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Old 22-01-2014, 21:12
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"Call the Midwife"? I'd rather have cold custard poured down my underpants. Some boring period drama for women of a certain age.
The younger audience seems to have melted away though. The shape of the future looks like Splash. You take people with lower asking prices, and give them something like a reported 10k (for the one we have any reports on anyway) Thats a lot cheaper than what they would get on IAC or SCD or DO1. You don't have the overheads for music, or changing costumes, or props, or professional partners, or even 4 judges. They train less, achieve less and the same numbers of people tune in as do to DOI.


There's probably a search going on for a new cheap format. There's probably too many singing shows, and too few new celebs to use who can sing. Horse jumping was a bit niche. The Games was a bit too injury prone, but had merit. The modern Olympic equivalent of T and D would be cycling - but taht doesn't look too promising. The cooking shows are taken by the BBC. Whats the equivalent of watching gravity in action on Splash?
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Old 22-01-2014, 21:40
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The younger audience seems to have melted away though. The shape of the future looks like Splash. You take people with lower asking prices, and give them something like a reported 10k (for the one we have any reports on anyway) Thats a lot cheaper than what they would get on IAC or SCD or DO1. You don't have the overheads for music, or changing costumes, or props, or professional partners, or even 4 judges. They train less, achieve less and the same numbers of people tune in as do to DOI.


There's probably a search going on for a new cheap format. There's probably too many singing shows, and too few new celebs to use who can sing. Horse jumping was a bit niche. The Games was a bit too injury prone, but had merit. The modern Olympic equivalent of T and D would be cycling - but taht doesn't look too promising. The cooking shows are taken by the BBC. Whats the equivalent of watching gravity in action on Splash?
Splash gets fewer viewers than DOI and the figres have unsurprisingly fallen this year. I doubt Splash will last as long as DOI - probably no more than 3 series.
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Old 22-01-2014, 21:52
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And TOWIE (a show about as common as much thick people thinking they are cool) is very popular as well, so what's your point?
TOWIE doesn't even get half that! PMSL!
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Old 23-01-2014, 11:08
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And TOWIE (a show about as common as much thick people thinking they are cool) is very popular as well, so what's your point?
TOWIE gets less than a million viewers. So what's yours?
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Old 25-01-2014, 22:03
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"Call the Midwife"? I'd rather have cold custard poured down my underpants. Some boring period drama for women of a certain age.
Brilliant
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Old 26-01-2014, 14:14
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"Call the Midwife"? I'd rather have cold custard poured down my underpants. Some boring period drama for women of a certain age.
And that's no trifling matter is it?
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Old 26-01-2014, 19:09
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And that's no trifling matter is it?
I doubt it. Still not as bad as eating live bees washed down with sulphuric acid though
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Old 26-01-2014, 19:27
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That is really bad, but the skate off is on the same time as Call the Midwife. It should never have been moved from Saturday nights in the first place, but it's way too late for all that now.
As far as I know it's never been on Saturday nights. I'm sure it's been Sundays since series 1.
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Old 26-01-2014, 19:46
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As far as I know it's never been on Saturday nights. I'm sure it's been Sundays since series 1.
It has not always been on a Sunday night the first couple of series were on a Saturday night. Then it moved to Sunday nights I think from Series 3.
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Old 26-01-2014, 19:49
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As far as I know it's never been on Saturday nights. I'm sure it's been Sundays since series 1.
The show was on Saturday nights when it first started, I was in the studio for one of the nights in series 2 and it was a Saturday.
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Old 26-01-2014, 23:40
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The show was on Saturday nights when it first started, I was in the studio for one of the nights in series 2 and it was a Saturday.
And Primeval was the show inbetween. I loved Primeval
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