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Why was Mock the Week axed?

12 replies

FelicityFlops · 05/02/2023 20:36

Just that,

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HeddaGarbled · 05/02/2023 20:38

Old age

Leggingslife · 05/02/2023 20:39

Google it.
Make room for new shows.
Getting old. Run its course etc.

PifflePishAndPap · 05/02/2023 20:40

Where are your manners? Hmm

Summerishere123 · 05/02/2023 20:41

Old news I'd guess. Frankie Boyle got banned, Sean was a regular and he sadly died....other opportunities arise

OvaryActions · 05/02/2023 20:46

PifflePishAndPap · 05/02/2023 20:40

Where are your manners? Hmm

Huh?

AnnaMagnani · 05/02/2023 20:47

Because it no longer had much/any connection with the news and was just an opportunity for people to do bits of stand up

Because it had issues about not having enough female guests and talking over them

Because it was old and the format had run its course

PuppyMonkey · 05/02/2023 20:54

It was a bit shit. The Beeb already had a news quiz with HIGNFY. I never understood why they ever made it.

FelicityFlops · 05/02/2023 20:57

Ah. I did not like or understand it when I first encountered it in about 2010, but it grew on me.
I thought it was a platform for young/ new comedy talent.

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Bosk · 05/02/2023 20:59

Because it was shit?

Dymaxion · 05/02/2023 21:06

I prefered it to HIGNFY, which has become quite tame compared to its early days. Sad to see MTW go, but hope they are going to put something else in its place that is as excoriating towards politics as both programmes used to be.

Swiftswatch · 05/02/2023 21:06

Tired garbage.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 05/02/2023 21:14

I enjoyed it a lot. They made changes to it as it progressed, without having to scrap it entirely. It should have been quite a 'basic' standup comedy programme with endless tweaks available.

There's loads and loads of other stuff on the BBC that I think is rubbish, but I don't campaign for them to scrap it all, as other people do like it. If you don't like a particular programme, just watch/do something else instead!

Maybe the same people who have been purging Radio 2 got their hands on it, figuring that the audiences were getting older and they simply can't show/air programmes that older people like, as they don't actually count as proper viewers. Even though we older folk are the ones still wanting to watch/listen to the BBC and actually still paying our licence fees to be able to do so.

The first rule of any kind of half-decent business is to satisfy and keep your loyal/existing customers rather than alienating them in order to chase demographics that will never want to buy what you offer in the first place.

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