Originally Posted by simonk243:
“I just can't understand why though. It's not like eastenders was the only programme that was repeated on the bbc if that was case fair enough, but half the shows these days get a same week repeat ?
I can understand there wasn't anywhere they could of probably shown it at a decent time the same night but a repeat the following day late afternoon on bbc2 maybe where it is all repeats anyway so it wouldn't of been disrupting anything ?”
Well, it's certainly true they could do 'stEnders repeats if they wanted, but is there a decent enough audience around at teatime on BBC2? The BBC3 repeat was useful if you'd got in late, but if you miss it at 7.30 watch are the chances of you being there to watch it at 4.30? You may as well watch it on iPlayer. Yeah, you can record it, but you can record it at 7.30.
Originally Posted by yorkie100:
“Interesting quote from that article "The TV insider said: '[ITV] will rest the X Factor for 2017 because there is no way they can run two singing contests and BGT in the same year, they cannot do it."”
Interesting indeed, because I think it's pretty rubbish. In 2001 we got Popstars, Pop Idol and Soapstars in the same year. I know they were smaller scale but what's the difference? I would assume ITV would want as many of these shows as possible. They used to have Dancing On Ice at this time of year which hardly came cheap. I know you're bleeding the talent dry a bit but why should ITV care about that? You watch The X Factor because it's The X Factor, not because of who's auditioning.