Ideas for Daytime

Currently the scheduals for all of the main terrestial channels are a mixed bag so I thought focusing them might help:

10am-1pm

BBC1:
Housing Programmes

BBC2:
Cbeebies

ITV:
This Morning / Loose Women

Channel 4:
Teen / T4

2-4pm

BBC1:
Drama

BBC2:
Wildlife

ITV:
Gameshows

Channel 4:
Womens programme (eg 10 Years Younger, You are what you eat)


I know that a lot of the channels do show what I've listed in those slots, but they are mixed up with other genres. A focused slot would give each channel a bigger and more dedicated audience. Eg And now on BBC2 its afternoon wildlife. It draws on the strengths of each channel I think

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Does the GMTV thread that constantly discusses random endings and camera angles have a point? I think not.

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saying that Day time could be a lot better and even during the school holiday it could be better.

even getting in a Cheap US sitcom to run for 5 weeks during the summer would help, anyone remember Step by step?

It's the BBC who are the worst offenders - BBC1's morning schedule is basically the same two programmes under numerous different names (thank god a couple have now been suspended due to faking allegations!), whilst BBC2's early afternoon schedule has become full of the same programmes repeated, rather than the daily film it traditionally was.

ITV's is what is is, but personally I hope Golden Balls is axed and longer series of Divided, The Chase and The Fuse (with a decent host) are given a chance. C4 could do with something at lunchtime - even if US sitcoms (Suddenly Susan and Home Improvement aired their for quite some time back in the nineties!), and they just need to strengthen the schedule in the few weeks Countdown and Deal are not on - Come Dine with Me repeats alone made the summer schedules very poor.

Well I don't, and I don't enter a thread and start saying its pointless just because its not interesting to me.

I wish ITV would repeat some of their ITV dramas during the afternoon on ITV3 or 4.

The BBC could repeat something like Due South instead of yet another episode of Monk or Murder She Wrote. Re-showing American dramas must be cheaper than making and showing even the cheapest-to-make property and auction programmes, surely?

It was only about 18-24 months ago they stopped airing King of the Hill and The King of Queens at lunchtime on c4

I was trying to make a point like BBC1 have in the recent past had Human Interest (Live in hopsitals, cant remember the show title), Buying a house, Fixing up houses, Gameshows, 3 different soaps, origional drama and us drama all in their daytime schedual. It's a mess, if they made a clear and concise effort with programming blocks it would stop people turning off. If a person who likes say that hospital programme, and then 'Homes under a hammer' comes on they are going to switch to Living TV or something like that and watch that for the whole day. If each channel had a clear and obvious programming block that was different to the competition and drew on the strengths of it's back catalogue then I thought it would get more viewers locked in for 2/3 hours.

But In school time CBeebies is on 8:30 - 10:30 anyway? 8:30 - 1:00 Is a bit 2 long? CBeebies does have its own channel.

The biggest criticism of BBC daytime though is it's all basically the same two programmes - either people buying houses or people rummaging through trash to sell antiques. Shows like City Hospital etc. do provide a welcome alternative, and it would be stupid of anyone to suggest they should stick to the same genre of programming all morning every day of the year.

What they really more than anything is exactly what you're moaning about - a greater mix of programming. All their efforts though seem to be put in the 9.15am slot, with the odd afternoon drama.