Well I dont get the chance to watch a lot of daytime tv as im in work 95% of the time when its on but ive always found This Morning to be a very good format for a morning show. ive also seen the Jeremy Kyle show and The Springer Show a few times and they are very good.
I think its the afternoon schedule thats the problem, they have 2 hours to fill after the news, but nothing commissioned since the lauch of ITV Day has really stood out for me.
Daytime BBC One has suddenly gone terrible. Last year there was a wide variety of programming with DIY, antiques, gameshows, discussion and nature all in the space of 4hrs. Now it is all antiques programmes with Lorne Spicer and I for one have watched next to no daytime television this summer unlike last year where I watched a considerable amount.
There needs to be more variety!
BBC daytime is appalling. It's just the same collection of programmes (half of which are clones of each other!) repeated ad-nausiem!
There is no consistancy in the scheduling either - it changes every week, with programmes changing slots, changing length and even changing channels.
The axing of the lunchtime quiz hour has done nothing to improve the daytime line up - with the only survivor being Eggheads, which gets shown a couple of weeks at 12.30pm, disappears, turns up again on BBC2 at 6pm, disappears, then comes back with a new series in a 45 minute slot at 5.15pm, only to disappear the week later.
ITV Day in the afternoon isn't too much better - but at least there is some effort there. This Morning is quite watchable and serves it's purpose brilliantly, while C4 are certainly missing Countdown - though it is set to return later this year. Anyone know how the auditions went last week?
The strangly addictive "Come Dine with Me" also returns to C4 next week.
Have to agree with you there, considering most of us aren't at home during the day is there really a need for decent programming?
Perhaps daytime TV should be replaced with wall-to-wall Jobfinder.
Is that still going?
Of course there is a need for decent programming during the day, though the need is obviously not as great as at night.
Going off on a tangent, it really annoys me when people say of hit daytime / late-night TV shows that they should get a prime-time slot as to be honest you'd probably not have come across these shows if they were in more competitive prime-time slots!
The best daytime show i've ever seen was "Light Lunch" on Ch4 back in the 90s.
I was a student then and LL was such a refreshing change to the stuffy and patronising crap that was shown on the other channels.
"
Late
Lunch" however is better best forgotten.
Light Lunch was fantastic. C4 also used to have a lunchtime stock-market challenge Show Me the Money which was strangly addictive, with groups of people "buying" a number of stocks, and returning each week - only to be kicked off if they lost money.
Come on people, is there really any question that daytime television has hit an all-time low? Like television in general, it continues to dumb itself down further year by year.
You may not think this is possible with daytime, but I only have to look back a few years for fond memories of slightly classier programming...
Kilroy at 9, then over to ITV for This Morning with Richard & Judy. After that, a PROPER ITN Lunchtime News bulletin. Then at 1, the choice of the BBC's Lunchtime News offering or some quality regional programming on ITV. I was also a fan of the 2001 Crossroads at 1:30.
That's not even mentioning BBC One's gameshows....
Come on people, is there really any question that daytime television has hit an all-time low? Like television in general, it continues to dumb itself down further year by year.
You may not think this is possible with daytime, but I only have to look back a few years for fond memories of slightly classier programming...
Kilroy at 9, then over to ITV for This Morning with Richard & Judy. After that, a PROPER ITN Lunchtime News bulletin. Then at 1, the choice of the BBC's Lunchtime News offering or some quality regional programming on ITV. I was also a fan of the 2001 Crossroads at 1:30.
That's not even mentioning BBC One's gameshows....
I know there's a tendency to look at the past through rose-tinted specs, but Kilroy classy?
Come on people, is there really any question that daytime television has hit an all-time low? Like television in general, it continues to dumb itself down further year by year.
You may not think this is possible with daytime, but I only have to look back a few years for fond memories of slightly classier programming...
Kilroy at 9, then over to ITV for This Morning with Richard & Judy. After that, a PROPER ITN Lunchtime News bulletin. Then at 1, the choice of the BBC's Lunchtime News offering or some quality regional programming on ITV. I was also a fan of the 2001 Crossroads at 1:30.
That's not even mentioning BBC One's gameshows....
I know there's a tendency to look at the past through rose-tinted specs, but Kilroy classy?
