Well done BBC
Apart from showing next to nothing worth watching this Christmas, the BBC excelled itself in two small but significant ways:
a) Scheduling the new Wallace and Gromit film to start at half eight on Christmas night so that small children are too knackered to watch it.
b) Ensuring said Wallace and Gromit film starts late so that anybody recording it for said small children will have said recording cut off before the end.
Tossers.
Update: It seems whatever it is that is draining the BBC of competence is not isolated to BBC1. Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe review of the year (on BBC4) was similarly truncated. Cheers. If the three episodes of Mark Gatiss’ ghost story I’ve got are in the same condition I may very well take it upon myself to haunt Mark Thompson.
Posted on December 27th, 2008 at 4:41pm under Culture, media and sport
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Thank Santa for BBC iPlayer.
It’s incredible how totally shit tv has been this year, there’s fuck all films on…
You realise you sound just like my dad?
He sounds like upstanding fellow.
Presumably commissioning the Wallace and Gromit show as well, which I thought was worth a month’s licence fee on its own.
But whats the point of spending a sizeable pot of boodle on the excellent Wallace and Gromit only to let the cretinous Strictly Come Prancing run over its time slot, thereby pissing off the watching/recording audience? That said, as I rule I always set the recording timer with a 5 minute tolerance either way, just to be on the safe side!
Not to be contrary or anything, but I thought BBC1’s line up on Christmas Day was pretty good, really. Nice of them to put on Dad’s Army and Blackadder’s Christmas Carol on BBC2 during Strictly and EastEnders as well so you could avoid such shite in-between Doctor Who and Wallace and Gromit as well. BBC1 yesterday was rubbish though; good thing that BBC2 had their tribute to Bill Cotton or whoever it on that helped pass the time.
I just thought id bizarre that you had half an hour of gloom and despondency in Eastenders, Wallace and Gromit, then another half hour of doom and depression in Eastenders.
Strange scheduling.
Still, watching the Queen try to pronounce vowels was funny.
I bet the naffing queen started and finished on time.
Whilst we’re Beeb-bashing … On Christmas Day ‘Doctor Who Confidential’ started on BBC3 before ‘Doctor Who’ had finished on BBC1. Perhaps they are trying to drive us to the iPlayer. To quote Emily Bell: ‘Is this the death of linear television?’
Perhaps they are trying to drive us to the iPlayer.
I hope not. I find huddling around the PC in the dining room not exactly conducive to traditional family viewing.
Or you could always switch the damn thing off…
I was in France for Christmas. They had the new Wallace & Gromit episode on a dy before the UK did. The voices were appalling though – just not the same without Peter Sallis.
Brits eh? Don’t know when they’re well off. They want to try Spanish TV before they start complaining.
That said, as I rule I always set the recording timer with a 5 minute tolerance either way, just to be on the safe side!
Too cautious – I go for at least 10…only this time I had to fit a whole bunch of programes on LP on one 4-hour tape – and I still lost the last couple of minutes of Heroes.
Sorry but isn’t this solved by using PDC ?