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The Indian Doctor..series 2.
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Glad to see a new series starting next Monday (27 Feb) at 2.15pm, I thought the first series was excellent.
http://digiguide.tv/pick-of-the-day/27+February+2012/drama-the-indian-doctor/
http://digiguide.tv/pick-of-the-day/27+February+2012/drama-the-indian-doctor/
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I agree. After the success of Call the Midwife, they should have tried this story of the early days of the NHS in an evening slot.
Unless I'm mistaken, they repeated the last series in an evening slot. Hopefully they'll do the same with this one. I'll record it next week to make sure I don't miss it. The first series was very good.
Good story, good writing and fine acting - by Sanjeev Bashar in particular.
I went to college with Sanjeev Bhaskar (OBE)
May be I am wrong, but I thought that BBC was supposed to schedule programmes with the viewers in mind, not because of bureaucratic red tape. Apart from a few BBC pen-pushers who cares which department commissioned it?
From July 2010:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/news/a239643/bbc-daytime-controller-defends-output.html
Further to that, I believe that BBC Daytime has a programme budget which is separate from the rest of BBC one.
Now, if that budget has been used to commission programmes to fill that daytime slot, then it is only correct that the programme is shown in its intended slot, and only correct that it is used in order to provide that original and distinctive programming as required by The Trust and the Controller of BBC Daytime.
To do otherwise would defeat the object of trying to improve daytime programming.
And to move all of the good/interesting programmes away from the daytime slots would simply leave BBC one
daytime programming back where it started. Bureaucratic red tape has nothing to do with it.
and people who are stuck at home or work nights are entitled to decent new tv we pay our license fees and shouldnt have to be left with repeats of murder she diagnosed
Could you explain why showing a programme that has been a big hit during the day, in an evening slot would defeat the object of trying to improve daytime programming.
On that basis programmes that had been hits on BBC2 or BBC3 would never get promoted.
If the daytime commissioner is so pleased with a programme that they think it could attract a big audience in the evenings, then it is only a matter of sorting out the internal bureaucracy for the programme to be "sold" to the evening schedulers, giving the daytime people a fresh budget to produce another drama.
It defeats the purpose if it's supposed to be improving daytime, but airs in an evening slot, which is what you seem to want.
Evening gets the quality, Daytime gets the repeats and lightweight lifestyle shows.
No problem if it's repeated in an evening slot at some point.
What slot did the last series repeat get in the Evening schedule?
That reminds me I haven't watched Brinkburn St or Moving On S2 yet.
If Call The Midwife had been a daytime commission, would BBC bureaucracy mean that it had would be banned from an evening BBC1 broadcast.
Daytime gets much smaller audiences so it is common sense that any programme that could get a big evening audience should be shown in the evenings. Only an idiot would show the best and most appealing programmes at 2:15pm. That is so obvious why do I even have to say it?
A quality programme gets commissioned specifically to improve the daytime schedule, , it is well-received, daytime viewers enjoy it, and it boosts the image of daytime programming.
If that programme is then moved ("promoted") to the evening then logic dictates that there is now a gap in the daytime schedule. Daytime viewers lose out, the BBC Daytime Controller has failed in his remit to improve Daytime's output, and another programme has to be found to fill the gap. So moving it has defeated the object of commissioning it in the first place.
Easy really.
Not that it should really matter to you, as these programmes tend to get a repeat early evenings at some future date (this has happened with Land Girls, The Indian Doctor, and most notably in the past, Doctors)
It has already been explained to you, it is NOT a case of any supposed BBC bureaucracy. It is simple common sense logic whilst fulfilling a remit. And nowhere has anyone said that any evening showing is banned, so the use of such emotive language is going a bit OTT.
And anyway, if you are so enthused by this programming, you do have an opportunity to catch it when it gets repeated later on BBC one or the BBC HD channel in the evening. So you, or the evening audience, will not miss out.
So the daytime audience should get crap programming and the dregs of the BBC's offerings just because it's a small audience. That hardly seems right to me, even if it makes sense to you. But there you go - a couple of posters have tried to give you the reasons, you refuse to accept them, so there is little point in continuing.
Having read the previous posts, I now understand.
It reminded me a little of a Heartbeat type of series but I so enjoyed it and am looking forward to this one.