CY
Ever since BBC2's comedy well has dried up their Christmas schedules have been rubbish. The last really good schedule they had was Christmas 2000 when they had Knowing Me, Knowing Yule and other great programmes.
STEVE 03 posted:
Today's revised schedules look ok, but notice how bad BBC2 is looking this Christmas. The schedules are full of repeats of sitcoms and Flog It with film slots in short supply this Christmas which is very unlike BBC2 of old.
BBC1 and ITV1 are looking very good on Christmas Day though
BBC1 and ITV1 are looking very good on Christmas Day though
Ever since BBC2's comedy well has dried up their Christmas schedules have been rubbish. The last really good schedule they had was Christmas 2000 when they had Knowing Me, Knowing Yule and other great programmes.
ST
Yes I completely agree. BBC2's Christmas schedule in 2000 was fantastic and full of great programmes and very few, if any, repeats.
I just can't believe BBC2 have the cheek to show Ready Steady Cook, Weakest Link and never ending repeats of Flog It!. This programme must be shown on BBC2 nearly everyday at the moment. Instead of showing tripe like this, why not stick a film on after all it is Christmas or maybe the schedulers at BBC2 don't realise that yet
I just can't believe BBC2 have the cheek to show Ready Steady Cook, Weakest Link and never ending repeats of Flog It!. This programme must be shown on BBC2 nearly everyday at the moment. Instead of showing tripe like this, why not stick a film on after all it is Christmas or maybe the schedulers at BBC2 don't realise that yet
CY
BBC2 just isn't the channel it was. If I was in charge of the BBC the first thing I'd do is top the cherry picking of BBC2 shows by BBC1. BBC1 should develop its own hits, this has denuded BBC2 as the foundations of it's winning schedule were taken away.
STEVE 03 posted:
Yes I completely agree. BBC2's Christmas schedule in 2000 was fantastic and full of great programmes and very few, if any, repeats.
I just can't believe BBC2 have the cheek to show Ready Steady Cook, Weakest Link and never ending repeats of Flog It!. This programme must be shown on BBC2 nearly everyday at the moment. Instead of showing tripe like this, why not stick a film on after all it is Christmas or maybe the schedulers at BBC2 don't realise that yet
I just can't believe BBC2 have the cheek to show Ready Steady Cook, Weakest Link and never ending repeats of Flog It!. This programme must be shown on BBC2 nearly everyday at the moment. Instead of showing tripe like this, why not stick a film on after all it is Christmas or maybe the schedulers at BBC2 don't realise that yet
BBC2 just isn't the channel it was. If I was in charge of the BBC the first thing I'd do is top the cherry picking of BBC2 shows by BBC1. BBC1 should develop its own hits, this has denuded BBC2 as the foundations of it's winning schedule were taken away.
AN
I remember one year BBC2 had a good late night schedule where they stranded old comedies daily across the festive period. Shows like The Fast Show and Red Dwarf etc
Andrew
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STEVE 03 posted:
Yes I completely agree. BBC2's Christmas schedule in 2000 was fantastic and full of great programmes and very few, if any, repeats.
I just can't believe BBC2 have the cheek to show Ready Steady Cook, Weakest Link and never ending repeats of Flog It!. This programme must be shown on BBC2 nearly everyday at the moment. Instead of showing tripe like this, why not stick a film on after all it is Christmas or maybe the schedulers at BBC2 don't realise that yet
I just can't believe BBC2 have the cheek to show Ready Steady Cook, Weakest Link and never ending repeats of Flog It!. This programme must be shown on BBC2 nearly everyday at the moment. Instead of showing tripe like this, why not stick a film on after all it is Christmas or maybe the schedulers at BBC2 don't realise that yet
I remember one year BBC2 had a good late night schedule where they stranded old comedies daily across the festive period. Shows like The Fast Show and Red Dwarf etc
ST
Yes that's right. The fact is BBC2 doesn't have it's own identity like it used too. One other thing about BBC2 which I used to love about this channel was the channel used to dedicate it's daytime schedules to old films. As a lover of the old films, I used to be in my element at Christmas and at Bank Holidays. But over the last couple of years, the BBC2 schedulers have been repeatedly slotting rubbish repeats of documentary series over the Christmas period such as Pole to Pole or Around the World in 80 Days which often dedicated all of the morning schedule.
