RTE have gone completely mad!!!

DMT

Right now I'm witnessing a classic example of RTE's pure scheduling idiocy.

RTE, in their wisdom, have decided to show the new series of Smallville at 1pm on a Saturday.

The first episode is being shown right now. And they didn't even advertise it. What are they at?

ixoy

The fcuk? You're kidding right? RIGHT?! What utter incompetent morons. I mean this is yet another class example of their concept of scheduling - earlier in the year they got bored of 'CSI' and yanked it off the air mid-season. A new series of 'Smallville' at this time - NO ADVERTISING.
FFS - put it on TG4 instead where they treat their viewers with far more respect.

DMT

I wouldn't have even known, if I hadn't accidently turned it on and recognised it as the first episode from the 3rd series...

MOD EDIT: Sorry but I can't allow the discussion of possible warez.:ninja:

Capt'n Midnight

Now you know how it felt to watch Bab5 on Channel 4...

DMT

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Now you know how it felt to watch Bab5 on Channel 4...

The same can be said for Enterprise and South Park on Channel 4. They didn't appear to advertise the new Enterprise series and I've missed the last three years of South Park, thanks to them not advertising it at all and putting it in a graveyard slot - made think they were repeats when they were new...

Crucifix

Nooo!
7pm on a friday was perfect!

Cabaal

/me remembers back to the days when RTE aired Stargate SG-1 at around 2am on Monday nights, ah the memories....
:rolleyes:

Stark

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Now you know how it felt to watch Bab5 on Channel 4...

Hehe, remember hearing so much about Babylon 5, how great it was etc. Then having a conversation with someone - "So that was one of these 70's cult tv shows right?", "No, this used air the same time as Deep Space Nine", "What? I never knew it aired in the past few years!".

DMT

They've also failed to show one single of episode of That 70's Show for past two years. They can't even make their DOG tags transparent like TG4 and TV3....

Elmo

Just to let you know what RTE Network 2 are like, I have compiled their statistics.

Which is soooooo annoying. Basically N2 of late have been getting up my nose.


Statistics of Network 2’s prime time schedule

Number Of Programme Hours = 28hrs = 100%
Number Of Irish Programme Hours = 7hrs 20mins = 26%
Number Of Original Irish Programmes for N2 Hours = 1hr = 0.03%
Number Of Foreign Programme Hours = 20hrs 40mins = 74%
Number Of Repeat Programme Hours = 8hrs = 28%
Number Of Movie Hours = 12hrs (6movies taking the average as 2hrs per movie) = 42%
Number Of Documentary Programme Hours = 8hrs = 28%

Programmes outside the 6 to 11 primetime

New:
Meeting Che Guevara 30mins
Street Time 1hr
Western Union Football 30mins
That 70’s Show 30mins
A Scare At Bedtime 10mins
The Book Group 30mins
The Dead Zone 1hr
Ed 1hr
Six Feet Under 1hr 20mins
Push, Nevada 1hr
The Practice 1hr
Weird Science 30mins
McLeod’s Daughter 1hr
The Secret Life Of Us 1hr
The District 1hr
Sue Thomas F B Eye 1hr
Plus News 2*4 2hrs
Repeats Plus Movies
Plus Four Movies, That’s Life News, Telly Bingo *2, The Drew Carey Show, Undeclared
Total New Shows Show After 11pm 14hrs 50mins

Total Number of Repeats from 6 to 11 8hrs

Total Number of Movies from 6 to 11 12hrs

Elmo

I actually like Smallville on Saturdays at 1 I always missed it when others in the house were watching Emmerdale and Coro St for the 5th night running. :mad:

And there is something to watch on N2 on Saturday afternoon.

Good opening episode.

To Be Continued.......

That got me more then the time it was on at.

Elmo

Sorry for being so contaradicing in the above post.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

But I am with you.

Grrrr N2 Grrrr.


Up The People

DMT

Originally posted by Elmo
I actually like Smallville on Saturdays at 1 I always missed it when others in the house were watching Emmerdale and Coro St for the 5th night running. :mad:

They could just repeat it then, showing it primetime on a weekday. Especially seeing as they like repeating things so much that they refuse to buy any new episodes (eg That 70's Show).

Whoever is doing the scheluling for RTE (Net 2 in particular), is a mentalor....

Elmo

Oddly they fired Head of N2 (Who happens to be head of scheduling) due to some harrestment of presenters, I beleive it was Socky and Dustin who ganged up on him and had him fired in the end. (All over the news papers)

So they replaced that guy with TV3's Scheduler???? What the hell he has done to N2 I do not know.

They could just repeat it then, showing it primetime on a weekday. Especially seeing as they like repeating things so much that they refuse to buy any new episodes (eg That 70's Show).

They could AXE Emmerdale and Coronation St. and Fair City and EastEnders etc etc.

Linoge

They could AXE Emmerdale and Coronation St. and Fair City and EastEnders etc etc.

Too true!! Make some room for good programmes. There are way too many soaps. If you live with a woman you cant watch tv from 6-9 pm. AGHHHHHH!!

Anyway, does anyone remember about 3 years ago when they used to put Law and Order on at 12.30 am??!!! that annoyed the sh!t out of me. Talk about messing up your sleeping pattern!

ixoy

Originally posted by Linoge
Anyway, does anyone remember about 3 years ago when they used to put Law and Order on at 12.30 am??!!! that annoyed the sh!t out of me. Talk about messing up your sleeping pattern!

I'm expecting the move back to some crappy slot anytime soon. After all it's probably popular, like CSI, so it makes SENSE to move it into a god awful time slot so we can have repeats of old nature programs that nobody watches :rolleyes:

Elmo

Things N2 should do:-

1. Wednesday Nights:- Make it a sports night when, Chapions League is not on put other sporting programmes on, rather then replacing Chapions League with Beaker, Law and Order and Law And Order CI.

2. Get rid on N2 wild History etc.:- Why because they are not PBS by any streach of the imagination most of the docs are very bad and aren't worthy of a prime time slot. Instead at 8pm each night put a new show on.

3. Monday Nights:- Make it comedy night one more not just after 9 from 7 to 11.

4. News 2:- If you want it at 11pm every night then put the movie on Thursday nights on at 9pm, if it runs over don't show as many adds.

5. Cop On:mad:

Go Figure!

I agree with all your points Elmo. I would love to meet the Network Two scheduler and give him or her a punch. He or she has ruined a once decent channel. It is now by a country mile the worst of any of the Irish channels. I used to watch it regulurly but now I actually can't remember the last time I watched anything on it! I thought it was aimed at the 15-35 age group but its current schedule scarcely reflects this and most of that age group have to wait till after midnight to find something decent to watch on it with the exception of Friends of Scrubs. No more wildlife documentaries, cookery programmes and old films PLEASE!!!!! My advice to multi-channel viewers would be to watch Smallville, Monday Nights at 9.00pm on E4, 10.00pm on E4+1 , repeated on Sunday's at 8.00 and 9.00 on those channels!