [Merged]

Elmo

Bond-007 wrote: »

Strange how exposé does not get into the top 30.
27000 for their top rated show is woefully bad.

AFAIK those figures are just for Adults 15+

When you think of who has access to the channel its not to bad, TV3 want to double those figures.

However I have to agree with Iseegirls that Hollyoaks would have been better positioned on 3e had TV3 kept the rights to that soap rather then either Emmerdale or Coronation Street.

However I don't think soap fits in with any of the current shows on 3e.

Also note how their top show is an Irish one.

iseegirls

Cheers Elmo for the ratings. First time i've actually seen ratings for Channel 6/3e.
Seems like the old favourites like Sex And The City and the Sopranos are doing ok for them.

Our man in Havana

Got any ratings for Tv3?

iseegirls

(Weekending 01/02/2009)

1 Coronation Street Mon 500
2 Coronation Street Fri 495
3 Coronation Street Mon 494
4 Coronation Street Fri 476
5 Coronation Street Wed 458
6 Emmerdale Mon 311
7 Emmerdale Wed 303
8 Emmerdale Tue 287
9 Emmerdale Thu 282
10 Emmerdale Fri 279
11 American Idol Sat 232
12 Dirty Money: Mon 222
13 Dancing On Ice Skate Off Sun 214
14 Dancing On Ice Sun 209
15 Nothing To Declare Mon 201
16 American Idol Sat 184
17 American Idol Sat 173
18 Film: Rambo - First Blood Thu 169
19 Ireland's Richest Celebrities Sun158
20 World's Smallest People Wed 152

taken from www.medialive.com

iseegirls

Gabriel Byrne's Golden Globe-winning performance in the TV series In treatment has been a lucky strike for TV3, who snapped up the cult programme after it was turned down by RTE.
TV3 bosses hope to capture a huge late night audience and send viewers to bed with a half hour of Gabriel Byrne playing Dr Paul Weston.
The original format favoured by America's HBO saw a show broadcast five weekday nights in a row.
The programme follows psychoanalyst Weston through his week, capturing a session each night, from Monday to Thursday, with his patients before concluding on Friday in the office of Paul's own therapist.


Byrne won an award for Best Actor in a TV Series Drama for his portrayal.
RTE "passed" on the US series as the format of the show would mean having to run it five days a week. But TV3 bought the rights and it will form a central plank of its late night schedules from March on 3e.

FULL STORY

Well that's one programme that's set for the March schedule "re-launch".

absurdtrivia

That seems like a decent show. There are 43 episodes in the first season of 30 minutes each, making it almost like a soap.

It also has a good cast with several big names.

I hope it does well for them. It's nice to see them getting some new content onto the channel.

Elmo

iseegirls wrote: »

Cheers Elmo for the ratings. First time i've actually seen ratings for Channel 6/3e.
Seems like the old favourites like Sex And The City and the Sopranos are doing ok for them.

See the problem is relying on the old favorites. When do we get new faviourtes and will they need to play out on RTE or TV3 before being brought to 3e.

The selection of shows are all over the place. They seem to have no really strategy.

Friends, Sex and The City, The Sapranoes, Seinfeld etc = Old Favorites

Fringe, House, Heroes etc = New Favorites

Corronation Street, Dancing on Ice, IACGMOH NOW!, = ITV extras/repeats

With a few Irish repeats thrown in such as Xpose and The Holiday Show etc.

And then you have Star Trek and Andromada!?!

Difficult to see where programmes fit, lacking any orgininality or personality which may help. I mean even C6 Popscene and Nightshift helped to place C6. 3e has nothing helping it to stand out. Indeed their logo doesn't help, badly designed and badly copied as a E4esque personality "E".

If TV3 what to help 3e they will get UPC to take Living off Analogue Cable. Seriously Living goes on to analogue and gets 1.5% of the audience at the same time as C6, devastating for C6.

David McRedmond

"We have got the first Irish TV news in the morning with Ireland AM, we have the first news at lunchtime and we have the first TV news in the evening, and we have the last news each night," he added.

"We also cancelled our prime time news and our weekend news"

MarkK

David McRedmond
"... we have the first TV news in the evening, and we have the last news each night,"

In other words, we keep News as far out of Prime time as we can get away with.

Our man in Havana

MarkK wrote: »

In other words, we keep News as far out of Prime time as we can get away with.

Is there a designated period in which they are required to show the news?

Elmo

Bond-007 wrote: »

Is there a designated period in which they are required to show the news?

OTT but to answer the question. Yes their used to be. They actually had to ask the BCI if they could let go of the news at 6:30 and the good old regulator like all good old regulators in this country let them do it by replacing it with Expose with the knowledge that 10 new jobs would be created, those 10 jobs have since gone.

Their reason for getting rid of the News:-

1. Not getting enough viewers
2. The same as the 5:30 news
3. Viewer Choice

In other words

1. Xpose won't get as many viewers but
2. We cann't repeat the news in the morning
3. we couldn't be arsed.

Sorry for going OTT.

Back to 3e. I TV3

Elmo

They must be listening to us here on boards since 3e now has a news update at 7pm just before friends. A 60 minute one not unlike BBC THREE's, however she didn't introduce the next show and let the audience know that the next news will be on TV3 at 9pm, might be a worthwhile idea.

The dog seems to be on during the ads now, and it is more translunent but still as big and as stupid looking as ever.

