Originally Posted by Desert Rat:
“They could even just put The Hollyoaks Music Show into the Friday slot. I doubt the problem would transfer to Thursdays, I think the problem is just that its drawn out across the week.”
The main problem is over the last year or so stories just haven't been climaxing at the end of the week. In the Bryan Kirkwood era he was very good at building a story throughout the week so you just couldn't miss Friday's episode - but that's gone missing recently.
Talking of the Hollyoaks Music Show - any idea how well that rates for 4 Music on Fridays - where they stupidly put it at 7pm against the E4 first look episode!
Originally Posted by C14E:
“The simple fact that it's on until 11.40pm on a weeknight surely won't help either and 100 minutes is quite a stetch as well.
Perhaps they'll reveal what it is in the tabloids tomorrow?”
The annoying thing is so often these extended shows just end up with actually more highlights than normal and then a 10-minute live bit at the end. It could easily be done in the 70 minute slot with the first four parts highlights and last being the live segment.
To be honest I don't think they're doing anything which couldn't have waited till Friday.
Originally Posted by gottago:
“Australian Come Dine With Me's already on one of the Foxtel channels so that format would be out of the question until their contract is up.”
C4 are going to be airing the Aussie version from a week on Saturday.