Originally Posted by Dancc:
“Before one or two get too carried away ripping into Suspects over only slightly inadequate ratings, it should probably be noted that BBC Two comedy Boy Meets Girl posted just 328k (2.0%) in the first half hour of Suspects' slot, and C4 wasn't too far ahead with 775k across the hour for sitcom Man Down followed by documentary A Granny's Guide to the Modern World.”
“Before one or two get too carried away ripping into Suspects over only slightly inadequate ratings, it should probably be noted that BBC Two comedy Boy Meets Girl posted just 328k (2.0%) in the first half hour of Suspects' slot, and C4 wasn't too far ahead with 775k across the hour for sitcom Man Down followed by documentary A Granny's Guide to the Modern World.”
Boy Meets Girl has declined in quality at about the same rate its ratings have for series 2.
Getting around a third to a quarter of what it got last year.
I recall the BBC delaying a recommission by asking the writer where it would go next as they needed to be convinced.
Sadly it was a one trick pony and got old very fast. It just did not have the staying power (nor was it funny enough) to get past the basic premise that could not sustain it indefinitely.
Speaking of which if Cash Trapped is recommissioned they need to change the format.
No quiz show will ever retain viewers if on the fourth day of only 10 episodes nobody has won anything, nobody has lost anything and all the original contestants are still there playing the same game like it is Groundhog Day not Cash Trapped.
Bradley Walsh's parties must have guests coming up with the best ever run of excuses to leave if their fun days of this go on indefinitely in the same way.
More importantly, viewers are just not going to warm to a show with such an interminable concept where the same people can play on and on and on and still nobody wins or loses.
You need a variety of contestants and you need winners and losers. You cannot sustain a quiz show that basically allows 0-0 draws every day.
