tvcatchup might have it online for their BBC 2 at the time.
Rant re: Thursday ITT in Scotland :(
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I am sure it WILL be available on I-Player, but after our long battle to get the Thursday episode shown in Scotland, via the red button (and after 6 series of missing it every single week!) I am really worried that BBC Scotland have now gone back on the arrangement.
What about those who do not have a PC? Are they just to miss out again, week after week?
What about those who do not have a PC? Are they just to miss out again, week after week?
A reply from the BBC. It appears the need to cover the snooker meant ITT had to be dropped. Not sure why the Thursday episode could not be squashed in sometime before the Friday one - or even shown in its place with the Friday one popping up on BBC2 on a Saturday tea time. But fingers crossed we will get the other episodes!
QUOTE: Dear Miss In
Thank you for your e-mail regarding the scheduling of Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, on the Red Button service on BBC Scotland.
I'm sorry you were unhappy that the programme was not transmitted on BBC Scotland on Thursday 8th October.
We have tried, where possible, to transmit Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two via the Red Button on Thursday evenings but, unfortunately, due to coverage of the Snooker Championships, there were not enough streams on the Red Button service to allow us to transmit the programme and for this we can only apologise.
All scheduling decisions are carefully weighed against audience interest and every attempt is made to find alternative slots in the schedule to accommodate those programmes that have been displaced by Scotland-only broadcasts. We have identified a slot for Gaelic programme output on Thursday evenings on BBC Two Scotland and, in order to ensure continuity for our viewers, we try to maintain this slot for that purpose. Where series such as Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two are introduced to the network schedule (in this case, in the same slot as our Gaelic output), we try, in Scotland, to find alternative slots that match with the likely audience for such programmes. However, on some occasions, it is not practical or editorially sensible to do so.
We have investigated broadcasting the programme earlier in the evening, (e.g. at 1730) but the programme is either live or as live and this is therefore not operationally possible to achieve.
It is not our intention to disregard viewers' wishes but, unfortunately in this instance, we had no suitable alternatives to not showing the programme.
Thank you, once again, for contacting us with your concerns and we hope you continue to enjoy the series.
Regards
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QUOTE: Dear Miss In
Thank you for your e-mail regarding the scheduling of Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, on the Red Button service on BBC Scotland.
I'm sorry you were unhappy that the programme was not transmitted on BBC Scotland on Thursday 8th October.
We have tried, where possible, to transmit Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two via the Red Button on Thursday evenings but, unfortunately, due to coverage of the Snooker Championships, there were not enough streams on the Red Button service to allow us to transmit the programme and for this we can only apologise.
All scheduling decisions are carefully weighed against audience interest and every attempt is made to find alternative slots in the schedule to accommodate those programmes that have been displaced by Scotland-only broadcasts. We have identified a slot for Gaelic programme output on Thursday evenings on BBC Two Scotland and, in order to ensure continuity for our viewers, we try to maintain this slot for that purpose. Where series such as Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two are introduced to the network schedule (in this case, in the same slot as our Gaelic output), we try, in Scotland, to find alternative slots that match with the likely audience for such programmes. However, on some occasions, it is not practical or editorially sensible to do so.
We have investigated broadcasting the programme earlier in the evening, (e.g. at 1730) but the programme is either live or as live and this is therefore not operationally possible to achieve.
It is not our intention to disregard viewers' wishes but, unfortunately in this instance, we had no suitable alternatives to not showing the programme.
Thank you, once again, for contacting us with your concerns and we hope you continue to enjoy the series.
Regards
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Well, a chirpy BBC Scotland lady announced that we CAN access ITT tomorrow with our red buttons!
So, if we can get the finger splints removed that we had to have fitted after getting severe RSI trying to find it last week, we should be ok!
So, if we can get the finger splints removed that we had to have fitted after getting severe RSI trying to find it last week, we should be ok!
Originally Posted by capricorn_night:
“You can usually get it on the red button but it's not working for me this week
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“You can usually get it on the red button but it's not working for me this week
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Ohhhhhhh I didn't know that.
Originally Posted by SeasideLady:
“Just popping on to say we watch ITT every night, Thursday included, and we have Freeview not Sky. Not sure how it works, but we just whizz through the remote control until you get to a different BBC region. To do this, when we set our system up, we put in our old English address even though we are in Aberdeen, and that way you're not forced to watch STV all the time, and you can see any region BBC programme you like.”
“Just popping on to say we watch ITT every night, Thursday included, and we have Freeview not Sky. Not sure how it works, but we just whizz through the remote control until you get to a different BBC region. To do this, when we set our system up, we put in our old English address even though we are in Aberdeen, and that way you're not forced to watch STV all the time, and you can see any region BBC programme you like.”
I haven't had any problem either using Freeview. I didn't have to put my region in either so I'm not sure what is going on
All I know is I just 'toggle' between the BBC2s using the red button - I'm in Central Scotland - and as someone already said, it was announced tonight that Scottish viewers should press the red button for ITT tomorrow.
Last year, after Olympic Level Whining, Scots viewers were finaly allowed ITT every Thursday by means of the red button.
This year, we got the first two - then the snooker edged it out. Luckily, it was back last night. This is how you can see it on Freeview.
Pity that BBC 2 Scotland seem unwilling to make it known - at the end of EVERY Wednesday episode - that the red button option is available.......
(I wonder if they would consider putting the Gaelic output onto the red button, now that BBC Alba exists????)
This year, we got the first two - then the snooker edged it out. Luckily, it was back last night. This is how you can see it on Freeview.
Pity that BBC 2 Scotland seem unwilling to make it known - at the end of EVERY Wednesday episode - that the red button option is available.......
(I wonder if they would consider putting the Gaelic output onto the red button, now that BBC Alba exists????)
The continuity lady, after last nights ITT, did NOT say that it would be available in Scotland.
THIS IS SO UNFAIR - Jade and Ian will be on, and they are "my favourites".
THIS IS SO UNFAIR - Jade and Ian will be on, and they are "my favourites".
For the first time ever, I couldn't get ITT tonight either.
Usually I'm the smug one too saying that I don't have a problem
Usually I'm the smug one too saying that I don't have a problem
BTW, re the BBC response quoted by BIDIE-IN above, I find it hard to believe that the BBC can't find a slot for ITT somewhere in their Scottish schedule, not even late at night. 
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