The Virgin Media Television thread

Wonder if it is pre-recorded to be used on any credits?

The EPG says it's 7.30pm.

A little mini update on the first 2 months of Virgin Media More. No idea (and probably will never know) regarding ratings. I'm sure it's miniscule.

They have launched a few new shows there, but then oddly VM1 will have repeats of already broadcast shows like Angela Black, The Drowning, Gogglebox at 9pm next week.

New programmes include Rectify, DI Ray, The Voice (S20), Grace (S2), The Thief His Wife And His Canoe, The Virtues, Vera (S11 e3-4), Love Island South Africa, Holding, The Ipcress File, The Serpent, World On Fire, Trigger Point, Unbeatable (BBC gameshow). So it's basically an ITV + 1 Month as someone once mentioned here before. The daytime mainly consists of the same 3 classic Champions League matches that Liverpool and Man Utd faced over the years.

Watching LIVE and FREE now on YouTube.

They just finished Series 34 on Sunday. This series was originally shown from 10th - 15th May 2020 on ITV. Saturday and Sundays episodes were the 7th time those episodes have been broadcast on VM1 ("quality prime time broadcasting here folks")

It’s clearly just about ad revenue for them. Nonsense stuff altogether

It is but their main linense is a public service broadcaster this is why they get 12 minutes of advertising. IMO VMTV are very lucky audience wise, I expect the audience to drop the more and more repeats of ITV programming that they aired on VMTV one and the more like VMTV THREE VMTV TWO became but largely speaking they have retained their audience. If FOUR is purely a copy of TWO and THREE and they don't make radical changes I wonder how the BAI can defend their license?

I haven’t seen news about VM Four anywhere

Just goes to show how little journalists and papers care about it any longer. There was nothing about VM Sports shutting down, VM More is not carried in any tv listings in any papers, and now nothing picked up about VM Four, even though that showcase was last week.

Looking at that PDF, they speak about proper identities to each channel, and they need to sort that out soon. They can't just put on The Chase Australia across the 4 channels and be done with that.

Virgin Media More showing Fear The Walking Dead tomorrow and a few other new shows like Rig 45 and Eli Roth's History of Horror starting/started already. Nice to see that they're finally looking outside of the ITV Studios back-catalogue. Maybe some hope that the newly branded VM channels in the autumn/winter may be decent and not reliant on The Chase & Tipping Point.

First show/episode to debut on VM More and to be shown later on VM1 is S11 E3 of Vera. Shown 26th April on VMM, and will be on 15th July on VM1. The Ipcress Files will also be shown on Monday on VM1, after airing firstly on VMM. Will be interesting if they trail it as a "new series"

When did Virgin 1 and 2 get upgraded to HD on basic Sky packages?

Virgin Television have now used Stella Cinema a few times in the last few years for various presentations.

I think that is a bit disingenuous:-

There are three things said in that document about VMTV services

1. Player "Stream for Success: Grow VM Player as the leading Irish Streamer"
2. FOUR "Launch VM FOUR: Distinct audinece profiles and personality for each channel"
3. TWO "Differentiate VM TWO: Creating a quality Irish youth-focused channel"

They have also mocked up the VM FOUR logo

Do I think it will be on Saorview ? Possible not. But we shall see.