The Virgin Media Television thread

Maz2016 · 21-09-2020 9:25pm

Elmo wrote: »

Also covid helped those figures at this point there's only so much covid talk you can take. Would be interesting to know how news at 8 is doing.

I like the news at 8. Think they do a good job producing news programmes. I used like the Tonight show but I haven’t really watched it since it came back for that very reason - I’m limiting my Covid intake every day. I watched Ciara interview Niall Collins FF the other night and some other person (name escapes me now) and thought she was good. But I’ve found myself watching documentaries or comedy at night now

Delta2113 · 21-09-2020 11:43pm

Family Fortunes next Sunday - a week late.

channelsurfer2 · 22-09-2020 11:58am

surely they need to send their scheduling intern back to school... all over the place random itv programmes that have already been shown 100 times pop up in prime time.

iseegirls · 22-09-2020 12:49pm

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

surely they need to send their scheduling intern back to school... all over the place random itv programmes that have already been shown 100 times pop up in prime time.

If you like Autopsies, then your choice last night was:
9pm VM3
12:30am VM2
1am VM1

And for next Monday:
9pm VM3
12midnight VM3
1am VM1
2.30 VM2

Tonight on VM2
8pm Heartbeat - Series 6 - First broadcast 24 years ago
9pm A Touch Of Frost - Series 1 First broadcast 28 years ago

And the alternative to that schedule on VM3 is Vera - Series 1 - First broadcast 9 years ago

Elmo · 22-09-2020 3:34pm

iseegirls wrote: »

Tonight on VM2
8pm Heartbeat - Series 6 - First broadcast 24 years ago
9pm A Touch Of Frost - Series 1 First broadcast 28 years ago

And the alternative to that schedule on VM3 is Vera - Series 1 - First broadcast 9 years ago

I have no real problem with this as long as they know their audience. All of these shows are really for VM3, I am sure they could find other alternative repeats for VM2.

Can you imagine the faux outrage from the media if UTV Ireland carried on the way VM have done with WWTBAM?

EdmondShiels3 · 22-09-2020 3:54pm

Could they not aim VM2 at the youth like E4 or would that not work.

iseegirls · 22-09-2020 5:25pm

EdmondShiels3 wrote: »

Could they not aim VM2 at the youth like E4 or would that not work.

Because they're so dependent on the ITV Studios catalogue, if they tried that - they'd just end up being a mini ITV2, where Celebrity Juice and You've Been Framed would be on rotation.

3e did have Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Futurama, The Middle, That 70s Show, 30 Rock and more only a few years ago. They gave up on Family Guy and American Dad once the ITV Studios programming became available - and so instead there's repeats of Midsomer Murder, Frost, Morse.

Elmo · 24-09-2020 10:13am

iseegirls wrote: »

Because they're so dependent on the ITV Studios catalogue, if they tried that - they'd just end up being a mini ITV2, where Celebrity Juice and You've Been Framed would be on rotation.

3e did have Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Futurama, The Middle, That 70s Show, 30 Rock and more only a few years ago. They gave up on Family Guy and American Dad once the ITV Studios programming became available - and so instead there's repeats of Midsomer Murder, Frost, Morse.

From what I can tell VM see the value of their daytime &news output, sports and ITV

Films are on rotation, with the odd import e.g schitts creek not sure how they have that.

iseegirls · 24-09-2020 11:30am

Elmo wrote: »

From what I can tell VM see the value of their daytime &news output, sports and ITV

Films are on rotation, with the odd import e.g schitts creek not sure how they have that.

Just go to https://www.itvstudios.com/ - and you'll see Schitt's Creek at the very top - due to their Emmy wins recently.

They have actually showed some newer films - even a few premieres which was unheard of for a while for VM. Now, not such blockbusters, but films like Den Of Thieves and Sleepless (yes, I never heard of them either) have been premieres recently. Not sure where they come from in terms of package rights.
There have also been some straight to TV Movies, like Eight Days To Live and The Triumph - that must come from some sort of Lifetime TV Movie deal.

