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BBC ONE no Grand National so they put daytime filler on instead!

Bill ClintonBill Clinton Posts: 9,389
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Channel 4 and No Grand National for the BBC and what do they do instead?, fill the vacant slot on Saturday Afternoon with Bargain Hunt, Homes Under The Hammer & Escape To The Country which are programmes that could be best described as daytime filler material. ITV don't stoop this low, they always resort to a film and an episode of murder mystery such as Columbo or Murder, She Wrote which at least are script written shows that are actually entertaining. BBC ONE did used to have a similar policy if the sport was off on a Saturday a film would usually go into its place, this slot vacated by the loss of the Grand National should be a prime candidate for it.



Why don't BBC ONE repeat Africa or something, show some classic sitcom episodes like Only Fools & Horses, anything that is more entertaining to a general audience, it's the weekend!
Both Saturday and Sunday afternoons should not be dead zones on BBC ONE!
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    samburrowssamburrows Posts: 1,671
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    Saturday afternoon audiences fall into three broad categories:

    1) People who have lives and are out and about

    2) People who wish to watch sports which are more important to them than (1)

    3) People who are happy to watch the kind of dross you listed above.

    Putting 'decent' programming on in that slot and competing with person type (1) and (2) is a pointless endeavour.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 162
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    all sport r on sky now with a couple footy match on itv and the bbc just got match of the day sky should not get away with all the sport but that money for you
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    exlordlucanexlordlucan Posts: 35,375
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    You realise that programming is planned way back and at this time of year most people would normally be out of their homes enjoying the weather plus any at home would probably be watching the Grand National anyway.


    Btw Only Fools & Horses has been daytime filler for the last few weeks which shows how much you really care of what's being broadcast.
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    mikwmikw Posts: 48,715
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    "stoop this low"!

    Steady on. They're saving a fortune on programming that afternoon at a time of cuts.

    Also, most people who are at home this Saturday will be watching the Grand National anyway, why try and compete?

    Besides, if you want to watch a repeat of "Africa", it's been on a number of times.Only Fools and Horses is also repeated a lot.
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    Dear ViewerDear Viewer Posts: 1,657
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    The BBC are stuck with this situation for at least the next 3 or 4 years. Will they choose to make a bid for a few racing fixtures when the rights come around again?!
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    stevvy1986stevvy1986 Posts: 7,088
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    Not sure what the problem is. It'd be no different to sticking a film up against the mens 100m Olympic final (ok the athletics is shorter but the principle is still the same). Ie you'd have to be stark raving mad to do it, as you'd get far more people watching the 100m final than anything else, you're going to lose in that slot anyway so why compete.
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    Wallasey SaintWallasey Saint Posts: 7,627
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    Dear Viewer wrote: »
    The BBC are stuck with this situation for at least the next 3 or 4 years. Will they choose to make a bid for a few racing fixtures when the rights come around again?!

    Indeed, however it's going to be weird watching The Grand National on C4, being so used to watching it on BBC.
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    Bill ClintonBill Clinton Posts: 9,389
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    samburrows wrote: »
    Saturday afternoon audiences fall into three broad categories:

    1) People who have lives and are out and about

    2) People who wish to watch sports which are more important to them than (1)

    3) People who are happy to watch the kind of dross you listed above.

    Putting 'decent' programming on in that slot and competing with person type (1) and (2) is a pointless endeavour.

    I'm sometimes Person 1 and never 2 or 3, I must be a fairly typical viewer, most people I know wouldn't want to watch that "dross", but there's a bigger audience available at weekends and there's still a lot of people who don't like sport, if you do put the telly on why shouldn't it be something decent?

    Here's a case, I might be looking after my Grandma this coming weekend, it's a lot of sitting in, we could do with some decent telly to watch on the free to air channel range!
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    big_hard_ladbig_hard_lad Posts: 4,077
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    ksrdmn wrote: »
    all sport r on sky now with a couple footy match on itv and the bbc just got match of the day sky should not get away with all the sport but that money for you

    Delightful input. :rolleyes:

    Sky don't "get away with all the sport" because quite simply, they don't have it. And even if they did have "all" the sport, which quite frankly, is impossible given the crown jewel events, they're quite entitled to buy the rights to anything they desire. The same as any other broadcaster.
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    1andrew11andrew1 Posts: 4,088
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    ksrdmn wrote: »
    all sport r on sky now with a couple footy match on itv and the bbc just got match of the day sky should not get away with all the sport but that money for you
    Um Channel 4 has the Grand National which is what we're discussing!
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    omnidirectionalomnidirectional Posts: 18,822
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    Grand National afternoon is a graveyard slot for all other channels, which is why they stick to old films or repeats. I remember Channel 4 moving the Brookside omnibus to an earlier slot so it was directly against the Grand National, clearly to wipe out the audience and accelerate its demise.
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    Jason CJason C Posts: 31,336
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    samburrows wrote: »
    Saturday afternoon audiences fall into three broad categories:

    1) People who have lives and are out and about

    2) People who wish to watch sports which are more important to them than (1)

    3) People who are happy to watch the kind of dross you listed above.

