Originally Posted by Score:
“Blimey that's a big difference in the two half hours! That the repeat last night pretty much matched Friday's first showing says it all. C4 need to stop relying on Million Pound Drop so much. It's ratings are really nothing special these days and by pumping it out so much and making episodes so bloated they are preventing other shows from breaking through. Baggage could do reasonably well an hour later but it isn't being given the chance. I'd restrict Million Pound Drop to two 10x60' series per year, all on Fridays (ditch the Saturday episodes as they don't work anymore). C4 could actually have a pretty decent Friday night schedule for most of the year with decent hits like Million Pound Drop, Chatty Man (again, two 10x60' runs could work) and 8 Out of 10 Cats anchoring the schedule, along with new shows like Baggage, Comedy World Cup and a couple of others. They'd also have sitcoms like Friday Night Dinner and Peep Show and Derren Brown series to fit in, so I think it's time for them to cut back on MPD as they clearly have enough stuff to carry them through the year even when MPD isn't on. They could also then launch new sitcoms (both US and UK ones) in a decent slot, unlike New Girl, as opposed to the current situation where anything new gets thrown to the wolves as there's no room for it because of MPD.”
“Blimey that's a big difference in the two half hours! That the repeat last night pretty much matched Friday's first showing says it all. C4 need to stop relying on Million Pound Drop so much. It's ratings are really nothing special these days and by pumping it out so much and making episodes so bloated they are preventing other shows from breaking through. Baggage could do reasonably well an hour later but it isn't being given the chance. I'd restrict Million Pound Drop to two 10x60' series per year, all on Fridays (ditch the Saturday episodes as they don't work anymore). C4 could actually have a pretty decent Friday night schedule for most of the year with decent hits like Million Pound Drop, Chatty Man (again, two 10x60' runs could work) and 8 Out of 10 Cats anchoring the schedule, along with new shows like Baggage, Comedy World Cup and a couple of others. They'd also have sitcoms like Friday Night Dinner and Peep Show and Derren Brown series to fit in, so I think it's time for them to cut back on MPD as they clearly have enough stuff to carry them through the year even when MPD isn't on. They could also then launch new sitcoms (both US and UK ones) in a decent slot, unlike New Girl, as opposed to the current situation where anything new gets thrown to the wolves as there's no room for it because of MPD.”
Not too bad a schedule. Even moving MPD back to 10pm would be a start as it would rate just as well (if not better) and I think C4 need to free up 9-10pm more than they probably need to free up 10-11pm at the moment.
It isn't like they need a lot of new content too - Eight ouf of 10 Cats paired with reruns of something like The IT Crowd could fill the 9pm hour for a good chunk of the year, then stuff like Friday Night Dinner, Alan Carr, MPD and a couple of new entertainment formats in the 10pm hour.
And god, just started watching the new series of Shameless. I think that's going to be another one added to the ever increasing list of series I've given up on this year.
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Speaking as old fogey I can remember when Sundays on BBC1 were better than they are now. In fact BBC1 has become more like ITV of the nineties and early noughties in having shows that appeal to older viewers. But at least with ITV it was drama. BBC1 just gives us factual programming. Take it away!! :yawn:
