Yes, I'll admit it - Ianto was the best. I couldn't stand Owen (so ugly) but liked Tosh.


I appreciate that but did they realise how popular the character was? I don't think Torchwood is finished, not after these ratings.

Sorry yet again - OFF TOPIC!

Aw now thats very funny Lol x x x x

Thanks for this... I finally complained. Not only because they got rid of Arlene Philips, but the way they treat women of a certain age anyway! If they did the same with their male presenters, we would see the back of Melvyn Bragg, Dimbleby, Andrew Marr, Paxo etc. They got a lot of real old guys there... very few older women... I am so mad now !

NOBODY is going to boycott SCD - otherwise none of you would be able to come on here and whinge,would you!!

JJ

Maybe they got rid of Arlene because she can't string a sentence together properly rather than her age. I've always found her really embarrassing to watch.

My Mum is! All the people who seemed to be outraged are women over 50, surely that's Strictly's target audience.

I think if show starts assume no matter what it does people will tune in is hammering the first nail in it's coffin.

If you don't think public opinion can change anything look what happened when they tried to change the flavour of Coca-Cola in the USA.

Yeah but by that criteria Len, Bruno, Craig, Brucie, Tess, Brendan, James and Ola should all be punted.

Ha ha, I can see it now Stu, Joanna galvanising support and making speeches outside Parlaiment and / or the bbc (darn, smileys aren't working for me today, grr)


I'm feeling a bit of deja vu, Gill!! Didn't we have this chat a couple of days ago on another thread??

Still feeling traumatised about leather clad bad boy Guy.

xx

Complaints to the BBC are a waste of time as there's no governing body that actual has any effect on them. The only control the government seems to have over them is to restrict the billions of cash they manage to squander. They then use this as an excuse to produce a progressively poorer standard of programming, whilst continuing to pay 400 administrative "suits" in excess of £100K per annum.
Any complaint you will be told "will be added to the log."
We can only presume they use wood burning stoves for heating TV Centre.
As for the "move to Manchester" this is becoming a farce as more and more of these people refuse to go, yet still remain employed.

Whatever happens with the new format of SCD it will be heralded as a success, like err... Robin Hood, who they had to kill off, because the ratings became so bad.

Hardly think losing Arlene was as big a deal as killing Robin Hood on a show called Robin Hood not to mention Guy and poor Allan and poor Ianto (and to a lesser degree Tosh and Owen)

Oh did anyone see this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/content..._feature.shtml

would love him to do strictly

Sod Arlene I'd watch if he was on Strictly. Mind you I'm sure Arlene would do the same!

.....and in that interview he said he would do it if asked, so go on bbc , what are you waiting for ??

OT I know but RH ratings were only bad on the last episode which was on against Andy Murray and suddenly moved to BBC2 but killing off 4 original characters in its last episode and the only baddies probably didn't help its chances to avoid the axe

I'm not sure that's completely true - it's not that long ago viewers complaints made the beeb act against J Ross and the other bloke (whose name has slipped my mind).

Its one great way to make everyone forgets Arlene/Alesha

Getting a long holiday at Christmas seems a nice punishment to me

Too right!

Like everyone else I've said my piece on that, but it's getting a bit wearing now because the debate is going round and round in circles.

Hang on, Ross is still employed by the BBC, he went on a sort of "gardening leave" probably got a big tax rebate, if he wasn't being paid.
So hardly much of a punishment, was it?

But did anyone miss him?

The biggest "crimes" being committed are those by the programme commissioners.
Well and that liar Mark Thompson who reneged on this promise he made in 2004 at the Edinburgh Television festival. We've got even more thinly disguised reality programmes than ever.

Read about it here.

http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/3990

Well my mother (huge, former SCD fan) informs me she won't be watching because "She's fed up of women her age (60+) being thrown on the scrap heap"

Especially when two of the actors playing the main characters decided that they were leaving (which I think would have had something to do with the decision not to continue the show).

Or would you have preferred a couple of soap-style head transplants, bringing in a new Robin and Guy with no-one in the programme spotting that they had changed completely?

TBH, I don't think that there is any conscious move to kill off SCD, although they are going the right way to wound it, and to make it less appealing to certain sections of the viewing public.

Can I respectfully suggest that you post this anti-BBC diatribe in a more appropriate forum, like Broadcasting?

For me, they could have used string puppets if they liked, as long as they put it on at 5.00pm with the rest of the kids' programmes.

As much as I agree with your Mum's sentiments, the show is bigger than just one person, and there's a lot of good people involved with it.

If the series had been more popular they could have got away with replacing the characters, like Darrin on Bewitched, Dumbledore in Harry Potter or Miss Ellie in Dallas!



Why do you post in bold all the time?

'cos I can, does it bother you? You can post in whatever you like, why should I care?