A cracking podcast ep fresh from our mouths to your ears, made even better by the fact that Josh and I were in the same room to record! There was lots of great discussion and online conversation over the discussion around your favourite show to torrent, and how do we see TV changing to respond to it. All this in response to my article about why HOMELAND and Ch10’s SUPER SUNDAY 2.0 got smashed this week.
We also discussed the upcoming raft of drama from ABC: MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB; REDFERN NOW; DEVIL’S DUST; & DANGEROUS REMEDY. Still more talk over the Channel 9/CVC debt crisis (though there could be an resolution very shortly), the introduction of Big Brother’s LITTLE SISTER and Josh gets a berating over not doing his homework (watching THE STRANGE CALLS).
There’s even a chance for podcast listeners to win one of five GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM S01 DVD sets, thanks to Madman Films! Make sure you hunt out what you have to do – it couldn’t be simpler.
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Josh and Steve
Ok here is how Channel 10 can claw back some ratings and market share: Less Advertising!
Ok before you disregard this completely hear me out. If Channel Ten want to attract not only their old viewers back but grab a bag full of new ones as well all they need to do is grow a set and not advertise so much. One of the biggest complaints I hear is there are too many ads on TV. Now this isn’t a new argument and it doesn’t normally hold a lot of water, but if you go from watching something like Doctor who on the ABC ad free to the total mess that is Homeland on channel Ten there is no wonder people are turning off in droves.
The problem with shows like Homeland, Game Of Thrones, Dexter, Boardwalk Empire etc is, you have to concentrate. If you are getting bombarded with ads every 7-8 minutes you lose the flow and thread of the show, people will switch off, and I think they are. Sure you can blame ye olde interwebz pirates for downloading episodes and stealing all that precious revenue, but as with the movie industry only the high rating and popular shows are downloaded. It’s no secret except the mainstream media continues to ignore it, that the big summer blockbusters raking in hundreds of millions at the box office are also the most downloaded. And it’s the same with TV. So let’s put the evil down-loaders to one side for now.
My idea is; One ad break right in the middle of the show for 4 minutes, they can go nuts between shows especially if they aren’t running off one high rating show into another and stuff in their usual amount of ads. But if you promote the hell out of the fact that the next big thing direct from the US is almost ad free people will tune in. As the public tunes in the ratings go up, all of a sudden that limited advertising space becomes very valuable indeed. They only need to pick one or two shows a night and things will start to turn around.
BOOM ratings are up, advertising is up and everyone is happy.
See it’s very simple.
Cheers,
Gareth
P.S love the podcast