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(August 2003)

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A former member
Yes, Larry's right here. However, stick some people in a transmission area 'monitoring' automation and they're so brain-dead their 'human intervention' is hardly sharp anyway.

Am I a bitter and depressed man who did 12 hour shifts like that at Sky for 4 years ?.... quite possibly ......
JE
Jenny Founding member
Katherine posted:
Oh, and Trisha; I managed to find myself seeing about three minutes of it this morning as me and mum were flicking through the channels to find something decent to eat our breakfasts to and Jeez, it was the most execrable pile of old poo I'd ever seen!!


And another thing, what the hell have we Meridian viewers done to deserve Trisha on our regional idents? We're not ALL axe-murderers, you know.
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tvarksouthwest
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Hmm... perhaps things would be better if BBC2 and Channel 4 were scrapped. Then we'd have three main terrestrial channels to share programmes across.

Naturally, that will never happen, but if it did I reckon things would be a lot better.

In the current climate BBC2 and C4 are the saviours of television!
AJ
AJSR
Things I hate...

UK broadcasters (and people!) referring to television programmes as 'shows'. I can live with gameshows, I can just about cope with light-entertainment being a show... but I can't cope with 'The News Show' (rip), 'The Politics Show'... or even presenters of serious programmes saying 'and in the next show....'

UK broadcasters (and people again!) referring to television series as seasons... The seasons are 'Autumn', 'Winter', 'Spring', 'Summer'. What is wrong with the word 'series'...

End Credit Promotions.... yuck, they just make me switch over to another channel.

DOGs.... double yuck

I'm sure I can find some more, but those ought to do for now...!
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A former member
AJSR posted:
Things I hate...
UK broadcasters (and people!) referring to television programmes as 'shows'. I can live with gameshows, I can just about cope with light-entertainment being a show... but I can't cope with 'The News Show' (rip), 'The Politics Show'... or even presenters of serious programmes saying 'and in the next show....'



Even worse when radio programmes are referred to as 'Shows'.... they aren't shows, you're not showing anything!
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fernando posted:
Am I a bitter and depressed man who did 12 hour shifts like that at Sky for 4 years ?.... quite possibly ......


Sounds familiar...
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Simon_Luxton posted:

There's far more to this issue than test cards. Namely; the extra hours cost money and this was a bone of contention for BBC1 before N24 started. And the viewers aren't there to justify anything other than cheap repeats, the more repeats you have the less good your channel looks. You'd be surprised the amount of people who judge a channel on the number of repeats...


But the BBC don't put repeats on overnight except those that are signed versions and educational programmes which are diffrent.

Repeats aren't necessarily a bad thing - 'another chance to see' is also 'getting more viewers and thus more value out of'

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2003 or 1977, better to have 18 hours worth of good programming than 24 hours for the hell of it.


Hmmm BBC News 18.... can't see it catching on. Bunging News 24 on overnights on BBC1 costs bugger all

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Are BBC3 and BBC4 24 hours? No? And are they any worse for that? I rest my case.


Eh, just because BBC3 and 4 aren't 24 hours means that 1 and 2 shouldn't be either.... what sort of twisted logic is that?

Besides, most days 3 is on air for about 22 hours and 4 for about 21 (remember that after they close they become CBBC and Cbeebies till 7 o clock)
PE
Pete Founding member
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PE
Pete Founding member
Corin posted:
Hymagumba posted:
ITV's appauling idea of scheduling. Nothing ever stays in the same place. It's disgusting and Americanised


Hardly. American schedules generaly follow the same pattern weekday after weekday, even on Christmas day, particularly on the independents. The only thing that causes a change to scheduled programs on the networks are major events like the OJ trial or somebody flying a plane into the WTC.


Well shows are cancelled in the middle of their run though. That is what I am refering to.

ITV don't do that yet but the way they hide things they might as well.
KA
Katherine Founding member
DJGM posted:

I take it you've never watched "Bo Selecta" then . . . ?

Nope, never seen it before in my life....
DJ
DJGM
Katherine posted:

DJGM posted:

I take it you've never watched "Bo Selecta" then . . . ?


Nope, never seen it before in my life....


Tune in, late Friday nights on Channel 4 . . . "It's proper bo, I tell thee!"
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A former member
Hymagumba posted:

Well shows are cancelled in the middle of their run though. That is what I am refering to.

ITV don't do that yet


Crossroads got pulled mid-run didn't it? I remember many a person here moaning that it wasn't allowed 12 months (even if Pickard would have pulled it then anyway) as promised. Even Night and Day was allowed its full run.

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