The challenge of being a Primeval viewer
I still miss the DVD eject button I had on my old keyboard. :-(
For everything else, I'm more than happy with the new one, but my PC's DVD drive has recently developed a quirk, whereby it turns up its nose at commercial DVDs and will only deign to play them if I do an interesting dance of multiple loads and ejects until it thinks it's tortured me enough. I could just play DVDs on the DVD player, of course... but I can't do screen captures like that.
And I need lots of Primeval season three screencaps. Mostly of Becker.
I must say that it was awfully nice of Play.com to ship it out last Wednesday, so that it plopped down on the doormat yesterday morning, since ITV seem determined to do everything possible to confuse and inconvenience the show's target audience. It's bad enough that they can't give it the same timeslot two weeks running, but really, would it have been so very hard to sort out their schedules so that they could run it in ten consecutive weeks rather than have to bump it after the episode 9 cliffhanger and make us all wait around until a week after the DVD release to see the final episode? (Which Spain saw several weeks ago.) It might almost be a good thing if they did give away the first run rights to Sci Fi, as is currently rumoured. At least they'd probably show it in a more consistent fashion.
Yesterday's actual ITV lineup reminded me of why, Primeval aside, I really don't watch much ITV.
* Funniest Ever You've Been Framed! (Reality show, candid camera variety)
* Britain's Got Talent (Reality show, talent contest variety)
* All Star Mr And Mrs (Reality show, quiz variety)
* Bitain's Got Talent - The Final Result (Reality show, talent contest variety, third outing of the day)
Would it be too much to ask that they bumped one of the above (two of which are probably pre-recorded) to let viewers watch, oh, I don't know, maybe a bit of drama?
I took out my shiny new DVD copy of Primeval season three episode ten and pressed play at the time Britain's Got Talent started, by way of protest. Sorry, ITV. If you want my eyes added to your viewing statistics, to shore up the collapsing TV advertising bubble, you'll have to do it by broadcasting programmes I actually want to watch...
For everything else, I'm more than happy with the new one, but my PC's DVD drive has recently developed a quirk, whereby it turns up its nose at commercial DVDs and will only deign to play them if I do an interesting dance of multiple loads and ejects until it thinks it's tortured me enough. I could just play DVDs on the DVD player, of course... but I can't do screen captures like that.
And I need lots of Primeval season three screencaps. Mostly of Becker.
I must say that it was awfully nice of Play.com to ship it out last Wednesday, so that it plopped down on the doormat yesterday morning, since ITV seem determined to do everything possible to confuse and inconvenience the show's target audience. It's bad enough that they can't give it the same timeslot two weeks running, but really, would it have been so very hard to sort out their schedules so that they could run it in ten consecutive weeks rather than have to bump it after the episode 9 cliffhanger and make us all wait around until a week after the DVD release to see the final episode? (Which Spain saw several weeks ago.) It might almost be a good thing if they did give away the first run rights to Sci Fi, as is currently rumoured. At least they'd probably show it in a more consistent fashion.
Yesterday's actual ITV lineup reminded me of why, Primeval aside, I really don't watch much ITV.
* Funniest Ever You've Been Framed! (Reality show, candid camera variety)
* Britain's Got Talent (Reality show, talent contest variety)
* All Star Mr And Mrs (Reality show, quiz variety)
* Bitain's Got Talent - The Final Result (Reality show, talent contest variety, third outing of the day)
Would it be too much to ask that they bumped one of the above (two of which are probably pre-recorded) to let viewers watch, oh, I don't know, maybe a bit of drama?
I took out my shiny new DVD copy of Primeval season three episode ten and pressed play at the time Britain's Got Talent started, by way of protest. Sorry, ITV. If you want my eyes added to your viewing statistics, to shore up the collapsing TV advertising bubble, you'll have to do it by broadcasting programmes I actually want to watch...