Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123:
“You'd be better off doing a "Simon Cowell on life support when he saw the following" gag...
The morning after "the night SCD and TXF went head-to-head for the first time this season and Strictly WON" and we're all talking about Casualty's future...
Only on the DS Ratings Thread.
Yes, perhaps not that unpredictable (although I doubt it would have happened last year). What must be a concern to ITV-Cowell is that there was no sizeable uplift when Merlin finished - so even though Casualty is tanking, TXF isn't really gaining huge viewers from BBC1.
And people are clearly just drifting away from the enormously bloated 2.5hr TXF megathons. Quite a drop, again, as the show enters the last hour/last half hour.
As for Casualty, i've been saying for 2 years that the show needs to lose at least a third of its run, and start on SCD Final Saturday, running through to July. When it's on and people aren't watching it, they get out of the habit.
That said, I think the Beeb killed Casualty when they turned it into a year round soap rather than a popular drama serial about random punters having accidents. There must be a fear that it's simply run its natural course. (Although Holby City - a spin-off soap from day 1 - seems to go from strength to strength)
My first post, I think, since Danny Cohen's appointment. A good appointment, after a rather mixed tenure for Jay Hunt. Young and well regarded, he seems to have been turning BBC3 into something more "grown up" and "balanced" than it was before. Hopefully he can "refresh" BBC1 and add a bit more "must see" than there has been of late.”
“You'd be better off doing a "Simon Cowell on life support when he saw the following" gag...
The morning after "the night SCD and TXF went head-to-head for the first time this season and Strictly WON" and we're all talking about Casualty's future...
Only on the DS Ratings Thread.
Yes, perhaps not that unpredictable (although I doubt it would have happened last year). What must be a concern to ITV-Cowell is that there was no sizeable uplift when Merlin finished - so even though Casualty is tanking, TXF isn't really gaining huge viewers from BBC1.
And people are clearly just drifting away from the enormously bloated 2.5hr TXF megathons. Quite a drop, again, as the show enters the last hour/last half hour.
As for Casualty, i've been saying for 2 years that the show needs to lose at least a third of its run, and start on SCD Final Saturday, running through to July. When it's on and people aren't watching it, they get out of the habit.
That said, I think the Beeb killed Casualty when they turned it into a year round soap rather than a popular drama serial about random punters having accidents. There must be a fear that it's simply run its natural course. (Although Holby City - a spin-off soap from day 1 - seems to go from strength to strength)
My first post, I think, since Danny Cohen's appointment. A good appointment, after a rather mixed tenure for Jay Hunt. Young and well regarded, he seems to have been turning BBC3 into something more "grown up" and "balanced" than it was before. Hopefully he can "refresh" BBC1 and add a bit more "must see" than there has been of late.”
I agree-people in the top jobs of the terrestrials tend to play Tennis with each others roles-this guy is something new even if its because of his relative youth.. At the very least its that bit different.
