RM
True... but WTHI is the worst offender. I think Heartbeat, The Royal, WTHI are popular, because they are family viewing. Gentle drama; without foul language, sex or hardcore violence. Certainly far better than dross such as Love Island and Big Brother (in terms of quality).
Haven't looked at viewing figures for these Sunday night programmes recently, but last time I did they got similar viewing figures to Emmerdale .
Wild at Heart was the name of Amanda Holden/ Steven Tompkinson drama set in Africa. That was crud, mostly because of dull stories and naff scripts.
From Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbeat_%28TV_series%29]:
When the programme began (1992), it was set in 1964. The setting then moved on, approximately in "real time", until it reached early 1969, where (apart from the Christmas episodes
) it has now remained for several years.
However the show's chronology has been seen to be quite flexible: the inhabitants of Ashfordly and Aidensfield have certainly celebrated more than four Christmases between 1965 and 1969.
The 1998 episode Heartbeat: Changing Places which follows Sgt. Rowan as a Mountie opens with the caption 1968 which is sometimes said to be the only explicit time reference in the series, though one 2004 episode was specifically set on 6 February 1969, the date being deliberately displayed clearly in an extreme close-up of "today's newspaper".
Whenever a car or motorcycle's tax disc is shown on screen, it is always valid until 31 December 1969.
Westy2 posted:
Are Heartbeat, The Royal & Where The Heart Is, ITV's equivelant of the Beeb's 'Last Of The Summer Wine', where every old comedy actor that's still alive is either a guest or a regular?
True... but WTHI is the worst offender. I think Heartbeat, The Royal, WTHI are popular, because they are family viewing. Gentle drama; without foul language, sex or hardcore violence. Certainly far better than dross such as Love Island and Big Brother (in terms of quality).
Haven't looked at viewing figures for these Sunday night programmes recently, but last time I did they got similar viewing figures to Emmerdale .
Wild at Heart was the name of Amanda Holden/ Steven Tompkinson drama set in Africa. That was crud, mostly because of dull stories and naff scripts.
From Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbeat_%28TV_series%29]:
When the programme began (1992), it was set in 1964. The setting then moved on, approximately in "real time", until it reached early 1969, where (apart from the Christmas episodes
) it has now remained for several years.
However the show's chronology has been seen to be quite flexible: the inhabitants of Ashfordly and Aidensfield have certainly celebrated more than four Christmases between 1965 and 1969.
The 1998 episode Heartbeat: Changing Places which follows Sgt. Rowan as a Mountie opens with the caption 1968 which is sometimes said to be the only explicit time reference in the series, though one 2004 episode was specifically set on 6 February 1969, the date being deliberately displayed clearly in an extreme close-up of "today's newspaper".
Whenever a car or motorcycle's tax disc is shown on screen, it is always valid until 31 December 1969.
