Re: Free video-CDs for everyone! (Wednesday 9pm)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A. J. Moss
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > The schedulers have really fucked us over on this one. At 9pm this
> > Wednesday there are no fewer than four unmissable programmes on
> > terrestrial TV:
> 
> and why can't the chanels agree on a common clock! I wanted to video
> The Bill (8pm-9pm) followed by Teachers (9pm to 10pm)  -- to watch in
> real time progs on other channels -- but by the time The Bill had
> finished, Teachers had already started early!
> 
Quite often on a Friday, Eastenders finishes after 8.30 and Airline starts 
just before it. The TV channels are run by complete and utter mongs when they 
do this, because they do it on purpose.

It's not difficult to look at the clock and run to time. It is possible - 
BBC1's 10pm news counts up to 10pm, but Newsnight usually runs late on purpose 
on BBC2 because it meets the "programme junction" at about 10.33pm with the 
end of the local news on BBC1. Why not just change them over AT 10.30pm?

However, BBC2's Working Lunch almost always starts pretty much bang on time.

I recorded the early rounds of Pop Idol on both the ITV and ITV2 show, and 
every week it clashed, with the ITV2 show starting 5 minutes early. I found I 
usually got the whole of both if I added 2 minutes onto the ITV show, so the 
ITV2 recording technically started 7 minutes late, but the schedulers really 
are total and utter incompetent bastards.

No other words for it. I used to work in a Little Chef. What if I regularly 
missed off parts of a customer's meal? Or when I used to work in a DSS office, 
I regularly underpaid people and shrugged off complaints about it with the 
indifference TV companies give us? Would the Bardsleys have been so 
understanding if I lived in their area? I doubt it.
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