''Exciting New Dawn'' for five

[neverrusty]

Did Channel Five claim anywhere that Motorway Madness was a groundbreaking programme? I don't believe they did.

What was ITV1 serving up at the time? Oh yes, the highly original Fiddles, Cheats & Scams!

[cornnuts]

Not much evidence of investment in new British programming. And I read somewhere there have been complaints that five haven't made final payments on a number of programmes they've bought in and at least one indie is threatening to sue Desmond.

[blah><]

I like US dramas like Law & Order, The Wire, ER Etc and they are consistently high quality were as the home produced equivalent tenRAB to be very hit and miss. So I'm happy if Five keep the US imports.

[DMB2007]

Exactly. People on here tend to overegg how much of Channel 5's schedule is made up of imports anyway. If we take this week's weekday primetime schedule as an example:

Monday
1900 News (UK)
1930 How Do They Do It? (UK)
2000 The Gadget Show (UK)
2100 Rory & Paddy (UK)

Tuesday
1900 News (UK)
1930 How To Take Stunning Pictures (UK)
2000 Motorway Madness (UK)
2100 CSI: Miami (USA)

Wednesday
1900 News (UK)
1930 How Do They Do It? (UK)
2000 Cowboy Builders (UK)
2100 NCIS (USA)

Thursday
1900 News (UK)
1930 UEFA Europa League (UK)

Friday
1900 News (UK)
1930 Fifth Gear (UK)
2000 Eddie Stobart: Trucks and Trailers (UK)
2100 The Mentalist (USA)

So only 3 hrs out of 15 are American, or 20%. Hardly excessive!

[rusty_nutss]

LOL.


Extreme Fishing with Robson Green. how can you have extreme fishing? Maybe they are fishing when they are surfing the waves.

[thereisnobathroom!]

CH5 seem to be doing better than CH4 a lot of the time now.

[evy is bored!!]

SounRAB like same old, same old.

And Vanessa Feltz??!! :sleep:

[King of the Hill]

Knowing Richard Desmond's other businesses I expected this to be about "Dawn, 21 from Basildon, who when not getting her baps out, enjoys Cycling, Horse Riding and World Peace"

[eliebellie]

Take a chill pill Mr Desmond....

[D-Tes]

So they're taking ITV's rejects? Newsflash, it's not 1997 any more!