ITV1 targets an older audience of 20+ but also some younger viewers. Broadchurch and Being Human are popular dramas that air on ITV1. BBC3 targets 16-34 year olds and provides innovative content for younger audiences. Programmes on BBC3 include comedies and genres that feature comedy elements. Dramas shown include In the Flesh. E4 mainly targets 15-35 year olds and airs American imports and British shows. Popular programmes are Skins, a teen drama about a group of teenagers, and Misfits, a science fiction comedy drama about young offenders who obtain supernatural powers.

1. RESEARCH INTO AUDIENCE AND
CHANNELS
BY SHARNE MCGUIRE

2. ITV1
ITV1 is a flagship television channel that shows all different types of
programme genres. For example; soaps, drama, reality TV shows, etc.
This channel targets to an older audience around 20+ but also can be for
youngers also as some youngers might enjoy them type of programmes.

3. BBC 3
BBC3 is a channel is a channel that is broadcasted by the BBC that targets to
an audience of young adults and older (16-34.) BBC3 has many different
genres of programmes e.g. drama, cartoon, comedy, horror, crime but all
genres on BBC3 include comedy.
It has the purpose of providing innovative content to the younger audiences.
They focus on new technologies and new talents.

4. E4
E4 is a British digital television channel, launched as a pay-TV companion to
Channel 4 on 18 January 2001. The "E" stands for entertainment, and the
channel is mainly aimed at the lucrative 15–35 age group.
Programming includes U.S. imports such as The Cleveland Show, The
O.C., Smallville, Veronica Mars, Everwood, What About Brian?, Desperate
Housewives, How I Met Your Mother, 90210, One Tree Hill, Ugly
Betty, Scrubs, Rules of Engagement, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke
Girls, Revenge, and formerly Friends. Other programming includes British
shows such as Misfits, The Ricky Gervais
Show, Shameless, Hollyoaks, Skins, The Inbetweeners, Made in Chelsea, and
My Mad Fat Diary. Some U.S. imports, such as Desperate Housewives and
Ugly Betty are screened on E4 up to one week ahead of their Channel 4
broadcasts. Its most successful broadcast to date was on 11 October 2010
when an episode of The Inbetweeners pulled in over 3.7 million viewers.

5. ITV1 PROGRAMMES
Broadchurch is a British television crime
drama broadcast on ITV, involving the death
of a young boy and the search for his
killer, produced by Kudos and starring David
Tennant and Olivia Colman. Casting was
announced in June 2012, with filming
commencing in Clevedon in August as well as
in West Bay in Bridport. The series is set on
the Dorset coast. It premiered on 4 March
2013 at 9:00pm on ITV. In January 2013, the
series was bought by BBC America, where it
was shown in the United States beginning
August 7, 2013.
Lives are torn apart and
relationships fractured
forever when a young
child goes missing. Five
years later, DCI Maggie
Brand leads a new
investigation and puts at
risk her own happy family
life.

6. Being Human is a British supernatural
drama television series. It was created and
written by Toby Whithouse for broadcast
on BBC Three. The show blends elements
of flatshare comedy and horror drama. It
originally starred Lenora Crichlow as Annie
Sawyer (a ghost), Russell Tovey as George
Sands (a werewolf) and Aidan Turner as
John Mitchell (a vampire) — all of whom
were sharing accommodation and
attempting as best as they can to live a
"normal" life and blend in with the
ordinary humans around them. In the third
series, Sinead Keenan became part of the
main cast as Nina Pickering (a werewolf).
In the fourth series the ensemble was
joined by Michael Socha as Tom McNair (a
werewolf) and Damien Molony as Hal
Yorke (a vampire). The fifth series added
Kate Bracken as Ale Miller (a ghost). The
first two seasons were set in
Totterdown, Bristol, and the third season
onwards relocated to Barry, Wales.
BBC3 PROGRAMMES
In the Flesh is a three-part BBC
supernatural drama series which
began airing on BBC Three on 17
March 2013. The show was
created and written by Dominic
Mitchell. It is set after "The
Rising", this show's take on a
zombie apocalypse, and focuses
on re-animated teenager Kieren
Walker as he comes back into the
local community.
A second, extended series of the
show has been commissioned, to
be broadcast in 2014.[As yet, it is
unknown how many episodes the
new series will comprise, but it is
believed it will be five or six.

7. E4 PROGRAMMES
Skins is a British teen drama that follows the
lives of a group of teenagers in
Bristol, South West England, through the
two years of sixth form. Its controversial
storylines have explored issues such as
dysfunctional families, mental illness (such as
eating disorders), adolescent
sexuality, substance abuse, death and
bullying. The show was created by fatherand-son television writers Bryan Elsley and
Jamie Brittain for Company Pictures and
premiered on E4 on 25 January 2007. The
show went on to be a critical success as well
as a ratings winner within its target
demographic. Over its initial six-year
run, Skins proved to be atypical of ongoing
drama series in that it replaced its primary
cast every two years. Plans for a film spin-off
were first discussed in 2009, but ultimately
did not come to fruition. Instead, a speciallycommissioned seventh and final series of the
show was broadcast in 2013, featuring some
of the cast from its 2007–10 run. The show's
name comes from the rolling papers known
as "skins".
Misfits is a British science fiction comedydrama television show, on the network Channel
4, about a group of young offenders sentenced
to work in a community service
programme, where they obtain supernatural
powers after a strange electrical storm. The
series started in 2009 and is currently ongoing.
Antonia Thomas, Iwan Rheon, Lauren
Socha, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Robert
Sheehan are introduced as Alisha
Daniels, Simon Bellamy, Kelly Bailey, Curtis
Donovan, and Nathan Young respectively.
Sheehan left after the second series, replaced in
the third by Joseph Gilgun as Rudy Wade. After
the third series it was announced that
Rheon, Thomas and Socha had left and would
be replaced by new cast members Karla
Crome, Nathan McMullen and Matt Stokoe, as
Jess, Finn and Alex respectively. Midway
through the fourth series, Stewart-Jarrett left
while Natasha O'Keeffe joined the cast as
Abbey Smith. On 19 March 2013, Channel 4
announced at a press event that they have
renewed Misfits for a fifth and final series