Last night, on wings of hype ITV started its new drama series "Britannia High," a teenybop soap that the ailing commercial network called a cross between "Fame" and "High School Musical." Despite intense promotion, including what seemed to be a promo on every commercial break during Saturday night's edition of "The X Factor," the series premiere was walloped by BBC1's decidedly older-skewing original version of "Antiques Roadshow"--its best ratings performance in four years:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/27/tvratings-television Although the long-running series' new host is hawt former newscaster Fiona Bruce (replacing the veteran broadcaster Michael Aspel--and yes, she's hawt compared to Mark L. Walberg), the fact that PBS does the American version of "Roadshow" says enough that it's not exactly the sort of tOTally kEWl!!!!!! TV that a lot of programmers seem to be aiming at these days. And the fact that this coming week's show will be an 80th birthday salute to one of their longest-running evaluators seems to me to be a bit of nose-thumbing at ITV's desperate attempts to appeal to the kids. Don't think BBCA will be running "Britannia High" in a block with "Skins." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
