Originally Posted by D.M.N.:
“So, by your logic, all of the follow were scheduled in the Summer for the exact same reason:
- Odd One In
- The Marriage Ref
- Magic Numbers
Which were Summer burn-offs. And Your Face Sounds Familiar's series average is better than those three.”
Odd One In wasn't much of a burn-off, they recommissioned it. And I know nobody else thought so but The Marriage Ref could and should have worked, the big mistake was putting it at 9pm where it was hideously exposed, it should have been a post-10pm format where the panellists could have been ruder and funnier and they wouldn't have had to book the likes of Eamonn Holmes and Geri Halliwell.
Originally Posted by Andy23:
“The important thing is that they won't have been expecting the very hot weather. Nothing would have rated better in these circumstances.”
Apart from the fact it has failed to win its slot every week, usually against repeats.
Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123:
“The trailer looks awful, the name is utterly dismal and a massive turn off, and it sounds like yet another probably very worthy "isn't Britain great/quirky/eccentric?" type show from BBC1 like Britain's Brightest, Bishop's Britain, Test The Nation etc.
it's launching in August for a reason. It will get something beginning with a 2.”
I agree with you about the name, I assumed they would have changed that from the original translated version, but I don't agree with much else. No show that has Frank Skinner on it can be "very worthy" and the shows you cite are completely different, one was a quiz, one was a stand-up show (with vox-pops, but that was just a concept to differentiate it from umpteen other stand-up shows) and one was an interactive thing. And this is something different again.
I said here the other day that the trailer looks like it might divide people because it seems a bit brash but most of the criticism will probably come from people who slag off Saturday night LE for being Saturday night LE. But we'll see.
Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123:
“I see Walliams is the star of BBC1's new teacher sitcom. That sounds crap too, and again if that's launching in August too, you can probably work out why. BBC1 has had at least 2 teacher sitcoms before, neither did particularly well, and I can't see this doing.”
I dunno what the other teacher sitcoms are, Chalk? Which was sixteen years ago. There's Bad Education on BBC3, which was a hit, and I wonder why they've got two school-set sitcoms running across the Beeb, but presumably it'll be different enough. Haven't heard enough of it to decide on its success one way or the other but the August debut means nothing, when they interviewed Dan McGolpin the BBC1 scheduler in Word a year or two ago he said the difference between summer and autumn is pretty negligable.
Originally Posted by Salv*:
“BBC Three's new episodes of Family Guy tickled 1.30m (6.8%) at 10pm and 1.06m (6.7%) at 10.30pm.”
Just the one new episode of Family Guy, the latter was a repeat. Rationing them to make the run longer.
Originally Posted by ronant:
“Yes, the reason being I was selecting shows to illustrate my point - that large chunks of the primetime schedule is struggling to get over 100k. Repeats or not, that's pretty bad.”
Yes, given its prominent position and the ratings that the likes of BBC3 and ITV2 and 3 can get with constant repeats. In the twenty odd years it's been going, Sky One has completely failed to get any kind of coherent idenitity or any kind of viewer loyalty, helped by Sky only talking in the broadest of generalisations.
Originally Posted by GeorgeS:
“anything for the Whicker obit last night - itv 10.15pm?”
Enjoyed that a lot. No ad breaks, of course, and indeed it wasn't even made with breaks.
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