BBC2's Saturday Morning Schedule: Revamp Needed!

I don't think films are the most important part of a schedule, but when there is a 2 hour gap to fill such as is the case at the moment on BBC2 from 10am, I think they make a nice change and are far superior than repeats. Saturday Kitchen, although I didn't watch it, it was fresh and something new to watch.
I don't mean to sound all critical here, but I do hate it when the BBC do this. The schedulers at BBC2 are probably just thinking we will just stick on a few programme fillers to fill the gap. This is fine, but when it's the same programmes over and over again (i.e Animal Park, Ken Hom's Hot Wok) it gets a bit tiresome. They are trying to keep within in the tradition of Saturday Kitchen which is understandable, but these programmes are ''boring'' for a Saturday morning.
Look at Channel 4. Now if they ever started showing 4 straight hours of news, fans of T4 would be fuming I'm sure.
Rant over (honest)

Unless you're spending large amounts of money, any films shown are going to be repeats. Or do films not count as repeats?

I'm not sure how you can complain about repeats given the list of programmes you say want to be show...

Yeah many films shown on terrestrial TV are repeats, particularly the older titles. All I mean is if they can show repeats of Animal Park etc, they can show a film filler instead.
Again though, it's all down to a matter of personal taste and opinion. There are many viewers who like watching these type of programmes.
On the subject though on the BBC showing lifestyle & cookery programmes, aren't the BBC supposed to be clamping down on shows such as Flog It! for example. I heard they were going to be axing a number of these type of programmes back in 2003. They seem to be on BBC2 more than ever at the moment.

I don't like having that pathetic excuse of Breakfast and the ******* version of Weekend 24 on Saturdays. When W24 was a proper show in it's own right with Bill & Sian it was far fabber than the rubbish they have now.

Is this a temporary drop of Saturday kitchen or is it permanent?

According to DigiGuide, Saturday Kitchen is not in the schedules for the next two weeks, so it looks as though the series may well have come to an end which is strange as the series only started in January.
Unless the presenters of Saturday Kitchen are busy doing other projects hence the sudden drop of the show.

It says "Last in series" in the new Radio Times.

New BBC2 Saturday Schedule eh?:

5am Ceefax
8am Weekend 24
9am Open University
1pm Gardeners Question Time
2pm Gardeners World
3pm old black 'n' white film
5pm onwards - usual rubbish till closedown at 11:30pm!

Sorted!

Dream on, baby!

Can't say I'm that disappointed about the loss of Saturday Kitchen. It was never the same when they got rid of Greg Wallace and wheeled in revolting AWT.