Husband-and-wife talk show hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan moved their act from over-the-air "teatime" to satellite prime time Tuesday night as the flagship show of the new satellite channel Watch (owned by BBC Worldwide and Virgin Media's UKTV)--and despite having Samuel L. Jackson as one of their opening night guests, "Richard and Judy's New Position" (sounds like porn to me) only pulled 143,000 viewers (counting the "+1" time-shift version of Watch) on Tuesday, while 1.5M watched their farewell to Channel 4 on August:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/08/tvratings.television UKTV spinners said that the numbers should pick up with the daytime repeats yesterday (like U.S. cable channels, UK "multichannels" sell ads based on total cume) and point out that Watch is only available on the Sky satellite service and Virgin's cable systems and not on the Freeview digital boxes that provide many UK viewers with multichannel programming. Still, it's a fall for the couple who dominated mid- morning television for years in the UK on ITV. Watch's other programming is mostly repeats of recent UK series from the Beeb and other sources with inserted commercials, including "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood"--its only American series are "Dancing With the Stars," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and "Shark." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
