Robin Hood losing viewers

16 October 2006 Rob Buckley News, UK TV Post a comment

I haven’t watched the second episode of Robin Hood yet. In that, I’m not alone, according to the ratings: the Hood has lost 1.5 million viewers since its first episode, dropping from 8.2 million to 6.7 million.

Now, I didn’t hate the first episode, and I thought kids would probably enjoy it. Others disagreed. However, I do think it worth pointing out that a drop like that really isn’t unprecedented, with both good shows and bad, and happens with most shows between their first and second episodes. In fact, it happened between the first and second episodes of the first new series of Doctor Who: that started with 9.9 million viewers in week one and had 7.3 million viewers for the second episode. Yet no one declares that a massive flop.

So, given it’s already been picked up at Mipcom by a huge number of countries, I wouldn’t write off Robin yet, no matter how pants it may (or may not) be.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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