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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - tellyblues - 07-05-2024

C4 airing new shows during breakfast hours would be a waste of time and money. They'd be as well simulcasting with E4 anyway.

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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - gottago - 08-05-2024

Cats Does Countdown the latest to be "paused" with episodes still on the shelf. Hard to think of what's left really!

https://deadline.com/2024/05/channel-4-8-out-of-10-cats-does-countdown-delay-1235908392/ 

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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - Brekkie - 08-05-2024

I think a problem C4 has are some of it's most popular shows are also some of it's most tired. Catsdown has never really recovered from the loss of Sean Lock.

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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - VMPhil - 08-05-2024

If the money problems are so bad they can't even produce panel shows, something has gone seriously wrong somewhere.

But I do think it's a programme that should be retired anyway.

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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - Ash101 - 08-05-2024

(08-05-2024, 02:01 PM)VMPhil Wrote:  If the money problems are so bad they can't even produce panel shows, something has gone seriously wrong somewhere.

Agree, it's a curious one. This is the type of show they should still be pulling out to fill some Friday 9pm slots with new content outside of Gogglebox.

But they've not really consistently utilised it for quite a few years now... although wasn't there a story around how until they air the episodes, they don't have to pay the production company the full fee? So I guess that may be why.

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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - tellyblues - 08-05-2024

That nobody is desperately awaiting any of these delayed shows and airing repeats works out better financially, no wonder C4 are doing this.

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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - eyeTV - 08-05-2024

(08-05-2024, 05:10 PM)tellyblues Wrote:  That nobody is desperately awaiting any of these delayed shows and airing repeats works out better financially, no wonder C4 are doing this.

Don't C4 have any PSB responsibilities to create new content?

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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - tellyblues - 08-05-2024

(08-05-2024, 06:24 PM)eyeTV Wrote:  Don't C4 have any PSB responsibilities to create new content?

Of course but I can't imagine whatever the bare minimum is is dangerously close to not being fulfilled.

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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - Brekkie - 08-05-2024

Not sure if they have a quota but they offer by far the least new content of the commercial PSBs currently. Probably about six hours a day, with less on Saturdays. ITV has eight hours before C4 even show their first original programme of the day.

I do think some of these stories are just fairly standard production decisions which become caught up with the stories of C4 struggling as not that unusual for some shows to record a significant number of episodes in advance then not film for over a year, but overall big changes are needed to get the channel out of it's current rutt - and can't see the necessary changes happening under current management.

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RE: C4 Programme Commissioning Woes - Steve in Pudsey - 08-05-2024

Interestingly, according to Wikipedia there are four episodes of Cats does Countdown which have been shown in Australia and New Zealand. I was going to say that some of the recent series have suffered from not having some of the stalwarts of earlier series like Sarah Pascoe and Katherine Ryan but the latter features in two of the unaired episodes. I guess coordinating with the various tour dates of the comics is difficult.

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