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Variety and the like (November 2007)

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PE
Pete Founding member
I must say I only caught the second half of this but thoroughly enjoyed it. Why can't ITV have more stuff like this on on Saturday night?

More to the point, what is still possible with this format? Ant and Dec have shown that variety works on Saturday night yet still there is so much trash on telly and X Factor seems to be on far too early - why is it not on at 8?

I really do not understand why the BBC insist on putting yet more dreadful lottery quizzes on tv. Why they still have the rights to that thing is beyond me.
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A former member
Its not on at 8 for one very good reason

MONEY, and to the latter making sure that votes count

if it starts at 6pm it will get more people ( younger ) phoning in, also by 9pm older people start going out to the clubs and pubs and are less likely to phone in
JC
JCB
623058 posted:
Its not on at 8 for one very good reason

MONEY, and to the latter making sure that votes count

if it starts at 6pm it will get more people ( younger ) phoning in, also by 9pm older people start going out to the clubs and pubs and are less likely to phone in


Exactly - without the teen market X Factor cannot survive. By 8pm they're likely to be out happy slapping.

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