This year's Christmas schedule has further carried on this trend with not just the morning slots filled with Michael Palin documentaries and wildlife programming but that very boring Flog It! in the afternoons and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I just don't know why BBC2 regard these type of programmes so appealing. I mean at Christmas, rather than show the ordinary everyday programmes, why not treat viewers to films or the odd comedy, even if it is a repeat this is Christmas a time when the schedules once upon a time were supposed to stand out and be completely different to the rest of the year in a good way.
This Christmas, I am disgusted with BBC2's schedule and controller Roly Keating has a lot to answer for, in fact with a schedule like this, the Beeb really should consider replacing him.
This year's Christmas schedule has further carried on this trend with not just the morning slots filled with Michael Palin documentaries and wildlife programming but that very boring Flog It! in the afternoons and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I just don't know why BBC2 regard these type of programmes so appealing. I mean at Christmas, rather than show the ordinary everyday programmes, why not treat viewers to films or the odd comedy, even if it is a repeat this is Christmas a time when the schedules once upon a time were supposed to stand out and be completely different to the rest of the year in a good way.
This Christmas, I am disgusted with BBC2's schedule and controller Roly Keating has a lot to answer for, in fact with a schedule like this, the Beeb really should consider replacing him.
PT
I think 2002 was the last best Christmas for BBC2 with all those repeated comedies in the late hours including classic Never Mind the Buzzcocks and The Fast Show.
From what I've heard, it seems Roly Keating needs to be sacked. Pretty much everytime I turn on BBC2 in the evenings its bloody Flog It!
Its lazy scheduling and its got to stop.
From what I've heard, it seems Roly Keating needs to be sacked. Pretty much everytime I turn on BBC2 in the evenings its bloody Flog It!
Its lazy scheduling and its got to stop.
CY
Even then they were repeats but in 2000 they had loads of NEW stuff and stomped all over Channel 4 in terms of ratings. BBC2 is my least favourite channel, apart from Top Gear there is nothing and I do mean NOTHING else that I watch on it.
Incidentally in these provisional schedules they are not showing the Porridge and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Christmas specials again are they?
nok32uk posted:
I think 2002 was the last best Christmas for BBC2 with all those repeated comedies in the late hours including classic Never Mind the Buzzcocks and The Fast Show.
From what I've heard, it seems Roly Keating needs to be sacked. Pretty much everytime I turn on BBC2 in the evenings its bloody Flog It!
Its lazy scheduling and its got to stop.
From what I've heard, it seems Roly Keating needs to be sacked. Pretty much everytime I turn on BBC2 in the evenings its bloody Flog It!
Its lazy scheduling and its got to stop.
Even then they were repeats but in 2000 they had loads of NEW stuff and stomped all over Channel 4 in terms of ratings. BBC2 is my least favourite channel, apart from Top Gear there is nothing and I do mean NOTHING else that I watch on it.
Incidentally in these provisional schedules they are not showing the Porridge and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Christmas specials again are they?
ST
In fact Roly Keating seems obsessed with showing Flog It! if you ask me. There is just no imagination in the BBC2 schedules at all these days.
This Christmas, judging by the schedules in the News of the World yesterday, BBC2 are showing a number of sitcom repeats including Dad's Army, Are you Being Served and Porridge. I'm willing to bet that the Christmas special of Some Mothers Do Ave Em will be slotted in somewhere on BBC2 over xmas, followed by Flog It! or Sherlock Holmes, lol.
This Christmas, judging by the schedules in the News of the World yesterday, BBC2 are showing a number of sitcom repeats including Dad's Army, Are you Being Served and Porridge. I'm willing to bet that the Christmas special of Some Mothers Do Ave Em will be slotted in somewhere on BBC2 over xmas, followed by Flog It! or Sherlock Holmes, lol.
PT
Tony Christie sang Merry Xmas Everybody on GMTV this morning so looks like Christmas is getting well underway. 
*sings*...is this the way to Santa's Grotto....
*sings*...is this the way to Santa's Grotto....