Enough is Enough ITV

Ofcom could hardly stop them showing a perfectly good Programme which doesn't break any of their rules - just because some people (which, btw, include me) think it's overkill.

If they could, do you really think Channel 4 would still be airing 10 episodes of Friends a day?

Personally, I think four episodes a week is fine. 2 Monday episodes got too much for me, 3 tonight is going to destory me with boredom, but then having 7 episodes the following week will kill me.

Please, nobody suggest simply not watching them. It's a soap, and with a soap like Corrie if you miss 3 episodes you may not have a clue what's going on. I've been a regular Corrie viewer for years now and I really don't want that to happen. I just have other things to do in the evenings - I don't want to spend all my time watching Corrie. Surely ITV must have realised that plenty of people will feel exactly the same way about this.

Rita, why would your friend contact ofcom regarding the scheduling of a commercial broadcaster? Its simply a soap opera, and isn't claiming to be anything other than what it is - populist programming.

Would you not admit that is rather a waste of their time?

It's worth wondering how much longer this soap overkill will last. ITV might be getting away with it now, but it won't last. Sooner or later the cracks will show badly, both in the writing for so many episodes, and the cast and crew working so hard and viewing figures will start to suffer too (and ITV won't realise why viewing figures are dropping). Brookside never went above 3 episodes a week unless there was a big storyline, at least they got it right.

Well don't let me start dragging facts into this conjecture, but look what happened to Brookie.

This week sees a big storyline coming to its conclusion, hence the multiple episodes; not the start of 24 hour Corrie, so I'm sure you lot needn't ring the death knell just yet.

Well said.

And during Euro 2004, I'm sure there will be Corrie fans moaning about how the football has replaced it. Dare I say, Ofcom may be receiving another letter.

I think Corrie has got it right at the moment. The double episodes work really well to develop a story. However, 6 nights including hour specials of Emmerdale is a bit much - I'd restrict it to five episodes, or reformat it into three hour-long episodes a week.

I'll second that!

Let them change the name of ITV 1 to ITV Corrie. Its gonna make people hate that show!! Corrie overkill. Its **** any way.

It amazes me how so many people miss the point on this one.

ITV don't show Corrie 5+ times a week because they like the show. They don't do it because they can't be bothered making anything else. They don't do it to hack off people that don't like Corrie.

They do it because truckloads of people will watch it!! They're a commercial broadcaster and you can't blame them for doing lots of whatever it is that pulls the viewers in.

Complaing to Offcom about it is the most amusing thing I've heard for a long while. Whoever does that really needs to find something more important to worry about!

And just for reference, I can't stand Corrie and I never watch it. But then again I'm not so full of myself to expect ITV to show the programmes I like and no others.

Yes but in the long term, it won't be beneficial for the channel. Theres something called overkill that might damage the shows reputation. I think it's imprtant to show something that obviously millions of people watch, but when things begin to get exploted the public realise and soon switch off!!

I think you are all getting unnecessarily excited for NO reason!

There is NO Corrie on Wednesday due to the footie and so this 'EXTRA' episode that was aired on Monday night at 22:00 was only Wednesday's edition brought forward to a monday night!

Therefore it isnt as bad as some people are trying to make out!

Admittedly there is also a double bill on Friday night which equates to only ONE extra episode for this week!
Considering it was the culmination of one massive storyline and another minor one, I think there was enough material to air this extra episode.

The only thing I would've preferred is fr ITV to have more guts and show 60 minute episodes of Corrie, beginning at 19:30, thus clashing with Eastenders! It would be interesting to see the rating figures and whether it would repeat the feat recorded by the 60 minute episode of Emmerdale last Tuesday!

With Eastenders currently performing so badly I think ITV should try a 60 minute episode with the latter 30 minutes up against Eastenders! What have they got to lose?

But - why?

A lot of people watch both Coronation Street and EastEnders. Why should they miss out so two channels can play out some sort of ratings war?

And EastEnders' ratings were up to 11.2million last night, so it's not 'performingly so badly' after all.