Author: |Posted: 5:14 pm on 26/06/09
Category: Blog
Not my turn of phrase, but the description chosen by the BBC for a large scale piece of research they conducted in the wake of the incident featuring Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand and some tasteless remarks broadcast on Radio 2. The research is indeed extensive, and the headlines are helpfully summarised in a report which makes for some interesting reading.
Author: |Posted: 12:27 pm on 17/06/09
Category: Blog
If you’ve ever contacted Channel 4’s viewer enquiries centre in Belfast, you’ll know that we have an enthusiastic team there who are a font of useful information about anything and everything to do with the channel. read more
Author: |Posted: 1:20 pm on 16/06/09
Category: Viewer Videos
Last month, The TV Show crew packed up the Big 4, boarded and plane and headed to Northern Ireland to find out what the people of Belfast had to say about the programmes they had recently watched on Channel 4.
Watch the video to find out what viewers thought of programmes including Come Dine with Me, Find Me a Family, Extreme Male Beauty, Embarrassing Bodies, Hollyoaks, Gok’s Fashion Fix, Big Art, The Operation: Surgery Live and more.
Do you agree with what the people of Belfast had to say? Let us know by rating the video, or posting your comments below.
If you’d like to share your views with The TV Show, visit our Be on the Show section to find out how you can take part.
(2 votes)Author: |Posted: 6:48 pm on 15/06/09
Category: Blog
Twitter has been in the media a lot in recent months. Surgery Live was the second of three experiments to come out of Channel 4’s cross-platform department using this increasingly popular ‘microblogging’ service in connection with television programmes. The experiment reflects the increasingly common habit of ‘Twittering’ whilst watching TV, plugging in to that behaviour in the context of a bold, educative factual television series – importantly a live one. read more
Author: |Posted: 5:31 pm on 09/06/09
Category: Blog
We have a small but steady number of complaints about the levels of background music in certain programmes that appear to be drowning out the commentary for some viewers. A recent post on this website about the background music levels in Time Team: The Secrets of Stonehenge led me to a very knowledgeable person indeed – the series editor for Time Team was trained as a sound engineer at the BBC so he was able to explain to me in some detail how background music levels are set and what can go wrong between the perfect conditions of a recording studio and the ears of the viewer at home.
Author: |Posted: 6:21 pm on 04/06/09
Category: Rated-Slated
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth was the most appreciated programme on Channel 4 last month, while the lack of live feed continued to upset some Big Brother fans ahead of this week’s BB10 launch. read more
Author: |Posted: 11:06 am on 01/06/09
Category: Have Your Say
If you’ve got something to say about any aspect of Channel 4 and the programmes it broadcasts, The TV Show gives you a place to have your say and a chance to put your questions to the programme makers. read more
