C5 choose for their daily afternoon film the type of movie that gathers dust on the shelves of video rental shops....the type that True Moves 2 show again and again ad nauseum.
Films largely just don't do it for the likes of BBC and ITV anymore. ITV especially isn't really a service these days-its wholly a business and if films are shown over and over its because enough people will sit through them over and over. ITV has shown Potter and Bond again and again because of this. Otherwise many big film titles just sink because they have been seen so many times before.
I assume that for one they are cheap filler for 2+ hours and two they have bought the rights so may as well get the most out of them. Mainly do to having too many channels these days so need to fill them with something.
I would like to know the ratings and advert income they get to justify having adbreaks and the entertainment segment in the middle.
Would it make much difference to just show the full movie?
Films largely just don't do it for the likes of BBC and ITV anymore. ITV especially isn't really a service these days-its wholly a business and if films are shown over and over its because enough people will sit through them over and over. ITV has shown Potter and Bond again and again because of this. Otherwise many big film titles just sink because they have been seen so many times before.
The BBC have a great diverse lineup of films. It's just that most are shown very late at night on friday, saturday and sunday's, with them showing their family movies during the day. - which is very repetitive.
With ITV2 there was a time when it seemed every single weekend there was a showing of Beethoven, this must have gone on for several months, but I haven't seen it on for a while now. It was the same with Horrid Henry: The Movie and the Hilary Duff film A Cinderella Story ^_^
Oh come on, is ITV's current form anywhere near as bad as Channel 5's old Steven Seagal seasons (which I'm sure lasted nearly a year!) where one of his films was on a few times a week at 9pm?
I miss the days of the 1990s when BBC1 & 2 used to show all kinds of films late at night from 11pm-2am.
I remember 1999 being amazing when Judgment Night, The City of Lost Children and Breakfast Club were all shown in the space of a week. These days it would either be a mainstream film everyone's seen, or a dodgy Peter Cushing horror from 1967.
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I would like to know the ratings and advert income they get to justify having adbreaks and the entertainment segment in the middle.
Would it make much difference to just show the full movie?
Back to the Future films
And Total Recall
I can never get bored of those films
The BBC have a great diverse lineup of films. It's just that most are shown very late at night on friday, saturday and sunday's, with them showing their family movies during the day. - which is very repetitive.
It was aired instead of The Dark Knight, as is the case on tjis coming Thursday too I think
Love Actually is on itv2 on Thursday for the hundredth time!
Love Actually 50 times
The Mummy - Every week
Th Krays - lost count
It's overtaken Channel 5 and their obsession with Dirty dancing and roadhouse and Van Damme movies.
I remember 1999 being amazing when Judgment Night, The City of Lost Children and Breakfast Club were all shown in the space of a week. These days it would either be a mainstream film everyone's seen, or a dodgy Peter Cushing horror from 1967.