Post by RockTheIssues on Apr 9, 2003 5:00:44 GMT
This might be an interesting article for the Brits. It talks about the problem of trying to find a decent TV show on a Saturday, which probably is cross-cultural. 
media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,914890,00.html
There's also a mention of Charmed in the article:
media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,914890,00.html
There's also a mention of Charmed in the article:
Which brings us to thorny issue of what exactly we want from Saturday-night TV. We don't want to feel sad for staying in. We want to be entertained, but clearly we don't want to work too hard. Channel 4's brave decision to schedule political drama The West Wing on Saturday night drew in an all-time low of 900,000 viewers. The answer seems to be cleverer niche programming. Once renowned for soft porn and tacky game shows, Channel 5 is busy drawing in the Buffy crowd with alternative imports like Dark Angel and Charmed, followed by cool US cop shows CSI:Miami, Law and Order and The Shield (around 3 million viewers each). Jeff Ford, head of acquisitions, says: 'Everyone seemed to be doing light entertainment or 'list' programmes on Saturday - Top Ten, World's Worst etc - and there was no narrative, no drama. If you wanted reasonably intelligent storytelling, there wasn't any. So now you've got a two-hour block of the best of US programming that gets people in the broadsheets talking about us.'
Leah
