Web campaign against Bold & Beautiful shift
Angry viewers let TEN know what they think about Bold & Beautiful's move to 6pm, including one Facebook page with over 5000 members.
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Channel TEN viewers are using the internet to vent their anger over the network moving The Bold and the Beautiful to 6pm.
The American soap shifts from 4:30pm today in a bid to lift TEN’s ailing early evening figures. It will replace repeats of The Simpsons, in a timeslot that has long been the mainstay of the long-running animated series.
On TEN’s own website both Bold and Simpsons fans sound unhappy:
– To say I’m disgusted at this decision by Ten is an understatement!!
– You gotta be kidding me right? Whoever does the programming for ten should be fired. This has to be one of the worst moves ten has made.
– Please leave B&B on at 4.30. This is the time that as a mother I can sit down for 30 minutes of me time and the kids leave me alone to watch mummys show.
– Yes, I absolutely agree. Bold and Beautiful is not 6pm viewing….. I can only hope the programmers will listen to the viewers.
– It would appear Ten is not happy with their 3rd place in the ratings. Apparently they would prefer 4th place.
But the campaign doesn’t end there. One Facebook page has already attracted 5000 followers. Say NO! to Bold and Beautiful at 6pm. Bring back The Simpsons! says “C’mon Channel 10, What’s the deal!? You feed us episode after episode of our favourite dysfunctional family and now you plan on cutting us off Cold Turkey! And to replace it with Bold and the Beautiful is a giant insult to the animated series that has shaped a generation for the last 20 years.”
The site has seen a rush of new members, picking up 2000 new members in just 24 hours.
Channel TEN claims the summer non-ratings period allows them to test whether the soap can succeed at 6pm.
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52 Responses
Bring back The Simpsons…
@ Burt
No, it’s not. B&B airs at 6pm on both Ten and Ten HD. This means that Ten News at Five has moved back to 5pm on Ten HD.
Also, Ten seems to allow streaming of “Full Uncut” B&B episodes online. While this is a nice feature, it would’ve been better if they actually screened them on TV. Hell, I reckon they should screen uncensored B&B episodes following Out of the Blue at 11pm.
I should correct what I said, as apparently Ten have ditched showing TBATB earlier at 5.05 pm on Ten HD, in order to make everyone see it at 6 pm. You can record it each day and watch it later, so you can fast forward the commercials.
ridiculous!
6pm, channel ten IS simpsons!
simpsons was the escape from news
now kids are stuck sitting and watching dinner being prepared, not so fun for kids or parents…
i think it’s quite obvious what the public wants, listen channel ten!
Enough of The Simpsons.
At least Ten trying something different at 6pm – lets hope those few with people meters like idea.
I am so happy that shift at 6pm as 4.30pm is so early I forget sometimes to watch it and the kids come home and watch their show so I miss out. Thank you channel 10 leave at 6pm.
is the facebook page against the axing of simpsons, agaisnt the moving of B&B, or both?
Ten haven’t promoted the fact that if you have a HD TV (and most people now do), you can watch TBATB on Ten HD (with less ads than on their standard channel), at 5.05 pm – 5.30 pm weekdays, which was the case before the timeslot change and still is now..
I love both tv shows.. I dont understand why they can’t just show the simpsons at 4:30 instead?…
I think it is a great move as I can now start watching it and will be addicted in no time … I think it is long overdue!
Jack!
I’m a bit over repeats of The Simpsons so I’m glad that Network TEN is trying out a new show in that timeslot.
However, I do feel for the people who enjoy the 4:30 timeslot.
B&B will be good in the 6pm slot for summer and 10 has been doin a good job promoting it
Ten has done a good job this year offering some more diversity other than simpsons in every slot, take friends, taken out, will and Grace. Sure they rated bad but its something different at least, this is another one of those cases as i’m sure ten is sick of being referred to as the Simpson network
kuttsyswood, thats a hell good idea u got about shifting ten news forward half an hour. They should definately do that next year. If people start watching ten news at 5.30, they’ll watch it right through and it’ll detract numbers from 7 and 9 because theres no reason to change, and will keep a decent audience for neighbours possibly and later shows
Good move by TEN. I remember when Bold moved from 1pm to 4.30. There was people throwing temper tantrums but not like this. All this publicity is just what Bold needs to succeed.
I wonder if 9 will put Days in primetime too?
They should really lobby for a PG rating for 6-7pm so they can play episodes they haven’t already a million times without the need for edits.
Honestly who cares. I don’t watch the Bold, but I’d rather have that on at 6pm then The Simpsons.
What’s wrong with replacing a show that’s been repeated over the years with a “first” run show.
Drama queens much?
All those Simpsons episodes have been repeated to the point of insanity.
Thank you David.
xoxo
seriously those 6pm episodes of the simpsons have been repeated to death, if I flick over during ads of the news and see “Mr Plow” or that bloody 3 eyed fish episode one more time, ill throw something at the TV.
I’m in favour of the move, but not to 6pm, because it’ll mean that many storylines will still be censored or removed altogether. I think it should either play earlier in the day whether they can play the series in its entirety in an M rated timeslot, or move it to 7pm where there’ll be a lesser need for cuts.
There’s a reason that these types of shows were on during the day and not in prime time, and it was a good one. This is a really bad move.
If so many people prefer Simpsons at 6pm then why doesn’t it rate that good? 😛
Keep Bold at 4:30, move The Simpsons to 5pm and run the main news bulletin from 5:30 to 6:30. Thats what Ten really needs to fix their ratings.
which it clearly cant….
Well while I’m disappointed that I can’t see the classic Simpsons on at 6:00pm anymore (the new episodes are pretty lousy), my mother is actually looking forward to it, as her job required her to work up until 5:30pm. She always had to check what happened online, but now she can finally watch it again.
Plus I’m sure it’s only for Summer.
i personally love this move. I work full time and have not watched Bold since i finished High School 3 years ago. Bold at 6 is a smart move cos it has a legion of both young and old fans. I have a friend who is so obsessed,, she wont pick up her phone between 4:30 and 5pm, and another who tapes it everyday and watches it at 6pm, every night after work. I think for every fan thats pissed off, there is another one thats happy. all those stay at home mums, think of all the people that dont get to watch it cos they go to work full time, or are at uni, and if your like me, if you really love this show, u will watch it anytime its on. God i followed torchwood to midnight last year, be gratefull its on in primetime.
As for the simpsons, get over over it. I absolutley love the simpsons, but seriously how many times can ten repeat this. They need a proper long term solution, and although im all for the bold move, and i can see where ten are comming from cos its attracts a broad audience, im not sure if it is the solution. I personally think that ten should of tried Ten News: Xtra. An ACA style show out of ten news. & have news, tt, h&a, and have proven that ACA shows, work out of the news, and lead in well to soaps.