The Virgin Media Television thread

iseegirls · 10-10-2018 11:04pm

Elmo wrote: »

I wonder if Virgin Media are able to reduce their costs on certain programmes.

Big Brothers Bit on the Side was dropped from VM3 as well with no real warning or reason, mid-way through a season, if they have the rights would they not just repeat it if the viewers were low on the channel.

started to write BE3, followed by UTV Ireland!

Didn't even notice that. What another odd decision. And again a repeat of Ireland AM is slotting in there, as they push Love Island and Elaine up an hour earlier. Are they having some sort of issues with live TV shows, with them dropping Loose Women as well? Although This Morning still remains.

iseegirls · 10-10-2018 11:23pm

https://twitter.com/VirginMedia_3/status/1050058199880085512?s=19

Absolute awful reply. Scheduling changes? Such rubbish

mackersdublin · 11-10-2018 4:17pm

Has the current series of Living with Lucy finished? There's usually 6 episodes but this series only had 5

IsMiseJoe · 11-10-2018 4:49pm

I really hope this shower go belly up.

OldMrBrennan83 · 11-10-2018 5:49pm

IsMiseJoe wrote: »

I really hope this shower go belly up.

Why exactly? Just don't watch it.

IsMiseJoe · 11-10-2018 7:13pm

Patww79 wrote: »

Why exactly? Just don't watch it.

That's why I dislike them. I can't watch it even if I wanted.

Their Sport channels aren't available to every home in Ireland.

iseegirls · 11-10-2018 7:51pm

mackersdublin wrote: »

Has the current series of Living with Lucy finished? There's usually 6 episodes but this series only had 5

There were 10 episodes made/or still being made for this series. Looks like they're breaking it up two parts, so maybe the second part in November or the new year.

They've replaced it with a Trevor McDonald doc which they've shown numerous times. They also replaced Ireland's Biggest Prison which was scheduled for tonight with Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares again. Just some really odd scheduling going on.

Elmo · 11-10-2018 11:44pm

iseegirls wrote: »

There were 10 episodes made/or still being made for this series. Looks like they're breaking it up two parts, so maybe the second part in November or the new year.

They've replaced it with a Trevor McDonald doc which they've shown numerous times. They also replaced Ireland's Biggest Prison which was scheduled for tonight with Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares again. Just some really odd scheduling going on.

Strange afaik those episode were due earlier in the year, could be wrong and they could replace it with either Red Rock or The Restaurant (both have were produced for last season)

channelsurfer2 · 12-10-2018 9:17am

no highlights of the Ireland match on VM3 or Vm1. Its live on sky with highlights on VMSport......

icdg · 12-10-2018 9:34am

Very surprised at that.

Firstly, I would have thought that FTA highlights was part of the contract.

Secondly, given they’re probably going to lose their Saturday night light entertainment audience anyway with their Heineken Cup highlights show, they might as well try and hold on to the Sport audience for another hour by following it with football highlights.

iseegirls · 12-10-2018 9:52am

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

no highlights of the Ireland match on VM3 or Vm1. Its live on sky with highlights on VMSport......

It's on VM2 at 11pm.

They have highlights of the Wales match on Tuesday at 10pm on VM1.

channelsurfer2 · 12-10-2018 10:26am

iseegirls wrote: »

It's on VM2 at 11pm.

They have highlights of the Wales match on Tuesday at 10pm on VM1.

thanks. didn't see that listed in my tv guide!

IsMiseJoe · 12-10-2018 12:17pm

icdg wrote: »

Firstly, I would have thought that FTA highlights was part of the contract.

I think that FTA rule is only for European & World Cup qualifiers.
Hopefully when the proper Euro2020 qualifiers come around in March - they'll be back on RTE.

Mickey Mike · 12-10-2018 12:22pm

A time may come when VM will get rid of Be3 altogether.

Mickey Mike · 12-10-2018 12:25pm

IsMiseJoe wrote: »

I think that FTA rule is only for European & World Cup qualifiers.
Hopefully when the proper Euro2020 qualifiers come around in March - they'll be back on RTE.

And in HD

icdg · 12-10-2018 12:44pm

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

thanks. didn't see that listed in my tv guide!

Could have sworn that wasn’t there when I looked earlier..still think they are missing a trick by not scheduling it back to back with the Heineken Cup highlights on the same channel.

I didn’t mean to suggest, in case some posters misinterpreted me, that there was any legal obligation for there to be FTA highlights - quite clearly none such obligation pertains to the Nations League. More than UEFA may have sold the rights to VM with the understanding that there would be FTA highlights of ROI games - given they’ve already sold pay TV rights to Sky.

political analyst · 12-10-2018 12:58pm

VM may have been contractually obliged to broadcast the Champions League highlights at 10:15 on its main channel on Thursday night last week, i.e. shortly after the final whistle. But why didn't it broadcast the Tonight programme on VM2?

batistuta9 · 12-10-2018 1:34pm

iseegirls wrote: »

It's on VM2 at 11pm.

