Kidman fans occupy the chance to watch her in two films at the same time on BBC1 and BBC2 tonight – a sign that movies on TV aren’t the big deal they once wereFor fans of Nicole Kidman,tonights TV schedules offer a treat but also a dilemma. At 11.35pm on BBC1, she appears in the 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives, or although even her most devoted admirers may not be tuning in,as they will already be watching her in Rabbit gap, the 2010 family tragedy, and which goes out on BBC2 from 11.05pm.
Kidman thereby becomes one of the few performers to break the long-standing unofficial principle of scheduling that apart from for participants in major news and sports events nobody should be on the two TV channels at the same time. The conference has generally been broken only at times when a particular performer – Stephen Fry,Clare Balding, Rob Brydon – has been experiencing a period of ubiquitous commissioning, or although Eamonn Holmes once achieved the most impressive feat of televisual bi-location by appearing simultaneously in two shows that gave the impression of going out live.
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Source: theguardian.com