CITV Channel & Saturday Showdown Thread

That's what i'm looking forward to on Sunday!

Poll now up.

MPAA will be on for an hour at 5.00pm right after its been on for half an hour on CiTV, its popular but not that popular.

I can't wait for Uncle Dad, Sundays 5.30pm and Captain Scarlet, Saturdays 5.30pm.

That's been known for a while. The same happened with the ITV News Channel here in Scotland. But since the closure of the ITV News Channel Setanta has rolled out nationwide.

I take it the gap in the schedule from 1pm - 5pm on a Sunday is when the channel is given over to Sentanta then ? Who use ITV4 downtime, which now becomes CITV downtime.

Losing a significant weekend period when kids are likely to be sat in front of the box. Madness.

I asked ITV Duty office about presenters returning, they had this to say:

Thank you for your e-mail.

Please watch on 11 March when all will be revealed.

Yours sincerely

DUTY OFFICER - JT

All I can say is, don't expect a straightforward answer from a duty officer.

That seems very interesting, but its most probably because that duty manager doesn't know themselves.

They don't seem to know that Saturday Showdown ends at 1030 this week on ITV, well not on that website anyway.

It looks as if you have to view the new channel to finish the show. Though if you've only got Sky/Cable, you won't be able to.

As for the ITV4/CITV debacle, isn't it just the same as ITV1 airing CITV and a horror movie? The viewers would change, and it isn't as if it goes straight into swearing at 6pm.

They arn't going to release information like that to anybody who asks. There will be press releases/press launches etc

More chance of finding out if you e-mail asking them if there are any children's presenting opportunities.

Don't know if this has been mentioned but good ol' Red Bee have been working on the identity.

http://www.redbeemedia.com/press/2006/citv.shtml

Interesting that it refers to things as idents, I take it that that means no presenters, or are the stings usually used on kids tv also called idents?

Its a shame that theres still no word on any other platform, why miss out a whole audience that don't have freeview?

Again, you're making it sound like it's through choice I'm sure they want as wide an audience as possible for the launch. I'm pretty sure that somehow, it will be on Sky from day one... maybe on ITV4 if they can't get the channel number straight away.