ITV Programming Thread

I've heard her say it several times.

Most announcers would say "stay with us ".

Announcers having bad days would probably say "next on BBC One, its Doctors", while announcing on ITV.
Although that being said, it was discussed previously (was it a Party Political Broadcast?) an ITV announcer did go out on BBC One by accident?

Sounds like Christine Hewitt was the announcer last night on ITV - she quite often uses the 'Stay with me' line. She introduced herself on air a few times too (like the BBC announcers do - well some of them!) but that seems to have been dropped.

During the end credits of Catchphrase just now, they promoted TOWIE and Strictly Come Dancing on Britbox.

Don't think I've seen ITV promote BBC shows on Britbox like this before.

Does the BBC promote ITV shows in the same way?

They’ve been doing it quite a bit over the last few months. I don’t believe the BBC air Britbox promos in the same way though, definitely not over the end credits like ITV have been.

Do they air the Graham Norton voiced promo?

They've been doing it for a while during the credits. I've seen Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing mentioned several times.

I don't recall seeing any Britbox promotions on the BBC, unless I'm mistaken.

BritBox is a joint venture with BBC Studios rather than the BBC itself. Wouldn’t make much sense for them to promote a SVOD service much you don’t see them promote the UKTV channels which are also fully owned by BBC Studios

It’s interesting that they are allowed to advertise BritBox within normal presentation rather than just in the ad breaks.

We’ve come a long way since they got told off for using g-wizz urls.

Didn't want this forum to close without getting an answer, but yes, the other way round though. This was back in the late sixties I think when for PPBs, the Beeb would play them out and ITV would simply rebroadcast BBC1 (this was the era when they were on all channels at the same time, of course). I think the convention was that they would join the feed five seconds after the hour so both could do their own announcement, but someone at ITV seemingly wasn't aware of that and joined it dead on the hour so got the BBC1 announcement as well (it wasn't BBC-branded).

The BBC1 announcer, in jest, sent ITV an invoice for one guinea for the use of his services. And they paid it.

It was a line feed from TVC to Thames (or LWT if it was a Friday), rather than off-air BBC 1. What was odd, is why the BBC didn't feed them with a clean feed from the playout VTR, rather than the dirty 'pres' feed ?

There was an instance of Peter Brook (?) going out on Thames at the end of a PPB. Didn't he invoice them for a laugh, and good sports that they were, they paid it !