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End of the road for UTV?

Richard posted:
Cold Open posted:
EDIT: It's interesting (well, at least to me it is!) to think that considerably more time, effort and expense would be needed to fully eliminate all remaining off-screen uses of the "UTV" name (e.g. building signage, vehicle liveries, etc) than the remaining on-screen ones! UTV Live and UTV Life are both just a minor title sequence re-edit away from potential full renaming.

True although Granada had the old (original?) lettering on their Quay Street premises for decades.

Yeah, they only swapped it for ITV branding in 2010.
https://www.tvark.org/?page=1570
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Disney+ UK Launch Date Confirmed

Roboto? Isn't that Android's default font? That's like using Arial or Times New Roman! It's lazy.
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Coronavirus - Impact on live/recorded shows

TIGHazard posted:
I'm not sure if this is COVID related or not (simply because I imagine it's easier to film in this country in one area) but has anyone noticed how many shows are on about Cornwall right now?

On BBC Two you have "Rick Stein's Cornwall" and "Cornwall: This Fishing Life". On ITV you have "Cornwall and Devon Walks with Julia Bradbury", on Channel 4 you have "Devon and Cornwall" and I'm sure on Channel 5 Susan Calman will visit Cornwall on her "Grand Day's Out".

The geographical bias is probably because that was the last area to have restrictions enforced. They were Tier 1 for most of the time the tiers existed.
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Disney+ UK Launch Date Confirmed

Guys, did you know Tweets can be embedded?





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Coronavirus - Impact on live/recorded shows

Soupnzi posted:
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I could only see a post-pandemic holiday show revival happening were it paid programming, like one of those Waitrose cookery shows or the Krypton Factor remake paid for by a watch manufacturer.

Yes the genre is pretty much dead now, despite the phenomenal popularity of WYWH? and Holiday up until the early 2000s. I suppose the likes of Sky Travel and others brochure channels took over, and we also got bored of seeing the reporter going to NYC and going through the motions- Empire State Building, piece to camera in the Meg Ryan orgasm diner etc.

Sky Travel closed in 2010! And Travel Channel closed in August last year - was that the last such channel?

It may have closed in 2010, but it doesn’t negate the point that such channels took over from Jill Dando and co, before the internet started to dominate this sector like everything else.

Actually it does, as the channel probably ended for the same reason the shows did. The Internet took Sky Travel down too, it didn't replace Holiday and WYWH.
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Coronavirus - Impact on live/recorded shows

Soupnzi posted:
I could only see a post-pandemic holiday show revival happening were it paid programming, like one of those Waitrose cookery shows or the Krypton Factor remake paid for by a watch manufacturer.

Yes the genre is pretty much dead now, despite the phenomenal popularity of WYWH? and Holiday up until the early 2000s. I suppose the likes of Sky Travel and others brochure channels took over, and we also got bored of seeing the reporter going to NYC and going through the motions- Empire State Building, piece to camera in the Meg Ryan orgasm diner etc.

Sky Travel closed in 2010! And Travel Channel closed in August last year - was that the last such channel?
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Paul Sinha's TV Showdown

Maybe they shuffled the episode order before airing them? So the episodes produced as episodes 2 and 5 aired as episodes 1 and 2?
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

They're live action with people too - when did they manage to film those?
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BBC1 - nationwide!

Jon posted:
commseng posted:
True, I hadn't even looked at ITV1's Saturday night schedule - 3 hours of singing.
I know there are issues with recording programmes at the moment, but even so this is lazy scheduling from both main channels.

I think ITV was the same this time last year and probably wasn’t much different on the BBC. Although they’re both singing shows on ITV, I think the appeal is very different.
Yeah, ITV did have the same Masked Singer/Voice UK double bill last year. BBC One was mostly different though.
https://tv24.co.uk/tv/2020-01-18
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The Masked Singer UK...2021

iloveTV1 posted:
There was a leak on Wikipedia earlier this week, I’ve just had a look back and it got Glenn Hoddle right.

I only saw one name before clicking off earlier in the week, but it was the winner Sad

Obviously I won’t say who it was.
What the...!?! Wikipedia shouldn't have any spoilers up - they can't have come from a legitimate source and so should be reverted on sight.
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ITV production/presentation slides

You'd think they'd have had International on the next line, so that the font size could be larger. There's plenty of empty space.
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ITV production/presentation slides

Can't have been Shortland Street, I don't remember Yorkshire even airing it.