Can anyone provide a real answer to why the BBC (with the expection of the simpsons) have always aired US imports at 11.45pm on a sunday evening? Larry Sanders, Seinfeld had it now American Dad and Family guy get the same treatment, and if there is snooker or winter olympics on you can forget seeing them that week.
Why not show them at 6pm weeknights on BBC2 when people actully get the chance to 'SEE' them...
Can anyone provide a real answer to why the BBC (with the expection of the simpsons) have always aired US imports at 11.45pm on a sunday evening? Larry Sanders, Seinfeld had it now American Dad and Family guy get the same treatment, and if there is snooker or winter olympics on you can forget seeing them that week.
Why not show them at 6pm weeknights on BBC2 when people actully get the chance to 'SEE' them...
I hardly think Larry Sanders, or even Seinfeld for that matter are suitable for 6pm.
To make way for all the sh*t they make themselves.
Ch4 made me laugh recently when they were airing a trailer for Ricky Gervais' interview with Larry David which went "Ricky Gervais meets the mastermind behind the comic masterpiece Curb Your Enthusiasm". If you think so highly of it why not air it at a decent time? The answer of course was the show it was airing during...'Celebrity Big Brother'.
To answer the question it's simply a question of scheduling. Someone, with the power, beleives a certain programme will do better than another one so hence it's moved either backwards or forwards so that primetime shows with the largest auidence will have prime billing.
I can't believe how badly they treated Arrested Development (the greatest US comedy ever created), but I've got to accept that the audiences were low when they showed it in 'primetime'.
Sames goes for Malcolm in the Middle - which IS the greatest US comedy of recent years. It gets a primetime slot, but moves around the schedule so much you can't find it and it's latest slot has been up against Corrie.
The official excuse is the BBC restrict the amount of imported programmes shown during primetime.
The worst example of this IMO was The X Files, which did really well on BBC2 in a 9pm slot - so well it got promoted to BBC1, and subsequently never aired much earlier than 10.30pm, with later series going out after 11pm.
"Ricky Gervais meets the mastermind behind the comic masterpiece Curb Your Enthusiasm". :
And nearly everyone watching thinks ''Whos Larry David??''. Whats interesting is that I found it works the other way round too. I was in the US for a week last year I was channel hoping late at night and found an episode of The Brittas Empire on PBS but at 1am in the morning.
To make way for all the sh*t they make themselves.
Ch4 made me laugh recently when they were airing a trailer for Ricky Gervais' interview with Larry David which went "Ricky Gervais meets the mastermind behind the comic masterpiece Curb Your Enthusiasm". If you think so highly of it why not air it at a decent time? The answer of course was the show it was airing during...'Celebrity Big Brother'.
The even funnier thing about that is that Channel 4 have never shown Curb Your Enthusiasm, it got the odd airing on BBC Two once when the BBC still had the rights to it, only BBC Four and More4 have given the show a chance and to let it develop and build up an audience.
Seinfeld was given a chance, when the BBC got the rights in about 1994, they showed the first series at 9pm on BBC Two, but as fans know the first couple of Series are hardly the best, the peak of the show was from Series 3/4 onwards IMO, so few people watched it, it got shifted later and later on, I think by 1999/2000 BBC Two showed Series 9 every Monday-Thursday night over August at 12.05am and got all of the episodes out of the way within a few weeks, the show after that was never seen on the BBC again. Sky One showed it, but it's only Paramount Comedy that still shows it on a regular basis, I also believe RTÉ Two also shows it every now and again.
