1. BARB
1. What does BARB stand for and what do they do?
B- Broadcasters A-audience R-research B- board
2. List the top 4 crime drama programmes and the channels they are on and how many
people watched them
1. New Tricks bbc1 - 8.26 million
2. Target Audience-Old people because they are fans of the actors and have grown up
with them.
3. New Tricks is a British television drama series that follows the work of the fictional
Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) of the Metropolitan Police Service.
4. Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers
who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes
3. Hunted bbc1 - 4.50 million
1. Target audience- Is mainly aimed at young and older adults because it is on at 9pm, so
its targeted for older people as they will be watching tv at that time.
2. The website 'BARB' says the views from 1 week on this programme were 4.50 million
viewers.
3.Hunted is a 2012 tv drama series created and written by Frank Spotlights and produced
by kudos film.
4.The main character works for Byzantium a private intelligence.
3.Homeland channel 4 - 2.74 million
1. The target audience is older people because it is on at 9pm so is not aimed for children
and is on channel 4 which is not a main family channel this probably attracts the female
gender more as it is not very action based.

2. 2.Homeland is a drama/thriller series developed for AmericanTV by Howardgordon and
alex .
3. It premiered on October 2nd 2011.
4. CSI Miami channel 5 - 1.14 million
1. The target audience is middleaged people or teenagers as it is usually shown on tv
around 9 or 10 which is the time usually aimed for older people of both genders.
2. CsiMiami is set in Miami in the usa and it is an action police drama series produced by
Alliance Atlantis and cbstv studios.
3. The main characters star David Caruso, Emily Procter and Rex Linn and many more csi
Investigators.