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Has anyone else noticed that the timekeeping on the BBC is getting worse. Dr Who was supposed to start at 19.20 tonight, at 19.23 the previous programme ended and the next thing on the channel was an advert for the episode of Dr Who that was supposed to have already started!!!!!!

Would logic here not have dictated that they just show the damn programme rather than an advert for it when it was already late.

This seems to happen more and more, and yet there always seems to be time to show more adverts or the stupid inter-programme slots of the people dancing.
Am I the only one getting frustrated by this???
 
Originally posted by ovverbruv@Apr 29 2006, 09:51 PM

Would logic here not have dictated that they just show the damn programme rather than an advert for it when it was already late.

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It certainly would Mr Spock.
 
I'm sorry, does the correct use of English necessitate sarcasm, if you are not going to contribute to the actual thread then why post? I think it's just because you like picking arguments with me, are you 12?
 
I sense there is a background here . I can't see anything inflammatory in Euronymous post apart from the Mr Spock thing . Listen , there are some forums where this kinda shit goes unnoticed but if you have something personal take it to pm or e-mail . None of the rest of us know why you fell out and unless there is a reason for us to be involved this should be dealt with by you both PRIVATELY. This place is turning into Jerry Springer and the real purpose is being lost . Can we just talk about horses please
 
Not in the General Chit-Chat section, Sols! :lol: Back to the subject: I wanted to watch 'Flog It!' and was equally niggled by the change in time - there was a sweaty, unkempt Anthony Worrall-Thompson being snarky with some other chef in some sort of Cook-Off at the OK Corral going on, and not what I wanted at all. Yes, it is annoying, especially as I buy the Radio Times and expect some resemblance between its information and the darn shows!
 
Originally posted by solerina@Apr 30 2006, 12:17 AM
if you have something personal take it to pm or e-mail . None of the rest of us know why you fell out and unless there is a reason for us to be involved this should be dealt with by you both PRIVATELY.
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On the contrary, I much prefer it when people air thier dirty washing in public.

Some of those slanging matches of old between Shadow Leader and Kathy made great reading!
 
Originally posted by solerina@Apr 29 2006, 11:17 PM
I sense there is a background here . I can't see anything inflammatory in Euronymous post apart from the Mr Spock thing . Listen , there are some forums where this kinda shit goes unnoticed but if you have something personal take it to pm or e-mail .
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It was nothing personal. It`s just that Dr Who and Star Trek share a lot of characteristics, namely that they are both very popular and have since they began attracted obsessive, geeky type fans with little senses of humour. Remind you of anyone on this thread?

Ovverbruv`s logic argument struck me as funny because he was using it in relation to Dr Who and logic was always a big thing with Spock.
 
I do think if you are getting upset with slight overruns on TV schedules you should, respectfully, consider your priorities.
 
Oh, yeah, thanks for reminding me about my now nearly-blind Mother who will never walk more than perhaps six steps with a frame, can't see the beautiful views from her window, and has to have nurses change her fecking 'nappies' through the night, An Capall. Pardon me while I just slightly veered away from my constant daily reminder of my priorities. I'm so sorry to have annoyed you with the petty triviality of a mis-scheduled schedule, and failed to keep reminding myself of the horrors of the world, both up close and far away. Please do keep reminding me and others, so that we will never fall into pettiness ever, ever again.

Maybe you could remind me of people being blown up daily in Iraq, of dispossessed Palestinians, of African babies dying of AIDS, of the mangled remains of Rwanda's youth, of how many died in the tsunami, the repression of women, the abandoned babies of Romania, or maybe you could just shut up and not be so fecking sanctimonious, huh?
 
Hear Hear

But so what if it is not high on your priority list An Capall, it annoys me. I run a business that takes over a million pounds a year and I have to stick to deadlines in order to run it effectively, the BBC has a monopoly on licence fee income, surely they should be makde accountable for falling standards, even if it is for something fairly small like over-running programmes.
 
With regard to the license fee, and i know i`ve said this before, the money they pay people like Bruce Forsyth, Davina McCall and Graham Norton is of far more annoyance than the odd minute here and there.
 
Couldnt agree more Euro.

Considering it is funded by the consumer (us), they are incredibly free with the money that they spend and I think they need to look at pensioning off some of the older presenters for younger (cheaper???) ones at the beginning of a career.

I'm still pissed off about the timekeeping though!!!

Is it just me or is Graham Norton the most untalented presenter on television, all he does is mince at the camera
 
I wasn't addressing you Krizon. Your posts are far too convoluted to read these days and I rarely get past the first line.

My admiration for your caring of your Mum is well known to you and your attack on a percieved, but non existant, personal slight is unworthy.

I still think that this level of annoyance over a couple of minutes on a TV schedule is rather odd.
 
I enjoyed the school reunion episode of Dr Who and old Sarah Jane doesn't look at all bad for 58 . K9 was great to see too.
 
Not keeping to schedule buggers up video recording. Even the sky autoview function regularly misses the start of programs that have kicked off early and might switch you to another program before the current, running late one, has ended. When I look at the rat's nest of wires at the back of my tv/vcr/freeview box/sky box/dvd player and think of the procedure I have to go through to tape a program that I may not see the beginning or end of it makes me wonder if the tv and electronic companies are trying to do a Grot. If they can ever get the broadband speeds that will allow fast and reliable programs on demand, the internet people will take over the world.
 
Originally posted by Honest Tom@May 1 2006, 09:54 AM
Not keeping to schedule buggers up video recording. Even the sky autoview function regularly misses the start of programs that have kicked off early and might switch you to another program before the current, running late one, has ended. When I look at the rat's nest of wires at the back of my tv/vcr/freeview box/sky box/dvd player and think of the procedure I have to go through to tape a program that I may not see the beginning or end of it makes me wonder if the tv and electronic companies are trying to do a Grot. If they can ever get the broadband speeds that will allow fast and reliable programs on demand, the internet people will take over the world.
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Agree. Even worse when they cut off the last minute or two of something - as happned to me on BBC4 the other night. :teeth:
 
Originally posted by Homer J@May 2 2006, 11:59 PM
Agree. Even worse when they cut off the last minute or two of something - as happned to me on BBC4 the other night. :teeth:
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Oh I can top that - have just finished (sic) watching Casablanca on TCM2 - about half way through the film it appearred to jump back several scenes and proceed to play them again - probably lasting about 30 minutes. Some Directorial flashback for 1946!!!

Then with I estimate about 30 minutes of the film still to run, bang, the TCM2 advert kicks in and informs me that the new film now starting will be 'Torpedo Run'

Now I am guessing that Bogart and Bergman get it together but it would have been nice to have been able to watch it. I have ordered the DVD to make sure.
 
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