Admiral is quite right, s66 wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't working for them. So we can expect more of it in the future (at least in the short term).
Whether the later tease shows are part of a long term strategy or simply a stop-gap to fill a few 'empty slots' over the Holiday period only time will tell. But it seems to me that this latest, highly predictable, move comes after quite a list of attempts by s66 to tweak their business model (the now defunct s66 USA, the co-opting of the Xtreme Filth gang and the studio move) and put themselves on a sturdier footing.
This development follows directly on from the moving of the dirty chat window, of course, and is part of the same attempt to re-define and temper audience expectations of the 10pm to 12pm timeslot and enhance the more fetish elements of the shows. The notion presumably is that, with Ofcom's ever more draconian rulings, it has become impossible to show enough flesh to play to a mainstream audience's general expectations of what a nightshow should be - until AFTER midnight. Therefore, it makes sense (to s66 at least) to shift their focus during the early part of the night and appeal to the feet, tease, domination, and whatever other, subsets that might work for them. Play to what your allowed to make a 'strength'; go for the niche markets where there is less competition and no likelihood of getting fined.
Maybe they have noticed a pattern to how girls get found in breach too - being 'followed' through the night accumulating multiple offences? Having
levels of nightshow as the night progresses follows Ofcom's staggered watershed pattern. (However, f**ked up that may be!)
As for being seen as a treat by some. Well that is purely good marketing. As a business, if you are forced down a certain path, it is best sold to the consumer as doing something special/unusual, trying, to step out from the crowd, etc. I'm sure to some people (crucially including the ones calling in in the required numbers) it will be; but, unfortunately, for the majority of us (which includes a lot of non-callers) it won't be. But, of course, the only reason s66 should ever care about us is if they think they can convert us to calling in the future. They obviously don't think they can manage that at the moment. Hence these changes.
(23-12-2014 16:46 )RESPONSIBLE ADULT Wrote: ...Is it that the producer as the capabilities of zapping him with a shock if he even thinks about letting the camera see anything untoward.
I think said producer's thinking runs thus: As a passive viewer, it is not in a babe channel's interest to get you off; it is in a babe channel's interest to keep you FRUSTRATED! And, therefore, more likely to resort to CALLING to get yourself off!
Sorry, if the above is screamingly obvious but I thought it was worth posting as I have to remind myself of it... often!