SP
Given that the channel director does the announcing, what benefit would recorded announcements give?
MH
I don't know about the rest of the country, but when i was a kid we had a week off over Easter. Round this neck of the woods the kids are only getting a long weekend off school. In about 2 weeks Skool will be out for about a fortnight and more good stuff on telly.
I have noticed a few changes today in the tv schedules. Like the bbc lunchtime news being on earlier and an afternoon movie.
Wicko posted:
when I was a kid I remember the Easter schedules being almost as important as the Christmas schedules. while I realise that times change and people's lifestyles are different now, why do schedulers now offer just more of the same at easter and other bank holidays. Granted BBC1 is showing The Passion, a few repeat films and of course Anthony Minghella's last project, but the morning schedules are just daytime programmes. As for ITV, they seem to have no recognition of the festival at all. I know I'm an old git, but couldn't more effort be made? What do others think or am I the only one who is bothered and therefore a pedantic old knacker!
I don't know about the rest of the country, but when i was a kid we had a week off over Easter. Round this neck of the woods the kids are only getting a long weekend off school. In about 2 weeks Skool will be out for about a fortnight and more good stuff on telly.
I have noticed a few changes today in the tv schedules. Like the bbc lunchtime news being on earlier and an afternoon movie.
JE
Jez
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ITV1 schedules in particular seem to be poor with more or less the same as any other time.
As mentioned already they have obviously dropped This Morning and shortened the news bulletins on the 2 Bank Holidays, and they are showing a film on Easter Sunday before Heartbeat but other than that its the same as any other time.
Look at tonights schedule for example - a normal Friday night on ITV1 (apart from the 8pm slot which for some reason appears to be regional programmes) Easter Monday is much the same with Emmerdale, 2 x Corrie and The Fixer.
As mentioned already they have obviously dropped This Morning and shortened the news bulletins on the 2 Bank Holidays, and they are showing a film on Easter Sunday before Heartbeat but other than that its the same as any other time.
Look at tonights schedule for example - a normal Friday night on ITV1 (apart from the 8pm slot which for some reason appears to be regional programmes) Easter Monday is much the same with Emmerdale, 2 x Corrie and The Fixer.
:-(
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Londoner posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
What's happenning north of the border in terms of TV, given that today is a normal working day in Scotland?
Good Friday is a holiday in Scotland, but Easter Monday is not.
Good Friday is a holiday in most - if not all - of Europe.
Sorry you are wrong!!
The only part of scotland that does Good Friday is the lothian, other than that no one cares
Easter monday: still most of us in Scotland don;t care much for easter!
but 32 local council decide when the holiday happen:
only Falkirk, striling, and Lothian's seem to have it off, with the other 27 etc having it off over the next 5 weeks to may day
PC
BBC Scotland's screw-up? To be honest that could be any one of 364 other days of the year, they're useless.
Good Friday? Makes no odds whether it's a day off or not up here, there's going to be very little difference from network. Only matters if it's the summer holidays in Scotland, which tend to start a few weeks earlier, when you tend to get opt-outs for children's programmes (usually from the CBBC channel, which, because it doesn't start til a certain time, is normally precursored by Ceefax).
Good Friday? Makes no odds whether it's a day off or not up here, there's going to be very little difference from network. Only matters if it's the summer holidays in Scotland, which tend to start a few weeks earlier, when you tend to get opt-outs for children's programmes (usually from the CBBC channel, which, because it doesn't start til a certain time, is normally precursored by Ceefax).
SO
Good Friday is a holiday in Scotland, but Easter Monday is not.
Good Friday is a holiday in most - if not all - of Europe.
only Falkirk, striling, and Lothian's seem to have it off, with the other 27 etc having it off over the next 5 weeks to may day
Expect to see a baby boom around December and January then, due to all those people having it off.
623058 posted:
Londoner posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
What's happenning north of the border in terms of TV, given that today is a normal working day in Scotland?
Good Friday is a holiday in Scotland, but Easter Monday is not.
Good Friday is a holiday in most - if not all - of Europe.
only Falkirk, striling, and Lothian's seem to have it off, with the other 27 etc having it off over the next 5 weeks to may day
Expect to see a baby boom around December and January then, due to all those people having it off.
ST
due to the early easter a lot of schools have opted out of having an easter holiday now so as to level out the length of the term times.
this last term has been five weeks either side of the February half term and next term is seven weeks either side of whitsun
so I guess they are having a two week break when other schools, like mine, will be going back.
this last term has been five weeks either side of the February half term and next term is seven weeks either side of whitsun
so I guess they are having a two week break when other schools, like mine, will be going back.
JR
Yesterday's BBC1 schedule was rubbish.
True, A Grand Day Out is an excellent fallback for such occasions, but it's short. And something that gets me about bank holidays and religious festivals is that they only seem to consist of trashy movie after trashy movie after trashy movie.
You can tell yesterday was far too mushy, because Penguins got at least four outings on BBC1.
If they instead put decent films there, I would be more open to the idea.
Yes, that is correct. In my part of the world, they get the bank holidays (yesterday, today, tomorrow, Monday) off. Then they go back until around the average time of the Easter break (around two weeks away, I believe) before the schools break up again for the proper Easter holiday.
It would, of course, be easier just to define Holy Week as x weeks from the start of the year, to even things out a little.
True, A Grand Day Out is an excellent fallback for such occasions, but it's short. And something that gets me about bank holidays and religious festivals is that they only seem to consist of trashy movie after trashy movie after trashy movie.
You can tell yesterday was far too mushy, because Penguins got at least four outings on BBC1.
If they instead put decent films there, I would be more open to the idea.
stevek posted:
due to the early easter a lot of schools have opted out of having an easter holiday now so as to level out the length of the term times.
Yes, that is correct. In my part of the world, they get the bank holidays (yesterday, today, tomorrow, Monday) off. Then they go back until around the average time of the Easter break (around two weeks away, I believe) before the schools break up again for the proper Easter holiday.
It would, of course, be easier just to define Holy Week as x weeks from the start of the year, to even things out a little.
CR
Have been glued to the Hitchcock at Easter season on Film 24 - at least they seem to have made an effort
TV
Trust me - you are not the only one who is bothered and it seems the majority are with you here.
Although it could be said that ITV1's idea of special Good Friday programming was a Jeremy Kyle Show in which five members of the same family faced the lie detector to find out who stole their mum's crucifix...
Wicko posted:
when I was a kid I remember the Easter schedules being almost as important as the Christmas schedules. while I realise that times change and people's lifestyles are different now, why do schedulers now offer just more of the same at easter and other bank holidays. Granted BBC1 is showing The Passion, a few repeat films and of course Anthony Minghella's last project, but the morning schedules are just daytime programmes. As for ITV, they seem to have no recognition of the festival at all. I know I'm an old git, but couldn't more effort be made? What do others think or am I the only one who is bothered and therefore a pedantic old knacker!
Trust me - you are not the only one who is bothered and it seems the majority are with you here.
Although it could be said that ITV1's idea of special Good Friday programming was a Jeremy Kyle Show in which five members of the same family faced the lie detector to find out who stole their mum's crucifix...