Strictly Took Over Saturday Nights Tele

[renegadefm]

Non of our family likes Strictly. 

It took over Saturday nights tele, even The Wheel was cancelled, and The hit list which are staples in our family. 

Thank God for DVDS I say. 

Why does the BBC automatically assume everyone one are Strictly fans? 

[Buenchico]

>>> "Thank God for DVDS I say"

DVDs are old technology.

This is from 5 years ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/08/the-death-of-the-dvd-why-sales-dropped-more-than-86percent-in-13-years.html
but sales have fallen off even more since then, especially with supermarkets pulling them from their shelves.  (Sainsbury's stopped selling them in 2021, with Tesco then dropping them from their product range the following year).  

Many (most?) film distributors no longer release new titles on DVD.

[ToraToraTora]

you mean the BBC somehow forces you to watch? There are other channels me old china!

[newmodarmy]

For the rest of the year do they  assume everyone likes the wheel and the hit list.  The figures will I'm sure show how popular strictly is.

 

[gingejbee]

"It took over Saturday nights tele".

Just how many channels do you have and how many of them were "taken over"?

[barry1010]

I remember when there was only 2 channels and often there was nothing on both that appealed to me.

At least there is a bigger choice now, with TV and streaming.

We used to enjoy board games. 

[Arksided]

I might be missing you'r point here... OP.

BUT DVDs are old technology.

Gosh I'm an antique

[douglas9401]

Penny finally drops that nobody cares about a random family or what they like.

[Barmaid]

They don't assume it, they put stuff on that they think will get viewers - which it did in the millions. There are several hundred other channels to choose from.

[smurfchops]

And Morning Live won't let it go with one of the professional dancers on every day ...  it's too much.  Strictly is fixed all the way through anyway.  

[renegadefm]

Well when I say take over the tele, I meant they ommited the shows we like to watch and replaced them with Strictly. 

They could have just put the ommited shows on BBC 2. 

Oh by the way our local ASDA still sells a decent range of CD's DVD'S and Blurays, I just bought a few there. 

[barry1010]

The BBC2 viewers would then be complaining.  SCD is one of the most watched series on the BBC, of course it is going to be on BBC1.  It gets far higher ratings than your favourites, renegade.

 

[renegadefm]

barry1010, 

Yeah true barry, I understand Strictly is probably the most watched thing on tv other than the news.

The ommited shows we're also prime time shows, all be it less watched than Strictly. 

But I do tend to think the BBC could have put the prime time shows on BBC 2 or make them available to stream. 

I can't speak for the country, but we do look forward to Saturday evening tele. 

Of course theres other channels, but its the ommited shows that we looked forward to.

My partner said on Facebook theres a group she goes on and loads of people were complaining how the normal prime time shows were ommited. Which makes me think Strictly isn't to everyone's taste. 

[barry1010]

If course it isn't to everyone's taste.

We don't watch any of those shows you mentioned on this thread, we did watch Strictly but not for some years now.

We watch dramas we've recorded, or switch the TV off.

[renegadefm]

barry1010, 

I'm not really into dramas, but even if I did, I don't think a drama is particularly how I view a typical Saturday night tele. 

I grew up on a cocktail of Saturday night tele was Generation Game, Celebrity Squares, basically game shows, or comedy like Dick Emery. 

Actually on a Saturday evening I adored Dukes of Hazzard. 

I think Saturday night tele is unique to weekly programmes and rightly so because its a night to relax and let your hair down type of thing. 

It probably sounds corny, but I do look forward to sitting down with the family and watch typical Saturday night tele, which these days typically is The Wheel, Blankety Blank, The Hit list, The voice, Behind the mask. You get the picture. 

But Strictly I just can't stand it. They have modernised it too much now for a start, it was not so bad when Bruce Forsyth and Len Goodman was on it, but not really my cup of tea even then. 

So in my opinion the BBC are making a mistake by ommiting typical prime time Saturday night shows, when all they had to do was make the ommited shows available somewhere else. I wouldn't mind that at all.