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The Election - Which news channel will you watch . . . ?

(May 2005)

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TE
TELEVISION
I will flick between the different channels. I am curious as to how ITV's set will look - all will be revealed in less than 24 hours !
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Sky News will look rather Bloomberg or Sky Sports News-esque tonight. They were explaining earlier how they would look overnight tonight with all their on-screen graphics.
HA
harshy Founding member
Dr Sigmund Mohammad posted:
James Vertigan posted:
BBC Parliament are showing BBC Scotland coverage of the erection with Anne MacKenzie


i'm not sure i'll be tuning in to BBC Parliament's erection coverage


It would never make it to British screens. Razz Laughing
CO
ChrisO
ITV is by far going to be the best!
SC
scottishtv Founding member
ChrisO posted:
ITV is by far going to be the best!

It wouldn't be a General Election without a joke candidate.
CA
cat
I feel really sorry for ITV.

They know they will lose to the BBC by default, and as a result have given up on all hope of serious coverage.

Their selling points are a computer called ELVIS, which they claim is a 'revolution' but is frankly anything but, a party on a boat (anyone got any torpedoes?), ''the best pictures'' whatever that might mean (unless their targeting at deaf viewers), and the fastest results service.

ITV's results service basically involves them announcing winners before they have been officially declared. Really smart.
LU
Luke
or maybe they're just providing an alternative?
MA
Magoo
Luke posted:
or maybe they're just providing an alternative?


I think that Sky is the real alternative....
CA
cat
That's not ITV's remit, though, is it?

If they want to do cheap celebrity parties and silly gimmicks then that's fine, but don't try to pass it off as serious political coverage.

A general election, however, you want to mask it, is a serious and important event. That's not to say it can't be fun, for sure, but it's a great shame that ITV can't go for one evening without reducing themselves to celebrity and showbiz pap.
CA
cat
scottish posted:
Luke posted:
or maybe they're just providing an alternative?


I think that Sky is the real alternative....


Lib Dems, surely? (ed.)
MA
Magoo
cat posted:
scottish posted:
Luke posted:
or maybe they're just providing an alternative?


I think that Sky is the real alternative....


Lib Dems, surely? (ed.)


Seeing if anyone was paying attention to the topical humour Very Happy
DU
Dunedin
cat posted:
That's not ITV's remit, though, is it?

If they want to do cheap celebrity parties and silly gimmicks then that's fine, but don't try to pass it off as serious political coverage.

A general election, however, you want to mask it, is a serious and important event. That's not to say it can't be fun, for sure, but it's a great shame that ITV can't go for one evening without reducing themselves to celebrity and showbiz pap.


It seems no programme can go through the ITV programming department these days without the addition of "Celebrity".

It's very sad.

Rather like the Orange cinema ads for "Don't let a mobile ruin the movie"- except without the humour- it's a deadly serious ITV business plan.

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