Heartbeat (1992 - 2010)

[caspergrl]

I think ITV are getting greedy showing TXF on Saturday and Sunday next week. Makes it sound they don't have any originality

Maybe they should have shown The Royal from next week. Better than having TXF on a Sunday night

[S h [A] h X e B]

Roll on X factor - which is far more repetitive than Heartbeat ever was yet you can never remember 12 months later who any of the characters were.

[mimi: v♥te Figgy!]

I still miss the era when you got a good costume drama as part of the bbc childrens tv output like vanity fair or a dickens then church then poldark or the onedin line or a horseman riding by etc

[kingfresh512]

But they didn't know it had been cancelled (supposedly)...

[Elibby]

Yet another good show being axed when clearly the public still watch it. And instead we get endless x-factor/reality type shows... x-factor, dancing on ice, i'm a celebrity. The increase of reality shows and sacrifice of shows like Heartbeat is causing me to turn my tv off.

[fishtacos.]

Absolutely.

It has a huge fanbase, and deserved better. I didn't watch every series but I respect the fact that it was popular, and the fans should have been given a farewell special.

[The Ocelot]

I know they are fluffy and light stuff but I think theres room for HB and the royal in the ITV schedules why does everything have to be hardhitting gritty realism some of us like lying in the gutter looking at the stars rather than lying in the gutter looking at the sewerage

[Anonymous #265]

There was the ultimate discourtesy from ITV, plugging another programme whilst the last ever credits were rolling. The BBC knew better than to do that with the final episode of Last of the Summer Wine.

[hotelfordogs111]

I agree-the same was true of Last of the Summer Wine which apparently writer Roy Clarke half thought the BBC would change their minds. Both shows deserved a fitting end which neither have got.
ITV have set the show up to fail in the last three or four years and in that time the BBC were able to be effective against it for pretty much the first time. Heartbeat has seen off a succession of otherwise worthy BBC opposition including Ballykissangel, Born and Bred, and Monarch of the Glen and Pride and Predujice all of which had to play second fiddle in the Sunday 8.00 slot despite getting ratings which would be very acceptable today.

[The Ocelot]

What a stupid ending!
They could have allowed one final final episode for Oscar's funeral.
That would have been a much better ending to the show.