Would like if they rebranded one of the channels to certain times. For Halloween, change VM3 to VM Halloween, and show some horror films - maybe even the cheap muck they have on Sci-Fi.
Then for Christmas - Virgin Media Christmas Three. There is a mountain of Xmas films out there - you only have to see how Channel 5 go huge on these in November and December. It's all about generating some publicity. Look at how easily Sky rename their channels like Sky Darts, Sky Sports Ashes, Sky Cinema Harry Potter etc..

icdg · 24-09-2020 7:10pm

Those temporary renames cause (or used to) cause the cable side of VM headaches of a massive order because of the different way their conditional access system works from Sky...they had to keep a dummy channel open in the 800s with the old name so customers could keep access to their recordings. Don’t know if that’s still the case these days.

mackersdublin · 25-09-2020 3:18pm

icdg wrote: »

Those temporary renames cause (or used to) cause the cable side of VM headaches of a massive order because of the different way their conditional access system works from Sky...they had to keep a dummy channel open in the 800s with the old name so customers could keep access to their recordings. Don’t know if that’s still the case these days.

VM don't bother changing the name of Sky Select now, as that channel changes its name every few days. And yes there's stil a good few of those dummy channels in the 700's at the moment. Sky thankfully have stopped rebranding the other Cinema channels

holidaysong · 08-10-2020 5:07pm

Dundalk's six Europa League group stage games will be all broadcast FTA on VM2.

iseegirls · 09-10-2020 10:06am

holidaysong wrote: »

Dundalk's six Europa League group stage games will be all broadcast FTA on VM2.

Looks like Live Champions League games on Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm on Virgin Media Two - which s good news. Chelsea v Sevilla on Tuesday, Ajax v Liverpool on Wednesday.

Mystery how Virgin Media didn't pursue the live coverage to last nights Rep of Ireland match. RTE, whom have never shown any live or highlights of the Nations League so far, seemingly got a deal done for the live play-off semi last night. And if Ireland were to progress - they would have shown the final live. You had the craziness of VMTwo having Niall Quinn and Brian Kerr having prematch and afermatch coverage of the Rep of Ireland match - while they showed a live friendly between England v Wales, and then showed live coverage of the extra time and penalties of Northern Ireland v Bosnia match - knowing full well that Tommy, Brian and Niall were solely looking at RTE and the Irish match.

odyssey06 · 09-10-2020 10:12am

I switched over to England v Wales during the half time for the ROI game. Picture seemed slightly out of focus or something, didn't have the same issue watching the football on RTE so don't think it was my TV. Viewing via Saorview.

lertsnim · 09-10-2020 10:26am

odyssey06 wrote: »

I switched over to England v Wales during the half time for the ROI game. Picture seemed slightly out of focus or something, didn't have the same issue watching the football on RTE so don't think it was my TV. Viewing via Saorview.

That's just how live sport looks on non HD Saorview channels.

Elmo · 09-10-2020 11:15am

lertsnim wrote: »

That's just how live sport looks on non HD Saorview channels.

Is it the same issue on RTÉ2+1?

icdg · 09-10-2020 11:55am

iseegirls wrote: »

Mystery how Virgin Media didn't pursue the live coverage to last nights Rep of Ireland match. RTE, whom have never shown any live or highlights of the Nations League so far, seemingly got a deal done for the live play-off semi last night. And if Ireland were to progress - they would have shown the final live. You had the craziness of VMTwo having Niall Quinn and Brian Kerr having prematch and afermatch coverage of the Rep of Ireland match - while they showed a live friendly between England v Wales, and then showed live coverage of the extra time and penalties of Northern Ireland v Bosnia match - knowing full well that Tommy, Brian and Niall were solely looking at RTE and the Irish match.

It’s no mystery - this is not the Nations League, this is the European Qualifiers (you’ll have to take that one up with UEFA, but it’s how they classified and branded it) and so the TV rights deal for the European Qualifiers applies, not the Nations League. Either way, VMTV would not have had the Republic of Ireland game; had it actually been a Nations League game, then Sky would have had exclusive live coverage; because it was a European Qualifiers game, Sky and RTE shared the rights.

Dodge · 09-10-2020 12:04pm

The only real mystery of VMTV and their nations league rights is why were they so cheap to pay for the entire tournament except for the Ireland games.

