Audience figures

Channel 4 has a solid reputation for history programmes and real-life

documentaries. It has also courted controversy, for example by broadcasting live
the first public autopsy in the UK for 170 years, which was ground breaking for
the channel to broadcast this.
There is no current documentaries based around mine, the only ones that are
broadcast are either and one off and are forgotten
about, however there is a lot of competition
between other types of documentaries which are
different topics, for example, according to my
research, channel fours Benefit Street got 4.3
million viewers. The five part series, which focuses
on a Birmingham street that Channel four claims is
one of the most dependent on benefits in the
country, attracted 4.3 million viewers, a 17.2%
share, from 9pm. This is very high for a
documentary which shows the audience are attracted to this topic and the
channel its broadcast on. In order to compete with this documentary, I am going
to have to make mine as interesting as possible and make it stand out. I will
need to make it engaging and as interesting as possible.
Along with other popular channel four documentaries such as 24 hours in A&E
which is also very popular on channel four, drawing in an average of 2.3 million
viewers per episode. In order to be as popular, I will need to be as creative as
possible in order to meet my target audiences needs.