sanders (vb.) to sanders is to fuck about completely with a quality TV show that people other than night owls might enjoy. for example, "Yeah, we totally sandersed Series 7 of Seinfeld"

'To Root' (v). ie, to put Victor Lewis Smith's Ads Infinitum on opposite The Royle Family.

'To Root' (v). ie, to put Victor Lewis Smith's Ads Infinitum on opposite The Royle Family, thereby performing a valuable national service.

>'To Root' (v). ie, to put Victor Lewis Smith's Ads Infinitum on opposite The Royle Family.

Nice pun on the Aussie slang term there Mike.

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> 'To Root' (v). ie, to put Victor Lewis Smith's Ads Infinitum on opposite The Royle Family, thereby performing a valuable national service.

Haw haw haw - did you see what he did then? He muddied a genuine wish to understand deliberate underhand producer-policies by going for a good old fashioned safety-in-numbers slagging of someone everyone else is slagging off anyway. Rejoice, rejoice, he once got a laugh from a bunch of arseholes in a student bar. Now, what about all these children Morris keeps fucking. I reckon the show's called Brasseyes. What do our readers think?

The Harry Hill show was also deliberately buried by C4. Now, how long do you think we can discuss the implications of their actions before Gee turns up and does all his 'I hate Harry Hill so who cares anyway?' material.

Pure undiluted selfishness.

>Haw haw haw - did you see what he did then? He muddied a genuine wish to understand deliberate underhand producer-policies

Just to clear the waters a bit, it's unlikely that a producer would want their show tucked away in the twilight (or "comedy") zone on TWO. It's the schedulers and the controllers who decide the schedules.

Cheerio

What's the term for a show that gets buried in the schedules, but it's a bloody good thing it is - to be "Velvet Souped"?

To Corpse (v.) to grossly overreact to an admittedly lame joke inserted into a thread.

Anyway, you got it wrong, it's called Brass Eye, not Brass Eyes! Even me and my mates in the Student Union know that! Don't you read The Radio Times?

What a pair of grumpy sods!

>To Corpse (v.) to grossly overreact to an admittedly lame joke inserted into a thread.

>Anyway, you got it wrong, it's called Brass Eye, not Brass Eyes! Even me and my mates in the Student Union know that! Don't you read The Radio Times?

You're new here, aren't you?

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>You're new here, aren't you?
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This is in danger of becoming the new forum catchphrase.

When are comedy programmes "dangerously good" and in need of killing? Is it a bit like that thing that Hollywood producers apparently do where if they inherit a project that someone else started, they kill it no matter how good it is - because if it's a success, it looks as if they're riding on someone else's coat-tails, and if it's a failure, they might be blamed?
Maybe new controllers kill shows that their predecessors championed, is that what you're getting at?

It's called "rimming the shark"

It's called "rimming the shark".

> Maybe new controllers kill shows that their predecessors championed, is that what you're getting at?

There seems to be far too much evidence of that.

The point is, there must be a definite decision involved. So is there an unspoken, knowing nod, tapping-of-the-nose gesture around the offices of those responsible, or do they actually admit it to themselves and give the practice a name?

>The point is, there must be a definite decision involved. So is there an unspoken, knowing nod, tapping-of-the-nose gesture around the offices of those responsible, or do they actually admit it to themselves and >give the practice a name?

I'm sure it's named in Adventures in The Screen Trade or something similar ... Can't think of it though.

"Dousing the potato"?

Is this happening more and more because programmes are being commissioned from outside production houses then, when they arrive, not only have the original commissioning producers moved on (the theory expounded above) but there's no-one in house at the channel to champion the project? Now there's nobody creative employed at White City, for example, who can you expect to be on your side? In the old days, the same guy who came up with the idea for the programme might be in the building when the schedule was being drawn up, ready to kick up a stink when his precious project turned up buried at 11.45pm on Tuesday nights.

You hear so often how this or that great old show relied on people like David Attenborough or suchlike pulling strings behind the scenes in management meetings to get them shown. Where are his sort today?

>You hear so often how this or that great old show relied on people like David Attenborough or suchlike pulling strings behind the scenes in management meetings to get them shown. Where are his sort today?

They've probably decided he had the best idea with the nature stuff and gone to wrestle with gorillas as a better career move than trying to devise sensible schedules.

>What's the technical industry term for this?
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It's a variant of Listen With Mother syndrome, according to A level Media Studies waayyyy back when... That's when you move things around from week to week until your audience can't find the show any more, then claim no one is listening/watching and take it off in triumph. Vide Doctor Who etc.

This is just a less blatant version.

I want to know why there is nothing at all to watch at hours like 11am and 5pm, when those who don't work 9-5 might want to watch tv.