Originally Posted by cylon6:
“"@johnplunkett149: Hit? Wonder of Bees w @Marthakearney 748k viewers #BBC4
Miss? Restaurant Wars, Battle for Manchester, #BBC2 1.2k"”
1200!? That would be a miss. If it's 1.2 million, which I assume it is, I don't see what's wrong with that at 8pm on BBC2.
Originally Posted by yorkie100:
“ITV doing well with their Monday dramas and BBC giving them a free ride airing factual and pretty poor factual at that. Other than Silk have BBC had any drama on at 9pm monday this year?”
I don't know why you say "other than Silk", it was a proper six-part series, and with that and The 7.39 we've had seven weeks of new drama (plus a repeat of New Tricks), and we're only in week sixteen. There's been drama on BBC1 on half of the Mondays this year. Is that a major issue? Another four weeks were devoted to Britain's Great War, a flagship, very expensive series. Before Christmas we had New Tricks and Ripper Street there. I don't know what the obsession is with Monday nights on BBC1, it is a perfectly varied schedule and they're hardly writing the whole thing off like Tuesdays on ITV.
Originally Posted by H of De Vil:
“Surely that's got to be the most new programming in one day they've had?”
Pfft, two daytime series nobody'll notice, a returning daytime show and a revamp. Back in the days when new seasons used to begin without fail in the first week of January and September you'd often see every programme was a new series. Wouldn't be surprised if BBC1 launched just as many new series that day, if we're counting. BBC1 launched three new series in one evening on Saturday.
Anyway, they stopped launching all the new shows at the same time because it generally means if one flops, they all fop, the Beeb proved that last year when they had Animal Antics, Secret Service and Britain's Brightest all launching on the same night, ditto ITV when they had Magic Numbers, Penn and Teller and The Marriage Ref all starting together.
Originally Posted by hyperstarsponge:
“I was thinking Test the Nation could do well as Event TV again, Its something that could work with a smartphone app to play along.”
Hmm, I guess, because when it was at its peak it was all a bit clunky and lots of people presumably couldn't join in because they were watching on analogue and didn't have a fancy phone or computer, which is probably less likely to be the case now. But since then you've got all the compliance hoops you've got to jump through so it might be a massive faff to arrange something like that.
Course, it wasn't just Test The Nation (plus the ITV rip-off) around that time a decade ago, there were other interactive shows on the Beeb, there was one with Des Lynam based around your age, another one with Mike Aspel based around your memory and I think some other ones. There was also Your Country Needs You with Patrick Kielty which was a quiz with the four nations competing, but that was a bit of a disaster. Used to take up a good three hours or so too.
Can I just say, suggesting people should be banned from a thread is the height of bad manners.