Each weekday, my EPG shows at 3 pm there is Escape to the Country. Now this is a show I love to hate. Watch it most days and spend a lot of time shouting at the silly people on it many with far too much money to spend.
Good, solid escapism - so why has this been taken off at time when we need as much escapism from reality as possible?
I do think that the endless news items on CV19, and that extended slot each afternoon prior to the daily update (which is pushing out ETTC), is actually more fuelling the concerns and panic, than it is helping.
Surely, this a time when we need to have any necessary updates on the news, briefly and to the point - morning, lunch time, early evening and late night - and the rest of the time tv should be entertaining and not frightening people.
For the Soaps, if they are unable to continue filming at present, then I think it would be fun and interesting if they went into their archives and used their normal slots to show these from their very beginnings.
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I too am missing Escape to the Country. I love to see the beautiful homes and wish that I too could escape to the country instead of living in a (very big) city.
To make it a perfect escape we would live near to the sea as well............
yes, we tend to say "how much" 
But we did see a couple who bought a house not far from here and I shouted 'I've seen her'!!
They bought the house, obviously
It's just the kind of escapism we need right now.
My favourite afternoon proogram. I always sit down at 2.55 with a cuppa to get ready for ETTC.
It was listed in my tv mag as being on but was pushed out every day.
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As others have said we need some escapism at the moment, very much.
Oh missed it!
Where were they, Franbern?
a million?
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