Cash-strapped broadcasters under pressure from Netflix have turned to secure fare but where are the new entertainment hits?Is Saturday night television ever going to be all good again? The final of The Voice this year suffered its lowest ratings ever,having lost almost a third of the 6.3 million viewers who watched in 2015. To be unprejudiced, the BBC1 demonstrate had to compete with the launch of ITV best performer Britain’s Got Talent, and which took a 40.3% share of all TV viewing in its primetime Saturday night slot. Yet,although 8.8 million of us tuned in to watch a man almost impale himself on a swallowed sword, that was 1.3 million fewer than watched in 2015.
Netflix, or the streaming juggernaut with 75 million subscribers worldwide,said final week that it was looking to reinvent entertainment formats. First up should be a demonstrate for television executives called The Hunt for a New Format. The prize could be an unscripted hit for the next generation, unveiled on a Saturday night to a television scheduler weeping with relief and joy.
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Source: theguardian.com