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Actually, I would disagree here - I'm led to believe that the the hour slot (which appeared sporadically from time to time beforehand) became more permanent when ITV stuck Corrie on at 8.30 on a Friday on a permanent basis - meaning you would have had the two soaps clashing, a situation BBC Scotland would most likely have wanted to avoid. Why they can't just put it back to Tuesdays & Thursdays at 8pm like in the beginning I don't know - The Bill really isn't that much competition now.
Sorry to disagree but it is because of the amount of disruption that it was causing to the schedule. There was a lot of complaints on the POV message board which played a part in this.
A former member
Grampian4ever posted:
AndrewDundee posted:
It was " shunted " to a one hour slot because people
did
complain about the scheduling of two half hours disrupting the schedule. I've no problem with it per se, my comment is that BBC Scotland could move one programme, not a whole lot to accomodate.
Actually, I would disagree here - I'm led to believe that the the hour slot (which appeared sporadically from time to time beforehand) became more permanent when ITV stuck Corrie on at 8.30 on a Friday on a permanent basis - meaning you would have had the two soaps clashing, a situation BBC Scotland would most likely have wanted to avoid. Why they can't just put it back to Tuesdays & Thursdays at 8pm like in the beginning I don't know - The Bill really isn't that much competition now.
Sorry to disagree but it is because of the amount of disruption that it was causing to the schedule. There was a lot of complaints on the POV message board which played a part in this.
GF
Right, so its just pure coincidence that the Tuesday hour long slot was made permanent when another soap took the Friday 8.30 slot?
GS
Actually, I would disagree here - I'm led to believe that the the hour slot (which appeared sporadically from time to time beforehand) became more permanent when ITV stuck Corrie on at 8.30 on a Friday on a permanent basis - meaning you would have had the two soaps clashing, a situation BBC Scotland would most likely have wanted to avoid. Why they can't just put it back to Tuesdays & Thursdays at 8pm like in the beginning I don't know - The Bill really isn't that much competition now.
Sorry to disagree but it is because of the amount of disruption that it was causing to the schedule. There was a lot of complaints on the POV message board which played a part in this.
Andrew, I'm sorry but this is a bogus argument - and I don't care what the POV forumers are mewling about.
BBC Scotland's schedule is Scotland's schedule.
If you insist on comparing when programmes playout in England and Scotland then no wonder you insist on seeing it as "disruption".
The one complaint I would back you up on is where series are chopped in half and shifted, or worse, not even finished.
However, that's not what you are complaining about here. You are talking about the unfairness of Holby being on a Wednesday when England see it on Tuesday... and so on and so on.
This aspect of your complaint is nonsense. In Scotland we play some shows on different nights. End of. Its hardly a big deal. Unless you are scouring English schedules you shouldn't even be aware of the difference.
Your constant derision of BBC Scotland is tiresome now - especially when the crux of your argument is stretched tighter than Simon Loxton's undercrackers.
Gavin Scott
Founding member
AndrewDundee posted:
Grampian4ever posted:
AndrewDundee posted:
It was " shunted " to a one hour slot because people
did
complain about the scheduling of two half hours disrupting the schedule. I've no problem with it per se, my comment is that BBC Scotland could move one programme, not a whole lot to accomodate.
Actually, I would disagree here - I'm led to believe that the the hour slot (which appeared sporadically from time to time beforehand) became more permanent when ITV stuck Corrie on at 8.30 on a Friday on a permanent basis - meaning you would have had the two soaps clashing, a situation BBC Scotland would most likely have wanted to avoid. Why they can't just put it back to Tuesdays & Thursdays at 8pm like in the beginning I don't know - The Bill really isn't that much competition now.
Sorry to disagree but it is because of the amount of disruption that it was causing to the schedule. There was a lot of complaints on the POV message board which played a part in this.
Andrew, I'm sorry but this is a bogus argument - and I don't care what the POV forumers are mewling about.
BBC Scotland's schedule is Scotland's schedule.
If you insist on comparing when programmes playout in England and Scotland then no wonder you insist on seeing it as "disruption".
The one complaint I would back you up on is where series are chopped in half and shifted, or worse, not even finished.
However, that's not what you are complaining about here. You are talking about the unfairness of Holby being on a Wednesday when England see it on Tuesday... and so on and so on.
This aspect of your complaint is nonsense. In Scotland we play some shows on different nights. End of. Its hardly a big deal. Unless you are scouring English schedules you shouldn't even be aware of the difference.
Your constant derision of BBC Scotland is tiresome now - especially when the crux of your argument is stretched tighter than Simon Loxton's undercrackers.
:-(
A former member
Gavin Scott posted:
The one complaint I would back you up on is where series are chopped in half and shifted, or worse, not even finished..
this is where I complain as well, The amout of show that just dissapper for 3 week was big problem,
on a side note: Buying Hope: Selling Illegal Organs 10.45pm TONIGHT has been advertise on bbc radio 2, and that a number of show scotland does are still sometime better than london!
