Oh dear. 2.1m for this on Tuesday night. It came fourth out of the five main channels (narrowly beating a CSI on Five) and it gave ITV it's lowest ever Tuesday all-day share. (From Media Guardian)
Oh dear. 2.1m for this on Tuesday night. It came fourth out of the five main channels (narrowly beating a CSI on Five) and it gave ITV it's lowest ever Tuesday all-day share. (From Media Guardian)
serves them right for puting their sick itv twist on the concept. all they had to do was something not dissimilar to planet earth showing the extent of the decline of certain animals. instead they have a sick concept which fortunately most of the public have steered clear of
Every review I've seen - from critics and general forum peeps - says exactly the same thing, the vote has killed the programme!
Even a moderately successful telethon appeal, either over one night or across the five programmes, would probably raise more.
As someone at Digital Spy said you wouldn't get away with doing the same with doing something similar with say HIV sufferers and orphan children in Africa.
The content isn't up to scratch either - with the polar bears we had the whole film of them tracking them (and scaring the **** out of them) with the helicopters, tranquilising them and then attaching them with massive iron collars - but never found out what purpose they served other than it was important. Surely for tracking a discrete microchip could do the job - how would we like it if someone attached a metal collar to us while we were out cold!
To be fair to ITV though they aren't creaming the profits of this vote - it all goes to charity except the phone company and tax charges.
I didn't watch, but apparently Pauline Collins and the Bengal Tiger 'won', and got 50% of the proceeds from the phone vote, with the other 50% going to the other animals.
Anyway, glad it's over now, it was interesting seeing ITV doing something different and 'worthy' but think they took the wrong approach to it. It certainly wasn't Saturday night material, I'd rather have had Millionaire on between the X-Factor shows.
I only saw a bit of the quiz, but the sound effect they played whilst the contestants chose their answers was a heart monitor beep flatling, terribly bad taste.
Anyway, Zoe Ball can move on to something more up her street, Soapstar Superstar. Her and Trevor certainly came across as an odd couple.
The only thing I knew about this, was they tried to get the regions involved. Meridian had a live interview with Zoe Ball from a local zoo a few weeks ago.