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Family Guy on ITV2 from the Autumn

(February 2015)

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ME
mediaman2007
RDJ posted:
The original tweeter has now protected his account, possibly due to fall out from ITV bosses for sharing in-workplace info.

Also due to his lack of ability to use capital letters I'd say ITV Saturday Night is a good place for him to stay and focus his efforts rather than making wild speculations about his employers' ambitions!


That's unfair. If they're going to plaster it on a lift where hundreds of workers and guests pass through then what do they expect?
If they wanted to keep it a secret when what the hell are they doing it putting the information on a lift.


Even so, it's still within private property, and therefore not necessarily 'fair game' to be splashed all over the internet. It's hardly a breach of national security, but it could well be seen as disclosing commercial information, though it is an example of (IMHO silly annoying) 'internal branding' that many large companies engage in now .


Really?! I doubt they do up the lifts like that for staff alone. There are hundreds of visitors to the place on a daily basis - celebrity or otherwise guests, freelance staff, and many audience members wanting to use the toilet in reception! I was bemused by this Family Guy thing, I can't find an explanation for doing it when they hadn't done a deal on it. Weird.
JO
Jon
It's been explained!
ME
mediaman2007
People are being a bit thick here. This is the sort of thing companies do when they're welcoming people from other organisations, whether it be to pitch a service or negotiate something.

A complete non-story.


Oh really. Decorating the very public lifts which are used to showcase CURRENT ITV brands? I speak as someone who has worked on the edges of TV, as have a lot of people on TVF. Not as directors or producers or management, I wouldn't think.
ME
mediaman2007
The original tweeter has now protected his account, possibly due to fall out from ITV bosses for sharing in-workplace info.

Also due to his lack of ability to use capital letters I'd say ITV Saturday Night is a good place for him to stay and focus his efforts rather than making wild speculations about his employers' ambitions!


Jeez, ITV is a big enough company. He's employed by them sure but really his job starts and ends with the Saturday Night Takeaway team. No doubt he's on a freelance contract. More than likely he protected his account out of slight embarrassment. It's like watching a bunch of journalists here sometimes, I thought it was better than Digital flamin' Spy Very Happy
WH
Whataday Founding member
People are being a bit thick here. This is the sort of thing companies do when they're welcoming people from other organisations, whether it be to pitch a service or negotiate something.

A complete non-story.


Oh really. Decorating the very public lifts which are used to showcase CURRENT ITV brands? I speak as someone who has worked on the edges of TV, as have a lot of people on TVF. Not as directors or producers or management, I wouldn't think.


Always good to speak on behalf of an entire forum.

You don't need to work 'on the edges of TV' to understand an article explaining the reason for the branding.
ME
mediaman2007
People are being a bit thick here. This is the sort of thing companies do when they're welcoming people from other organisations, whether it be to pitch a service or negotiate something.

A complete non-story.


Oh really. Decorating the very public lifts which are used to showcase CURRENT ITV brands? I speak as someone who has worked on the edges of TV, as have a lot of people on TVF. Not as directors or producers or management, I wouldn't think.


Always good to speak on behalf of an entire forum.

You don't need to work 'on the edges of TV' to understand an article explaining the reason for the branding.


I wasn't doing that. Don't be 'thick' now.

Yeah, and I daresay ITV won't be doing this again. And not just because it leaked. You can't apply what some businesses do to all - in the context of ITV showcasing their brands on lifts at their headquarters, having one with Family Guy and the ITV logo on it was rather silly.
DA
davidhorman
If I was Fox and saw that on the way into negotiations, I'd think it would look either presumptious or a bit needy.

But then again, I'm not Fox.
:-(
A former member
I dare say FOX would love that.
ME
mediaman2007
If I was Fox and saw that on the way into negotiations, I'd think it would look either presumptious or a bit needy.

But then again, I'm not Fox.


You're probably right though.
BA
bilky asko
If I was Fox and saw that on the way into negotiations, I'd think it would look either presumptious or a bit needy.

But then again, I'm not Fox.


I'd see it more as a mildly amusing folly.

Perhaps it was a demonstration of how they'd feature the show in their advertising. What's to say that it wasn't explained, or was something that made sense in context?
MA
Markymark

Even so, it's still within private property, and therefore not necessarily 'fair game' to be splashed all over the internet. It's hardly a breach of national security, but it could well be seen as disclosing commercial information, though it is an example of (IMHO silly annoying) 'internal branding' that many large companies engage in now .


Really?! I doubt they do up the lifts like that for staff alone. There are hundreds of visitors to the place on a daily basis - celebrity or otherwise guests, freelance staff, and many audience members wanting to use the toilet in reception! I was bemused by this Family Guy thing, I can't find an explanation for doing it when they hadn't done a deal on it. Weird.


Staffers and freelancers (inc 'slebs) will (or should) have an NDA in their contracts or agreements, studio audience members normally have 'No Photography' printed on the back of their tickets.

However, I've been in those lifts many times myself, I do agree it does seem a rather odd thing to have done, and unenforceable to prevent leakage into the real world

23 days later

PF
PFML84
CONFIRMED

Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show and Bordertown (the new Seth MacFarlane animated comedy) to air on ITV 2 from Autumn 2015.

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-welcomes-seth-macfarlane-family
paul_hadley, bilky asko and London Lite gave kudos

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