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Granada Reports

She's not on again tonight, Gamal and Elaine tonight.
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Saturday Night Takeaway 2021

A question:


ITV seem to have a warehouse like 'studio' that they've been using a lot lately:

• 'Competition HQ'
• 'The Chancellor's Budget'
• Various ITV News interviews
• 'Saturday Night Takeway'


Does anyone know where this is. Looks a bit like it could be their Waterhouse Square HQ but it could really be anywhere.

Guessing Alisha was not actually there live?


What gave that impression?


Something didn't seem right, she was not asked when they did win the ads should they stay or play and towards the end of the show she was either cut into it or the whole McFly sketch was pre-recorded, maybe it was that.
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Saturday Night Takeaway 2021

Guessing Alisha was not actually there live?
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ITV Programming Thread

I've only tried to point out my opinion that procuction labels such as 'Granada' stand out as a mark of quality even after all these years!


And then you remember that Granada used to run the Moto motorway services Crying or Very sad


Those where the days ah!
Pop in to a Granada motoway services, after picking up your Granada rental tv set from the Granada/Radio Rentals shop...in a Ford Granada of course.

Take me back to those days anytime!

Granada also ran our School dinners at one point! they were taking over the world like Global lol
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Have you been in a TV audience?

I was in Gladiators audience in the 90s as kid, I remember it took ages to film and for some reason they filmed parts of it back to front, but one of the contestants got hurt halfway through so they had to redo stuff and it took for ages.

Went to see All Star Mr and Mrs with Matthew Wright and Anna Windass from Corrie a few years back, again that took ages as there was a light that kept flashing on the podium.

Lastly went to see Jeremy Kyle in Media City a few years ago, that was good, they filmed 3 episodes a day so you got to see 1 and a half then the next lot came in to see the other half.
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EastEnders

It's a very constrained site isn't it. Is its basically a like for like replacement, they aren't doing like Corrie did and taking the opportunity to extend the set with new streets we've never seen before?


From what I read they are doing that too, I think they're going to build an expanded set where the old set is once they've moved to the new set. Means it won't all be continuous though, they'll be walking round a corner then moving from one set to another.

They use to do that on Brookside when they went through to the Parade.
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Piers Morgan to leave GMB

Score posted:
The Sun reckon that Rob Rinder is in the running to replace Piers, although they’re also saying that the producers haven’t ruled out having rotating guests rather than a permanent replacement:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14312382/susanna-reid-rob-rinder-replace-piers-morgan-gmb/

In reality I expect they’ve done nothing except bounce ideas around, but interesting nonetheless.

Seeing as it's the S*n it will probably be lies as usual.
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…and finally

I've been here since as long as I can remember 😂 and like others have said, although I've not posted loads I do enjoy my daily dose of TV Forum.

Thanks Asa for all your hard work over the years and providing this great forum, flipping heck I remember when TV Home closed down.

What am I going to do with out my daily fix of TV Forum? 🤪
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Bauer rebranding 53 stations to The Hits/Greatest Hits

Yeah I also loved Real Radio/Century Radio, I think at the time Radio City was going through a lot of changes and Century Radio also took a few of their presenters.

I was gutted when Heart came to the North West, the only good thing about that station was Joel and Lorna on Breakfast.

Talking of the jingles here is a cover of the Bespoke ones
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Memories of Regional Programmes

The Late Debate with Lucy and Tony Wilson on Granada after the news was always a good watch.
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Dustin Diamond (Screech in Saved By The Bell) has died.

I think Trouble showed the original at some point at well, but yes they definitely showed the new class.

I know the original showed up on The Vault after they started showing more programmes than music as well. Can't remember if they showed the College Years or New Class though. I have vague memories of at least the TV Movie that ended The College Years turning up on The Bigger Breakfast too, IIRC split over several days rather than shown in one go.

Yeah I remember the wedding being shown on Big Breakfast in the summer.
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Bauer rebranding 53 stations to The Hits/Greatest Hits

A local breakfast show for GHR would seem the logical move. Allows Rossie to continue broadcasting to the area he’s known & everywhere else gets a better fit. But I wonder if studio spares stops this?

Hits network stations are local at breakfast & I can imagine GHR use the same studios in the afternoon in locations where both are present?


Rossie presents from St. John's Beacon in Liverpool (Radio City Tower) which negates the studio requirements at Bauer Manchester.

GHR Has it's own Studio in Liverpool so it is used between Rossie and Rick for the current evening show. Plus they had one for Radio City Talk so think there is a few spare for production etc.