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TV Highlights w/c 28th April 2008
Posted by Attentional | 07.05.08
Sunday 04th May 2008
Kevin McCloud puts himself in the firing line this week in Talkback’s Grand Designs Live, by taking on a live challenge to build an eco-friendly home in six days. This is an interesting departure for Grand Designs, and the launch programme, at 8.05pm on C4, attracted an audience of 1.9m (7.9%). While this does not approach the heights of some of the Grand Designs ratings, (the previous series, which started in January 2008, averaged over 4m viewers), it was a solid performance up against Raiders of the Lost Ark on BBC1, (5.2m, 22%), and ITV1’s drama offering at the same time.
Wednesday 30th April 2008
The anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is nearly upon us, and ITV1 marked the occasion with a two-hour documentary, featuring an interview with Kate and Gerry McCann, who talked about the night their daughter went missing. There is still a certain fascination with the details of the McCann case, as the programme averaged 3.5m (14.4%), with a TI™ of 107.6, across a lengthy two-hour slot. This compares well with the Channel 4 Dispatches programme, Searching for Madeleine, which went out in October 2007 and was watched by 3.3m (14.6%).
Monday 28th April 2008
BBC1 launched a new soap at 2.15pm: Out of the Blue, a BBC commission from Australia’s Southern Star that focusses on thirty-something friends in the beach resort of Manly. The series opened with a murder at a school reunion, and then followed the effects as they rippled through the group. The double episode attracted an audience of 1.16m (17.6%), enough to win two-thirds of its slot, and beating fellow Aussie soap Home and Away on Five, also at 2.15pm.
For a more detailed summary of the week’s television, please visit http://www.attentional.com/blog.php
Student competition
Posted by Pete | 01.05.08
Green Lit Media are looking to create a ninety second humorous viral and in line with Bristol Media’s objective to engage with new talent we are extending the creative concept element in the form of a competition to you students. If this is your thing then why not send us a short paragraph outline. if this is better than anything we come up with then we’ll invite you (and pay you) to come and work with us on producing the viral. You’ll work with our production team and hopefully gain some ‘hands on’ experience as well as see your concept brought to life and shown to the world. send outline to: info@greenlitmedia.com
Giant snowmen on college green
Posted by Clarered | 30.04.08
Giant snowmen in college green, aliens crashed in the city centre. Over the last few weeks I have had a few sneak peaks at the Quicktime VR visuals that Jon Williams of Licorice has just created for his new game Harmonize, and they certainly show Bristol in a very different light.
Harmonise is an experimental GPS-based team game which has been created as part of Media Sandbox. Teams work together in a race against the clock, harmonising virtual and physical world gameplay to overcome the challenges of the environment.
You can sign up a team to play for free at Watershed, Bristol UK between 17th and 19th of May 2008. Visit www.harmonise-game.co.uk to sign up.
TV Highlights w/c 21st April 2008
Posted by Attentional | 28.04.08
Friday 25th April 2008
Benidorm, at 9pm on ITV1, was once again pitted against BBC1’s long-running satirical quiz from Hat Trick, Have I Got News for You, which last week won the slot. This week, however, the positions were reversed, and Tiger Aspect’s comedy Benidorm won the slot with 5.55m (23.9%), and an impressive TI™ of 180.4. The series is going from strength to strength.
Wednesday 23rd April 2008
Rock Rivals came to the end of its run last night. The show, produced by Shed, which on paper may have sounded like a sure-fire hit, featuring a blend of flashy drama and X-Factor-style setting, somehow failed to click with the ITV drama audience. The eight-part series bowed out to an audience of 2.4m (9.9%), giving a TI™ of 49.9 and a series average, based on overnights figures, of 2.5m (10.8%).
Tuesday 22nd April 2008
The eyes of the nation’s football fans were firmly on ITV1 last night for the live coverage of Liverpool’s clash with Chelsea in the Champions League, starting at 7.30pm. An exciting match with a knife-edge finish, that saw an own goal from Liverpool give a 1-1 result in the dying moments of the game, kept an excellent average audience of 8.1m (33.3%) glued to their sets, giving a TI™ of 144.9.
For a more detailed summary of the week’s television, please visit http://www.attentional.com/blog.php
Do the Trinty Mirror closures spell doom for our own Newspapers?
Posted by Montage comms | 25.04.08
News that the Trinity Mirror is to close eight loss-making newspapers in Derby and Peterborough, could mean that the writing is on the wall for some of our own weeklies in the West Country.
The group has decided to shut down the titles, which are all free weeklies and include the Derby Trader and the Peterborough Herald and Post.
It is understood that 23 employees will be made redundant after Trinity’s failed attempt last year to find a buyer for its Midlands division.
This has ominous signs for our own local media giant Northcliffe, who also tried to sell it’s own regional network of newspapers recently too (that includes the Bristol Evening Post and the Western Daily Press.)
Indeed Northcliffe’s intentions for the future of its newspapers can be graphically illustrated with the Bath Chronicle, that has now been made a weekly in order to “focus efforts of their online offering.”
Northcliffe are developing online offerings that are getting industry recognition such as the Hull Daily Mail’s website, which is based on reader forums and excepts user generated content and recently won a Newspaper award for the best use of new media. I think that this approach will be vital in media “black holes” that are left by closures of smaller newspapers too.
Locally, the Bristol Evening Post and Western Daily press have merged the Business Desks so one could speculate that the newspapers teams are to be merged under umbrella sites that cover larger areas to save cash. For example the Western Daily Press’ patch.
Locally our newspapers have yet to develop their online offering to the Hull newspapers level of web 2.0 offering, but apparently this model is due to be rolled out across the Nothcliffe network.
It is noticeable that the Plymouth Evening Herald and Western Morning news have developed a strong social networking presence on the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
So what’s next for the Bristol Evening Post’s website?
Bath citizens used in bluetooth surveillance experiment (unwittingly)
Posted by Tom | 23.04.08
If you live in Bath and have your Bluetooth on you might want to turn it off.
Apparently over the past 6 months an experiment has been taken place using the citizens of Bath as unwitting surveillance guinea pigs.
”...Kostakos’s have an even more frightening idea. Why not test the idea by anonymously monitoring the movements of students, residents and workers of the city of Bath by listening out for their bluetooth-enabled devices as they move around the city. And that’s what they’ve done.”
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