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This is not about this thread in particular but there seems to be suggestions on several forums that this series has been left on the shelf for ages - there was one on DigitalSpy called "why the delay?" - but I don't see why it's so unusual for a series to be recorded in mid-2018 and be shown in early 2019. A lot of it seems to have come from the Partridge doc at Christmas 2017 referring to the new show coming in 2018, but I don't think it's that odd for it to have slipped back into early 2019. It still had endless publicity and a good slot, if they were so concerned about it they'd have buried it.
I went to a QI recording in February and that's not going to be on until the autumn so I don't think a summer recording for a transmission early the following year is very unusual at all.
Would like to see the reason the air date slipped from the press release, which indicated it would air in the Autumn last year. Wonder if Steve having to do all the pre-publicity interviews for 'Stan and Ollie' on both sides of the Atlantic would have caused a clash, if the BBC released it the series towards the end of last year?
This is not about this thread in particular but there seems to be suggestions on several forums that this series has been left on the shelf for ages - there was one on DigitalSpy called "why the delay?" - but I don't see why it's so unusual for a series to be recorded in mid-2018 and be shown in early 2019. A lot of it seems to have come from the Partridge doc at Christmas 2017 referring to the new show coming in 2018, but I don't think it's that odd for it to have slipped back into early 2019. It still had endless publicity and a good slot, if they were so concerned about it they'd have buried it.
I went to a QI recording in February and that's not going to be on until the autumn so I don't think a summer recording for a transmission early the following year is very unusual at all.