Agreed really lovely scene
Wow!
I’m presuming Channel 4 have just given up trying to be competitive in the 6.30pm slot and have left Hollyoaks there as a placeholder and as an advert to drive viewers to the app (where I’m guessing Hollyoaks does good numbers). However, if I’d to guess which one of the UK soaps will the first to do a “Days of Our Lives” and move to streaming only, I’d say it’ll eventually be Hollyoaks.
Well, C4 announced today that Hollyoaks is moving to being a E4-only show from 25th September, with airings on Channel 4's streaming service and YouTube.
Not surprising considering what @Walford Boy was saying about it not featuring in Channel 4’s top 50 anymore. I saw an article where it said that 64% of viewers were now watching online anyway, so when you split the remaining 36% between Channel 4 and E4, the linear ratings must be minuscule.
I did not know the omnibus still existed on Channel 4. I figured it was online only.
I’d imagine we’ll get sitcom / reality reruns in the short term and then they might try to revamp the teatime slot at a later date.
Actually, I’ve just read elsewhere that it’s “64% of viewers watch via first-look streaming or on E4” but my point still stands. 36% of an already reduced viewership is likely quite low.
I see The Simpsons will be taking over the Hollyoaks slot, with Four in the Bed now airing at 6pm.
Hard to see this as anything positive regarding the future of the show.Hollyoaks to cut episodes from five a week to three
Hollyoaks will have fewer episodes each week, Channel 4 has announced.www.rte.ie
Channel 4 have given with one hand and taken away with the other by recently announcing that the show was being renewed in a multi year deal but today announcing that it would be reduced to three 20 minute episodes a week. The reduction apparently could lead to up to 135 job losses at the soap.
I’ve seen references to a “multi-year” deal in a few articles but I can’t seem to find how many years that is supposed to be for. To be honest, a reduction in episodes is not too surprising. It didn’t make sense that the budget would carry over to the streaming service intact, when losing part of their audience (linear TV viewers who didn’t follow the show online) was a given in the move. You’d hope for the sake of viewers that they don’t cut back too far. I remember in the dying days of Brookside, there’d be weeks where episodes would only focus on a handful of characters and the whole place felt a bit barren.
Who knows! When Neighbours moved to Eleven, people speculated that it was being put out to pasture but it ran there for another decade. Channel 4 wouldn’t have renewed Hollyoaks if they didn’t have some sort of faith in the show and cutting back is obviously an attempt to conserve it and make it work. If they’d lost interest, they’d have just axed it. If I remember correctly, Brookside being shifted around the schedule was Channel 4 seeing out its contract rather than them trying to make it work in another format.
