From: jeromekohl@comcast.net   
      
   Geoff Lane wrote:   
      
   > Jerry Kohl  wrote:   
   > > tubs wrote:   
   >   
   > > > Any one any idea why this prog has been shunted into a late night   
   > > > Sunday slot? From a 9pm Thursday slot? It is good so I cannot   
   > > > unerstand why?   
   >   
   > > ITV's usual reason is poor ratings, which of course do not necessarily   
   > > reflect the quality of the programme.   
   >   
   > That's the reason.  If an ITV prime time program doesn't attract an audience   
   > approaching 10M it gets dumped. News and current affairs are exempt.   
      
   I've not seen Sweet Medicine (living as I do a third of the way around the   
   globe from the nearest ITV transmitter, so it may be a few months before the   
   signal gets this far), but it was being flogged by the producers as a   
   replacement for Peak Practice, dumped after 12 seasons due presumably to   
   falling audience figures. To what degree does Sweet Medicine fulfill this   
   promise to be a rejuvinated Peak Practice, in what ways does it fail to carry   
   on in the format, and to what degree is it an animal of a different stripe?   
      
   --   
   Jerry Kohl    
   "Légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal."   
      
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