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So the latest wheeze in TV scheduling is ‘event’ scheduling. With so many other competing channels and media to deal with, and the iPlayer and catch-up TV systems making conventional scheduling almost redundant, schedulers need to find a way to make people sit up and take notice of their programmes. So they’re now scheduling TV shows as ‘events’, clearing the schedules and stripping them across a number of days in one week rather than an episode a week for a month or so.
So this week, the BBC ran Exile over three nights and ITV ran Case Sensitive over two nights. I was going to watch Exile, but my PVR decided not to bother with the third episode. I was going to watch Case Sensitive but I thought the next episode was going to be on next week so I missed it. The only time I have to watch most TV is when I’m commuting so will I be using either the iPlayer or the ITV Player to watch them? No. But I might do if I there were more time between episodes for me to catch up with them.
In other words, event scheduling actually stops me watching programmes I might have watched, not makes me watch them.
Your mileage may vary of course, so this week’s question is:
Does event scheduling make you more or less inclined to watch a TV series?
Answers below or a link to your response on your own blog, please
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It’s Erin C’s lingering legacy, like a ghost in the machine, that allows her to still be providing lovely pictures like this for you all to caption. You have to admire that long-term determination, even if she’s apparently gone off on a dangerous mission somewhere…
And it’s new captioneer whoficwriter who gets the 10 points this week so a great big well done to him/her! Welcome aboard and do feel free to join in again!
Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the Sitting Tennant gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.
The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.
You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.
So for the last few years – ooh, four now I think about it – I’ve been doing episode-by-episode reviews of Doctor Who. Now that was fun. It was enjoyable, because no matter what happened, David Tennant and whichever his companion he was with + Rusty and one of his nonsensical scripts almost always added up to fun.
However, Steven Moffat’s in charge and as much as his intricate plotting and general cleverness make Rusty’s best efforts look like the doodlings of a High School child, they lack Rusty’s exuberance, depth of emotion and general fun. In short, I’m finding them a bit more like hard work than anything I actually enjoying. I’m not even sure I really care about DW enough any more to want to review them.
I know – I’m such a neophile.
So the question is, what with
do you actually want my usual full-on reviews or should I reduce Who to the Friday “What Have You Been Watching?” slot unless I feel particularly inspired?
Your opinion matters, so leave a comment if you do want the reviews (or if you don’t because you think they’re rubbish).
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