02-11-2022, 10:33 AM
(02-11-2022, 10:09 AM)BlueFrog Wrote: Challenge wasn't just all about game-shows, for a good while in circa 2003-2007 they had this MASSIVE obsession with poker that got their viewings quite a boost (surprisingly), they aired movies relating to that matter and even had an imported TV drama 'Dr. Vegas' to fit in with the likes of Bravo (which had Alias) and Living TV which had honestly quite a stackful.
It was cool to see them expand out of their routine but I can see why people would be upset if they did more changes to their normal genre of programming. What's more, for a brief while they cashed in on the recent fairly-cheap reality TV trends and lifestyle programming. They even aired Miss World 2006 for god's sake!
Poker was a trend for many providers in the early 2000's, as was Reality TV later in the decade. Also many other channels got in on the quiz channel strands, including various outputs that wouldn't normally touch that sort of output with a a bargepole (obvious example here is Channel 4)
The channel was originally Family Channel which was relaunched in 1997 with a specific aim of focusing on gameshows, so it had that from the off, though it had started as a strand on Family Channel which was later spun off.
The main argument though as far as scheduling is concerned basically boils down to "they show x, y and z which I don't like, so they should stop showing x, y and z and instead show a, b and c which I do like"