This document summarizes the responses to a documentary questionnaire given to 30 people. It shows that comedies are the most popular TV genre while documentaries are less so. Most people watch TV in the evenings and BBC1 is one of the most watched channels, indicating an audience for a BBC documentary. Two-thirds of respondents expressed interest in a documentary about the BBC. Susannah Reid and Bill Turnbull emerged as the most popular news presenters.

1. Documentary Questionnaire (NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN BOLD)
Age:
Do you use BBC iplayer?
0-15, 16/18, 19/21, 22+ (Circle one)
Yes/No
1/26/0/3
19/11
Gender: Male/Female
How often do you watch the news?
19/11
Not at all/1-2 hours week/3-4 hours a week/ 5+ hours a
When do you watch TV?
week
Morning 2
11/12/2/4
Midday 3
Who is your favourite news presenter from the list below?
Evening 25
Susannah Reid 11
What channel do you watch the most?
Bill Turnbull 3
BBC1 8
Claudia Liza 1
BBC2 0
Moira Stuart 2
ITV 1
Gavin Esler 1
Channel 4 8
Other 12
Channel 5 1Other:………………………………… 12
Would you be interested in seeing a documentary behind
What is your favourite type of TV programme? (Circle one) the scenes of the BBC?
Children's 2
Yes/No
Comedy 14
20/10
Drama & Soaps 4
Do you watch Strictly Come Dancing? Yes/No
Documentary 1
5/25
Entertainment 0
If Yes,
Factual 3
Would you be interested in one of the celebrities being
Films 1
featured in a documentary? Yes /No
Learning 1
5/25
Lifestyle& Leisure 0
Music 2
News & Current Affairs 0
Religion& Ethics 1
Sport 1

2. From this we can see that the comedy genre is clearly the most
popular with the people who answered the questionnaire.
Documentaries have scored quite low in this question.

3. This question was important to our research as there is a strong
link between the interest that people would have in a
documentary on the BBC and how many people watch BBC1. So
the fact that BBC1 was one of the most frequently watched
channels means that there is an audience for a documentary on
the BBC.

4. This was a key part to our research as it shows that the best time to air
the documentary would be in the evenings as this clearly shows the
time that most people watch TV is in the evening.

5. We asked this question to get a rough idea of how many people use this
programme and catch up on BBC programmes that they initially missed so
that if we did show our documentary on BBC one we would know that
some viewing figures could come from the BBC catch up programme BBC
iPlayer.

6. This is key to our research as we are arranging an interview with one of
North West tonight’s main presenters and wanted to get a good idea of
how many people would recognise the presenter. Also we wanted to see
how if our target audience would be interested on a feature about the
news during the documentary.

7. We used this question to determine the amount of males and females
that answered our questionnaire. The results show that there were more
males to answer the questionnaire compared to females.

8. We asked for everyone’s age to find out how old the majority of the people
answering our questionnaires and see who our target audience might be.
However we did this survey mostly in college so we found that most people
we asked were within the 16-18 age range.

9. This question was asked to see how many people would be interested in
seeing a documentary on the BBC and we found that two thirds of people
would be interested to see it and the other quarter did not. This is quite
positive towards our topic as it shows that there would be an audience for it.

10. From this we can see that the best presenters to get an interview with would be
Susannah Reid and Bill Turnbull as these seem to be the most popular with the
people questioned. However these will be the hardest people to interview as they
are usually the busiest.

11. We used this to see how many people would be interested in seeing an
interview with Susannah Reid in our documentary as she has recently
featured on the programme.