FWIW Sunday's game with Wales is a Nations League game so only on Sky Sports here (again, WMTV have access to every other game). It's also live on S4C if you access to that Welsh channel

iseegirls · 09-10-2020 12:35pm

Dodge wrote: »

The only real mystery of VMTV and their nations league rights is why were they so cheap to pay for the entire tournament except for the Ireland games.

It's amazing whatever poor deal was done. They'll be showing the full 90 mins of Ireland v Wales at 11pm on Sunday night, 9 hours after it kicked off on Sky. Even the commentators must be thinking what's the point.

Memories of TV3 cheering from the rooftops back around 2004 when they secured deferred rights to all Ireland home matches for 4 years. The full coverage of a match running from 10pm to 12:30pm, with Sky owning the live rights. Luckily the Government ensured that the Qualifying games must be shown free, and RTE came in. And then TV3 were left with deferred highlights of the matches shown live on RTE, and then deferred full match of meaningless friendlies.

JDxtra · 09-10-2020 12:51pm

The model for VM is to buy content as cheap as possible, dilute it across all channels and repeat it often. Do "just enough" to appear in the ratings and satisfy advertisers.

Then brand all channels heavily with the name "Virgin Media". The entire goal here is to keep this name in the minds of viewers so they can sell broadband, digital TV and mobile. That's where the money is for them. Their goal is not to be the best broadcaster.

Acosta · 10-10-2020 10:38am

JDxtra wrote: »

Then brand all channels heavily with the name "Virgin Media". The entire goal here is to keep this name in the minds of viewers so they can sell broadband, digital TV and mobile. That's where the money is for them. Their goal is not to be the best broadcaster.

They won't be happy that I still call it TV3.

iseegirls · 10-10-2020 1:06pm

They've a John Delaney documentary on Virgin Media One on Tuesday. At the same time - there's live football on Virgin Media Two. Makes perfect sense, right?

An Ciarraioch · 10-10-2020 2:48pm

Dodge wrote: »

The only real mystery of VMTV and their nations league rights is why were they so cheap to pay for the entire tournament except for the Ireland games.

FWIW Sunday's game with Wales is a Nations League game so only on Sky Sports here (again, WMTV have access to every other game). It's also live on S4C if you access to that Welsh channel

Everyone can access S4C in fact - no geoblocking on their website.

Delta2113 · 10-10-2020 3:01pm

They do have to fill three channels and it's not a repeat. Also they could say you can record it and watch the match LIVE. You can watch it at 10pm on the plus one channel (not a fan off plus one especially as in SD).
You can watch it on replay if you have that function. It will be on the Virgin Media Player. You will see it if you really want to.

Delta2113 · 10-10-2020 3:06pm

Virgin Media Three had John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen Series 2 Episode 1 on earlier today.
Tomorrow they are showing Episode 5.
Next Saturday Episode 7.
Next Sunday Episode 8.
What about 2,3 and 4?

lertsnim · 10-10-2020 4:59pm

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Everyone can access S4C in fact - no geoblocking on their website.

There is geoblocking on it for some programmes.

dublinman1990 · 10-10-2020 6:13pm

I have S4C HD at home for the match tomorrow afternoon. I don't need to see it on VM knowing that S4C have it live.

iseegirls · 13-10-2020 9:58am

Elaine at 3pm has been pulled this week, plus was also not on last Friday. They're not saying much on twitter or in the media apart from saying the "girls are taking a break and will be back next Monday 19th".

You'd have to think a possible Covid case affected the production of the show.

In it's place is ITV2's Dress To Impress Series 1 which has been shown 9 times already across the last 3 years on VMTV.

Elmo · 13-10-2020 6:44pm

iseegirls wrote: »

Elaine at 3pm has been pulled this week, plus was also not on last Friday. They're not saying much on twitter or in the media apart from saying the "girls are taking a break and will be back next Monday 19th".

Would that be enough time for a breakout of Covid? Isn't most of it done by Video calls?

iseegirls · 13-10-2020 8:22pm

Elmo wrote: »

Would that be enough time for a breakout of Covid? Isn't most of it done by Video calls?

