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Meme of the week: Fantasy scheduling

Posted on September 16, 2009 | comments |

So suddenly, you get the call. Despite never having applied for the position, you've suddenly been appointed Head of Scheduling at your favourite TV channel. You've been given carte blanche to fill the schedules how you like, and you have the budget to acquire and even make whatever you want.

What's your schedule like?

Obviously, what's suitable for Saturday night viewing isn't necessarily suitable for Sunday or Friday night. So you can restrict yourself to a single day or even a single evening. But it's up to you: any time slots, any channel. 

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.

  • Good work, Ms Rullsenberg!

  • Not that it's my favorite channel anymore, but I despair when I see how far off their original mission TV Land has gone. I'd love "to put right what once went wrong".

    First off, I'd eliminate all of the reality crap. It has no place on a classic TV network.

    The theatrically released movies would be 86'd as well.

    I'd bring back truly classic shows like the WB detective series - '77 Sunset Strip' and 'Hawaiian Eye'.

    Show 'Maverick' along with the 'Bonanza' and 'Gunsmoke' reruns.

    Plenty of old sitcoms from the early sixties, late fifties.

    Black and White TV is not to be feared people! Embrace it!

    And on Saturdays, I'd have a block of old made for TV movies that were so prevalent in the early 70s.

    Classic TV can work; there's a market for it out there. It just has to have the right ingredients....

  • I dump all the existing programmes, and throw on a bunch of old movies, repeats and documentaries shot in HD (even though we don't broadcast in HD). Then I rename the channel STV.

  • I'd hire Charlie Brooker as Deputy Head of Scheduling and get him to do all the work.

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