The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

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Tonight's pointless celebrity interview was definally done in the style of his old radio show. The way he was flirting with the guests!

I think this could be the listing in next week's Radio Times

6.30 YORKSHIRE Look North
Today's news and sport from around Yorkshire
and the North Midlands. Presented by Christa
Ackroyd and Harry Gration. Includes weather
6.30 YORKS & LINCS The Peter Levy Show
Chat show series hosted by Peter Levy featuring
star guests and the latest entertainment news
from Hull and East Yorkshire. Tonight's guests
are Cannon and Ball. Also including Look North
news headlines and weather with Paul Hudson
Weather Alex Deakin

Meanwhile over on ITV1, we got a brief glimpse of the LNN Transmission Line KRS 67 card just before "Ian McMillan's Argentina" tonight

The same happened before Costa del Cabaret in Granadaland. Must be a Leeds problem.

How ITV can get away with calling Calendar a news programme is beyond me . Yorkshire Television should be reported to the tv standard watchdogs for trying to pass this programme of as a regional news programme.
To have a 30 minute news programme spend so little time and effert on reporting news but all the time in the world plugging companys who are using this show to gain free advertising.
Every night on Calendar its competition time, if its not Debenhams being plugged to death by giving away £1000 its The Yorkshire Wedding Company who are giving away a £3000 wedding.
This sort of pap should be left to local radio stations not regional television news programmes.
And why are Yorkshire Television not telling the viewers that every time they text the answer to these competitions they are taking a cut (money) from the cost of the text?
This once fine regional news programme is in my opinion just a cheap and grubby excuse for filling in 30 minutes of airtime!
If this is the state of regional news programmes on ITV today, christ only knows what these programmes will be like in 10 years time

A man after my own heart!

Here's a hint to end your woe,
To Look North Land your eyes should go!!

how would you know - you never watch calendar. are you talking out of your sc rotum katherine?

No - I have enough words in my head to ensure that isn't necessary..... and I wouldn't want to watch a programme that needs Paul O'Grady as a ratings crutch!

Ratings crutch? ITV regional news has generally done well over time so I don't think that's a fair comment at all.

And the BBC isn't much better is it? If they've not got Dicky Turd on to flog his latest book, it's some kind of 80s panto love-in. Crickey, no wonder it's called Look North - because I certainly want to look to the skies rather than watch it.

Calendar probably spends the same amount of time or probably less on "non news" output than The Peter Levy Show.

A show which relies on showbiz fluff (not even relevant to the area) to fill the last quarter (when they haven't even bothered to provide any sports coverage), has a narrow news remit, and reads stories out of the local paper.

The majority of the time these has beens aren't even sat in the same studio, and are interviewed down the line from another BBC studio. It's all very lazy.

Do you mean in the same way that Neighbours is a ratings crutch for the Six and the Six is a ratings crutch for Look North?

Nah, you're all wrong.

Look North is a ratings crutch for Watchdog and Holiday...

The picture of a frog that was Paul Hudson's weather picture on Monday's Look North was then Kerrie Gosney's weather picture on Tuesday's Yorkshire weather!

Some pictures from Monday's edition of the award winning Calendar
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Firstly a new game, guess which Calendar reporter it is from their mouth only, or the cameraman not realising they are on air. Secondly, Duncan standing at the special front plasma with a news story
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Next Calendar South. Well with The Way we Were having finished Andrew Knight needs to find something to do, secondly the competition to win a large easter egg. I believe these are library pictures of last year's egg. Will they have it say ITV Yorkshire in icing this time?!
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Calendar showing off their awards, ITV Regional News Programme of the year along with awards for Jon Hill, Soccer Night and 'Who's taking your Daughter Home tonight?' a programme about bogus taxi drivers
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Trevor McDonald announcing the winner, and a clip of why it won
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YTV's head of news Will Venters picking up the award. Jon Hill won the Creative Livespot award as well
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"Our very own Tony Christie" here with any excuse to show that video one more time