Looking back at Thursdays show, they had 2 guests on at separate times with Elaine. Never know, it could even be a member of the production crew. It's the first time there's ever been a break in her show, apart from when Horse Racing occurs and at Christmas time.

Elmo · 13-10-2020 9:50pm

iseegirls wrote: »

Looking back at Thursdays show, they had 2 guests on at separate times with Elaine. Never know, it could even be a member of the production crew. It's the first time there's ever been a break in her show, apart from when Horse Racing occurs and at Christmas time.

I'd imagine that if the crew on Elaine are close contact then the crew on almost all VM shows are close contacts.

I don't think it is COVID this would be something that would be plastered all over the papers for what its worth, look at other people who have a profile have public announced their COVID test.

Is it heading off the air for good?

iseegirls · 13-10-2020 11:41pm

This was the only tweet they sent out:
https://twitter.com/ElaineVMTV/status/1315586344370999296?s=19

Oddly, they sent an earlier tweet out which included @elainecrowley, and then a few minutes later they changed the tweet to remove her name. Mightn't mean a lot, but there you go.

Mirror and RSVP online wasn't looking any further into details, and just taking that tweet and then adding a lot of padding about the Elaine show.

iseegirls · 19-10-2020 11:44am

Friday 30th October 2020:

7:30 The Chase Australia VM2
8:30 The Chase Australia VM2
12:00 The Chase Australia VM3
13:00 The Chase VM1
14:00 The Chase VM1
18:00 The Chase VM2
19:00 The Chase VM2
20:00 The Chase Australia VM2
21:00 The Chase: Celebrity VM2

Brock Turnpike · 19-10-2020 12:08pm

iseegirls wrote: »

Friday 30th October 2020:

7:30 The Chase Australia VM2
8:30 The Chase Australia VM2
12:00 The Chase Australia VM3
13:00 The Chase VM1
14:00 The Chase VM1
18:00 The Chase VM2
19:00 The Chase VM2
20:00 The Chase Australia VM2
21:00 The Chase: Celebrity VM2

Even as someone who loves The Chase, that is disgraceful.

dulpit · 19-10-2020 12:45pm

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

Even as someone who loves The Chase, that is disgraceful.

I wonder how many of them are unique shows too, or will they show the same episodes on both VM1 and VM2?

An Ciarraioch · 19-10-2020 3:01pm

Or indeed when they'll show new series - the new Irish Chaser, Darragh Ennis, was announced sometime ago, but not sure if he's appeared on ITV yet?

mikeym · 19-10-2020 9:07pm

Just have a dedicated The Chase channel Virgin Media

Maz2016 · 19-10-2020 10:26pm

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Or indeed when they'll show new series - the new Irish Chaser, Darragh Ennis, was announced sometime ago, but not sure if he's appeared on ITV yet?

I haven’t seen him on itv yet

Digifriendly · 20-10-2020 5:30am

iseegirls wrote: »

Friday 30th October 2020:

7:30 The Chase Australia VM2
8:30 The Chase Australia VM2
12:00 The Chase Australia VM3
13:00 The Chase VM1
14:00 The Chase VM1
18:00 The Chase VM2
19:00 The Chase VM2
20:00 The Chase Australia VM2
21:00 The Chase: Celebrity VM2

Out of interest where do you access an epg so far ahead?

iseegirls · 20-10-2020 7:34am

Digifriendly wrote: »

Out of interest where do you access an epg so far ahead?

TVguide.co.uk is pretty good and has 13 days of future listings.

https://www.tvguide.co.uk/channellistings.asp?ch=962&cTime=10/30/2020%207:00:00%20AM&thisTime=&thisDay=

icdg · 20-10-2020 7:34am

Maz2016 wrote: »

I haven’t seen him on itv yet

Some talk that he will debut today, but I’ve seen nothing even semi official to say that.

iseegirls · 20-10-2020 9:49am

dulpit wrote: »

I wonder how many of them are unique shows too, or will they show the same episodes on both VM1 and VM2?

