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Old 02-01-2017, 15:01
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Starts Monday 9th January at the stupid o clock time of 10.45pm, episode 2 follows at 11.30pm. I imagine it'll stay at 11.30pm once repeats of Graham Norton air.
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:22
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Starts Monday 9th January at the stupid o clock time of 10.45pm, episode 2 follows at 11.30pm. I imagine it'll stay at 11.30pm once repeats of Graham Norton air.
Well, that scheduling's going to pull in the crowds, innit!
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:40
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Well, that scheduling's going to pull in the crowds, innit!
Indeed. If the bbc themselves are basically saying it's not worth showing at a decent time then how do they expect viewers to think its worth watching.

It's almost like they don't expect it to do well, but feel obliged to show it somewhere on tv because they already agreed to. With that sort of slot they just about get away with not being accused of shoving it to the graveyard slot of past midnight, but only just if 11.30 is to be the regular time.
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Old 02-01-2017, 15:52
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I don't think it matters.

If BBC America want another run, it'll get one.
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Old 02-01-2017, 18:15
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Will tape it. Actually getting round to actually watching is a different matter.
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Old 02-01-2017, 18:43
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Wow, just wow.

It's like they're trying to do everything possible to kill it dead before it even 'starts'.
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Old 02-01-2017, 19:41
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They should've just set fire to a big pile of money and filmed that. Entertaining and it would keep you warm, neither of which Class managed. Seems odd that the BBC are doing such a slack job on promoting anything DW related recently- lets be honest, the S10 trailer is hardly a work of art- I wonder why that is. Let the conspiracy theories commence.
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Old 02-01-2017, 21:02
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I watched the first episode on iPlayer then just kept forgetting about it (because I only tend to hit the player for catchup, rather than streaming like Amazon or Netflix) so I might just record it this run through so I remember it exists.
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Old 02-01-2017, 21:20
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I don't think it matters.

If BBC America want another run, it'll get one.
Possibly, but I just think there's no real *momentum* here and it's been quite badly handled by the BBC. It's got a 'graveyard(ish)' slot on BBC1, wont be shown until the Spring on BBCA, Ness seems pretty busy and the (marvellous) Katherine Kelly wont be short of offers of work. Will she be available for another 6 Month shoot?

Hope I'm wrong cos I did enjoy it, but I do think a 2nd series is becoming less likely....
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Old 03-01-2017, 16:36
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They commissioned the show when BBC Three was still a TV channel. Then they closed it down, but were stuck with a show they no longer wanted... the "we'll show it on BBC One" promise was to save face.

DWM knew something wasn't right, and downplayed it. It's had all of two pages of coverage in the main magazine and six in a special edition (the yearbook). I think they see it as a footnote, not something that'll be talked about in years to come like Torchwood and SJA.
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:26
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They commissioned the show when BBC Three was still a TV channel. Then they closed it down, but were stuck with a show they no longer wanted... the "we'll show it on BBC One" promise was to save face.

DWM knew something wasn't right, and downplayed it. It's had all of two pages of coverage in the main magazine and six in a special edition (the yearbook). I think they see it as a footnote, not something that'll be talked about in years to come like Torchwood and SJA.
The decision to move to online-only was pretty much dead certain as of June 2015. Then both the online move and Class were officially announced in November. It was more or less marketed as being a way of saying 'look, we're still investing in new content for the BBC3 demographic...we're doing a Doctor Who related thing on this online-only channel so we must be committed to it'. The thing is that they needed it to look like they were also committed to the show, and so they put it out there that it'd be getting a BBC1 broadcast too.

I personally think an earlier timeslot on BBC2 would have been better. It's not Class' fault that it's stuck where it is on BBC1 - at the end of the day it's a repeat. It's not new content, and it will have been made available for months at that point with a DVD/Blu-ray also about to be made available. The likelihood it was ever going to get a better slot on the prime channel was always minimal at best. The BBC1 pledge was probably an error of haste, and the result I think can be put down largely to the issues surrounding the online move of BBC3.

That isn't to say there aren't still other issues though. The BBC can barely pull itself together to market Doctor Who, so a new spin-off barely stood a chance. Furthermore, because Class doesn't have a core character that is a nostalgia-w*nkfest that is marketable on a magazine cover (i.e. Jack Harkness, Sarah Jane) the show just doesn't get exposure. As someone who is both in the targeted demographic for Class, and who enjoyed it massively in spite of what felt like excusable teething problems, I find the BBC's treatment of it to be frustrating (not far from their treatment of the main show...poor promotion, once again putting all their eggs in one basket and pinning hopes on one man to deliver too much - known as 'pulling a Clarkson') and whilst it's far from perfect the biggest threat to the future of Class isn't the show itself, but the BBC being absolutely useless at looking after their brands.
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:24
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It's worth remembering that the majority of the repeats of shows from BBC3 since it went online (Cuckoo and Thirteen spring to mind) were in fairly late slots as well.
This isn't unique to Class. It just reflects what appears to be standard practice for the BBC3 repeats.
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:31
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I still haven't watched the final three episodes. Not sure I'm going to bother - I just thought episode 5 ("Brave-ish Heart" Part 2) was dreadful. I might dip into the BBC1 episodes for the final three but haven't decided yet.
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:13
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The fact that DWM couldn't be arsed to cover it really did show the lack of confidence behind it along with the poor promotion and not airing this sooner on terrestrial television like Fleabag and Thirteen were.

Objectively though, Class isn't actually a bad series. It's just not a really gripping one and it doesn't offer much new as a spin off either. If it gets a second series, it's guaranteed not to go further than that, but at the same time, would anyone actually be too broken up if the BBC quietly axed it?
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Old Yesterday, 07:03
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I still haven't watched the final three episodes. Not sure I'm going to bother - I just thought episode 5 ("Brave-ish Heart" Part 2) was dreadful. I might dip into the BBC1 episodes for the final three but haven't decided yet.
I think the last three were the best. Episode 7 was my favourite. Give them a go, they are quite entertaining.
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Old Yesterday, 07:16
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I think the last three were the best. Episode 7 was my favourite. Give them a go, they are quite entertaining.
I liked episode 6 and 7 however they didn't solve any of the problems i had of the show and i won't rant about the finale again but if someone didn't like the shadow kin arc initially they won't like ep 8.
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Old Yesterday, 15:49
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Afraid I only watched the first three episodes, thought it was a load of c--p doubt if it will be back
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Old Yesterday, 16:02
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They commissioned the show when BBC Three was still a TV channel. Then they closed it down, but were stuck with a show they no longer wanted.
Maybe that's why they ended the series the way they did... loose threads can be piked up back in the main series if it isn't recommissioned.
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