{"id":1115,"date":"2005-05-31T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T13:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/05\/top_selling_uk\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T13:02:30","slug":"top_selling_uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/top_selling_uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Selling UK TV Programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well that&#8217;s actually a misleading headline.<br \/>\nThe BBC is carrying a<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/4588373.stm\"> report<\/a> about television programme exports. Based on a survey carried out by Pact &#8211; the organisation that operates in support of independent television producers.<br \/>\nThe report goes on to list Gillette World Sports as the biggest selling TV programme in terms of countries (or do they mean &#8220;markets&#8221; &#8211; they&#8217;re different), going to 220 different countries (Sidebar: Are there 220 different countries? Only if you include territories. See <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.yahoo.com\/ask\/20010105.html\">this article<\/a> for a good precis of the situation).<br \/>\nBut of course, you don&#8217;t really think Gillette World Sports is actually &#8220;sold&#8221; to all these different countries do you? Surely it&#8217;s a very successful example of advertiser-funded programming. That means Gillette pays for the production of the programme in return for having its name splashed across the TV screens of 220 countries (or territories, or markets).<br \/>\nNext up is Midsomer Murders (204) followed by Pop Idol (&#8220;200+&#8221; Huh?) and Miss World 2004 (169 &#8211; this counts as British does it? Did it even get shown here?).<br \/>\nAnyway this is all very well, until you go to the Pact website to delve into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pact.co.uk\/news\/art_dtl.asp?art_id=2491\">the report<\/a> a little more fully. A disclaimer at the bottom of the list says &#8220;This is not a definitive list, but does give a flavour of popular programmes overseas and shows the diverse range of UK programmes sold overseas.&#8221; And that&#8217;s not surprising since of the 25 programmes or formats listed, precisely none are made by the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that&#8217;s actually a misleading headline. The BBC is carrying a report about television programme exports. Based on a survey carried out by Pact &#8211; the organisation that operates in support of independent television producers. The report goes on to list Gillette World Sports as the biggest selling TV programme in terms of countries (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}