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Old 10-07-2010, 19:32
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Another BBC light entertainment disaster currently unfolding on BBC1.

101 Ways To Leave A Game Show is the slowest television programme ever and it's got ratings disaster writing all over it. It looked bad from the trailer but I never imagined it would be this bad.

It was terrible wasn't it. They went all the way to Argentina for that tripe.

It gets even worse, BBC One have just broadcast a trailer for John Barrowmans "Tonights the Night".
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Old 10-07-2010, 19:33
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Another BBC light entertainment disaster currently unfolding on BBC1.

101 Ways To Leave A Game Show is the slowest television programme ever and it's got ratings disaster writing all over it. It looked bad from the trailer but I never imagined it would be this bad.

It had an okay premise but it was soooooooo slow, I couldn't watch it all and ended up switching channels.
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Old 10-07-2010, 19:37
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101 ways looked vaguely entertaining from the previews and the concept but it has been dull.
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Old 10-07-2010, 19:40
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Other than Lets Dance for Comic/Sport Relief, anything Steve Jones goes near tends to flop
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Old 10-07-2010, 19:46
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Another BBC light entertainment disaster currently unfolding on BBC1.

101 Ways To Leave A Game Show is the slowest television programme ever and it's got ratings disaster writing all over it. It looked bad from the trailer but I never imagined it would be this bad.

Useless, and to think what a powerhouse BBC light entertainment was 30 years ago when Bill Cotton was the biggest employer of entertainers in Europe and shows like The Generation Game and The Two Ronnies were revered and had 19 million viewers.
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Old 10-07-2010, 19:58
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Useless, and to think what a powerhouse BBC light entertainment was 30 years ago when Bill Cotton was the biggest employer of entertainers in Europe and shows like The Generation Game and The Two Ronnies were revered and had 19 million viewers.
I think Bill would be turning in his grave at the situation now- 4 hit shows in twenty years is dreadful and as people on the show thread have been saying-how does such a show get to be accepted. Theres seven more I think.
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:00
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Another BBC light entertainment disaster currently unfolding on BBC1.

101 Ways To Leave A Game Show is the slowest television programme ever and it's got ratings disaster writing all over it. It looked bad from the trailer but I never imagined it would be this bad.

Unfortunately though it's BBC1 Saturday night. People will watch anything - except Totally Saturday! In it to Win It has survived eight years - and four of those was just asking one question!

Bloody awful though - awful music, awfully slow and awfully obvious they gave up searching for 101 ways after they decided on number one - drop contestant into pool!
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:07
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I can see 101 Ways flopping as well. It was terrible. I expect 5m+ tuning in out of curiosity this week, with probably 3/4m tuning in next week..
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:09
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Well everybody on here seems to have watched it so it must have done really well.
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:16
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Well everybody on here seems to have watched it so it must have done really well.
We said that about The Door and The Colour of Money too!

I also watched it and it was as dreadful as everyone else says it was. I think it'll have gotten about 4.5m tonight but it'll be sub-3m within a couple of weeks.
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:19
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We said that about The Door and The Colour of Money too!

I also watched it and it was as dreadful as everyone else says it was. I think it'll have gotten about 4.5m tonight but it'll be sub-3m within a couple of weeks.
I liked the colour of money, it was funny- I watched it all
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:21
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I remember how much Colour Of Money was getting hyped, and then t from 4.5m+ to sub 3m.
And then I remember Take Me Out being slated before it even started but people generally loved it because it was so cheesy, its first episode got 3.5m, and the last few episodes ended up hitting 5m+.

Never judge a show before i reckon.
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:29
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We said that about The Door and The Colour of Money too!

I also watched it and it was as dreadful as everyone else says it was. I think it'll have gotten about 4.5m tonight but it'll be sub-3m within a couple of weeks.
Have you seen the competition though - don't see either of ITV's shows next week putting up much of a fight.
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:37
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Have you seen the competition though - don't see either of ITV's shows next week putting up much of a fight.
BBC1 and ITV1 doing their bit to aid the economic recovery by driving everybody down the pub on a Saturday night.

God bless 'em.

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Old 10-07-2010, 20:41
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BBC1 and ITV1 doing their bit to aid the economic recovery by driving everybody down the pub on a Saturday night.

God bless 'em.

Haha.
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:41
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Another BBC light entertainment disaster currently unfolding on BBC1.

101 Ways To Leave A Game Show is the slowest television programme ever and it's got ratings disaster writing all over it. It looked bad from the trailer but I never imagined it would be this bad.

Agreed completely. It was just so incredibly slow. I for one cannot watch again and besides that it's really not that funny to watch people falling.....

It was far far inferior to Total Wipeout. I actually find myself thinking the BBC have spent license payers money on sending people to Argentina, the set, the fireworks etc....and it's a complete and utter waste!!!
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:42
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Have you seen the competition though - don't see either of ITV's shows next week putting up much of a fight.
I haven't actually seen a trailer for Odd One In so I can't comment on it yet in fairness but I have heard a few people saying it looks crap so it looks like Saturdays could be woeful for both of the main networks this Summer. The Magic Numbers trailer has no actual footage in it with it being live so the jury's still out there although I'm sure it's competition Tonight's The Night will still be appalling.
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Old 10-07-2010, 20:59
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*looks inside*
No terrestrial ratings posted.
* walks back out *

Oh, and I bet 101 Ways to End A Gameshow will sunk towards 2m before long.
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Old 10-07-2010, 22:13
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BSkyB's news channel had more viewers than the BBC News Channel at 10pm, because people were watching the BBC News on BBC One.

I'm sure ITV1's news beat BSkyB's too.
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Old 10-07-2010, 22:28
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*looks inside*
No terrestrial ratings posted.
* walks back out *

Oh, and I bet 101 Ways to End A Gameshow will sunk towards 2m before long.
I think it will drop to 3m levels but it's rare for a BBC show in Saturday primetime to go towards 2m - no matter how dreadful people think it is. BBC1's poor offerings tends to stand up better than any other channel's poor programming due to that larger default audience people are always going on about.
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Old 10-07-2010, 22:53
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Still no ratings for Friday?
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Old 10-07-2010, 22:57
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Still no ratings for Friday?
Nope.
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Old 10-07-2010, 23:04
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Have you seen the competition though - don't see either of ITV's shows next week putting up much of a fight.
ITV will probably get a fair number of viewers (3-4m or so) but they don't really bother trying to plug the BGT/X Factor gap and just churn out innane formats year after year.
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Old 10-07-2010, 23:26
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BBC1 and ITV1 doing their bit to aid the economic recovery by driving everybody down the pub on a Saturday night.

God bless 'em.

Well ITV do that most nights
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Old 10-07-2010, 23:52
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Tonight's BBC1 schedule was one of the worst most random schedules ever.

After the early evening flop waiting to happen we were treated to outtakes from A Question of Sport and then an episode of Mitchell and Webb, that is usually on BBC2!

They do know that the 3rd place play off isn't usually that important and they don't have to schedule like they are opposite an England game?
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