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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 16, 2009 18:24:24 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2009 15:59:09 GMT
I find it sadly predictable how the show is sliding towards scheduling oblivion. Yesterdays' episode: 11:30pm. Today's episode: 00:45am!
It's an hour long show. Silly shedulers.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on May 6, 2009 19:23:47 GMT
I'm not sure which makes me feel worse - the thought that the scheduling of this show is evidence that the BBC never really wanted it to do well on terrestrial TV, or the thought that they might be sufficiently stupid to have managed to arrange this accidentally.
Karl
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Post by Bogatan on May 8, 2009 19:32:01 GMT
Initially I thought the plan was okay. In this day and age with I player through Sky+and ilk right down to good old VHS you can watch things when you like and showing it 5 days a week the time made sense, they couldn't devote the 9pm schedule for 3 months ( I hate channel 4 for doing it with Big brother)so straight after Newsnight seemed alright.
But then Season 1 ends and they take it off air without saying exactly when it will be back. Then I stumble back on to it by luck for the first episode of season 2. It's shown for 3 nights (at least for me it was all shown at 11.20) and then is off till Monday so is now only 3 nights a week or is just this week?
I'm getting pissed off already because I can see them messing around with it constantly.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on May 8, 2009 19:37:03 GMT
Scheduling fools!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on May 8, 2009 21:09:47 GMT
They took it off at the end of S1, after stripping the season, without actually indicating when it was going to be back. After hyping the fact that they were going to be running through it in short order....
I think we know what Detective McNulty would probably wish to say to the BBC at this point.....
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on May 8, 2009 21:33:49 GMT
Do the beeb get a cut of DVD sales? This is the best way to get people to buy!
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on May 8, 2009 21:55:59 GMT
After stripping the season? Was something missing?
The gap between seasons was baffling because it was just two weeks or so, but there wasn't anything special going on that I'm aware of.
It's almost as thought they want to stay just a head of FX weekly screenings which started a month or two before the BBC's screening them.
If I wasnt trying to save money and create less clutter I'd already have bought the DVDs.
Andy
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Post by legios on May 8, 2009 22:05:11 GMT
After stripping the season? Was something missing? Andy Sorry, misuse of a technical term. Stripping as in the TV scheduling terminology rather than as in "stripped down". "Stripping" a show is when that show airs every day rather than once a week - happens to shows a lot with they get re-run in syndication in the US where what was a weekly show gets run in a daily slot. Karl |
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Post by Bogatan on May 8, 2009 22:54:29 GMT
Ah right got ya.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on May 9, 2009 9:37:11 GMT
'Stripping' is why shows aim for the magic number of 100 episodes as that makes the syndication package more attractive as broadcasters have the option of running a show daily, which fills up a fair few spots in the schedules.
-Ralph
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Post by Cullen on May 3, 2010 19:36:56 GMT
So I keep hearing how good the Wire is and how it's the best thing since sliced bread. So I picked up the 5 series boxset on the cheap and watched the first episode the other night ... And didn't like it. Does it get better because I'd hate to sit through 5 series just to find out it's not for me.
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Post by legios on May 3, 2010 19:49:09 GMT
So I keep hearing how good the Wire is and how it's the best thing since sliced bread. So I picked up the 5 series boxset on the cheap and watched the first episode the other night ... And didn't like it. Does it get better because I'd hate to sit through 5 series just to find out it's not for me. Does it get better..... That depends on what it was that you didn't like about it to be honest. It does become deeper, more involved and more complex but I wouldn't say that it changes its essential approach or its style of storytelling. It can take a while for it gel with some people because its approach and outlook is very different - and there are some people for whom it just doesn't work at all. I'd be inclined to say that if you get to the middle of the first season and it hasn't caught your interest then the likelihood is that it probably won't. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on May 3, 2010 20:33:11 GMT
It's a love or hate it experience, I think. I wasn't sure initially as it was so different from the usual TV cop show stuff and I didn't really 'get it' until episode 3, thereafter I was hooked.
-Ralph
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Post by Jaymz on May 3, 2010 22:42:39 GMT
Yeah, I didn't like the 1st episode either and didn't understand why it was so widely praised, seemed like another generic cop drama. Stick with it though and you shall be rewarded with some top class telly.
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