TV Scheduling.

Un Croissant

If you look at the TV schedule for this evening you will see three hours of Family Guy and American Dad with the last hour being a replay of the first hour. The mind boggles at this scheduling (although TV3 and 3e are bad anyway).

On Sky you'll often see the same movies on night after night. How can this be a draw for viewers?

ancapailldorcha

They'll be monitoring how many people are tuning in to watch them. If the shows preceding and following them aren't drawing the same number, they get ditched. It's all about advertising revenue.

keith16

Does anyone actually watch TV according to a pre-defined schedule anymore?

kneemos

I wouldn't knock it,Family Guy is nearly the best thing they have.

dan1895

Tv is painfully repetitive these days. Non stop re runs of friends the Simpsons etc. Bruce Allmighthy has been on at least twice since the weekend. Thank god there's a World Cup coming along to break up the repetitiveness although that's not going to be to everyone's liking either.

anncoates

Rarely watch programmes at scheduled time anyway.

Sometimes actually handier having programmes repeated, for example on those +1 versions of satellite channels because you can choose what time to record something.

Davarus Walrus

Who would watch three hours of Family Guy in a row? Unless you've recently had a frontal lobotomy.

fussyonion

I almost know the scheduling of some channels off by heart at this stage.
How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory are ALWAYS on one channel.

At least once a week there'll be a Clint Eastwood film and most likely it'll be Dirty Harry or that other one with Sondra Locke.

Flick over to More4 and it's Come Dine with Me, which was cool maybe five years ago but stale now, followed by Four in a Bed/Jamie's 30 Minute Meals.

Sick of the same shows.

Alf. A. Male

Ah television, sure that's just something to glance at occasionally over the edge of the laptop while you post on Boards.

fearrua

"Chewing gum for the eyes"- Father Ted.

sbsquarepants

Excluding sports, which are not to everyones taste 99.9% of tv is pure and utter shíte. TV3 and 3e are absolutely unwatchable. Except the woman who presents FYI - I'd watch her all day:D

zcorpian88

RTE's scheduele is God awful too, about a week or two ago I discovered Castle was on at 1am. That should be on a lot earlier as it's a decent show, certainly knocks every bland RTE programme out of the water.

Another show that was good was Luther, they were showing that on late nights for months instead of like 9 or 10pm.

Also they droppped the ball when The Big Bang Theory started, some love it and some hate it but when that show started in 2007 every other non Irish station was showing it during prime time hours, what does RTE do? Show it at 1am, when the liklihood that most people were in bed asleep.

These days I watch a lot of Discovery, Netflix or something on Projectfreetv since there isn't a hope of it coming onto RTE or any other Irish broadcaster unless the show is well passed it's peak or over altogether!

Being honest here, I'm convinced RTE's programming is linked to mental illness in middle aged people, they don't know what else to watch but the mind numbing rubbish they put out and have the cheek to charge a license fee for it.