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2015 Election and the Leaders Debates

For discussion of the Leaders Interviews and Debates on the BBC, ITV, Sky News/Channel 4. (October 2014)

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A former member
There's the first of a series of Tonight programmes tonight interviewing the main party leaders. That's at 7:30 - prime time current affairs on ITV!


Yet it was not shown on STV. is that allowed?

Note: The STV debate is more like a town hall debate.
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Square Eyes Founding member
Is it available anywhere to watch the STV debate without signing up to the STV Player ?
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A former member
There have some new graphics and music thankful.
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Telly Media
Is anybody else confused on what ITV News' election logo is meant to represent? Is it a ballot box/cube or the edge of a 3D 'X'. Either way I'm not a fan of how it is cropped and it looks odd on when scaled down on GMB graphics.



I quite like it actually. I think it's quite simple and understated ...
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A former member
Nicole is getting a very good grilling on the debate at the moment, its a shame UK leaders cant do TV debates likes this...

Willie, Jim and Ruth also got a good grilling.
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A former member
Bernard have just proven himself has outshined other TV presenters doing debates.
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VMPhil
Granada Reports held their own live regional election debate from Liverpool today:

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2015-04-07/granada-reports-special-live-election-debate-from-liverpool/
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fanoftv
Is anybody else confused on what ITV News' election logo is meant to represent? Is it a ballot box/cube or the edge of a 3D 'X'. Either way I'm not a fan of how it is cropped and it looks odd on when scaled down on GMB graphics.



I quite like it actually. I think it's quite simple and understated ...


I much prefer the BBC's hexagonal representation though ITV's could work differently with the graphics on the night.
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Brekkie
Granada Reports held their own live regional election debate from Liverpool today:

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2015-04-07/granada-reports-special-live-election-debate-from-liverpool/

A shame it couldn't have been given a slot outside of the news slot - 7.30pm instead of their party political broadcast on behalf of David Cameron would have been good.

Talking of ITV really wondering how they can get away with mocking the leaders in Newzoids. Although I'm sure they'll mock them all fairly equally having Ed Miliband (and not the others) feature in a sketch called I'm a Catastrophe, Get Me Out of Here seems pretty biased during an election campaign to me.
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newswatcher101
The BBC Election 'X' looks very outdated and something that could have been used 10 years ago.

With all the technology they have they could have produced something a little more modern looking and fancy.
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A former member
Here is the STV debate:
http://www.tv-live.org.uk/plusone/elections/uk-general-election-2015/itvstv-election-debates-2015/election-debates-stv/
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alexhduk
UTV's Leaders debate will stick out like a sore thumb from the rest in terms of picture quality. In 2015 UTV still do not have HD Production equipment.

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