The people moaning about soaps being "moved" due to the football really do annoy me. The schedulers go to any lengths to accommodate the soaps during these events - it's the other non-soap programmes that are dumped from the schedule.
I wouldn't hold your breath though for any answers related to anything next week - it'll be the same attitude as always - "we know you don't like it - but this is the reason we do it, so there - stuff you! ".
Why can;t there take the awful things off for sport?
what going to happen come china olp...... There be all over the place, the land of oz has it the right way take them off!
Why can;t there take the awful things off for sport?
what going to happen come china olp...... There be all over the place, the land of oz has it the right way take them off!
What does this actually mean?
:-(
A former member
I can't spell the word for the games being held in Chain in early august:
But I believe if Land of Oz can take of there soaps for this world sport event then the UK should be able to do the same, it not like ITV baldy need soaps to keep it going
let stop showing the soaps for a month and just enjoy the olympic
...and if you don't happen to want to watch the Olympics or Euro 2008 then it's just tough is it?
After DSO is complete there will be no excuse for disrupting the main channels for special events. It can all be shown on BBC3 or ITV4. I can't see many complaints about losing another repeat of 'Two Pints' or 'UFO' for a week or two.
let stop showing the soaps for a month and just enjoy the olympic
...and if you don't happen to want to watch the Olympics or Euro 2008 then it's just tough is it?
After DSO is complete there will be no excuse for disrupting the main channels for special events. It can all be shown on BBC3 or ITV4. I can't see many complaints about losing another repeat of 'Two Pints' or 'UFO' for a week or two.
Absolute rubbish. The soaps have a place in the schedules, but not at the expense of everything else.
Live international events should always take priority - the Olympic Games are the biggest event in the world - they are far more important than EastEnders.
Absolute rubbish. The soaps have a place in the schedules, but not at the expense of everything else.
Live international events should always take priority - the Olympic Games are the biggest event in the world - they are far more important than EastEnders.
What is or isn't important enough to broadcast is very subjective. It's rather arrogrant to assume that your taste is superior to everyone else's. Besides, I wasn't referring specifically to soaps but to the general schedule which is deemed to be acceptable in the absence of major sporting events. Are you suggesting that most of the time we all receive a 'second rate' service in the haitus between special events?
The Olympics/Wimbledon/Football etc should be broadcast. I simply said that, after DSO, space can and should be found somewhere other than on the main channels to broadcast them in full. There would be no need to disrupt schedules to the extent they do currently on the main channels.
But surely then, is it not disrupting the shedules of the 'non-main' terrestrial channels? It's going to disrupt a channel somewhere at sometime. Why shouldn't the disrupted programmes be shifted off the 'main' channels during these events? As you say it's all very subjective so how should say what should be shoved on a 'non-main' channel?
I don't have so much as a passing interest in sports tournaments, but even I accept that some events, particularly the Olympic Games, should take pride of place on BBC One. Its something special and should be treated as such.
There's very few things left that speak to our sense of national pride and achievement, and I expect to see the BBC push that to the fore. It almost doesn't matter if we win a medal - no one knows how to cheer for their losing sportsmen more than Britain ("come on Tim, etc").
I might decide to not watch, and if so I can find regular programming on the digital channels. Millions will watch, though. It may be one of the few occassions where families will watch a sporting event together,
In my view you must give due prominence to these global events. They don't come round often, and to shuffle them off to a low-grade digital channel so that people can watch EastEnders is not great thinking.
'China Games 2008' 
