TV Home Forum

Substitute programmes

(May 2019)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
VM
VMPhil

Don’t think you can attach PDF’s on Twitter just yet! 😉

Nope, you can certainly link to them though which would be a hell of a lot more accessible than a scanned image/photograph


On a visual medium like Twitter? Hardly.

Unless they’ve copied the text of the document into the image description, it’s actually hugely inaccessible to those who use screen readers and the like.
scottishtv and bilky asko gave kudos
BA
bilky asko
Nope, you can certainly link to them though which would be a hell of a lot more accessible than a scanned image/photograph


On a visual medium like Twitter? Hardly.

Unless they’ve copied the text of the document into the image description, it’s actually hugely inaccessible to those who use screen readers and the like.


Even then there is a character limit on the alt description.
scottishtv and VMPhil gave kudos
BR
Brekkie
I know earlier in the thread it was said that live broadcasts will almost always have standby programmes just in case they conclude earlier, get postponed or fall of air.

In light of the Jeremy Kyle situation, and more specifically STV getting an announcement out stating in a change ot the schedule Real Deal was airing I wonder if there is some kind of alternative schedule for all programmes - or at least a small number of programmes (i.e. Coast) which they'd put out, with associated pre-recorded announcements, at short notice. Real Deal is a fairly safe show for daytime ITV, whilst the quiz shows I guess might have repeat episodes on standby if there is a legal reason around one of the contestants preventing a new episode airing.
JA
JAS84
Speaking of which, I notice that the third episode of Tenable All-Stars won't be on this Sunday. It was supposed to have politicians as contestants but one of them is an EU election candidate, so it can't be shown.
JO
Jonwo
They’ll probably show it the week after

11 days later

SE
Square Eyes Founding member
Not quite substitute programme, but shunted about programme. Series 12 of Who Dares Wins started on BBC One 3 weeks ago, it ran for 2 episodes and is no longer in the schedule. This show appears to just be filler these days, it never seems to get a continuous run.

Nick Knowles has been responding on twitter :






JA
JAS84
What the hell? I assumed it was only off last week due to Eurovision. Apparently Pointless got bumped out of it's slot due to MOVIES. Meaning this was totally unnecessary.

Jonwo posted:
They’ll probably show it the week after

Nope. Harry Potter's on tomorrow instead.

24 days later

GE
thegeek Founding member



I wouldn't have known had series link not recorded it for me, but this episode was snuck out after the news last Sunday: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004xhf
JA
james-2001
Pretty inevitable it was going to be shown eventually, if not snuck out this way then it would have turned up on Dave.
RO
robertclark125
Couple of years ago, one morning there was a very short notice change of episode of Homes under the hammer. The episode that was due to have gone out that morning featured a house in Salford. Overnight, in Salford, there had been a fatal house fire, involving children, and so the edition was replaced with another. The BBC1 Scotland announcer said "and now, Homes under the hammer, this episode is a change from those in listings".
BR
Brekkie
Couple of years ago, one morning there was a very short notice change of episode of Homes under the hammer. The episode that was due to have gone out that morning featured a house in Salford. Overnight, in Salford, there had been a fatal house fire, involving children, and so the edition was replaced with another. The BBC1 Scotland announcer said "and now, Homes under the hammer, this episode is a change from those in listings".

Fascinating.
thegeek, Jon and Inspector Sands gave kudos

Newer posts