Sad to see the last week of Pet Rescue has arrived, but nearly everything died and it was most upsetting. Unlike on Animal Hospital where, despite Rolf's sad face and tone of voice -- the next week most animals get better, or at least an identical looking dog/cat/goose/etc is probably given to the owners to make it look that way.
hannah and her lovely poetry, the lesbian art expert who ALWAYS wore pink with large earrings and a fantastic selection of celebs every now and then to judge the paintings - remember when aneka rice popped up on it!
Oh yes it's sadly missed. It was about much more than just the watercolour painting.
The disappointment when the masking fluid leaked into the sky, the delight when the goat has four *matching* legs, and the outcry when the weird one who decided to paint the gasometer eight miles away instead, and only in charcoal, won.
I remember Margi Clarke being on it, blatantly not knowing at all what she was on about, making any old crap up thinking she made sense because she did a one evening a week course at Knowsley College. Hannah never had the heart to disagree with her.
Oh yes it's sadly missed. It was about much more than just the watercolour painting.
The disappointment when the masking fluid leaked into the sky, the delight when the goat has four *matching* legs, and the outcry when the weird one who decided to paint the gasometer eight miles away instead, and only in charcoal, won.
I remember Margi Clarke being on it, blatantly not knowing at all what she was on about, making any old crap up thinking she made sense because she did a one evening a week course at Knowsley College. Hannah never had the heart to disagree with her.
Every time I watched it, which was plenty of times, they always made the looney who'd painted something daft the winner. You'd get two beautiful calming watercolours, and one strange unsubtle monstrosety, and you always knew who would go away with the prize. Madness.
I don't like these schedule changes, because the only way I can see it is as less Cheers and the promotion of two painfully run of the mill daytime programs about houses (too much C4, honestly) to the prime tea time audience.
Well firstly some schedualing geniuses play around with Brookie, fans didn't know when to find it and ratings fell. Oh, and it eventually got shifted to a graveyard slot and eventually axed too. Strange seeing as when this scheduling playaround started back in 2000, it was still getting 3-4m viewers.
Now Countdown, another original C4 commission is subject of some bored scheduler who wants to make a name for himself. Just hope it does survive the move as it would be a terrible shame to lose it after all these years.
Richard & Judy has just started back for series 3, and shock! Gone are the walking titles to be replaced with what can only be described as a wordly aeroplane. The Richard & Judy logo flys over parts of the UK casting a shadow on the land, to end up on a TV!
Slight changes to the set but still the light blue, I quite liked the pink of the first series!
Now Countdown, another original C4 commission is subject of some bored scheduler who wants to make a name for himself. Just hope it does survive the move as it would be a terrible shame to lose it after all these years.
I believe it will survive although by running it at 3:15 it's quite likely to get dropped at no notice for horse racing - It doesn't feel the same now though in its new slot.
Apart from Channel 4 News (which they can't really dump anyway even if they wanted to), is Countdown now the only programme left on C4 that started with the channel in 1982?
Yes I should have said that Brookie was in that group but only for another six weeks. I'm sure Right to Reply was in the same category as well until it was dropped a couple of years ago (indeed, I remember Andrew Wiseman "mourning" it on his site, http://625.uk.com is the address).
Mind you by Countdown going to 3:15 (a slot that has seen previous occupants eventually shown the axe - ie, Watercolour Challenge and Pet Rescue) it may get a bigger audience percentage share there due to less viewers at that time but apart from that I don't see any logic in shifting it at all. Although over the years, according to thecountdownpage.com the show has been gradually creeping earlier and earlier into the afternoon schedule so it keeps the trend I suppose
As well as Countdown the only other original program still on air on C4 is Brookside, well until the 4th November that is.
It seems Channel 4 are loosing track of their roots. I believe it was Phil Redmond who pointed out that it seems 4 only care now about reality tv and american sitcoms. Everything else is moved about out of the way
hannah and her lovely poetry, the lesbian art expert who ALWAYS wore pink with large earrings and a fantastic selection of celebs every now and then to judge the paintings - remember when aneka rice popped up on it!
crying shame that it's never been back on
I always used to watch it just for the start where Hanah would turn round so elegantly yet ruthlessly to say HELLO to the viewers.
I don't think moving Countdown an hour earlier is the issue - it's what's replaced it.
Both A Place in the Sun and Home from Home are excellent series - but are hardly long term replacements. I imagine they'll run until Christmas at the latest and then another two replacements will be brought in. I'm sure these series would have done just as well at 2.45-3.45.
They are both more mid-afternoon series where you can just sit back and watch the scenery - Countdown just works better at 4.15.
