caz963: (L&O UK Matt)
caz963 ([personal profile] caz963) wrote2009-04-09 10:44 pm
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Huh?

I missed L&O:UK on Monday, so I've just caught up this evening. I thought they'd made more that seven episodes though? Or did I read somewhere that for some, unfathomable reason, stupid ITV has decided to split the season in half? Way to go when you're trying to establish a new show!

I know that UK seasons are a lot shorter than US ones, but we don't usually have a mid-season hiatus; I can't think of another UK show where that's happened. Although that doesn't mean a lot, because I don't watch a lot of UK telly! Sure, it happens with US shows that are on over here - although again, not often - mostly, because we get them months after they screen in the US, it means we can watch a whole season without breaks, which is one of the arguments in favour of our getting the shows later. Fringe has just been on a really long break, probably necessitated by the break in the US. We've just had episode 13 here, meaning we're now two weeks behind the states.

I'm watching ER now (which still has a few weeks to run here) - did Brad lend his moustache to William H Macy? ;-)
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[identity profile] hockeyvaughnfan.livejournal.com 2009-04-09 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
They did indeed film more episodes than that. They've done 13 in total (they only finished a couple of weeks ago), but yeah ITV in the idiocy have decided to hold the rest over for a new season *shakes head at idiots*
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[personal profile] hooloovoo_42 2009-04-09 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
ITV are crap at showing programmes as a season. Ma watches Heartbeat and The Royal on a Sunday night, but they regularly break the seasons up, leaving a storyline unfinished, with no clue as to when it's coming back. Apparently, the cast hate this, as they spend months filming and don't know when things are going to be shown. It's especially bad when they just chop everything off to show Dancing on Ice.

Since they announced the closure of the Leeds studio, where Heartbeat etc and Emmerdale are based, nobody knows what's going to happen. The locals in the places that they film are worried they are going to lose all the money that the filming brings to the area. I think ITV are just going through a lot of bad times, but most of it is brought on by them having no concept of viewer loyalty to programmes.

And yes, the moustache does seem to have been contagious!
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