Avenue of the Stars

Kate Thornton was okay. Could have been worse - it could have been Tara Palmer Tompkinson. She was on the ITV2 show with Tim Vincent - she was completely wasted so I switched off.

Also the Southern compass didn't have the extended south point.

And i'm sure the ATV ident didn't have the right font.

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Brill show - full of old pros, which is what ITV used to be about.

The South Bank Show that was on after about Eric Sykes was even better!

Anyone got the list of stars then!

I only saw a bit of it - surprised Ant and Dec got a star each, they usually have to share.

Didn't really watch it though out of protest at Ricky Gervais getting one for being behind one of the most over-hyped sitcoms of recents years!

Grampians looked spot on!!!

The full list...

Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Rex Harrison
The Beatles
Bob Geldof KBE
The Sex Pistols
Lord Laurence Olivier OM
Sir Trevor McDonald OBE
The Rolling Stones
Dame Maggie Smith CBE
Glenda Jackson CBE
Coronation Street
Sir Peter Ustinov CBE
Lord Richard Attenborough CBE
Nicole Kidman
Sir Charles Chaplin
Michael Palin CBE
Ant & Dec
Cilla Black OBE
Victoria Wood OBE
Julie Walters OBE
Sir Cliff Richard OBE
Frankie Howerd OBE
Dame Gracie Fields
Sir Ian McKellen CBE
Christopher Lee CBE
Sir Ralph Richardson
Cary Grant
Sir David Frost OBE
Hugh Grant
Peter O’Toole
Sir John Mills CBE
Alan Whicker CBE
Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE
Sir John Gielgud CH
Tony Hancock
Sir Michael Gambon CBE
Dame Peggy Ashcroft CBE
Sir Noël Coward
David Bowie
Richard Briers CBE, OBE
The Bee Gees
Sir Alan Bates CBE
Pink Floyd
Bob Hope KBE
Dame Shirley Bassey CBE
The Kinks
Dame Edith Evans
Dame Vera Lynn OBE
Ken Dodd OBE
Brenda Blethyn OBE
Tommy Cooper
Peter Cook
Benny Hill
Les Dawson
Stan Laurel
Rowan Atkinson
Lenny Henry CBE
Peter Sellers CBE
Eric Sykes CBE, OBE
Bruce Forsyth OBE
Dame Edna Everage
Spike Milligan KBE
Sir Harry Secombe CBE
Sir David Jason OBE
The Two Ronnies
Ricky Gervais
John Cleese
Albert Finney
Dame Thora Hird OBE
Morecambe & Wise
Arthur Lowe
Dame Diana Rigg CBE
Leonard Rossiter
Sir Nigel Hawthorne CBE
Paul Eddington CBE
Kenneth Branagh
Chris Tarrant OBE
David Niven
John Thaw CBE
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa OBE, ONZ
Robbie Coltrane
Sir Roger Moore CBE
Sir Sean Connery
Dame Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Judi Dench CH, OBE
Billy Connolly CBE
Sir Michael Caine CBE
Richard Burton CBE
Dame Margot Fonteyn CBE
Alan Bennett
Sir Anthony Hopkins CBE
Sir Dirk Bogarde
Dame Julie Andrews
Dame Alicia Markova CBE
Charles Laughton
Dame Helen Mirren
Queen
Lord Yehudi Menuhin OM
Robbie Williams
Eric Clapton CBE, OBE
Errol Flynn
Tom Jones OBE

Taken from the ITV50 website (www.itv.com/50)

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des o conner one (like paul o grady siad)
and the muppets ?

I can't believe Des O'Connor didn't get a star!

I thought it was rather nice that Chris Tarrant dedicated his star to his father Basil, who made an appearance on the National Television Awards as the Phantom Flan Flinger in 2000, but sadly died earlier this year.

What a shame that ITV managed to get hold of the Uk walk of fame! They absolutely slaughtered an idea that could have been smart and sophisticated and turned it into a cringeworthy, vomit inducing cheese fest. Chris Tarrant did his best in front of the most stereotypically z list audience you could imagine but he still made me want to hide behind the sofa out of sheer embaressment...and don;t even get me started on the opening titles. It looked like a 20 year old advert for an American news station. I just think its a shame that some of the greatest entertainers from this country had to be so publicly demeaned in this latest of ITV's disasters.

Not that you want to overstate it

I didn't watch it, but I can scarcely imagine a *tasteful* way to do a Hollywood style avenue of stars.

ITV got the job because they came up with the idea, surely?

Michael Hurll came up with the idea, and pitched it to both the BBC and ITV.

Obviously ITV snapped it up and decided to tie it in with the whole ITV 50 thing.

I get the feeling this Avenue is going to be cramped on its launch! How big is this venue?