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The West Wing
A great show so why change the broadcast time?
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Suzanne Bell
10th Mar 03
Why is The West Wing, one of arguably the best programmes on
TV being sidelined? Firstly, you change the time to Saturday
night rather than the perfect Sunday night slot? Next you cancel
a week for a repeat of a Kylie documentary and then you change
it to a really awful slot - 11.10pm on a Monday - and don't
trailer it so people don't know. What is going on? My cynicism
thinks perhaps you are being wavered by current events in politics
- but that is precisely why you should give it a prime slot.
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Karen Langley
10th Mar 03
West Wing was rescheduled to a late-night,different night slot
with no warning - its the first episode I've missed from the
entire series. Was this a political decision in the light of
the world situation or just careless planning? have the ratings
decreased? Do you rely on viewers to all be on-line to get info?
Will it be repeated for those of us who were caught out at short
notice and watched Erin Brockavich on 5 instead, not realising
West Wing was on the other side?
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Jo Tanner
12th Mar 03
Channel 4 has done it again. They give with one hand, then snatch
it away with the other. What am I talking about? The wonderful
West Wing, of course. This fine piece of American drama (combining,
for once, great writing and superior acting) has returned to
our screens after, it must be said, much trumpeting and pre-advertising
from C4. Great. Hallelujah. Then, two episodes in, our screens
go blank. Yes, without any word, West Wing disappears from the
TV listings. We search everywhere, night and day, and nothing.
Not a sign of it. Then, a week later, it reappears, but not
in its previous Saturday evening slot. No, that would be too
much to ask. No, now it's been relegated to the dreaded graveyard
shift, the one normally confined to short films from Romania.
And the worst thing is, it's not the first time they've done
this. Last season they did exactly the same, the swines. Why,
Channel 4, why? Why do you torment us in this way? Why do you
trail this wonderful show at every available opportunity only
to remove it completely two weeks later, then shove it in some
godforsaken TV no man's land? It's bad enough that all the good
stuff goes to E4 first, but this just adds insult to injury.
Put The West Wing back in prime time where it belong, Channel
4, and all will be forgiven!
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