"Out of the Blue" - Did anyone watch this? It was on Monday - daytime I think....1PMish..?

[Astrophe]

Just wondering. We don't have a telly, but a mate is in it, so just wondering what it was like.

[UnquietDad]

I gather it didnt do well. It's being shunted to BBC2 soon for the remaining 100 episodes to be burnt off this summer...

So the Beeb are still looking for that late-lunch filler. It's rumoured they may be going nationwide with "River City".

[Astrophe]

Have they done 100 episodes of it? Had no idea, I thought it was a mini series type pilot. I gathered from the website synopsis it was a kind of 'Cluedo' style thing...how can they keep that going for 100 episodes I wonder? Still, I hope it picks up, for my friend's sake. It his big break

[UnquietDad]

Oh, I think it's done really well in Australia. Just here it didn't for some reason.

[Astrophe]

Thanks for replying BTW. Are you in TV then? Do they really decide to shunt a program after one episode? Cut throat business I guess.

[Astrophe]

I didn't think it started yet in Australia.

[UnquietDad]

Oh, maybe I am wrong...
I'm not in TV but I am a writer and I have colleagues who are.

[Astrophe]

ah huh!

Hopefully you are not wrong! This is based on my brother's info, who got it from my Mum...who got it from afore mentioned mate's mother...

[UnquietDad]

Apparently it got 1.2 million viewers on launch but that shrank to less than half that over the week, so the decision was taken to pull it.

[Astrophe]

oh, thats a bummer