I know what you mean. I would
much
rather a closedown on bbc1/2 at 1am or whenever than pointless BBC News taking up unnessiscary air time all through the night.
Why, what advantage would that give? It's not like the old days where they can turn off their transmitters and save on electricity
There was a surprisingly (for ITV) trippy sketch show about 7 or 8 years ago in the early hours called Dare to Believe and I thought it was the most wonderful thing ever! I think there might be some full episodes on YouTube now.
I know what you mean. I would
much
rather a closedown on bbc1/2 at 1am or whenever than pointless BBC News taking up unnessiscary air time all through the night.
All of the digital channels either show re-runs of old tv shows that nobody ever watches, or they use the pointless Teleshopping thing that nobody uses either.
So, either way - nobody's watching it.
I'd like to see your research for this - because I reckon it's probably a load of ****.
Most of the ITV Channels have Teleshopping, BBC 1 alternates programs with BBC News & BBC2 Closes down (where there is a blank space) at 03:59am. The other channels either close around 4am or show Teleshopping or an equivalent (Home Shopping on Living and Bravo) or shows repeats of earlier broadcasts.
I know perfectly well the schedules for the evenings - I can see them for myself.
No, my question was more concerned with the sweeping generalisatons like TV shows "nobody ever watches", "unnecissary air time" [sic] taken up by BBC News, and that "nobody uses" Teleshopping.
Don't turn into Brekkie - try and support your arguments with fact, then you'll go a long way.
Personally I think that Nighttime TV is less important now due to the quantity of digital channels
If you were making a low budget off the wall programme in 1995, you would hope to get commissioned for ITV at 2am. Now you would try to get commissioned on a random digital channel at peak time
For example, as already mentioned 'Dare to believe' or 'Turn on Terry', you could imagine these on ITV2 at 10pm now rather than ITV1 at 1am
I suspect the same happened here as with a few other corners of the schedule. ITV has a high maximum number of advertising minutes in an hour compared with the permitted average, and so the advertising spots are transferred to times when more people are watching, and thus there is no financial incentive for ITV to produce programmes in the night.
The BBC tends to follow ITV, thus no one produces programmes at night.
Five had an incentive to produce live sports as they counted toward some quota or other, but that has changed in the last year, so they are also reducing the live programming in the night.
It has been a deliberate policy of OFCOM in order to help sure up the ITV peak time schedule in particular.
Bring back Night Network, God's Gift and Carnal Knowledge
Anyone know why the BBC cut back The Learning Zone? At least some of the programmes in this were interesting. Used to think the same about Schools during Daytime on Two.
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Channel 4 used to be the channel to watch when the parents had gone to bed for my generation. Especially Friday nights - South Park, Family Guy and a whole load of other good stuff would often take you to 3 or 4 in the morning. All went a bit rubbish around 2003/2004.
A few Christmas' ago BBC Two ran a 'Stay up late' strand which was bloody brilliant too - shame this can't be extended or used more often.
I know what you mean. I would
much
rather a closedown on bbc1/2 at 1am or whenever than pointless BBC News taking up unnessiscary air time all through the night.
All of the digital channels either show re-runs of old tv shows that nobody ever watches, or they use the pointless Teleshopping thing that nobody uses either.
So, either way - nobody's watching it.
If you believe nobody watches (or in turn purchases from) teleshopping strands and infomercials, you're living in cloud cuckoo land.
Its a multi-million pound industry.
Where is the benefit to "closing down" a television service overnight?
There were some fun shows on ITV Nighttime...'Get Stuffed' for one, ultra-cheapo low budget crazy-youth cookery show with mad camera work and general insanity. Still being repeated a few years ago with everyone in c.1993 hairstyles and clothes. Might even still be repeated actually, dunno.
If it hadn't been on in the dead of night it would have never been allowed on TV, but somehow the timeslot made it acceptable...
I remember that too. I think the same team made 'That Prezzie Show' as well. I remember watching it in disbelief that something so poor could get on national television.
Incidentally, The Day Today did a spoof on Get Stuffed, called Sorted!
Anyone know why the BBC cut back The Learning Zone? At least some of the programmes in this were interesting. Used to think the same about Schools during Daytime on Two.
Large chunks of the Learning Zone were Open University programming and the OU stopped doing their courses via TV.
