Yes, I admit I thought we were done with this nonsense.
Shifting the times around means people who are recording it, or who haven't checked the times before watching, miss either the beginning or the end, which helps to disengage them from the series. Easy to let Celebrity Home Makeover While Ballroom-Dancing In Diving Boots overrun a bit, or cut it short, because people readily assimilate the idea that a telly programme is some sort of natural event you can't control, rather than a tightly scheduled and rigidly budgeted job of work. People miss bits, they lose track, they stop trying to keep up, viewing figures fall off, oh dear how sad never mind, and it's gone.
I did think the BBC was squarely behind the revival, but clearly there are those in programming who still think scientifiction is (a) a passing fad, and/or (b) the work of the Divell.
Re: Why?
Shifting the times around means people who are recording it, or who haven't checked the times before watching, miss either the beginning or the end, which helps to disengage them from the series. Easy to let Celebrity Home Makeover While Ballroom-Dancing In Diving Boots overrun a bit, or cut it short, because people readily assimilate the idea that a telly programme is some sort of natural event you can't control, rather than a tightly scheduled and rigidly budgeted job of work. People miss bits, they lose track, they stop trying to keep up, viewing figures fall off, oh dear how sad never mind, and it's gone.
I did think the BBC was squarely behind the revival, but clearly there are those in programming who still think scientifiction is (a) a passing fad, and/or (b) the work of the Divell.