Play it Again Axed

Sunday night series 'Play it Again' has been pulled from the schedules due to poor ratings

The series in which celebrities learn how to play a musical instrument managed only just over 2 million viewers and combined with Castaway lead to BBC1 having it's lowest ever Sunday audience share

The slot has been filled by 'Victoria's Empire', a new series with Victoria Wood which will also be repeated just 23 hours later on Monday at 7pm

That's a shame, I liked Play it Again . But then again it was scheduled against The Best of Top Gear . Play it Again would do better on BBC4.

teh BBC getting as bad as ITV

you can see BBC falling apart alreadly with Micheal grade not thier!

Exactly. It seems repeats on the BBC are drawing higher ratings than new programmes, a problem ITV seems to have quite a bit. (Bar Coronation Street of course.)

Not that he had anything to do with programmes at the BBC.... in fact he has very little to do with programming at ITV either

A real shame - I am a musician and loved these programmes. I saw all of them and they were inspirational.

Does this mean that Bill Oddie's will never be shown?

The whole idea of the programme always seemed a bit random to me.

Aled Jones learns to play the drums?

Monkey Tennis?

Hate to bring this up again but this is just another step closer towards TopGear moving to BBC1. If Sunday evenings haven't picked up by the next series of TG (Autumn) I think its a serious possibility.

Unfortuantely, I only saw the Aled Jones edition of Play it Again, but can say I really enjoyed it. I didn't see the others as I was busy doing other non-telly things, but I think I would have watched the others had I been able to watch TV. I think its problem was where it was placed in the schedules, and also it could have done with a bit more promotion.

there shoudl leave WELL alone

goodness shake Only fools and horses back when it start had crapp ratings,

there should stick it out !

Harry Hill obviously didn't help it when he took the p*ss out of the Aled Jones edition did it

Indeed, as did Minder when Thames originally showed it. It took till series 3 for Minder to gain a big audience and went on to win numerous Bafta awards & various other awards.

The problem with TV nowadays is that all that matters are two things 1) ratings (something which the BBC weren't supposed to be chasing) and 2) cost (if it's cheap we'll stick it on air)