Out of all the babeshows that were actually scheduled (and not to have just appeared due to feed errors), also one of the rarest ever to appear on Freeview must have been Bikini Babes. This highly unusual broadcast occurred during the early hours of Monday 25th October 2010 and featured Paige Tyler as it’s presenter. It all seems quite mundane until you notice the babe channel it is being broadcast on. This episode of Bikini Babes actually screened on Channel One, which transmitted on Freeview 20 and was formerly Virgin 1, until acquired and rebranded by Sky in mid 2010.
The broadcast only lasted one hour, from 12am until 1am, and it was announced in advance with the title of Bikini Chat – not Bikini Babes. The original plan, it appeared, was for a series of two live babeshows per week, on Saturday and Sunday nights. In fact, this should have been the 2nd show rather than the 1st, as the initial intention had been to broadcast the programme the previous night. However, only one of the planned broadcasts ever went to air, so the whole project resulted in just one hour of TV.
Despite the night time transmission slot, the Bikini Babes night show was restricted to day show content only due to the babe channel it aired on. Adult channels such as Babestation, Xpanded, Red Light Central and Studio 66 were separated from the regular Freeview channels in the EPG at the end of September 2009, so by 2010, anything going out on a low-numbered channel would automatically be subject to different rules – regardless of the broadcast time. Logistics however, meant Babestation taking a model from the Babestation night shows rather than bringing in a dedicated daytime girl. As Paige had experience doing both day and night shows, she was the ideal choice.
Various suggestions were made as to why this Bikini Babes night show never took off, but given the demise of Party People the previous year (another daytime babeshow screened at night), it was a fairly safe bet that a non-sexual babeshow would struggle commercially against the Babestation babe channels.
A really interesting piece of trivia though. The one and only Bikini Babes night show, starring Paige Tyler. And I think I’m right in saying that this was the lowest-numbered Freeview channel ever to have carried a babeshow, with Channel 32 being the lowest to have carried a topless babeshow.
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