I'm not surprised this show is attracting the 'chav population' . I found myself turning over earlier while browsing the vast selection of Television channels to find the camera panning all over Titmuss like the Queen of Shiva! ARRGH!
Notice on MediaGuardian they've got the executive producer saying that they never intended it to be the "celebrity shagfest" the tabloids had described.
Yet in all the info before it we kept being told the show was being dubbed "Celebrity Shag Island", when it was only ITV themselve dubbing it that!
I think ITV really need to stop and think about what they are doing to themselves. People are sick to death of the constant tripe its producing day after day. Our hooded chav friends will use their one brain cell eventually and cotton on that there is an off switch. Even the advertisers aren't interested.
ITV needs to have a quality flagship channel that offers a wide range of entertainment for everyone. They have dumped the regions so either call everything ITV1 (or simply ITV) or don't. Having different names of a channel such as ITV Day, ITV Granada, ITV1 is completely stupid and needs to be addressed immediately. If they want to keep some kind of regional aspect, each station should quote the name of its region just like the BBC does. Can't see Granada calling itself ITV North West however.
As for their other channels, how about a dumping the chav stuff onto on ITV2, then they are catering for a more narrowier audience and everyone is happy. ITV3 is a fantastic channel and if they do merge the god awful M&M and some kind of kids channel into ITV4 fair play to them. At least that will give us four (five if you count the ITV4 spilt) very different channels and a choice to the viewer.
indeed, and you have to therefore question what on earth was the point of paying these people to go and live on the beach for 5 weeks? I watched a bit last night and was just dumbfounded as to the reasoning behind commissioning it? The only thing it's done is reinforce people's preconceptions about ITV and the chav/trash direction it's apparently taking.
Love Island appeals to 3.9m
Viewers haven't quite deserted ITV1's Celebrity Love Island just yet as the reality show picked up an extra 500,000 viewers last night to average 3.9 million (20.2%) at 10pm.
Love Island appeals to 3.9m
Viewers haven't quite deserted ITV1's Celebrity Love Island just yet as the reality show picked up an extra 500,000 viewers last night to average 3.9 million (20.2%) at 10pm.
But isnt that just due to the inheritence of Footballers Wives? Maybe a real test will be tonight, when CLI follows Airline, not really a huge ratings grabber, and is up against The Simpsons and HIGNFY, two very popular, established shows. Granted HIGNFY wont appeal to the average CLI viewer, but it will certainly perform better than CLI, and everyone I know would rather watch the quick wit of Paul Merton etc over a bunch of brain dead guys and cheap tarts lie around getting a sun tan!
I'm not surprised this show is attracting the 'chav population' . I found myself turning over earlier while browsing the vast selection of Television channels to find the camera panning all over Titmuss like the Queen of Shiva! ARRGH!
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Queen of
Shiva
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Yeah, first thing that popped into my head. Never any good at metaphors!
I am with TVF's point. I find it such a shame that ITV1 (Corrie and Paul O'Grady excluded) is branding itself as a trashy chav channel. Especially on this its 50th year.
I would of honestly loved to have been in the meeting where they commissioned Celebrity Love Island.
Producer: Right we want to commission this show
BigWig: Ok here's £6 million
Producer: Hang on i haven't told you what it's about yet!
BigWig: Oh..ok fine carry on
Producer: Ok right basically we wanna pay Z-list celebrities a big sack of cash to sit on a beach whilst being filmed in the hope that they might cop off with each other!
BigWig: Fantastic! I can really see the public going for this one! It'll sit in nicely just after Celebrity Wrestling. This will really make ITV1 the top channel in the UK. That BBC lot and their multi million pound science fiction drama! Ha! We'll wipe the floor with them!! What......what's that mother?! Yes mother i commissioned it. What's that mother? You want me to cut off all drama budgets? But...But mother!......More celebrity flops mother?......Yes mother.........
Pierce Morgan (writing in the Mail) says that he was approached to take part in 'Celebrity Shark Bait'. He describes being told the point of the programme is to place the 'celebrity' in a cage of the coast of South Africa, and see if a shark attacks! When he asked the reseacher who approched him about why on earth would he want to do that, the reseacher told Pierce that 'It will be great telly and we'll pay you loads too!'
Seriously, how can anyone take ITV seriously when they consider this to 'great telly'! Its maybe wrong to form an opinion when none of us have seen the programme, or know the full facts about it, but even the name and that tiny description just scream awful tv!
Pierce Morgan (writing in the Mail) says that he was approached to take part in 'Celebrity Shark Bait'. He describes being told the point of the programme is to place the 'celebrity' in a cage of the coast of South Africa, and see if a shark attacks! When he asked the reseacher who approched him about why on earth would he want to do that, the reseacher told Pierce that 'It will be great telly and we'll pay you loads too!'
From what I've heard about Celbrity Shark Bait, it sounds like one of those Tamsin Outhwaite Meets Dolphins / Martin Clunes Meets Elephants / whatever documentaries, but with a sensational name attached to it so as to draw press coverage.
Here's an idea ITV1, put all the sad Celeb ******* you have seen fit to put onto ours screen since 2002 into a large metal cage, plunge it 1000 feet down with the sharks, then lift the gate. 25 million happy viewers for you all on one night.
I'd say put Charles Allen in too but even the sharks have taste!
. I found myself turning over earlier while browsing the vast selection of Television channels to find the camera panning all over Titmuss like the Queen of Shiva! 
Yeah, first thing that popped into my head. Never any good at metaphors!