ITV Plan New Daytime Soap

Richard and Judy get about 2.1 Million, The Christmas Show gets about 1.5 Million. More emabarassingly for ITV is that BBC Two is the most popular channel from about 5.15pm until 5.35pm.

Why do they need another soap? They've had two flops and I am certain they said they will never bother with a soap again.

One problem is why we need the same programme every day, what happened to the time where there were different programmes on different days? That had more sense. It wasn't bad in late 2001 when they only had Crossroads on 4 times a week and they also juggled a couple of quiz shows in that slot too, I thought that idea worked well. Frankly there has been no good programmes on ITV at tea time, as they're pratically offering the same option as BBC Two and Channel 4, something for the younger audience is needed, as we all don't like Blue Peter. The loss of Home and Away and the News at 5.40 haven't helped either.

Even Movies, Games and Videos was a good filler! They would be better off if they moved one of their suitable Night Time fillers to 5pm, cheap to make, it's something different and interesting, such as Cybernet.

I think Richard and Judy is really good in it's timeslot. An excellent duo, interesting debates and it's usually quite funny too. It's the best thing on at tea-time in my opinion.

Soaps at tea time don't really work for me, because they can never tackle any big things because it's on so early.

I cant stand watching Richard and Judy - they annoy me.

I normally watch Neighbours at 5.35pm and they do tackle some big storys for example at the moment we have a storyline about Breast Cancer.

Great, now we have rivalling posts

Well i'm not closing mine lol

Well, this one started on Friday and the other one today, so it's the other one that should be closed.

Oh well.

Well the other thread has contributions from me, so that one should stay open.

Oh wait ......

Well, Square Eyes, contribute again, I want mine to be at the top

Well you're not exactly helping it are you ?

Oh damn, neither did I

Damn.. Well i'm not posting in here again.. lol

Jez, it seems, has transferred to my thread, so, Square Eyes, that leaves you, all alone.

Feel free to join us..

Does it really matter, you can close this thread if you like even though I posted about it first. Im not that bothered, I just brought this thread up again as I wanted to reply to the comment re teatime soaps not being able to tackle big storys.

Btw S E it was an EE cover on the Inside Soap Xmas issue afterall I bought it anyway as I wanted to read about the Emmerdale disaster at New Year, it looks great!