I don't mind at all - thanks for dropping by! Cliffhangers are part of TV, and they have of course been part of DW since it started in 1963. I don't mind them per se - it's just that splitting a 13 part series into two seems such a stupid thing to do. US seasons are generally longer and I know that some of them are splitting seasons quite successfully, but DW ain't broke, so why are they trying to fix it?
Viewing figures can be made to say many different things, and although there appeared to be a general downward trend in S5, they were bolstered by iPlayer and timeshifted figures. It also didn't help that it was never on at the same time from week to week.
I do think that Moffat is toeing the party line and putting a positive spin on it; after all, series 6 is in production and most of the scripts will have already been completed, which makes me think that the split wasn't part of the original plan. If it heralds a move to the autumn permanently, well, okay, I think that would be a better home for DW, but I think there are better ways to do it,
The thing that annoys me with the Beeb is this - I don't object to paying my licence fee; even though I moan about them sometimes, I do think that on the whole they do a good job. My problem is that, as a publicly funded broadcaster, they shouldn't be producing the sort of crap programmes that are already done ad infinitum by the commercial channels. The BBC in the UK is not funded by advertisers, so they shouldn't be competing for viewing figures with commercial channels. Most of the people who work for the Beeb earn less than they would in the commercial sector - but people want the prestige of wotking at the BBC. So what I'm saying basically,is that they should drop all the crappy reality shows and let ITV have free rein with them, and stick to making decent programmes that a large number of people want to see.
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Viewing figures can be made to say many different things, and although there appeared to be a general downward trend in S5, they were bolstered by iPlayer and timeshifted figures. It also didn't help that it was never on at the same time from week to week.
I do think that Moffat is toeing the party line and putting a positive spin on it; after all, series 6 is in production and most of the scripts will have already been completed, which makes me think that the split wasn't part of the original plan. If it heralds a move to the autumn permanently, well, okay, I think that would be a better home for DW, but I think there are better ways to do it,
The thing that annoys me with the Beeb is this - I don't object to paying my licence fee; even though I moan about them sometimes, I do think that on the whole they do a good job. My problem is that, as a publicly funded broadcaster, they shouldn't be producing the sort of
crapprogrammes that are already done ad infinitum by the commercial channels. The BBC in the UK is not funded by advertisers, so they shouldn't be competing for viewing figures with commercial channels. Most of the people who work for the Beeb earn less than they would in the commercial sector - but people want the prestige of wotking at the BBC. So what I'm saying basically,is that they should drop all the crappy reality shows and let ITV have free rein with them, and stick to making decent programmes that a large number of people want to see.