For those who like to occasionally know what 623058 is referring to, the new promo, as it was aired on Dave last night. Whilst the 'We are xxx' approach may have been a bit done to death by companies now, you can't help but admire how they've managed to fit some of the little things in. Even in just the 40 second version as well as the channels which you'd expect, they manage to squeeze in UKTV Play and their 'Originals' branding. Blink and you can easily miss Eden's logo mind!
A brilliant promotion. Watching it made me think that it could make a good branding Ident similar to sky movies old one world where it could span through the UKTV areas and end on whatever channel you are watching.
I hope with the split of UKTV between BBC Studios and Discovery that we see some sensible scheduling on the channels instead of the off-target repeats which are to purely boost the Freeview share after being shown on their pay channels.
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mr_vivian
I was flicking through the UKTV channels and I couldn't believe they were showing My Family on 2 channels at the same time.
Now that definetely hasn't sold me on subscribing to their pay channels after the free period on virgin ends.
I was flicking through the UKTV channels and I couldn't believe they were showing My Family on 2 channels at the same time.
Now that definetely hasn't sold me on subscribing to their pay channels after the free period on virgin ends.
Presumably two different episodes.
Mind you I saw Peter Andre on two different "Christmas Music" shows on the MTV network earlier today so duplication of talent (or not as the case may be, no inference toward Mr Andre with regards to that comment) across channels isn't unique to UKTV.
UKTV is so commercially rammed these days from what it used to be, you now see two internal breaks during repeats of Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers and anything else from the BBC catalogue so the EPG slot easily stretches to 45 or 50 minutes when the programme only runs for 29 minutes anyway. It only ever used to be one internal break and an EPG slot of 40 minutes for everything.
For a bit of pres geekery, if you catch The Vicar of Dibley 1996 Christmas special 'The Christmas Lunch Incident' on a UKTV channel this season, look out for the vintage 1997 era slides going in and out of breaks.
UKTV is so commercially rammed these days from what it used to be, you now see two internal breaks during repeats of Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers and anything else from the BBC catalogue so the EPG slot easily stretches to 45 or 50 minutes when the programme only runs for 29 minutes anyway. It only ever used to be one internal break and an EPG slot of 40 minutes for everything.
This evening, Still open all hours episode went out in a 40min slot, so it still happens.
UKTV is so commercially rammed these days from what it used to be, you now see two internal breaks during repeats of Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers and anything else from the BBC catalogue so the EPG slot easily stretches to 45 or 50 minutes when the programme only runs for 29 minutes anyway. It only ever used to be one internal break and an EPG slot of 40 minutes for everything.
This evening, Still open all hours episode went out in a 40min slot, so it still happens.
Presumably that was on Gold. There was a time when Gold was exclusively made up of stuff that was all at least 15 years old. Nowadays it just picks whatever comedy was new on BBC One six months ago and adds that to the rota.
For a bit of pres geekery, if you catch The Vicar of Dibley 1996 Christmas special 'The Christmas Lunch Incident' on a UKTV channel this season, look out for the vintage 1997 era slides going in and out of breaks.
I'm suprised they still have and are using those masters!
To be honest W has sort of cherry picked what would have ideally been at home on the other channels (either that or they've dumped stuff on it they've bought but don't have a natural home for, like Tipping Point for example).
I know its all about audience share these days and what not but realistically in my own eyes I think the channels have lost their way content wise. They did use to have a UK Gold 2 which eventually, three names later morphed into Dave but I don't believe the end result would have made any difference whether it was Gold, Gold 3 or the Fred channel.
