Originally Posted by burbe:
“EastEnders really needs to adjust its schedules for W/C 20th June.”
The schedules are confirmed.
Quote:
“Monday cannot be up against a head started Corrie. It will be thrashed. They should adjust Monday to a single episode at 8:30pm, fill the 8pm gap with Miranda or something.”
It's certainly far from ideal, but options are limited when ITV makes late moves on slots occupied by
EastEnders.
Quote:
“Move the hour long episode to Tuesday from 7:30-8:30. World Cup coverage does not need to start until 8:30 if kick-off is not until 9pm.”
The football coverage starts at 8pm to provide time for hIghlights of England's 5pm kick-off.
Quote:
“They've made mistakes this week as well. They should've avoided the clash and early Friday episode with an hour long on Tuesday at 8pm. Moved Holby City to Wednesday at 9pm. Then today another hour long EE at 7:30 followed by Masterchef at 8:30-10. Then next Wednesday's out of slot 7pm episode would not have to be shown either. Seriously, it's as if these schedulers want EE's ratings destroyed in silly timeslots.”
The trouble is the more
EastEnders swaps slots because of being chased around by ITV's scheduler, the more long term damage is done to ratings, when people give up trying to find it in the schedules. That's what happened to
Brookside: it didn't end because it was shit (although it was shit), it ended because people couldn't be bothered following it around the schedules.
I'm beginning to think it might be worth the BBC moving
EastEnders permanently to 7pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Emmerdale would die on its backside if it had to start at the same time as
EastEnders four days a week, plus if any episodes of
EastEnders were displaced by
Comic Relief or
Children in Need etc, the episodes could be added to the Monday or Friday editions the following week, to run it into
Coronation St, and give ITV a taste of their own medicine.
The downside would be having
The One Show at 7.30pm, but a weekday block of
5.15 Pointless
6.00 News
6.30 Regional News
7.00 EastEnders (four days a week)
would make BBC One incredibly strong, putting ITV on the back foot all evening. Nobble ITV at 7pm, and you've gone a good way towards nobbling it for the whole night.