My Family - Series 10 Page 14

I also think there's a bit too much talk re ratings here..

However the ratings compilation process applies to all shows - so they do have validity re market share analysis - and therefore popularity.

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Sorry I just don't get it.

Gave it another try 2 weeks back but the final scene with the gangster's girl hiding in the bathroom - then Ben escaping out of the bathroom window was all too much of a 60s farce for me. We only needed the vicar hiding under the stairs - but I bet that's happened already.

It's like Terry and June meets Butterflies meets Brian Rix.

Is this the best a creative team can come up with?

Quote: Juan Kerr @ August 26 2010, 1:43 PM BST

Is this the best a creative team can come up with?

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Yes

Any team?

Because if not - the answer's got to be no!

Well the My Family creative team as the thread is about My Family.

Personally I've enjoyed the episodes this series, but it does feel a bit, say, empty at times and not because Alfie and Roger haven't been around, more that it seems to feature less scenes with the whole family (Ben, Susan, Janey and Michael) together than usual. The house always seems fairly quiet and neglected.

Quote: David Carmon @ August 26 2010, 1:55 PM BST

... more that it seems to feature less scenes with the whole family (Ben, Susan, Janey and Michael) together than usual. The house always seems fairly quiet and neglected.

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Yes, I can't remember the last time all four of them were in the same room together. It was probably a kitchen scene, though.

It usually is the only place you get them together now. It's as though it's about each individual (at the centre of each episode) rather than the family as a unit.

It appears that the last two episodes of series ten have been dropped or moved to a new time slot that I have not yet discovered. Instead of episodes 8 and 9, a series of New Tricks has been scheduled in to replace it.

Of course, with the lower ratings, some will speculate that the show has vanished due to this. As far as I can see, the episode airing on the 27th August (tomorrow) is the last scheduled this side of mid/late-September.

Yet the DVD, released on the 6th September, features nine episodes.

Maybe they decided to split it half and half afterall? Nobody would notice either because they were all filmed at the same time? Although you do make a good point about the DVD. Mystery.

I agree David, I also mentioned a while ago about it feeling empty. Michael and Janey seem to walk in sporadically throughout the episode when Ben or Susan are on the sofa and talk for a minute, usually involving their side-plots and then leave. Actually the "children" have got too old and none of them live in the house anymore which doesn't help.

Quote: Robert D @ August 26 2010, 2:06 PM BST

It appears that the last two episodes of series ten have been dropped or moved to a new time slot that I have not yet discovered. Instead of episodes 8 and 9, a series of New Tricks has been scheduled in to replace it.

Of course, with the lower ratings, some will speculate that the show has vanished due to this. As far as I can see, the episode airing on the 27th August (tomorrow) is the last scheduled this side of mid/late-September.

Yet the DVD, released on the 6th September, features nine episodes.

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Apart from the first episode of Series 9 the ratings for Series 10 have been mainly the same apart from 1 episode. Maybe Shepka is right, it could air as an equal split instead. I think a Sunday or Thursday slot would have been better, at 8:30 instead of 9.00.

I assume we're going off the audience share percentages... hmmm yeah, I usually ignore those, when perhaps I should pay more attention In my eyes, four million is less than five million, but yeah, less people watching etc etc

I just find it odd that the DVD still has the 9 episodes, unless of course, the DVD is now put back and changed.

Quote: Dave @ August 25 2010, 7:47 PM BST

No offence to anyone, but all this ratings talk is really boring. Shouldn't we be discussing the actual episodes and the quality (or lack of) therein?

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Plenty of room for both!

Wow Robert Lindsay did a good version of Mr. Bojangles.

I was quite surprised at how good it was.

Quote: Juan Kerr @ August 26 2010, 1:43 PM BST

We only needed the vicar hiding under the stairs - but I bet that's happened already.

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I rather enjoyed that episode though.

Was it any good last night? I was planning to give it another watch after that gangster episode.

Quote: Richard Wells @ August 28 2010, 10:56 AM BST

Wow Robert Lindsay did a good version of Mr. Bojangles.

I was quite surprised at how good it was.

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This would be Tony Award-winning, former Broadway musical star, Robert Lindsay? Yeah, who'd have thought it...?

Quote: Tim Walker @ August 28 2010, 11:47 AM BST

This would be Tony Award-winning, former Broadway musical star, Robert Lindsay? Yeah, who'd have thought it...?

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Well I honestly never knew that so forgive my ignorance.