    Putting 'decent' programming on in that slot and competing with person type (1) and (2) is a pointless endeavour.

    Wow, what a condescending post.
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    ShrewnShrewn Posts: 6,851
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    Even C4 Racing finished early when the GN was on BBC. It will be the same on Derby Day i guess


    I remember my Nan moaning in the 70's as BBC1 had Grandstand, ITV, World of Sport and Russian Ballet on BBC2. She would have loved Bargain Hunt! :D
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    big_hard_ladbig_hard_lad Posts: 4,077
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    1andrew1 wrote: »
    Um Channel 4 has the Grand National which is what we're discussing!

    Nah but sure "all sport r on sky now".
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    John DoughJohn Dough Posts: 146,595
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    Channel 4 are really making a big thing out of their GN rights-large billboard posters,a 'Saturday Brunch' from Aintree and an Alan Carr spin off with the same three guests he always has on.........:rolleyes::sleep:
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    samburrowssamburrows Posts: 1,671
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    John Dough wrote: »
    Channel 4 are really making a big thing out of their GN rights-large billboard posters,a 'Saturday Brunch' from Aintree and an Alan Carr spin off with the same three guests he always has on.........:rolleyes::sleep:

    I went past Channel 4 HQ this morning - huge 3D style awning all round the building of horses coming over jumps etc.
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    ftvftv Posts: 31,668
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    The Grand National on C4 will come nowhere near the audience it got on BBC1.
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    PrinceOfDenmarkPrinceOfDenmark Posts: 2,761
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    Bill Clinton wrote: »
    Channel 4 and No Grand National for the BBC and what do they do instead?, fill the vacant slot on Saturday Afternoon with Bargain Hunt, Homes Under The Hammer & Escape To The Country which are programmes that could be best described as daytime filler material. ITV don't stoop this low, they always resort to a film and an episode of murder mystery such as Columbo or Murder, She Wrote which at least are script written shows that are actually entertaining. BBC ONE did used to have a similar policy if the sport was off on a Saturday a film would usually go into its place, this slot vacated by the loss of the Grand National should be a prime candidate for it.



    Why don't BBC ONE repeat Africa or something, show some classic sitcom episodes like Only Fools & Horses, anything that is more entertaining to a general audience, it's the weekend!
    Both Saturday and Sunday afternoons should not be dead zones on BBC ONE!

    I agree. This applies across the whole week, but it's even lazier when applied to weekends and bank holidays.

    The BBC must have one of the biggest archives of quality programming in the world, and yet their daytime output is just unimaginative dross.
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    Tony RichardsTony Richards Posts: 5,745
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    ftv wrote: »
    The Grand National on C4 will come nowhere near the audience it got on BBC1.

    Probably true but that just shows that many people who would have watched it on BBC1 were not committed to it as a sport. The same would happen if it was broadcast on BBC2. As a nation we still haven't got past our BBC1/ ITV fixation for big events despite 1964 (BBC2) and 1982 (CH4) and later digital TV. It seems that many people still watch the channel not the programme!
    Things haven't changed that much since the late 50s and 60s when families were strongly either BBC or ITV ones... :confused:
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    hyperstarspongehyperstarsponge Posts: 16,706
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    Its a disgrace that the BBC broadcast daytime rubbish every day, Bored to death of the same old rubbish. On the bright side the weather is suppose to be warmer this weekend. :)
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    degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    Bill Clinton wrote: »
    Why don't BBC ONE repeat Africa or something, show some classic sitcom episodes like Only Fools & Horses, anything that is more entertaining to a general audience, it's the weekend!
    Both Saturday and Sunday afternoons should not be dead zones on BBC ONE!
    Isn't OF&H weekday filler?
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    LurkingGoodLurkingGood Posts: 676
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    OP you have a choice - watch the Grand National, watch the other side(s) or go out.
    Why should the BBC pander to your preferred programmes?
    If you want to watch the repeats you mention just use BBC i-player...or put a DVD on.
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    RadioKnowerRadioKnower Posts: 2,272
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    I don't know why they don't just stick Final Score on BBC One from 2:30pm this Saturday.
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    pothuthicpothuthic Posts: 47,103
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    hyperstarsponge wrote: »
    Its a disgrace that the BBC broadcast daytime rubbish every day, Bored to death of the same old rubbish. On the bright side the weather is suppose to be warmer this weekend. :)

    Hide the microwave
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    Zac QuinnZac Quinn Posts: 5,172
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    LurkingGood wrote: »
    OP you have a choice - watch the Grand National, watch the other side(s) or go out.

    Or read a book. Or have a phonecall. Or study. Or conceive a baby. Or waste your time reading the Digital Spy forums..
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