Bloody Auntie Beeb

What is it with the BB bloody C that they can't do anything right as
concerns Doctor Who? What is it makes them think that Will Smith and The
Simpsons hold more interest, despite having been repeated about 15 times?

I despair of them sometimes....

Adam.

Why, this is why you pay your licence fee, to watch endless american repeats
over and over again whilst the director drones on about the "BBC continuing
to produce top quality programmes" (Endless bloody fly on the wall
documentaries, you've got that stupid fly-on-the-island show now, god knows
how many cooking programmes, too much DIY stuff, and carole smilie all over
the shop. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH)

Being a self respecting student, you *do* pay your TV licence don't you? :o)

cheers
Asan

----- Original Message -----
From: Cummins ARJ <A.R.J.Cummins@>
To: <chat@>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 4:47 PM
Subject: Bloody Auntie Beeb

Last week we were praising the haunted fishtank for having lots of
science fiction, how it
seems we are saying they don't have enough... Even without DrWho we
still have more on
TV than for a long time.

But, I must agree that reshowing DrWho was a great idea where as
replacing it with the
Simpsons etc. is pants...

Daniel

Date sent: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:08:50 +0000
From: "Daniel Celano" <celano@>
Organization: Nortel
To: chat@
Subject: Re: Bloody Auntie Beeb
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I don't want to be seen to defending the Beeb, because believe
me I'm not and I want to see DW back on TV as much as anyone,
but taking a wild guess I'd say that they put out those two stories
(or was it three I have late classes on a Tuesday and tend to get
confused) knowing that they were high profile and would be likely to
attract a large audience.
Unfortunately what probably happened was that only the ultra
hardcore DW audience, who'd watch anything with the Timelord in
no matter how many times they'd seen it, tuned in and the general
viewers who have also probably seen some or all of these stories
before, disappeared after a couple of weeks.
To the eyes of the management this would be a distinct ratings
failure (bear in mind that someting like 17 out of the top twenty
rated shows of last year were on ITV and I think that one of the
other three was on Channel 4) which led to them pulling the show
and replacing it with something more conservative.
Yet again they lose out through not having enough conviction
and faith in their audience to provide something new and/or
challenging.


Jon