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  1. JMarkSnow2012
    Maybe the IOC were also made aware of the "Feast of the Gods" painting, which was not explicitly referred to in the Media Guide.
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    Shortly after the 2012 Olympics featured James Bond skydiving, a new film in the venerable OO7 franchise was released. Shortly before the 2024 Olympics, a new film in the Despicable Me franchise was released. And the fact that worldwide audiences did not know the films were made in France seems a pretty good reason for a few minutes of light-hearted education.
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    The next week's viewing figures are just out, and provide some context. That #1 show in the Channel 4 Top 50 from the previous week would only have been #6 this week, beaten by Formula 1, Taskmaster, two episodes of 24 Hours in Police Custody, and, inevitably, the watching-people-watching-TV favourite Gogglebox which gained 2.96 million viewers. The Team GB homecoming celebration was #42, with 357,000 viewers. Top show of the week overall was the return of BBC1's celebs-being-brutally-taught-to-dance favourite Strictly Come Dancing on 6.69 million.
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    What the 2016 handover got right was the blend of video and stadium-scale live action, from the cleverly-arranged national anthem onward (though the brief virtual reality section was meh). The theme was Japan/Tokyo and sport/energy- why should the theme of "Olympics" be included when it was being shown within the Olympics? As for Shinzo Abe, I'm guessing that a proposal to follow the London precedent and involve the head of state was nixed, so they settled for the head of government.
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    This was supposed to be the second of two analyses of the ratings for Channel 4's Paralympic coverage in the UK, based on charts from thinkbox.tv. Unfortunately, their chart compiler was off last week, so this is the first of one analysis … The Channel 4 top 50 for the week of 2-8 September 2024 included the seven nightly news bulletins as usual, but with two exceptions at #31 & 32, everything else was Paralympic-related. Six episodes of the comedy current affairs show The Last Leg (which had been created as a Paralympic special in 2012, but was so popular that it has been a mainstay of the channel ever since, normally in the Friday 10pm comedy slot) appear at various positions from #5 to #17. The #1 show for the channel was the 18.30-21.30 coverage on Monday 2 September, with 1.18 million viewers: 1.06 million of them watched live; nearly all the rest later that evening. That sort of viewing split was typical for the sport coverage, though The Last Leg typically had about 13% of viewers catching up the next day. The closing ceremony took the #2 slot on the channel's chart with 1.13 million viewers (only 31,000 of whom waited until the next day) and the commentary team's look back at the Games, which immediately preceded it, was at #7 (1.07 million). However, that evening's episode of The Last Leg, which started at 21.30 while the ceremony was still in progress in Paris, only made it to #12, with 994,000 viewers. In general, the ratings for the sport coverage were in reverse order of time-slot. The main evening shows were mostly in the Top 10, then the late afternoon shows mingled with the news bulletins in the teens & 20s, followed by early afternoon & late morning shows in the lower 20s to 30s, early morning coverage in the 40s. The #50 slot went to Saturday 7 September's 08.00-11.00 programming, on just 381,000.
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    The original schedule page is still up on the Channel 4 website this morning, clearly stating that their coverage of the closing ceremony would run to 22.30 before a handover to The Last Leg. Grrrrrrrrrrr. https://www.channel4.com/press/news/paris-2024-paralympic-games-schedule-channel-4-more4-and-streaming
  7. JMarkSnow2012
    Apparently it was also quite damp in Preston, where the BBC was holding Radio 2's Party in the Park. Not a problem for the Pet Shop Boys and some excellent visuals.
  8. JMarkSnow2012
    Quote from The Guardian's live coverage: "About that DJ set. It could and probably should have been shown on TV for a little longer, in this journalist’s humble opinion."
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    The whole of the ceremony! It's not difficult ...
  10. JMarkSnow2012
    9.21 UK time and Channel 4 have cut to a video. Imagine if this had happened during the Coldplay show in 2012!
  11. JMarkSnow2012
    It's very very weird, isn't it?! Evidently determined to start The Last Leg at 9.30.
  12. JMarkSnow2012
    True, but LEDs are low voltage!
  13. JMarkSnow2012
    Probably all prerecorded and switched off!
  14. JMarkSnow2012
    Well, maybe now, but UK Channel 4 viewers won't know it
  15. JMarkSnow2012
    Not entirely applicable to this particular ceremony, which has a decent lightshow and pyro
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