Is Channel 4 just a big long advert for E4?

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:15 pm

It damn well feels that way.

A half decent show? Promote the next next episode for E4.

Hot new US show being brought over? It's on E4 first.

Big brother highlights? Watch it 24/7 on E4.

Decent outro music? Talkover it with another5nadvert for everything being on E4.

HAs there been anything decently or mildly popular on C4 that has not has a E4 advert rudly inserted into an inmappropiate place?

Can Channel 4 actually claim it's not a tesertial version of UK Gold, A repeat channel?
After all thers veey little that's not simply a E4 repeat.

At least BBC3 and BBC4 have original shows

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:23 am

BBC3 and BBC4 produce content to be recycled back to BBC2 and the general pool of BBC material—it's a perfect testing ground. C4 actually have to make E4 pay commercially.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:08 am

All the terristrial channels carry on like that now.

What particularly gets my goat is ITV being called ITV1. Since I don't have satellite, its all a kick in the face really.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:40 am

I remember ITV2 coming out, and joking that it would be a channel for all those programmes that aren't quite good enough for ITV. How right I was.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:56 am

Metal Vendetta wrote:programmes that aren't quite good enough for ITV.

upsetting.

Post by **snarl** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:31 pm

C4 was, till recently, publicly subsidised as well as advertisment funded. It just decided to make **** that twats lap up and 'earned' the right to sell it's own airtime.