BBC THREE
BBC Three is an English
television channel from the BBC broadcasting. The channel is only on air from 7pm to 4 am every night. This authentically means that during the day the
channel is asleep and has nothing showing till 7pm. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16–34-year-old age group. This channel
shows mostly drama and comedy for young adults. These programmes include Family
Guy, EastEnders and Being Human.
E4
E4 is a British digital
television channel that also targets the audience of 15-35 year olds. Unlike
BBC Three, E4 broadcasts throughout the day and night. E4 programmes
include Skins, Misfits, The Big Bang Theory and Shameless. E4 is
the channel that broadcasted the world known, Inbetweeners. The Inbetweeners
was E4’s most watched programme in this decade. The top 6 most watched
programmes that were aired on E4 all were The Inbetweeners episodes. This suggests that E4 was the perfect show for E4's target audience by being a comedy about young teenagers.
When E4 begin to broadcast
at 4pm they show cartoons and programmes of the same genre. As time goes on
they begin to show programmes such as Hollyoaks and The Big Bang Theory at
around 6pm. At approximately 9pm, after watershed, E4 begins to show programmes
such as Skins, The Inbetweeners and Misfits as these programmes are ranged for
young adults. These programmes would not be allowed to be shown before
watershed as they include foul language and scenes of sex, drugs etc.
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