Clocks Go back

So? I would prefer live programming over some film. I very rarely watch ITV1 [late at night] but if I am going through the channels, I am more likely to stop on a live quiz programme for a while than I am to stop on a film that they are probably only showing for contractual reasons anyway.

I can't understand people criticising ITV 1 for showing ITV Play. If it was taking the place of something worth watching then I could understand but its not. Its taking the place of the repeats, films and PIFs that they used to show before ITV Play came along.

I agree there, but Make Your Play (or whatever its called) isn't the best example, it's most probably the worst incarnation of ITV Play, theres nothing to it. Compare that to Quizmania, and you could easily watch that without realising that it was a quiz show, it was fun, friendly and live, though they apparently did give away too much money (somehow), but thats how it should be done.

The only hope is that they do run with the bingo idea, and get Greggles to front it, infact just bring back Quizmania!

No mention of the clocks change into the last programme of BST on BBC TWO... but a mention on BBC ONE into Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

Also a mention on Channel 4 informing viewers that Countdown would be on at 2:15am GMT... Could this be Countdown's earliest showing on Channel 4?

The EPG on Freeview flicked an hour back an hour early at 1am BST. The presenter on Sky News reminded viewers just before 1am BST that clocks go back in just over an hour.

On Quiz Call, they are unable to put the number of callers on the screen so have had to suspend the current game, this is apparently related to the clocks change, the poor presenter is stood there talking for a while, other times it's just a shot of the phone withe the puzzle that tbh, I don't think anyone is going to get to play tonight.

The present on Sky has just told us that daylight saving starts in a few moments ....and now their clock thinks it's 2:00 (when it's actually 1:00).

Well its 2:00 am BST, oops, sorry its 1:00 am GMT

Sky News took a couple of minutes to change their clock (the screen flickered when it happened)...

Ceefax's clock has changed, but Teletext's hasn't as yet... the Freeview box in my bedroom took a couple of minutes to change as well!

In radio, IRN did their usual thing of saying "It's 2 o clock" at the start of the bulletin and then ending with a reminder that the time had gone back to 1:03.

It's taken Quiz Call the best part of an hour to get their game back on air. Despite pleadings not to play, and no phone number on screen, they've apparently had 9 entries in the last minute before going back on.

However, they work an hour less overnight in March

Anyway never mind that, what about Feb 29th. Every four years our employers get an extra day's work from us for nothing !

Not necessarily of course, it depends if their shifts co-incide with the spring changeover. a couple of times I've worked the Spring change over but not the autumn one

Just to add to this, BBC News 24 changed straight away. Sky News' clock changed at 1:02. Sky Guide updated after about 15 seconds into 1am. The listings were a bit out of sync for the rest of the night (e.g. going onto a channel would come up with the BST listings then immediately switch to the GMT ones).

LIve programming it may be but also the most cynical, lowest common denominator programming and the type that has damaged ITV's reputation. If ITV had shown a late film it would have at least reduced the time available for Make Your Play to no more than usual. But no - they were determined to take advantage of "the extra hour" in the hope that more gullible idiots would call with answers that weren't there (does anyone win anything on Make Your Play?)

My preferred option of course would have been Make Your Play ran its usual four hours, with signed programmes an hour early at 3:10am and Nightscreen at 4am (when the Learning Zone ran at weekends, they didn't give us an extra hour's programming on clocks back night).


Oh dear...where have you been these last two years? Old films and repeats don't encourage people to spend what they haven't got.