04-05-2021, 08:28 PM
James Martin post_id=10641 time=1620144927 user_id=872 Wrote:Let's take BBC One on May Day 1993: you'd have some children's programmes instead of the breakfast show, that would be followed by a family film over lunchtime. Lunchtime Neighbours & Eldorado, then a massive epic to take us to teatime and the Neighbours encore. Then the Children's Royal Variety Performance, a comedy film, and then Barry Manilow in concert.
Then let's take yesterday... apart from a film in primetime and shorter news, you wouldn't believe it was a Bank Holiday. The daytime schedule is the usual porridge. You know they're phoning it in when there's not even a sight of Mrs. Brown's Boys! :lol:
New and British content between 9am and 6pm on 3rd May 1993, minus news - half an hour (and that's a burned off Eldorado)
New and British content between 9am and 6pm on 3rd May 2021, minus news - five hours (and that's in a pandemic)
I've never understood why showing a load of new British programmes is "lazy" but shoving on a film for its umpteenth screening isn't.