SO
Actually, I would disagree here - I'm led to believe that the the hour slot (which appeared sporadically from time to time beforehand) became more permanent when ITV stuck Corrie on at 8.30 on a Friday on a permanent basis - meaning you would have had the two soaps clashing, a situation BBC Scotland would most likely have wanted to avoid. Why they can't just put it back to Tuesdays & Thursdays at 8pm like in the beginning I don't know - The Bill really isn't that much competition now.
Sorry to disagree but it is because of the amount of disruption that it was causing to the schedule. There was a lot of complaints on the POV message board which played a part in this.
Andrew, I'm sorry but this is a bogus argument - and I don't care what the POV forumers are mewling about.
BBC Scotland's schedule is Scotland's schedule.
If you insist on comparing when programmes playout in England and Scotland then no wonder you insist on seeing it as "disruption".
The one complaint I would back you up on is where series are chopped in half and shifted, or worse, not even finished.
However, that's not what you are complaining about here. You are talking about the unfairness of Holby being on a Wednesday when England see it on Tuesday... and so on and so on.
This aspect of your complaint is nonsense. In Scotland we play some shows on different nights. End of. Its hardly a big deal. Unless you are scouring English schedules you shouldn't even be aware of the difference.
Your constant derision of BBC Scotland is tiresome now - especially when the crux of your argument is stretched tighter than Simon Loxton's undercrackers.
Yep I agree with you, just going round in circles with this argument and BBC Scotland have a duty to provide a certain amount of Scottish programming, thus, some network programmes will be shifted. It is a national station.
Gavin Scott posted:
AndrewDundee posted:
Grampian4ever posted:
AndrewDundee posted:
It was " shunted " to a one hour slot because people
did
complain about the scheduling of two half hours disrupting the schedule. I've no problem with it per se, my comment is that BBC Scotland could move one programme, not a whole lot to accomodate.
Actually, I would disagree here - I'm led to believe that the the hour slot (which appeared sporadically from time to time beforehand) became more permanent when ITV stuck Corrie on at 8.30 on a Friday on a permanent basis - meaning you would have had the two soaps clashing, a situation BBC Scotland would most likely have wanted to avoid. Why they can't just put it back to Tuesdays & Thursdays at 8pm like in the beginning I don't know - The Bill really isn't that much competition now.
Sorry to disagree but it is because of the amount of disruption that it was causing to the schedule. There was a lot of complaints on the POV message board which played a part in this.
Andrew, I'm sorry but this is a bogus argument - and I don't care what the POV forumers are mewling about.
BBC Scotland's schedule is Scotland's schedule.
If you insist on comparing when programmes playout in England and Scotland then no wonder you insist on seeing it as "disruption".
The one complaint I would back you up on is where series are chopped in half and shifted, or worse, not even finished.
However, that's not what you are complaining about here. You are talking about the unfairness of Holby being on a Wednesday when England see it on Tuesday... and so on and so on.
This aspect of your complaint is nonsense. In Scotland we play some shows on different nights. End of. Its hardly a big deal. Unless you are scouring English schedules you shouldn't even be aware of the difference.
Your constant derision of BBC Scotland is tiresome now - especially when the crux of your argument is stretched tighter than Simon Loxton's undercrackers.
Yep I agree with you, just going round in circles with this argument and BBC Scotland have a duty to provide a certain amount of Scottish programming, thus, some network programmes will be shifted. It is a national station.
GF
So Top Gear was shown a wee bit later on the same night and same channel as it usually is? Big deal! T in the Park is but once a year, and if the network were to displace Top Gear by half an hour or so for coverage of Glastonbury would folks mind that much?
Or is it that an opportunity to kick BBC Scotland cannot be overlooked!?
Or is it that an opportunity to kick BBC Scotland cannot be overlooked!?
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A former member
Commercial breakdown now disappeared I wonder if there will ever show it in order??
RE
Yes. Take a look at the Glastonbury viewing figures vs. the TG viewing figures (and I don't remember Glastonbury getting plonked at 8pm for an hour and a half, although I could be wrong).
And it was an hour and a half, putting it post-watershed, stopping younger viewers (like my sister, who needed to get up early the following morning) from watching it.
Grampian4ever posted:
So Top Gear was shown a wee bit later on the same night and same channel as it usually is? Big deal! T in the Park is but once a year, and if the network were to displace Top Gear by half an hour or so for coverage of Glastonbury would folks mind that much?
Or is it that an opportunity to kick BBC Scotland cannot be overlooked!?
Or is it that an opportunity to kick BBC Scotland cannot be overlooked!?
Yes. Take a look at the Glastonbury viewing figures vs. the TG viewing figures (and I don't remember Glastonbury getting plonked at 8pm for an hour and a half, although I could be wrong).
And it was an hour and a half, putting it post-watershed, stopping younger viewers (like my sister, who needed to get up early the following morning) from watching it.