BBC Three's target audience is 16-34 year olds, and it airs many comedies, drama series, and documentaries focused on younger audiences. It provides a space for new ideas and talent development. Popular shows on the channel include the supernatural drama series "Being Human" and "In The Flesh." E4's target is 16-44 and features its own comedies, dramas and reality shows appealing to both younger and older viewers. Well-known programs are the teenage drama "Skins" about adolescence and the science fiction drama "Misfits." ITV mainly targets 16-34 year olds with entertainment programming like drama series, sports and news. One drama it airs is the historical series "

1. Target Audience
By Marcus Holden

2. BBC Three usually airs a lot of comedy, series dramas and documentary's. The target
audience for this particular channel is from about 16-34 because it mainly does focus
on the younger generation. BBC provides an environment for the development of
new ideas and talent for existing talent to take risks. This has become a genuine
laboratory for BBC One and BBC Two.
On BBC Three there has been an popular on going horror drama series called “Being
Human” which is about a group of supernatural people who share accommodation
and attempt to live a normal life despite what they really are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfnYEjXJAJc
“In The Flesh” is a supernatural three part drama series which is shown on BBC
Three. The show is taken place during a zombie apocalypse and the main focus is on a
teenage character called Kieran Walker who recently came back into the Local
Community.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uAJklDka_U

3. E4’s target audience is 16-44, the channels airs its own share of comedies , drama
series and reality shows. All shows are for both the older and younger generation
the viewers are mixed type of people. It can will usually show shows that have
been repeated from Channel 4.
Skins is a teenage drama set in Bristol, England. They show shows subjects like
bullying, drug and alcohol abuse, adolescent sexuality and death. It was an on
going popular drama series for 6 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQPHjGseENw
Misfits has a genre of science fiction and is about a group of young offenders who
obtain supernatural powers after a electrical storm. The drama series started in
2009 and is currently on going.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud8AJDaAW7c

4. ITV is the largest commercial channel in the country. Its target audience is 1634 with a range of entertainment programming. The channel airs drama
series, major sport, factual series and the news.
Downton Abbey is a British drama which is set in a Yorkshire country estate. It
aired first in the UK on ITV1 in September 2010 and since then has had four
series. The main character are the Crawley family and their servants the show
shows historic events and how it had an effect on the family's lives on the
British social hierarchy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6xg8gKxEk