25-07-2022, 06:14 PM
(25-07-2022, 02:05 PM)Kunst Wrote: More annoying I think is that UKTV should use 75/80 mins slots for original 58 mins programmes from the BBC, but they're too obsessed by the tight US-like schedule approach based on the half hour and the top of the hour.
UKTV tried that approach (and many others) in their early days, but it didn't work very well for them, because when almost every other channel schedules on the hour and half hour, the number of new viewers becoming available to change channels at, say, 40 minutes past the hour, is fairly small.