7:30 The Chase Australia VM2 (S1 E59)
8:30 The Chase Australia VM2 (S2 E61)
12:00 The Chase Australia VM3 (S3 E5)
13:00 The Chase VM1 (S10 E42)
14:00 The Chase VM1 (S10 E44)
18:00 The Chase VM2 (S10 E20) - this episode was shown on VM1 last Friday
19:00 The Chase VM2 (S10 E21) - this episode was shown on VM1 last Friday
20:00 The Chase Australia VM2 (S2 E32)
21:00 The Chase: Celebrity VM2 (S9 E7)

All above are repeats. Series 10 of The Chase is from 2016.

Elmo · 03-11-2020 12:43am

Jeremy Kyle Emergency Room on VM3 wonder it they are planning a full return

iseegirls · 03-11-2020 11:34am

Elmo wrote: »

Jeremy Kyle Emergency Room on VM3 wonder it they are planning a full return

I doubt a return to The Jeremy Kyle Show would happen.

They did show some episodes of the The Kyle Files from Season 4, although it's a normal move of Virgin Media to squeeze as much as possible from a TV series within 2 years of first broadcasting it. Series 4 started in March 2018, and the last episode broadcast from that series was Feb 2020.

Judging by Jeremy Kyle's Emergency Room, Series 1 started in May 2019 with 2 episodes shown before Kyle's shows all got pulled, so expect them to constantly repeat it until April 2021.

Elmo · 03-11-2020 7:38pm

VM News doing well in fairness VM news has improved massively so good to see it grow

Elmo · 17-11-2020 12:44am

So if VM's contract from ITV is only about the number of hour provided why are they not taking the IACGMOH Daily Drop, and looking at Vigin Media's website I don't see their podcasts anywhere, why not put them on the player?

An Ciarraioch · 19-11-2020 9:18pm

icdg wrote: »

Some talk that he will debut today, but I’ve seen nothing even semi official to say that.

Just started today - already bits up on the series's YouTube, so knowing Virgin Media it'll probably be next summer before we see him here.

iseegirls · 19-11-2020 11:32pm

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Just started today - already bits up on the series's YouTube, so knowing Virgin Media it'll probably be next summer before we see him here.

Looks like today's ITV episode of The Chase will be on VM One tomorrow at 2pm, which features the debut of the new Irish Chaser, according to the TV listings.

Elmo · 20-11-2020 10:49am

iseegirls wrote: »

Looks like today's ITV episode of The Chase will be on VM One tomorrow at 2pm, which features the debut of the new Irish Chaser, according to the TV listings.

How long will that last for? So unless something is in the news about ITV like a new Chaser from Ireland or someone willing a Million on WWTBAM, VM will not simucast ITV programming? and won't take it if it is purely a ITV Hub execlusive but repeats on ITV2 at 5:30 each night.

I can't find their podcasts on their own site or player?

iseegirls · 20-11-2020 11:23am

Elmo wrote: »

How long will that last for?

Looking at the next few days is a bit erratic (taking it from tvguide.co.uk)
Virgin Media One 2pm
Fri (today) S13 E183 (new Irish guy's 1st episode)
Mon 23rd S13 E1
Tue 24th S13 E185
Wed 25th S13 E186
Thu 26th S13 E2
Fri 27th ?
Mon 30th S13 E3
Tue 1st S13 E190
Wed 2nd S13 E191
Thu 3rd S13 E4

ITV 5pm
Thursday (yesterday) S13 E183 (new Irish guy's 1st episode)
Fri 20th S14 E1
Mon 23rd S13 E185
Tue 24th S13 E186
Wed 25th S14 E11
Thu 26th S13 E188
Fri 27th ?
Mon 30th S13 E190
Tue 1st S13 E191
Wed 2nd S14 E27
Thu 3rd ?

Looking at ITV, are the later episodes of Series 13 of 183,185,186 etc just the ones containing the Irish Chaser that have yet unaired. And then into Series 14 to continue with newer episodes

But then we have Virgin Media One which show the newer S13 episodes the following day, but when ITV are showing S14, VM One revert back to the start of S13.

It's all very messy.

This site is very good for trying to figure out when ITV broadcast episodes from each series of The Chase - since Covid-19 started seems like the episodes are being being broadcast out of order - http://www.onequestionshootout.xyz/index.html

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