ITV and Channel 5 Show listings

 Before choosing which channel to showcase my programme on, i decided to research some of the programmes already shown on the individual channels ITV and Channel 5.

Firstly lets look into the institutional factors of each.

ITV

On their website they explain that ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster and the largest commercial television network in the UK. It is the home of popular television from the biggest entertainment events, to original drama, major sport, landmark factual series and independent news, but while it does this they show these range of shows on their six different channels being: ITV, ITVBe, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 and CITV.

ITV is also the largest and most successful commercial production company in the UK and their 

investment in programming is primarily funded by television advertising revenue. 

Channel 5

Channel has achieved... less but it is still one of the UK’s third largest commercial channel and reaches 44m viewers every month with a spirited mix of high quality and emotive content. They also have other family channels being: 5 Star, 5 USA, 5 Spike and My5.

To showcase some of the programmes that have been listed on ITV and Channel 5 I have created a table with five fiction and factual programmes each and i tried to incorporate some of their more popular shows as well as still get a fairly good range of genres, however through this table you will be able to see a clear pattern of the preferred types of shows for each channel.

ITV		Channel 5
F A C T U A L
Good Morning Britain	Panel Show 6:00am – 8:30 Female 30+ A,B,C1,C2	The Wright Stuff	Debate Show 9:15 am – 11:15am Both Genders 30+ A,B,C1
The Jeremy Kyle Show	Talk Show 9:25am – 10:30am Female 25 – 45 C2,D,E	Access	Celebrity Gossip 1:10am – 1:15am Female 17 – 40 C1,C2,D,E
Loose Women	Panel Show 12:30pm – 1:30pm Female 30+ A,B,C1,C2	Get A Holiday Body: Lose a stone in four weeks	Documentary 8:00pm – 8:55pm Female 25 – 45 C2,D,E
Britain’s Got Talent	Talent Show 5:00pm – 6:00pm Both Genders 12 + C1,C2,D,E	Shop Smart: Save Money	Documentary 8:00pm – 9:00pm Both Genders 30+ C1,C2,D,E
James Martin’s Saturday Morning	Cooking Show 9:25am – 11:20am Female 30+ A,B,C1,C2	Nightmare Tenants: Slum Landlords	Documentary Show 8:00pm – 9:00pm Both Genders 30+ C1,C2,D,E
F I C T I O N
Midsomer Murders	Crime Drama 9:25am – 11:20 Both Genders 30+ A,B,C1,C2	Neighbours	Soap Opera 5:30pm – 6:00pm Family Show 15+ A,B,C1,C2,D,E
Coronation Street	Soap Opera 8:00pm – 8:30pm Family Show 15+ C1,C2,D,E	Home and Away	Soap Opera 6:00pm – 6:30pm Family show 15+ A,B,C1,C2,D,E
Emmerdale	Soap Opera 7:30pm – 8:00pm Family Show 17+ C1,C2,D,E	Cagney and Lacey	Crime Drama 2:15pm – 3:15pm Both Genders 20+ A,B,C1,C2
Lethal Weapon	Crime Drama, Comedy 9:00pm – 9:45pm Male 25+ B,C1,C2,D,E	Wentworth Prison	Drama 3:10am – 4:00am Both Genders 20+ C1,C2,D,E
Prime Suspect	Crime Drama [No longer showing] Both Genders 25+ A,B,C1,C2	Suspects	Crime Drama 7:00pm – 8:00pm Male 25+ A,B,C1,C2

What I got from each channel

ITV seems to try to appeal to a more mature audience and the received the information on their target audience from the website and i have observed that the majority of their shows are made to appeal to women. 

They also often enjoy showcasing panel shows and regularly stick to showing factual shows rather that fiction as they only showcase two fictional shows. However, these shows are very widely known and watched and probably bring in the most viewers to their channel which is why they show back to back episodes of them.

Channel 5 very much enjoys a good documentary or two and they generally have quite a wide range of different types which they try to make so they appeal to both genders. For there fictional side they also only have few soap opera but i noticed that there's were Australian which was quite confusing but also made them seem more likeable and less cringe-worthy unlike the typical UK town ones.

They also a few crime dramas but again, not too many.

I don't think i have decided which to choose from yet but if it turns out that we can look at the family channels as well of each of the programmes then i may be more likely to choose ITV.

That's all for now folks :)