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Just spinning off from the UTV thread rather than inevitably derailing that further thought a thread for a bit of reminising about the sort of regional programmes the ITV regions used to deliver week in, week out, might be in order.
As mentioned there Central Weekend is probably the noteable example from Central. Our House is the other show I remember, usually airing early on Sunday evening. They also had Heart of the Country on either Tuesday or Thursday in the regional slots against Corrie, whilst Central was one of many regions that had a version of "Eye in the Sky", as did Granada IIRC, with basically a local presenter flying over the region.
I don't think they ever did anything scripted that wasn't shown nationally.
Following on from the talk of Granada Tonight earlier at one point they did cut the show back to 30 minutes in order to air local programming at 6.30pm. I think there was Schools Challenge and Crime File, plus a cookery show IIRC. They used to do a bit after the news too - Revelations was a noteable drama and I've vague memories of a rather tacky club based docusoap.
TV Ark has a regional programming section - though frustratingly now organised alphabetically rather than by region.
https://www.tvark.org/?page=3414
As mentioned there Central Weekend is probably the noteable example from Central. Our House is the other show I remember, usually airing early on Sunday evening. They also had Heart of the Country on either Tuesday or Thursday in the regional slots against Corrie, whilst Central was one of many regions that had a version of "Eye in the Sky", as did Granada IIRC, with basically a local presenter flying over the region.
I don't think they ever did anything scripted that wasn't shown nationally.
Following on from the talk of Granada Tonight earlier at one point they did cut the show back to 30 minutes in order to air local programming at 6.30pm. I think there was Schools Challenge and Crime File, plus a cookery show IIRC. They used to do a bit after the news too - Revelations was a noteable drama and I've vague memories of a rather tacky club based docusoap.
TV Ark has a regional programming section - though frustratingly now organised alphabetically rather than by region.
https://www.tvark.org/?page=3414
Last edited by Brekkie on 10 February 2021 11:53pm