Football 1 - Doctor Who 0

[mushroom25]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/65447 29.stm - it appears Doctor Who is to be the disposable programme if the football overruns. So despite it being a ratings winner clearly the BBC sees it as less important/relevant than their AL-W karaoke talent show.

Or is it the loss of telephone revenue that they cannot tolerate?

[jenstar]

So you expect them to pull a live programme and send the studio audience, the crew and all the participants home so that they can show a recorded programme that they could put out any time?

[mushroom25]

has it reached the "live show" stage already?

I hadn't actually noticed..... you probably have a point, jenstar.

[Nummy]

why can't they transfer to BBC2 like they do with the tennis?

then they can leave Dr. Who where it is. :o)

[spudqueen]

I remember in the 'old days' when they used to schedule half an hour of cartoons after the cup final so that if it went to extra time the cartoons were dropped and all the other programmes were still on time. Definite lack of common sense these days.

[tonymclark]

Lots of programmes are dropped if live shows overrun.

It will be a pity if Who is dropped this week though, I'm looking forward to the return of a monster from over 40 years ago, and the start of the 2-part Dalek story next week ( it will make nonsense of next weeks Radio Times cover too ).

[annavc]

I read that story and it made me really mad - why is it that bl00dy football takes precidence over everything else. There are actually a lot of people who don't give a damn about it - something which the BBC and all other channels for that matter don't seem to realise!

Hurrumph!

[jas1002]

Do you think that Answer Bank could do one of those polls on it?

I would go Doctor who any time (well anything other than football actualy)

[mushroom25]

I suppose there was never any danger of Watford being equal to Man U and therefore precipitating extra time or penalties....

... and yet, you're never sure how seriously Man U take the FA cup, they could have fielded a reserve side to save themselves for the premiership/champion's league......

[juliacornwal]

annavc, I feel just like you do about football - I loathe it with a passion, but clearly it must generate an enormous amount of revenue, otherwise why would ITV have paid millions of pounds over the odds to show next year's FA cup final, et al? Beats me where all these avid football fans are, I don't know any of them!