Heartbeat (1992 - 2010)

I think ITV are getting greedy showing TXF on Saturday and Sunday next week. Makes it sound they don't have any originality :rolleyes:

Maybe they should have shown The Royal from next week. Better than having TXF on a Sunday night :D
 
I still miss the era when you got a good costume drama as part of the bbc childrens tv output like vanity fair or a dickens then church then poldark or the onedin line or a horseman riding by etc
 
Yet another good show being axed when clearly the public still watch it. And instead we get endless x-factor/reality type shows... x-factor, dancing on ice, i'm a celebrity. The increase of reality shows and sacrifice of shows like Heartbeat is causing me to turn my tv off.
 
Absolutely.

It has a huge fanbase, and deserved better. I didn't watch every series but I respect the fact that it was popular, and the fans should have been given a farewell special.
 
I know they are fluffy and light stuff but I think theres room for HB and the royal in the ITV schedules why does everything have to be hardhitting gritty realism some of us like lying in the gutter looking at the stars rather than lying in the gutter looking at the sewerage
 
There was the ultimate discourtesy from ITV, plugging another programme whilst the last ever credits were rolling. The BBC knew better than to do that with the final episode of Last of the Summer Wine.
 
I agree-the same was true of Last of the Summer Wine which apparently writer Roy Clarke half thought the BBC would change their minds. Both shows deserved a fitting end which neither have got.
ITV have set the show up to fail in the last three or four years and in that time the BBC were able to be effective against it for pretty much the first time. Heartbeat has seen off a succession of otherwise worthy BBC opposition including Ballykissangel, Born and Bred, and Monarch of the Glen and Pride and Predujice all of which had to play second fiddle in the Sunday 8.00 slot despite getting ratings which would be very acceptable today.
 
What a stupid ending!
They could have allowed one final final episode for Oscar's funeral.
That would have been a much better ending to the show.
 
They did when they made the last episode. It was pointed out in a magazine - with a picture to go with it - that there was an in-joke added, When Joe McFadden is making a phone call from his bike, across the road from the garage, you see walking along outside the garage - and past Joe - a man walking slowing with one of those sythe things over his shoulder, looking like the Grim Reaper.

I remembered it when I was watching tonight and there he was, looking just LIKE the Grim Reaper! lol

I wonder if we ever WILL see the remaining episodes of The Royal? The episodes were made over 2 years ago. It's ridiculous they haven't been shown in that time, with some of the dross ITV put out.
 
These sort of people get an inkling I'm sure. I read somewhere that Nikki Sanderson said they were all crying when they filmed the final episode.

I'm still in shock over Oscar. I can still hear him saying
'GREENGRASS'
 
thanks v+ it so watch it later, what a silly way to end it like that, itv should do a final 2 hour to bring it to a better ending.
 
How ridiculous. Why axe something that lots of people enjoy?
A nice easy to watch programme. No swearing. No sex.

Big deal its gone down to 6m viewers. Something like Crapenders or Corrie only get a bit more than that dont they?

What are we going to be inflicted with now? More of those "wannabe celebrity" shows?

And theres nothing we can do about it!!! :mad:
 
Yes, I can feel a campaign coming on! :D When you consider that they spent a number of years trying in vain to challenge Heartbeat with shows like Monarch of the Glen with nothing ever coming close to dethroning Heartbeat, it should be the perfect opportunity for them!
 
Last night got 5.7 mllion which is pretty good for any TV drama these days (eg akin to Spooks, Ashes to Ashes and Law and Order: UK and double what The Bill was getting.

Moreover this was not a one off but quite consistent in this last run.

ITV really do not have loads of dramas week on week out that get these figures so they ought to at least bring it back for a one off feature length send off special.

It could be partly set in The Royal given the cliffhanger and round off that as well.

Christmas 2011 maybe?

Then if that works have more occasional feature length specials for Sundays.

For the record it beat Albert's Memorial by over a million.
 
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