I hope this sotryline in an excuse for the producrs to drop back to either 3 or 4 times a week (by that I mean 4 half-hours with no Special Sunday or 1 hour episodes shoved in like they've been doing on Tuesdays recently). It's overkill ATM and they're killing the show by having it on too often. 3 times a week is more than enough.
I hope this sotryline in an excuse for the producrs to drop back to either 3 or 4 times a week (by that I mean 4 half-hours with no Special Sunday or 1 hour episodes shoved in like they've been doing on Tuesdays recently). It's overkill ATM and they're killing the show by having it on too often. 3 times a week is more than enough.
As I said in another thread, the ratings don't indicate that 5 times a week is overkill. The viewing figures are consistently 8-10m which is very high.
I think having it on 5/6 days a week is far too much - they only do this cos it pulls in the viewers so its easier than making another show, the show is good but not a patch on what it was when it was 3 nights. Its the quality that counts not the quantity.
8-10 million isnt that high, it used to get 12/13 million at one point
This is hardly the same as ten years ago. In 1993 they were looking to take Emmerdale in a different direction, and so wrapped up the old era of Emmerdale (Farm) with the plane crash. They even dusted down the original theme tune one last time just to make it clear that Emmerdale's first chapter was being closed.
Now however it's just a ratings puller. It does not compare to what they were doing 10 years ago.
Yes but thats besides the point, the point is storylines are weaker with it being on so many days, eventually people will get so fed up viewing figures decrease and they will be sorry then for putting it on too much.
Just cos a show gets 8-10 million doesnt mean they have to show it 6 nights a week, its just being lazy, they cant be bothered to look for something to show other nights when they wouldnt be showing Emmerdale
As I said in another thread, the ratings don't indicate that 5 times a week is overkill. The viewing figures are consistently 8-10m which is very high.
ratings are besides the point- I'm talking about the quality of the show which is rapidly shrinking- even faster since they've decided to unofficially make the show 6 times a week. I also think corrie should get rid of the stupid Monday double bill ASAP, IMO it's totally stupid. I still watch, but the quality of the show is rapidly decreasing, and this is also the view of most people I know. If they listened to public opinion rather than ratings, maybe they could make things a hell of a lot better for all of us. High ratuings aren't a sign of quality.
As I said in another thread, the ratings don't indicate that 5 times a week is overkill. The viewing figures are consistently 8-10m which is very high.
ratings are besides the point- I'm talking about the quality of the show which is rapidly shrinking- even faster since they've decided to unofficially make the show 6 times a week. I also think corrie should get rid of the stupid Monday double bill ASAP, IMO it's totally stupid. I still watch, but the quality of the show is rapidly decreasing, and this is also the view of most people I know. If they listened to public opinion rather than ratings, maybe they could make things a hell of a lot better for all of us. High ratuings aren't a sign of quality.
Ratings are not besides the point especially as it is the yardstick against which to measure the success of programming, even on the BBC. If the quality was in decline and this was the mass consesus of opinion of the general public, do you not think this would directly be reflected in the ratings ? When fact is, Corrie & Emmerdale have become resurgent this year, pulling in massive ratings and receiving much positive press and opinion.
But they must be wrong because it's the opinion of ALL the people YOU know. I don't think ITV will be unduly worried by that, you do not pull a highly popular programme from a winning slot. You may not like it but it makes commercial business sense.
Just becuase the quality has gone downhill does not mean people will stop watching. I've already pointed out I still watch despite the downhill slope- millions probabally do exactally the same (And, after all, soaps are the only decent things on in their timeslots anyway). The ratings will decline eventualy if Corrie's Monday double bill & Emmerdale desperatly cramming in 6 eps a week continues. There's only so long this can go on before ideas finally dry up and people switch off.
I heard they were going to have a big space ship land, beam up betty, trisha, and ashley, then take them back to their home planet. Then the mother ship would blow up the woolpack and everything would fall down around it in an independence day kind of style
Oh and zoe would come out the closet again as being a green-skinned webbed-foot alien.
I don't seem to watch Emmerdale on ITV anymore, I haven't watched it there for about 2 years or so, as it went dull and frankly five nights a week for something like that is overkill, as we all don't want to watch a soap everynight on the biggest commercial channel in the UK, do we? Every time I do hear something about it, it always seems to be sex or death and it's not that great after a while.
But at the moment Emmerdale is far better on Granada Plus, as they're currently in 1999, when it was three nights a week and the quality of it was high.
Because of this it leads other channels (except Sky One and FTN) to show sh*t programmes at this time of night, as they know no-one is watching and it would mean a loss. If Wogan still had his 7pm show on today, it would have been cancelled a long time ago. But anyone name me a decent programme which is a regular at 7pm and is very popular, as I am certain there's none.
I don't think ITV will be unduly worried by that, you do not pull a highly popular programme from a winning slot. You may not like it but it makes commercial business sense.
