Originally Posted by A.D.P:
“I agree ITV is having a very poor Christmas most agree,. The Lion King whilst a good film was made in 1994, and shown on Channel 4 in July 2016. Frozen is the top grossing animation and first time on terrestrial TV and three years old.
ITV has two hours of soaps to the BBC one hour, ITV has IMHO one good programme Maigret. ITV repeats you have been framed the very next day, in peaktime.
The BBC has Bake Off, ( repeated in the morning on Boxing Day) Dr Who, Strictly, Call the midwife, Mrs Brown so has a mixed line up.
To me the big dissatisfaction is circa 16 hours of repeated Harry Potter in peaktime on random days and hours on ITV, they did thst at Christmas before. Yes good films but on too often. BBC repeated films like Indiana Jones are off peak, afternoons etc when daytime TV is normally on.
Blankey Blank and Paul OGradys dogs may be OK, but both repeated in days.
ITV give up at times like 17/12 against Strictly they just show three old films.
The old argument then comes in advertising income is said to be low, but it's chicken and egg, if you have Harry Potter on every Christmas you get two million default viewers and low interest, however the sales start, the summer holiday booking season starts so there is demand from advertisers.”
“I agree ITV is having a very poor Christmas most agree,. The Lion King whilst a good film was made in 1994, and shown on Channel 4 in July 2016. Frozen is the top grossing animation and first time on terrestrial TV and three years old.
ITV has two hours of soaps to the BBC one hour, ITV has IMHO one good programme Maigret. ITV repeats you have been framed the very next day, in peaktime.
The BBC has Bake Off, ( repeated in the morning on Boxing Day) Dr Who, Strictly, Call the midwife, Mrs Brown so has a mixed line up.
To me the big dissatisfaction is circa 16 hours of repeated Harry Potter in peaktime on random days and hours on ITV, they did thst at Christmas before. Yes good films but on too often. BBC repeated films like Indiana Jones are off peak, afternoons etc when daytime TV is normally on.
Blankey Blank and Paul OGradys dogs may be OK, but both repeated in days.
ITV give up at times like 17/12 against Strictly they just show three old films.
The old argument then comes in advertising income is said to be low, but it's chicken and egg, if you have Harry Potter on every Christmas you get two million default viewers and low interest, however the sales start, the summer holiday booking season starts so there is demand from advertisers.”
BBC repeat stuff ADP, or is the BBC beyond criticism in regards to repeats? I wonder how many times MBB Christmas specials will be repeated? I never hear you complain about these being repeated in January slots every year.
ITV haven't shown the Harry Potter films for 2 YEARS!. They didn't do it 'the year before'. I've highlighted this twice, and yet you still suggest ITV have aired it 'every year'.
BIB You complain that ITV is putting in little effort yet showing The Lion King, Disney's biggest grossing film on Christmas Day, but that is still not good enough. I think you are more concerned ITV will dent Frozen given they are giving the BBC some competition.
The only thing in your post I agree with is airing The Hobbit against SCD. They should put in more effort, but to them its not worth it.
And btw, before you say it, I'm not following you around, I've posted in this thread before.




