BBC Scotland Scheduling

I see after a period of generally settled scheduling, the " fun " begins again this week.

Holby City moved to 9pm Tuesday because of River City
Bonekickers moved to Friday because of the Holby City move.
Would I Lie To You? moved to Saturday because of the Bonekickers move. And the movement trail goes on...

IMO they had been relatively " well behaved " for the first half of the year ; I hope this isn't the start of their erratic behaviour again.

Somebody might have to complain to POV

Why can't they just put River City on sometime when network shows something rubbish?

I assume it's because they want RC in a permanent slot, which sounds fair enough.

I'd rather watch River City than Casualty. And that IS saying something.

Yeh, fair enough but move Holby to Saturday night then, instead of shuffling three different progs around.

Or why not get rid of the Tuesday slot and just keep the Sunday slot where they currently repeat it?

Probably as the RC fans would complain about it moving again in the schedules.

River City has been on for years. Get over it.

I'm fed up with the way it was shunted to hour-long episodes - as it wasn't written that way and it tends to ruin the flow.

River City belongs in that slot - and its many regular viewers agree,

one could suggest that Scotland should instead liaise with network to try and get network's schedules to be more accommodating to RC. Network always seem to be guilty of forgetting that the nations do have shows that muck up times like this.

I don't understand, AndrewDundee, what the fuss is about. I'm old enough to remember when STV screened Crossroads at 5.20 p.m. when most of the rest of the ITV network were showing it at 6.35. Indeed, if you go back to the 60s and look at ITV schedules you'd see that even in peak time there was little or no standardisation. Grampian would be showing The Saint, STV The Fugitive, Granada, Man In A Suitcase in the same slot. If you want to watch certain BBC 1 programmes when they're being screened in England, get a Sky box.

So nightly, from 7-10pm then.

Surely Sunday night would be the best place to put it now considering the BBC don't really have a big series in the 8pm slot anymore.

even in the 90's STV had Emmerdale at 5.10pm. with home and away at 6pm
leaving the 7pm peak time slot for better uses

I can remember the Crossroads move too, but this was in the days when there was far more regional movement ( on ITV at least ).

I don't want to get a Sky box thanks very much, I'd just like to get the same programmes at the same time, instead of a reshuffle. I was initially suggesting that they could move one programme instead of creating a " domino " effect.