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TV Highlights w/c 21st January 2008
Posted by: Attentional | 28.01.08
Sunday 27th January 2008
Channel 4 kicked off an eighth series RDF’s hit format Wife Swap with a celebrity special featuring comedian Freddie Starr (and subservient wife Donna) and former glamour model Sam Fox (with partner Myra Stratton). The edition attracted 2.6m (9.9%) between 8-9pm, giving an above-average TI™ score of 113. The last series of Wife Swap also started with a celebrity special, with the episode featuring Pete Burns and Neil Ruddock attracting 2.7m viewers in September 2007.
Friday 25th January 2008
BBC2 series The Choir struck a chord with the channel’s viewers in December 2006, averaging 2.7m (11.7%). The docu-soap followed choirmaster Gareth Malone as he attempted to take a group of average school children and turn them into a choir capable of competing at the World Choir Games in China. It was heart-warming stuff as the kids were given new-found pride and confidence, and in a one-off show on Friday evening the BBC set out to find what happened to the children in the subsequent year. The Choir Revisited could not quite match the ratings of the original series, averaging 1.8m (7.7%) between 9-10pm.
Monday 21st January 2008
BBC2’s latest series sounds like it should be a dramatisation of a novel, but Paradise or Bust is in fact a factual account of budding entrepreneurs Ben Keene and Mark Bowness. The pair came up with an ambitious plan to establish their own ‘tribe’ on a deserted island in Fiji, and then set about recruiting 5,000 followers over the internet. All major decisions were shared by the internet “community”, while everything on the island had to be eco-friendly. It sounds like some schoolboy notion of Utopia, except here it really happened and the BBC cameras were there to prove it. However, the ratings are not ideal as the first of five episodes attracted 1.5m (6.4%) to BBC2 between 9 – 10pm, giving a TI™ score of 64.
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