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Doctor Who Vs Star Wars - Itv Gets More Bizarre!
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As announced, ITV have scheduled The Phantom Menace against Doctor Who on May 21st.
But they're cutting off 35 mins before the film's finished for the news at ten past 7!
Are people really going to put up with that kind of schedule splicing in a world of DVDs and movie channels?
The breaks for the news are understandable mid-week for news at 10/10.30, etc - but is it really necessary early eve at a weekend?
But they're cutting off 35 mins before the film's finished for the news at ten past 7!
Are people really going to put up with that kind of schedule splicing in a world of DVDs and movie channels?
The breaks for the news are understandable mid-week for news at 10/10.30, etc - but is it really necessary early eve at a weekend?
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Surely they should be providing an alternative to Sci-Fi instead of more? Like you say, it'll be interesting to see how it performs, though I suspect it may do quite badly.
Especially as they were shown quite recently. Perhaps they are hoping as the Star Wars frenzy for Ep 3 steps up a gear people will tune in.....we shall see.
Like beee above says, they should simply be providing a good alternative.
It always comes across as childish when ITV reveal a programme to oppose something on BBC1 as "ITV's answer to...". :rolleyes:
Very unimaginative cynical move, that looks more like they are throwing their toys out of the pram and sulking because Celeb Wrestling got trounced.
It just looks like a spoiling tactic done out of spite, and not so much like they're actually putting their heads together to come up with an original idea.
I wouldn't be surprised to see ITV try to prove that they can do science fiction better than the BBC by simply showing a popular science fiction movie (somebody elses imagination)every week until the run of Doctor Who is finished. :rolleyes:
To quote the mighty Andrew on Buffy..."I'm bored..Episode I bored" I'll be sticking with Doctor Who.
Fear leads to......
...suffering.
The best show on TV at the moment is Coronation Street - that's why it is the most watched show on Telly. Eastenders is abysmal, yet it is still the best thing (bar Dr Who) the corporation has to offer us.
I watch ITV far more than the BBC at the moment and even Dr Who is not un-touchable. When up against the last in the series of Ant and Decs Saturday Takeaway, DR Who was THRASHED - a fact conspicuous by its absence from the Digital Spy ratings round-up archive.
This reeks of desperation on ITV's part to me. :rolleyes:
Are you sure?
I thought Doctor Who got more ratings than the final episode of Ant and Dec.
And even if it didn't, I don't think it was thrashed by any stretch of the imagination.
The BBC produces lots of good stuff. Documentaries, drama, news, sitcoms, sports coverage. And if BBC 1 can't give you what you want, BBC 2 has loads of good stuff as an alternative.
But I agree that Doctor Who isn't untouchable.
But the trick is to find something that can touch it.
Even going by the overnight figures, Doctor Who was never "thrashed". It got 7m to Ant & Dec's 7.1. The final figures showed Doctor Who with a comfortable lead over A & D.
Would that be Sadam's Weapons of Mass Destruction? Tony Blair's terrorists that are both different and worse than all other terrorists in the history of Earth? David Blunkett (the man who wouldn't die)?
What is this 'Menace' you speak of, Earthman?
I don't think ITV anticipated how successful DW was going to be or that it would consistently attract high viewing figures week on week but I suspect they will be scratching their rather worn and puzzled heads to come up with something for next year.
Its like Bravo putting Alias up against 24 all over again!
At final ratings Ant And Dec's final episode was thrashed, this has been well reported all over DS. Originally it looked as though DW had been beaten in the estimates but when final figures arrived it scored around 1/4 a million more viewers. So still as yet nothing has beaten Doctor Who on a Saturday night!
But I don't care as we are having our own five movie Star Wars DVD party before heading off to the cinema.
I agree. I mean who is interested in fat people's life and programmes about fat people such as "Fat Friends". That show desprately needs a Marjorie Daws type person, to make it more interesting.
"Hit Me Baby One More Time" isn't too bad, but whats ITV's obsession with witholding results in their talent shows? Are the figures so low, that only ITV staff and their families vote? It's only fair you have ALL placings announced on a show.
As for the other reality TV shows *shudder* - "Celebrity Love Island" is going to be the worst show ever. I mean who wants to see slags like Abi Titmuss and Rebbeca Loos cop off and have sex? It's wrong, and is just a cheap way of entertainment. "Big Brother" will trounce it in the ratings. "Celebrity Wrestling" - Enough said. Jeff Brazier is the only positive.
As for it's dramas well "Bad Girls" is a joke. Even fairy stories are more realisitic than this. Plus, there is too many tedious ones such as "Life Begins". As for soaps, well they show too much, and it's hard to keep track.
It's worse than a cable channel, in fact even those cash-cow channels on SKY Digital probably have more originally programming than ITV. It's just not on, and I for one can't see the channel lasting it's 51st birthday.
Absolute rubbish - Dr Who has won its time slot every week since it started and on at least two occasions was the top rated Saturday show on any channel. Do get your facts right.