This will also be why CBeebies performs much better than CBBC, and why CITV's schedules are dominated by pre-school programmes, because pre-school programmes don't transfer over from the USA to the UK as well
Well, clearly these morons don't know how to shoot fish in a barrel as far as comissioning/aquiring for the older audiance is concerned.
Indeed, CITV's provision for older audiences really came unstuck with the sudden axing of Children's Ward. The decision was not made until after the final series had aired and, apart from an announcement from Greg Taylor on the programme website, no warning was given.
CW's final series was weak compared to five years previously, but with new ideas it could have returned to form. Instead, ITV commissioned a new show, 24:Seven, which was so out of kilter with most teenagers' lives no wonder it didn't run beyond two series. How many of us go to an exclusive boarding school where there is no uniform, teachers are addressed by their first names and pupils decide their own punishments? So American and full of "beautiful people".
Since 24:Seven, ITV has largely given up on the older CITV audience. There was Girls In Love, but ITV dumped it on CITV because there was nowhere else for it. Now it really is the end for ITV's teenage provision...and with the BBC going the same way, what hope is there?
Well, clearly these morons don't know how to shoot fish in a barrel as far as comissioning/aquiring for the older audiance is concerned.
Indeed, CITV's provision for older audiences really came unstuck with the sudden axing of Children's Ward. The decision was not made until after the final series had aired and, apart from an announcement from Greg Taylor on the programme website, no warning was given.
CW's final series was weak compared to five years previously, but with new ideas it could have returned to form. Instead, ITV commissioned a new show, 24:Seven, which was so out of kilter with most teenagers' lives no wonder it didn't run beyond two series. How many of us go to an exclusive boarding school where there is no uniform, teachers are addressed by their first names and pupils decide their own punishments? So American and full of "beautiful people".
It not even as if they have to lift a finger ether, there's a whole bass-load of Teen orentated shows availible for aquiring that, at this point, would probably go for next to nothing and probably be a
profet
for them.
Course, then again, these
are
the idiots who chose Shuiken School over Naruto so....yeah, whatever.
