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C4 poaches Paul O'Grady

Massive blow for ITV (January 2006)

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Brekkie
jay posted:
You have to bear in mind the budget for a show in this timeslot, it's not very much when compared with prime time shows.


Well, C4 found a budget for Deal or No Deal and it's paid off!
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jay Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
jay posted:
You have to bear in mind the budget for a show in this timeslot, it's not very much when compared with prime time shows.


Well, C4 found a budget for Deal or No Deal and it's paid off!


That's true - still trying to work out where they're getting the money from! Mind you, hardly anyone goes away with the top prize!

anyway, back to ITV - good things are on their way, I just know it!
CY
cylon6
There's a very interesting article about daytime in Broadcast. I had no idea how cut throat it has become.
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Square Eyes Founding member
Wasn't a Sharon Osbourne chat show muted at one point ?

She seems to have become ITV's latest darling.
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jay Founding member
Square Eyes posted:
Wasn't a Sharon Osbourne chat show muted at one point ?

She seems to have become ITV's latest darling.


Judging by the success of her show in America, i wouldn't count on it...
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CentralWest
Ive heard POG is back with ITV...
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jay Founding member
CentralWest posted:
Ive heard POG is back with ITV...


Where did you hear that?

8 days later

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Andrew Founding member
Media Guardian reports today that Paul O'Grady's Channel 4 show will be identical to what his show was like on ITV. Even the name of the show will be 'The Paul O'Grady Show'. His pets and his organ and even producer 'Bert' are also likely to return. It could even be made in the same studio at The London Studios

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1694649,00.html
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msim
And how petty of ITV planning on airing repeats of the show against the new ones on Ch4!
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cylon6
msim posted:
And how petty of ITV planning on airing repeats of the show against the new ones on Ch4!


And I remember the BBC doing the same when Morecambe and Wise went to ITV in 1978. They even called the repeats the best of Morecambe and Wise.
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cylon6
What's really interesting is that C4 are rushing the new show into production for a March launch. It also won the Broadcast award for Best Daytime programme. I can't see ITV winning that category again for awhile.

Channel 4 fast-tracks O'Grady show

Jason Deans, broadcasting editor
Thursday January 26, 2006


Channel 4 is rushing star signing Paul O'Grady on air in late March with his award-winning daytime chatshow.
O'Grady, who was poached from ITV on a two-year exclusive daytime contract earlier this month, will first appear on Channel 4 on Monday March 27, when his 5pm show will return for a 12-week run.

Bookers for the programme, which is expected to retain the The Paul O'Grady Show as its title, have begun ringing agents and other broadcasters to start securing celebrity guests.

O'Grady's Channel 4 show will run from March 27 to Friday June 16, at which point Richard & Judy will take over the 5pm to 6pm weekday slot for the summer. O'Grady will then return for a second run on Channel 4 later in the year.

ITV is reported to be planning to broadcast repeats of its version of The Paul O'Grady Show against his new Channel 4 programme as a stop gap, while the broadcaster scrambles to commission replacement shows.

O'Grady's new Channel 4 programme is expected to be almost identical to his successful ITV1 chatshow, right down to the title.

Other familiar features of O'Grady's ITV1 show, including his dog Buster, other pets and the organ, are also likely to make the move to Channel 4.

Channel 4 is even planning to shoot the star's new show in the same studio in the ITV-owned London Studios on the South Bank.

However, there is a question mark over whether The Paul O'Grady Show will remain on the South Bank, with London Studios' management said to be coming under pressure from elsewhere within ITV not to take the booking for O'Grady's Channel 4 programme.
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Brekkie
cylon6 posted:
ITV is reported to be planning to broadcast repeats of its version of The Paul O'Grady Show against his new Channel 4 programme as a stop gap, while the broadcaster scrambles to commission replacement shows.



So ITV expect more people to watch REPEATS of the Paul O'Grady Show than to watch new episodes! No surprise at all!

If it is true (and as it's a stupid idea it probably is) it'll backfire - all it will do is promote POG even more and attract more viewers to his show.


As for the date - not surprised he begins when he does, but had expected him to do a full six month stint with Richard and Judy getting the summer off. It's better though IMO for them both to do three months on, three months off.

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