Such sad news about Richard and Judy

http://www.bitethenews.com/2009/05/09/richard-and-judy-quit-tv-over-dismal-ratings/

Such a tragic end.

Wouldn't trust that as a website at all, it's a comedy website.

It's also on the BBC Website. I'm sure they will pop up together on another channel, maybe one with viewers this time?

If people are upset about this, maybe they should have watched the show.

When a national TV programme is getting the kind of audience figures you'd expect from a daytime show on a small local radio station, you know you're done for.

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I wouldn't have thought so, not in their curent form at least. They were going to end their presenting last November but were persuaded by UKTV to do another year for them, and they were supposedly going to end it after that year was up. If anything this programme on Watch has just kept them on screen for 6 months longer than they were going to be.

I'm sure they'll continue the book club thing somewhere though.

The thing is it wasn't a bad programme, it's just no-one knew where to find it!

Richard keeps trotting out the line that they wanted to move into digital because it's the future an soon everyone will have it.... but didn't take into account the fact that Watch was not only a new and unknown channel but also a pay one. If it had ended up on an established freeview channel it would have done better

Yes tragic. Oh no wait, it's not.

I'm in deep mourning....

They can blame the channel all they want, but 200,000+ are finding it for Wipeout USA, while the Watch top ten is generally all above 100,000 - ten times what Richard and Judy were getting.

Well Richard and Judy was genuinely a good show.

IIRC wasn't this reported a while ago?