TV stations and ratings periods

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I don't remember this being a problem in the UK but here in Oz the ratings periods, 40 weeks a year excluding 2 weeks at Easter and ten weeks from mid November onwards, play havoc with your viewing when the periods end.

For example, Channel 10 which shows most of the programs I watch will happily stop a series half way through and then begin again 10 weeks later. Both House and Life have just been stopped after episode 8 and won't be back until Feb. The cnuts.

10 also have a horrible habit of slipping in a repeat without notice if there is a big event on another channel. They also completely fecked up showing Jericho which was away for a mid season hiatus and when it returned they showed the first new episode on Friday evening when the key demographic for the program was out at the pub and then canned the whole series when, surprise surprise, they got only half the previous viewing figures. They will probably now show it and use the rubbish viewing figures to justify their previous descision despite the fact that many viewers of the show will already have seen the missing episode via torrents.

Have these cnuts never heard of torrents? Do they really think people will hang around for nearly 3 months for the latest episode of House? Cnuts.
 
Mate, I can't even get Foxtel because I'm in an apartment block that won't hook it up unless I pay for singular installation that will set me back at least three monkeys.
Aussie TV in general is pathetically bad, dire at the best of times. It is sad when the only highlights are the Simpsons (which is played to death here) and me and the missus looking forward to them playing re-runs of Friends on Channel Ten this summer.
 
I don't mind the TV because 3 or 4 nights per week there is a program I'll watch at 8.30 or 9.30. Any other time I won't be watching anyway. I can put up with the long ads. I can put up with rubbish Aussie sport on the box all the time but being treated like an utter cnut by Channel 10 gets right up my nose. They spend the whole year boasting about their shows being "streamed" directly from the US, in fact usually 24hrs later, and then cut you off in the middle of a series.
 
Shows like Californication and that which were meant to have been streamed direct which actually a few weeks behind I read.
There are a few shows on which I am sad enough to have to watch, like I do watch Lost and Heroes when they're on, usually Channel Seven is a good night on a Thursdays and they're showing The Amazing Race again this week which me and the missus enjoy, but it's embarrassing when these daft American shows are the best thing on Aussie telly. Even watching the football coverage on SBS is annoying when you have to listen to the twats who present it with their pretentious pronunciations and Foster's ridiculous analysis and 'mmms' and 'aaahs', but let's not get started on that cnut, I'll be here all day....
 
TV sucks badly. Here in England, I dont know which channel it is, I think ITV, they break up a movie with advertisings, well ok, they do this everywhere, but this is the absolute horror- after an hour into the movie they show NEWS for about half an hour!!! This is just unbelievable, who on earth is gonna spend two hours in which he is actually going to see only one hour of the movie? What then is the point in watching a movie anyway? It's ridiculous.

Last week they showed Schindler's List and they didn't even have the decency to abstain from showing advertisings after every 20 minutes or so.
 
People that leave the UK and hear the cnuts back home moaning about the licence fee and why they should pay it want to slap those moaning about it, because in truth, the feckers actually don't realise what they have.
 
True, true. TV in England is very good to be fair and you do miss it.
Although if Mihajlovic knew that in Oz, they have ads on during a movie in almost every channel, he would no doubt top himself.
They show movies at 8.30pm on a Sunday night and a normal two-hour movie can take you past midnight to watch it with all the commercials, I kid you not....
 
Johnno said:
Shows like Californication and that which were meant to have been streamed direct which actually a few weeks behind I read.
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Californication was actually shown almost at the same time as in the US. Like house it was usually shown about 24 hrs behind although I think the last episode or 2 may have been a week behind due to them not showing it one week.
 
Johnno said:
True, true. TV in England is very good to be fair and you do miss it.
Although if Mihajlovic knew that in Oz, they have ads on during a movie in almost every channel, he would no doubt top himself.
They show movies at 8.30pm on a Sunday night and a normal two-hour movie can take you past midnight to watch it with all the commercials, I kid you not....
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Which is why I almost never watch movies on TV
 
That was probably it then, I remember they didn't show it for a week or two due to something happening, can't remember what now.
That was a decent show, started off well then went a bit tame.
What I can't stand, another thing, is when they put a show on then decide after one or two episodes it's not rating well then take it off or feck it off to a later time slot. GAY.
One thing that really annoyed me was when they put The Sopranos on last year after midnight, I've still not seen most of last years stuff.
They shown the Champions League hour at 11.35pm on Thursday night, I was bo-bo's well before that me. Thank god for Youtube to see the goals...
 
Wibble said:
Which is why I almost never watch movies on TV
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In recent weeks I have downloaded Shooter with Wahlberg, average but watchable, The Heartbreak Kid with Ben Stiller, he's a right annoying twat but some funny moments.
Got out some dvd's for the first time in about a year Sat night, got Reno 911: Miami which was daft and Disturbia, with that lad from Transformers which was quite good.
 
Wibble said:
I don't remember this being a problem in the UK but here in Oz the ratings periods, 40 weeks a year excluding 2 weeks at Easter and ten weeks from mid November onwards, play havoc with your viewing when the periods end.

For example, Channel 10 which shows most of the programs I watch will happily stop a series half way through and then begin again 10 weeks later. Both House and Life have just been stopped after episode 8 and won't be back until Feb. The cnuts.

10 also have a horrible habit of slipping in a repeat without notice if there is a big event on another channel. They also completely fecked up showing Jericho which was away for a mid season hiatus and when it returned they showed the first new episode on Friday evening when the key demographic for the program was out at the pub and then canned the whole series when, surprise surprise, they got only half the previous viewing figures. They will probably now show it and use the rubbish viewing figures to justify their previous descision despite the fact that many viewers of the show will already have seen the missing episode via torrents.

Have these cnuts never heard of torrents? Do they really think people will hang around for nearly 3 months for the latest episode of House? Cnuts.
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They've responded in the uk to torrents by showing them the week after the hit the US, but now UK schedules are fecked around by US breaks, prison breaks has been stop start so its the same on Sky who show it, not that it effects me I download everything.
 
Oh, and right now we're in the golden era of television, budgets are huge, theres a ton of shows to choose from and not all of them are shite, enjoy.
 
You can get Lebanese, Arabic, Greek, Brazilian, Italian, Vietnamese etc etc television here in Oz, why can't we get Sky TV or BBC or whatever?
We can get UKTV on Foxtel, but it's full of mainly daft old stuff like Last of the Summer Wine and Eastenders from 2001 that no-one wants to see.
 
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