Episode 10 Points of View

Good afternoon and welcome to Points of View.

Now, as it is officially the barbecue season,

we're going backstage shortly to do a bit of grilling

with the head of BBC1 Daytime.

Among items on the agenda are the number of programmes about property

and antiques and the repeats that daytime viewers are subjected to.

But first, lots of shows have been bumped for the sport this summer

and it seems the most angry viewers are the gardeners.

Very upset that Gardeners' World has been taken off the air

and they're having a dig for victory.

That's it for today's programme.

We shan't be back I'm afraid for four weeks

because of various sporting activities.

But life will go on at Longmeadow, we'll keep gardening,

I hope you do too and we'll meet again in a month's time.

Until then, bye-bye.

Well, Malcolm, I'll be interested too.

And the Hampton Court and Tatton Park flower shows in the coming weeks

will doubtless contain some tips for the green fingered.

As well as being the growing season, it has also been the Shakespeare season across the BBC,

so we had a few weeks ago Felicity Kendal showing us around India

with Shakespeare performances like her family had done many years ago.

Great programme. Also Doctors.

They have been revamping classic storylines from the Bard

and turning them into modern, medical tales, and there's more.

Isn't it great when we have comments like that

and you think, were they watching the same show?

Now, take a look at what they were discussing

and meanwhile I will head over to see the head of BBC Daytime with your questions.

The cream and the scum.

The fleabag hostelries on the London Road,

the chilly cathedrals where sour bishops crack their knuckles and plot.

He gives us the clapped out actors and the greedy squires.

So, there we go, quite a mixed bag

and now we have the main man of BBC Daytime, Liam Keelan, welcome.

Hi, Jeremy.

Let's go straight to viewers' questions. Let me start with the 1952 show.

Hi, Len Goodman here for another '50s foxtrot around my decade.

People saying they rather like it and could there be some more?

Yeah, definitely. I'm thrilled the viewers like that series.

We've had a lot of success with history-related output in daytime.

For example, we did 1952, we've done a series around the '60s,

The Week We Went To War.

Sometimes we paired them with dramas in the afternoon again.

It's something we'll come back to.

I've realised that you are the woman that I want.

-I know it's been a somewhat unconventional start.

-Not half.

-We shouldn't wait any longer.

-Music to my ears, Henry.

Next, viewers complaining repeats are coming round too quickly.

Poor Lily, it's Groundhog Day for her.

Yeah, as a general rule we try

and keep it to six months after a programme is first aired

before we show it again, but on occasion that might not be the case.

And quiz questions that people can remember from a game before?

Well, again six months tends to be a general rule as with your show, Eggheads.

It does make sense as well to give viewers the chance to see

the best of our output again.

So when it doesn't happen, is that a mistake

or is it because there's a hole in the output?

Yeah, it's because of the needs of the schedule.

There will be a gap in the schedule

where we need to repeat something, but it's not a general rule.

We try and keep it to a minimum.

Now a question about how you decide which daytime programmes from the week

are put on air on daytimes at the weekends.

There's an underlying thought in those comments

that the standard of daytime in the week is lower

and if it goes on at weekends, it's got to be raised.

I don't think that's necessarily the case.

The daytime audience generally is very, very broad.

Even during the midweek, of course there's an older audience there

but there's also shift workers, students, mums at home.

It's a really broad audience.

I wouldn't make any differentiation between that

and the one that's on at the weekend.

We do have a lot of shows that originated there,

Saturday Kitchen is an important show for us and popular with the audience.

You recently did a TV version of Just A Minute -

the Radio 4 programme - and it's gone down rather well.

-Happy hour, starting now.

-I believe

-some of the legislature....

-BUZZER

-Julian, challenge.

-Repetition of believe.

Yes, you did say I believe before.

He's awfully good! I don't know but it's so convincing. I probably did!

I probably said rather and I probably said people.

Just A Minute was loved on TV.

Yeah, it was a real celebration of what that show is.

It was great to coincide with the 45th anniversary and Nicholas and the whole gang got out for it.

There aren't any plans to do more of them

but we're always looking at Radio 4 and Radio 2 for those panel shows

to see what could translate to television.

So, it was a great thing to do.

We've had some comments specifically about Crimewatch Roadshow

and this is a complaint.

That one was one we get a lot, actually.

-The idea that there's an aggressive trailing inside programmes.

-Yes.

I think it's a fair point in some regards

and we're trying to rein that back with some of the other shows we do.

I take that on board.

What about the first point - too loud background music -

which is a thing that comes up again and again on Points Of View.

-It's just annoying people.

-Yeah, again I think that's something we could look at.

-Until now, I wasn't aware of it.

-It's in the Wanted Gallery.

You're showing wanted people and end up being drowned out by music.

Yes, in answer to the question we're constantly feeding back to

the programme makers so that's part of what we do.

So, we'll have a look at that.

It's interesting you say that because we have viewers who wonder whether the controllers ever do.

Listen to this.

-Over to you.

-I just accepted Crimewatch Roadshow, didn't I?

-You did but then you don't do it.

-I think we do take things on board.

I couldn't do my job without accepting viewer feedback.

It's absolutely every day for me

whether it's how many people are watching,

how much they've liked the show,

whether they think it's a new and original programme.

So, it's... We'd be lost without it really.

Well, thank you for talking to us - Controller of BBC Daytime, Liam Keelan.

There are other issues to look into this week

so let's have a look at what's worrying you.

Thank you-ou-ou!

Hello and welcome to my special edition of Good News Best Bits.

We've covered a lot of stories this series.

Here are some of my favourite ones. Enjoy.

It's not only BBC daytime that's accused of showing thinly-disguised repeats.

On BBC Three we had Radio One's Hackney Weekend,

the spectacle of an outdoor concert without the threat of getting wet,

what's not to like?

My heart is literally beating right now.

Massive apologies that we had to cut Jack White short,

but if you want to check that out,

make sure you do online at the Radio One website.

And sticking with music, it appears two unforgivable mistakes were made

in the quarter-finals of Euro 2012, the big England/Italy game.

First mistake was everything that happened on the pitch, let's not dwell on that.

The second was the background music

used during an item about the Italian, that's the keyword, side.

The names don't trip off the tongue. Unpalatable tongue twisters

are regularly on the footballing diet in Italy.

The Totonero scandal, 1980.

Players throwing matches, Paolo Rossi banished for two years.

He came back just in time.

Yep, that does...that does sound pretty Spanish to me.

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Have a great summer. Goodbye.