I do feel for them though, that was an hour long programme really. The rigidity of the ITV structure means they have no other opportunity to do such a programme.
There was a regional opt-out a few years ago (which I think was in Yorkshire), which I think was to mark the anniversary of a major news event (can't remember what it was), in a post-news at ten slot, so opt-outs can still happen in the English regions, but are a very rare event nowadays.
I do feel for them though, that was an hour long programme really. The rigidity of the ITV structure means they have no other opportunity to do such a programme.
There was a regional opt-out a few years ago (which I think was in Yorkshire), which I think was to mark the anniversary of a major news event (can't remember what it was), in a post-news at ten slot, so opt-outs can still happen in the English regions, but are a very rare event nowadays.
It was the Tour de France was it not?
It’s a shame they don’t have ability to do very occasional post News at Ten opt outs. I’m not expecting a weekly slot, or anything in peak, but maybe half a dozen shows a year at 10:35, in a similar way the BBC English regions can do very occasional extra programmes.
ITV Wales have more opts than the rest of ITV plc so presumably there are "droppable" items in the schedule to facilitate that, that could be pre-empted in other regions by agreement?
Wales and UTV have often followed a similar pattern in terms of what they drop in recent years (and perhaps STV also) - in the peak they'll drop a 30m programme in the 8pm hour for a local show (which I've noticed often is sandwiched between two episodes of Coronation Street so you'd think quite a prominent slot), and then air it post-News at Ten at some point to make up for it. This does lead to the less than desirable situation though where a new series (a Gino D'Campo cooking show springs to mind) airs exclusively in that region post-NAT!
I do feel for them though, that was an hour long programme really. The rigidity of the ITV structure means they have no other opportunity to do such a programme.
There was a regional opt-out a few years ago (which I think was in Yorkshire), which I think was to mark the anniversary of a major news event (can't remember what it was), in a post-news at ten slot, so opt-outs can still happen in the English regions, but are a very rare event nowadays.
It was the Tour de France was it not?
Yorkshire has had two. Once in 2010 at short notice. The 6pm programme was meant to be a special covering an anniversary, but was dropped for rolling news of the aftermath of the election. The special was broadcast after News at Ten instead. Then a pre-planned opt for the Tour de France in 2014, again post News at Ten
Wales and UTV have often followed a similar pattern in terms of what they drop in recent years (and perhaps STV also) - in the peak they'll drop a 30m programme in the 8pm hour for a local show (which I've noticed often is sandwiched between two episodes of Coronation Street so you'd think quite a prominent slot), and then air it post-News at Ten at some point to make up for it. This does lead to the less than desirable situation though where a new series (a Gino D'Campo cooking show springs to mind) airs exclusively in that region post-NAT!
Not prominent at all if it's Monday or Friday, since that gap is when EastEnders is on over on BBC One. That's the reason Corrie is split into two episodes instead of just being an hour long.
Wales and UTV have often followed a similar pattern in terms of what they drop in recent years (and perhaps STV also) - in the peak they'll drop a 30m programme in the 8pm hour for a local show (which I've noticed often is sandwiched between two episodes of Coronation Street so you'd think quite a prominent slot), and then air it post-News at Ten at some point to make up for it. This does lead to the less than desirable situation though where a new series (a Gino D'Campo cooking show springs to mind) airs exclusively in that region post-NAT!
Not prominent at all if it's Monday or Friday, since that gap is when EastEnders is on over on BBC One. That's the reason Corrie is split into two episodes instead of just being an hour long.
8pm is still a good slot, regardless of what is being shown over on BBC One.
Its a shame ITV don't do regional programmes aside from news and the monthly political series if that is still on? They wont do anything over and above what they have to do. ITV Wales probably wouldn't make anything other than the local news if they didn't have to.
Sadly they seem to confine all their specials to the regional news slot which is a shame as it is a fairly easy (and not too costly) way of getting 30-minutes of local content into the schedule elsewhere when the occassion calls for it. Over the summer especially there are plenty of 30 and even 60 minute slots in primetime which could be dropped.
ITV Wales tend to air the Monday 8pm show later that night following their political show, usually displacing an hour long repeat on network. The Friday 8pm show often ends up paired with Newsweek Wales on Sundays, although that can vary depending on what ITV are airing at the weekends.
Look North Hull appear to be changing the start of the programme. Whether it's a trial or not I am not sure, but for presentation fans it truly is awful. A spinning box with words such as Contact, Share, Like in the bottom corner over the headlines and coming up sequence. With a sweeping view of the hardly ever used big screen showing the contact details that our Peter loves to read several times in a show.
He had an iPad as a prop to read one viewpoint half way through the show, but then reverted to printed ones at the end.
As much as I defend the programme for delivering a popular programme, this is really awful.
Viewer opinions are always a waste of airtime. Always either the blandest view, the most obvious knee jerk view, or a view that misunderstands whatever it is they are commenting on, and as it’s TV, there always has to be a balance of the blandest views on both sides.
That also goes for when they stop people in the street and ask for an opinion
