TT
Great choice...I'm definitely not moaning about that! 😄
On reflection my most favourites would have to be Stephen, Leah and Michael. But they were all ace! 👍
On reflection my most favourites would have to be Stephen, Leah and Michael. But they were all ace! 👍
TT
Let's travel back to January 2001, when CITV unveiled it's new scheduling system of having (almost) the same programmes being broadcast every weekday. I think this had been abolished by September 2002.
As a child I didn't think much to it, but on reflection I don't think it was the best of moves. I think it was better when there was a different variety of programmes each day.
As a child I didn't think much to it, but on reflection I don't think it was the best of moves. I think it was better when there was a different variety of programmes each day.
:-(
A former member
It was to compete with the like of Kids channels on Sky.
FA
The problem though was that unlike the channels that relied on US content that ran for much longer series and repeats of the episodes, CITV’s schedules changed every few weeks and a lot of the times midweek as they had 13 episode runs for most of the shows. I’m sure that they also aired a few Christmas episodes early due to this system.
NJ
It wasn't "new", it was a direct copy of what the likes of Nickelodeon were doing and had been doing for a while, stripped and stranded programming (this would have been because Janie Grace came from Nickelodeon which had done this format successfully for by that point for eight years on the UK network), plus of course Channel 5 launched using the same stripped programming format.
The system is fine on the likes of Nickelodeon which aired shows that originally ran for 26 episodes a series and sometimes in any old random order, but for CITV which at the time worked in batches of 13 episodes in sequence, not quite so much.
It meant that they burnt through series of stuff like there was no tomorrow and while I suppose commissioning wise it didn't make any difference whether it aired daily or weekly because it still filled the same amount of airtime, it meant that if something wasn't successful ratings wise it could still be rattled through and replaced with something else two and a half weeks later. However IIRC to stop all the series ending at the same time there were some shorter runs of stuff like some three part drama or whatever to break it all up.
Neil Jones
Founding member
Let's travel back to January 2001, when CITV unveiled it's new scheduling system of having (almost) the same programmes being broadcast every weekday. I think this had been abolished by September 2002.
As a child I didn't think much to it, but on reflection I don't think it was the best of moves. I think it was better when there was a different variety of programmes each day.
As a child I didn't think much to it, but on reflection I don't think it was the best of moves. I think it was better when there was a different variety of programmes each day.
It wasn't "new", it was a direct copy of what the likes of Nickelodeon were doing and had been doing for a while, stripped and stranded programming (this would have been because Janie Grace came from Nickelodeon which had done this format successfully for by that point for eight years on the UK network), plus of course Channel 5 launched using the same stripped programming format.
The system is fine on the likes of Nickelodeon which aired shows that originally ran for 26 episodes a series and sometimes in any old random order, but for CITV which at the time worked in batches of 13 episodes in sequence, not quite so much.
It meant that they burnt through series of stuff like there was no tomorrow and while I suppose commissioning wise it didn't make any difference whether it aired daily or weekly because it still filled the same amount of airtime, it meant that if something wasn't successful ratings wise it could still be rattled through and replaced with something else two and a half weeks later. However IIRC to stop all the series ending at the same time there were some shorter runs of stuff like some three part drama or whatever to break it all up.
TI
It wasn't even that.
They missed the last 4 episodes of Season 2, aired the first four of Season 3 in it's place then stopped.
I don't know if it's true but I did read in a YouTube comment once it was due to some issue between CITV and GMTV (with Disney owning a percentage of GMTV and the entirety of Saban)
I also remember that they finished Digimon season 2 mid-week, and so started season 3 (which had a completely different set of characters) - only to end it at the end of the week. They never aired the rest of season 3 (though Fox Kids did), nor season 4 (which didn't air in the UK at all).
It wasn't even that.
They missed the last 4 episodes of Season 2, aired the first four of Season 3 in it's place then stopped.
I don't know if it's true but I did read in a YouTube comment once it was due to some issue between CITV and GMTV (with Disney owning a percentage of GMTV and the entirety of Saban)
:-(
A former member
CITV deffo broadcast last 4 episodes of Season 2, i'm sure it was around xmas period.
JA
I can remember them showing the first few episodes of Invader Zim as part of an "alien week", but afterwards it vanished and was never seen again.
JA
And we can get into Disney's ownership of Saban being part of the same deal which gave them the TVS archive
I don't know if it's true but I did read in a YouTube comment once it was due to some issue between CITV and GMTV (with Disney owning a percentage of GMTV and the entirety of Saban)
And we can get into Disney's ownership of Saban being part of the same deal which gave them the TVS archive
IN
I don't understand why a distribution/rights issue would stop 4 episodes of a season airing; unless that was the end of Digimon on CiTV completely?