1. Ken suggests that Sam takes Toyah to see being John Malkovich - a film.
2. same scene. Ken says that you see inside John's head. Sam replies 'Oh, like those Numskulls in The Beano?' Rosie and Sophie have been seen reading The Beano in the past, but they've never mentioned it before!
3. Optician referred to Lorraine Kelly when Deirdre was choosing her new specs. That's an ad for The Sun, Sky One, GMTV, and a Sunday newspaper.
All of these are adverts - seen by up to 12 million people.
(Edited by SpiringUnhacked at 1:36 pm on Sep. 27, 2001)
I like coronation treet. its better than Eastenders and has very goos stroylines. An added bonus is those nice people at granada have decided to keep it 4:3 for the time being at least.
Coronation Street is the best soap on the box IMHO, it is unlike any other, the humour is great. I don't understand Katherine why it is responsible for poor F1 coverage, most of the Grand Prix are on at lunchtime / early afternoon, they've moved Sunday's episode because of it.
I don't understand Katherine why it is responsible for poor F1 coverage, most of the Grand Prix are on at lunchtime / early afternoon, they've moved Sunday's episode because of it.
Oh my, I wish there was a quick and easy way to reply to this one, I really do!
Do you want to read a two-page letter I wrote to Bernie Ecclestone setting out my each and every grievance with ITV's coverage? Suffice to say, it actually provoked Mr. Ecclestone to contact ITV telling them to 'respect every race'!
(Edited by Katherine at 11:02 pm on Sep. 27, 2001)
Do you realise that if Bernie Ecclestone had his way, he wouldn't have Formula 1 on free to air television at all and it would be consigned to pay-per-view. Ecclestone blacked out the ITV coverage of qualifying until they coughed up some more cash, your letter may have added fuel to his fire.
It's not just about the US GP, it's about a stackload of other things. When ITV signed their broadcast contract with Bernie in 1996, they said that every race would be available for everyone to see and they had 100% commitment to live coverage of Formula One action. Formula One is one of the sports at present that has to be shown on free-to-air television. I believe that when ITV decided to tape-delay coverage of the historic inaugural United States GP from Indy last year on terrestrial television but broadcast it live ONLY on ITV2, this constituted a breach of their contract. Not everyone had the privilege of digital television to see it. To me, this is evidence of a two-tier viewership that serves only to separate viewers into haves and have-nots, according to the size of wallet. This is unfair, discriminatory and unacceptable.
As Coronation Street is a RECORDED programme available to show at any time, the GP last year should have had priority, as it was a LIVE event. Coronation Street can be shown at any time in comparison. Also, why is it that the ITV schedulers seem to have this inconsistent attitude towards Coronation Street? They seem to be all to willing to bend over backwards to move the show for live football coverage, yet suddenly seem very unwilling to move the soap for Formula One action. I find this baffling and maddening. It appears that from their efforts to cover non-European races, ITV seem totally incapable of giving Formula One fans like me the coverage we deserve. Since ITV started broadcasting F1, we have had no live qualifying coverage of any description from Canada at all. Tony Jardine and Jim Rosenthal have not yet been sent by ITV to the Malaysian Grand Prix. We are not getting sufficient post-race analysis time which has been decimated in length over the seasons from a reliable half-hour's worth to sometimes no more than ten minutes. With football, analysis is gone over with a fine-toothed comb, ITV think that 15 minutes is enough to cover a race of 1 hour 45 minutes' duration. It's simply not.
ITV show the race participants no respect at all, as they are more often than not broadcasting an incomplete post-qualifying and post-race drivers' conference, focusing only on the British drivers unaware that some of us out here may support drivers other than David Coulthard (I for one have supported Michael Schumacher for 5.5 years). The main presenter Jim Rosenthal seems to have a manufactured rather than genuine knowledge for Formula One and seems almost obsessively keen to advertise football after the race rather than concentrate on the race just driven. On his gridwalk, Martin Brundle seems to have forgotten to interview the people that matter in F1, favouring to interview people like Liz Hurley who doesn't know the first thing about the sport and has no influence on the sport.
All these things led me in January to confront Murray Walker in person at Autosport 2001, present my argument in a reasoned and sensible manner. I listed my multitudinous concerns to him and he was taken aback. He hid behind corporate-speak and rose-tinted glasses and failed to answer any of my points at all. When Formula One fans complain about the slipshod coverage to the Duty Office, we are met with arrogant condescension and indifference, and e-mails that don't answer our questions. They tell us that they 'don't want to alienate our usual prime-time viewers of their programmes'!!!!!!! WHAT? COME AGAIN???? For one night out of 365 in the year they can't do something different for Pete's sake?
This is why I hate, loathe and detest Coronation Street and ITV. I've suffered enough and wash my hands of the entire channel!
Katherine, I take it you've fallen out with the schedulers of ITV then? ha ha
If I were controller of ITV, I'd make the same decision I'm afraid.
ITV is commercial, therefore are somewhat dictated to by viewing figures. Footy gets more viewers than the GP, a lot more.
It's a very difficult job being a controller when something like this occurs, it's the same old problem - you can't please everybody all of the time. Obviously they've not pleased you
They haven't pleased the vast majority of the ITV F1 fan population by their manoeuvres! I've got some of the huge number of messages posted about this subject saved on my computer.
I go by my opinion that ITV are only concerned about football, obsessed by soap and lack consistent commitment to quality live coverage of Formula One. Turns out they didn't include live coverage of qualifying in their initial package, and only coughed up the dough when Bernie got tough.
Was it my imagination or did ITV trumpet it to the heavens that they'd got rights to it? Was I imagining the huge F1 night in 1997 the day it started? It looked so promising and now it looks mud-splattered!
As it is continuous in its nature and does not have a break in it like football does, it is inappropriate for a commercial channel like ITV. Thanks to adverts, we missed the defining moment of the 1998 season, the moment when Michael Schumacher's right rear tyre exploded, deciding the championship in Mika Hakkinen's favour. Also, ITV went to adverts right in the middle of Michael Schumacher's landmark and historic title-clinching lap of honour last year at the Japanese GP. I wanted, like very many other Schumi fans to savour this moment and ITV disrespectfully ruined it. Why couldn't they have waited for a more judicious time like after the podium celebrations?
ITV cannot be trusted with F1 now. I say, give F1 back to its spiritual home, the BBC where it can be vastly improved and adverts removed.