They have highlights of the Wales match on Tuesday at 10pm on VM1.

Tuesdays listed as highlights for 1 hour

But Saturdays looks like a full game replay, it's on for 2 hours

lertsnim · 12-10-2018 2:48pm

So on Saturday their Heineken Cup highlights are on at the same time as their delayed coverage of Ireland v Denmark? What clown is in charge of their scheduling?

Digifriendly · 12-10-2018 3:31pm

Will their rugby highlights include teams other than the Irish provinces?

iseegirls · 12-10-2018 3:42pm

lertsnim wrote: »

So on Saturday their Heineken Cup highlights are on at the same time as their delayed coverage of Ireland v Denmark? What clown is in charge of their scheduling?

Looks like they've moved the Heineken Cup highlights to 10.50pm now, judging by their promos on Ireland AM this morning. Graham Norton has gone back into the 9.50pm slot.

Still doesn't make sense, and they should just place the Irish highlights at 9.50, and Rugby at 10.50. Graham Norton can go out on VM2 I'd necessary.

Elmo · 12-10-2018 3:51pm

iseegirls wrote: »

Looks like they've moved the Heineken Cup highlights to 10.50pm now, judging by their promos on Ireland AM this morning. Graham Norton has gone back into the 9.50pm slot.

Still doesn't make sense, and they should just place the Irish highlights at 9.50, and Rugby at 10.50. Graham Norton can go out on VM2 I'd necessary.

really they need to decide what each channel does first.

Virgin Media one for news, current affairs and new Irish programming
Virgin Media TWO for sport and US programming, move kids back to that channel, replace 10 news with Sports Tonight
Virgin Media THREE for English Daytime TV, repeat and NEW ITV drama, Xpose and repeats of Daytime TV3 programming and ITV soaps and reality TV.

As much as possible simulcast with English TV Channels ITV and Channel 5. (But then we said this about UTV Ireland)

iseegirls · 13-10-2018 11:07am

Interesting to see Rylan Clark-Neal (Host of BB BOTS) getting involved with fans of the show, asking VM3 why the series was dropped on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/Rylan/status/1050117944229924865?s=19

The most oddest response from Virgin Media 3 then:

https://twitter.com/VirginMedia_3/status/1050770303750684673?s=19

And

https://twitter.com/VirginMedia_3/status/1050770366614913024?s=19

Baffling.

lertsnim · 13-10-2018 4:20pm

They have no idea what they're doing do they?

batistuta9 · 13-10-2018 5:01pm

lertsnim wrote: »

They have no idea what they're doing do they?

They're now showing highlights of the Ireland game from 10-11 on VM2. Followed by the full game replay from 11

The highlights wasn't listed yesterday

lertsnim · 13-10-2018 8:13pm

batistuta9 wrote: »

They're now showing highlights of the Ireland game from 10-11 on VM2. Followed by the full game replay from 11

The highlights wasn't listed yesterday

That's a common enough thing with them. Waiting until the last minute to update EPGs.

icdg · 13-10-2018 11:37pm

Digifriendly wrote: »

Will their rugby highlights include teams other than the Irish provinces?

In the end they did, but only of the FTA match, Bath v Toulouse.

They also included (some) coverage of Connacht v Bordeaux in the European Challenge Cup, a competition which now has no live TV coverage.

Dindane · 14-10-2018 9:08pm

iseegirls wrote: »

There could be some low level sporting rights out there, like the Formula E they have had for the past 2 seasons.

Just looking at ITV and Channel 5's current rights, they could try for some of the following (taken from Wiki) (unsure whether these are on Eir Sport already):

Motorsport: British Touring Cars Championship, FIA World Rally Championships
Boxing: World Boxing Super Series, Live bouts (that Channel 5 show)
Snooker: Champion of Champions, World Grand Prix, Players Championship, World Snooker Shoot-Out
Darts: UK Open, European Championship, The Masters ...

Even make a deal with Quest, and show the Championship and League 1 & 2 highlights package.
Even something zany like The World's Strongest man competitions.

I know there's no big ticket items out there at the moment, but would be nice for them to fill out the schedule a bit and think outside the box. Although the way VM2 and VM3 have been scheduled since the relaunch - it'll be a lazy scheduling of reruns.

ITV4's darts is all on eirSport. The Snooker Shootout was on eir before, but just the once I think.

Best bet is to do a deal with Eleven Sport for some Serie A and La Liga, seeing as they currently don't have a TV distribution deal.

Maz2016 · 19-10-2018 12:01pm

Crikey, I just watched last nights Don’t spook Back In Anger. It’s not great. It was a huge disappointment when compared to Reeling In The Years.

iseegirls · 19-10-2018 8:53pm

Maz2016 wrote: »

Crikey, I just watched last nights Don’t spook Back In Anger. It’s not great. It was a huge disappointment when compared to Reeling In The Years.

The Haunted House part was odd. It was such a spectacular failure for the channel.

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