Hopefully they will get a new look for Autumn 2009. Also and I am just being picky about the 3e UPDATE, it should really be called 3UPDATE or 3NEWS and use the TV3 News logo. But they really need a new revamp the current look all round is too much and ugly TBH.

sgall

3e are clearly not confident in their scheduling. Listings in different newspapers claim that they broadcast either 'The Eleventh Hour' or 'Doctor Who' at 16:05 weekdays.

I'd love to know how anyone working for the BCI can claim they are a regulator, but I suppose they would mention the xpose repeat....

Elmo

sgall wrote: »

I'd love to know how anyone working for the BCI can claim they are a regulator, but I suppose they would mention the xpose repeat....

Like all regulators in Ireland they actually do very little regulation. Soft Touch. Laize-a-Faire. Out of touch. Uninterested. Lazy. Call it whatever you like.

iseegirls

yeah i saw the news update yesterday - just really the main headlines from the TV3 reports. Nothing too groundbreaking - but at least it's something.

The 3e website annoys me so much - the logo just doesn't go with the background at all. They have music and film features on it - yet don't have any such programming on 3e itself. And the video of the 3e logo wrecks my head - especially when my volume is up loud, and the video just starts automatically.

Elmo

iseegirls wrote: »

The 3e website annoys me so much - the logo just doesn't go with the background at all. They have music and film features on it - yet don't have any such programming on 3e itself. And the video of the 3e logo wrecks my head - especially when my volume is up loud, and the video just starts automatically.

It is a case, we have a site from C6 and we don't really want to delete it and redevelop it or do any kind of data migration to the new TV3 web template.

"Guess we'll just delete the old C6 logo and change the colours to Orange"

medoc

sgall wrote: »

3e are clearly not confident in their scheduling. Listings in different newspapers claim that they broadcast either 'The Eleventh Hour' or 'Doctor Who' at 16:05 weekdays.
....

Tv3 dont have a good record with scheduling either, they drop episodes off the end of series eg The Shield with little or no information, or break up series to put on the latest ITV rubbish at the same time as UTV.

Does anyone know when Fringe is due back on either SKY or TV3, sorry its off topic but I dont want to read the Fringe Thread on the Television board in case of spoilers.
Thanks

Elmo

medoc wrote: »

Does anyone know when Fringe is due back on either SKY or TV3, sorry its off topic but I dont want to read the Fringe Thread on the Television board in case of spoilers.

I thought it was back on 3e but perhaps they are repeats.

Oh look 3e website has been updated anyone spot the difference http://3e.tv3.ie

medoc

Elmo wrote: »

I thought it was back on 3e but perhaps they are repeats.

Thanks, Im not sure but I think that is a repeat, But it doesn't matter because I wont watch on 3e until the fix the aspect ratio.

I did notice that 3e was showing a version of one of the text babe channels last night when i came back from work. :eek:

iseegirls

Is there any new rating updates for 3e yet Elmo, thanks.

So has everyone adjusted to the new schedule - seems like some people have said positive things about InTreatment, while the rest of the schedule is made up of CSI, Law & Order and Sex&City which is annoying. Would be interesting to see the rating though, and if it has improved - especially with the corrie repeat at 9.

banshee_bones

i didnt even notice channel 6 had dissapeared!! thought 3e was just a nother new rubbishy channel!

Elmo

iseegirls wrote: »

Is there any new rating updates for 3e yet Elmo, thanks.

Still at 0.7 for Feb, I was expecting a small increase with Coronation Street at 9, but give it more time even I will do that.

The new schedule may also help, again we will see how March goes I think this will be the biggest test for the channel.

As soon as I get some rating I will post the up.

What's happening with Seinfeld,a few weeks ago they were on season 7 or 8 and now its showing season 4?

Elmo

zorro2566 wrote: »

What's happening with Seinfeld,a few weeks ago they were on season 7 or 8 and now its showing season 4?

I amn't sure how Channel 6/3e bought their shows it seems to me that they didn't buy every season for each show. e.g. The Wire was only pick up for season 1 and 2. I wonder if 3e have the rights for Season 9 of Seinfeld?

zilog_jones

They've shown every season of Seinfeld at least once over. I always recorded the daytime showing (to not interfere with anything else), however they always skipped at least one episode every weekend (they only showed it mon-fri) which was pretty annoying as there is significant continuity in the series unlike most sitcoms. I tried emailing them about it back when they were Channel 6 but unsurprisingly they never got back to me. :rolleyes:

But yes, they finished season 8 last month (a good few weeks after the name change) and decided to jump back to season 4. I give up...

Elmo

zilog_jones wrote: »

But yes, they finished season 8 last month (a good few weeks after the name change) and decided to jump back to season 4. I give up...

I don't always watch so for me C6/3e has been great to catch up with such a great comedy that I missed on its first run. I amn't at home during the day so I will miss that episode. I fear that Seinfeld will be lost in the next few months. I give until September at the most :mad:

Just as well i got all the dvd sets recently from Zavvi's sale and Amazon!:)

They have gone right to the beginning now,season one started last night!

iseegirls

Maybe they'll have a clean start on it now - and run through it in order.

We should be lucky to have Seinfeld to watch anyway - unless i'm mistaken - i don't think British viewers can watch it at all.

Elmo

iseegirls wrote: »

Maybe they'll have a clean start on it now - and run through it in order.

We should be lucky to have Seinfeld to watch anyway - unless i'm mistaken - i don't think British viewers can watch it at all.

Are none of the English channels showing seinfeld even ones we don't get?

Charles Slane

Elmo wrote: »

Are none of the English channels showing seinfeld even ones we don't get?

No, it's not showing on any UK channels at the moment.