If YOU were the boss of ITV...?

If you were the boss if ITV, what would you change?

I was the boss of ITV, I would buy out SMG, UTV and GMTV outright. During Movies, there would only be ads every 30 minutes rather than every 15. I would also make new shows, and change the schedule a bit.

ITV1

WEEKDAYS

06:00 ITV Breakfast (15 minutes of Regional News at 6:15, 7:15, 8:15)
09:00 The Jeremy Kyle Show/The Springer Show/60 Minute Makeover
10:00 This Morning
12:00 ITV News
12:30 Regional News
13:00 Loose Women/Today with Des and Mel/Make Me Perfect
14:00 Dial a Mum/Make Me Rich/Mums’ On Strike
14:30 Perseverance/Trading Treasures/Cash Cab
15:00 CITV
17:00 The Paul O’Grady Show/NEW Gameshow/Family Fortunes/The Price is Right
18:00 ITV News
18:30 Regional News
19:00 Emmerdale
19:30 Coronation Street
20:00 The Bill (Mon, Fri)||Regional Show then Tonight with… (Tue, Thu)||Celeb Fit Club/Package Holidays Undercover/Real Families/Real Life (Wed)
21:00 Drama/Documentaries
22:30 Help Yourself (Mon)||Tarrant on TV (Tue)||Regional Show (Wed)||Home Videos (Thu)||TV Burp (Fri)
23:00 ITV News
23:15 Regional News
23:30 Late-night Quiz (Mon, Fri)||Sport Show (Wed)||Regional Show (Tue, Thu)
00.00 ITV Movie
02:00 ITV News
02:15 Classic Regional Show
02:30 Regional Show (Mon, Wed, Fri)||NEW Religious Show (Tue, Thu)
03:30 ITV1 Nightscreen
05:00 ITV News
05:15 Regional News
05:30 CITV

SATURDAY

06:00 CITV
09:00 CITV: Saturday Showdown
11:00 CDUK
12:00 ITV News
12:15 Regional News
12:30 ITV at the Movies
13:00 ITV Movie
15:00 Regional Show (e.g. Gaelic)
15:30 Creature Comforts
16.00 Mr Bean
16:30 Better Homes
17:00 ITV News
17:15 Regional News
17:30 You’ve Been Framed
18:00 Stars In Their Eyes/Don’t Try This at Home/The X Factor
19:00 Ant & Dec’s Takeaway/Blind Date/Dancing On Ice
20:00 Who Wants to be a Millionaire/It Shouldn’t Happen…
21:00 Parkinson/An Audience With…/The X Factor-Result then Dancing On Ice-Result
22:00 NEW Live Entertainment/The Frank Skinner Show
23:00 ITV News
23:15 Regional News
23.30 Light Entertainment Show
00:00 ITV Movie
01:30 Sport Show
02:00 ITV News
02:15 QuizMania
03:30 ITV1 Nightscreen
05:00 ITV News
05:15 Regional News
05:30 CITV

SUNDAY

06:00 CITV
09:00 Regional News (Round-of this week’s top stories)
09:30 Regional Current Affairs Show
10:00 Jonathan Dimblbey
11:00 CDUK Hotshots
11:30 Regional Sports Show/Religious Show
12:00 ITV News
12:15 Regional News
13:00 ITV Movie
15:00 Classic Drama
17:00 Regional Show
17:30 The Golden Lot/NEW Antiques Show
18:00 ITV News
18:15 Regional News
18:30 Soap Secrets
19:00 Emmerdale
19:30 Coronation Street
20:00 Heartbeat/The Royal/Where the Heart Is/Wild at Heart
21:00 ITV Movie
23:00 ITV News
23:15 Regional News
23:30 The South Bank Show
00:00 Religious Show
01:00 ITV Sport
02:00 ITV News
02:15 Classic Regional Show
02:30 Orange Playlist
03:00 Love 2 Shop
04:00 ITV1 Nightscreen
05:00 ITV News
05:15 Regional News
05:30 CITV

Buying out SMG, is pointless

also GMTV ( ITV breakfast) must stay on air until 0925 that its contrak!

Why 9.25am and not 9.30am?

Yes, but the OP is suggesting buying out GMTV so no contract would exist.

So you would put the same amount of **** on but have it on at different times of the day. Hmm!

I like the weekdays 9pm slot.

"Drama"

So all dramas would now be an hour in length and never on at the weekends

That's the problem with these silly stranded schedules that people seem obsessed by

6.00am - GMTV
9.25am - The Jeremy Kyle Show
10.30am - This Morning
12.30pm - ITV Lunchtime News
1.00pm - Local News
1.15pm - Afternoon Live with Des and Mel
2.30pm - Passions (US Soap drama) *NEW*
3.00pm - ITV News Headlines, Local News
3.10pm - CITV
4.30pm - The Price Is Right *NEW*
5.00pm - The Krypton Factor *NEW*
6.00pm - Local News
6.30pm - ITV Evening News
7.00pm - Emmerdale
7.30pm - Coronation Street
8.00pm - Wheel Of Fourtune *NEW*
8.30pm - Coronation Street
9.00pm - TONIGHT with Trevor Macdonald
10.00pm - New Comedy or a stand up show
10.30pm - ITV Nightly News
11.00pm - Film

The national news would also have Interactive Signing, where they press the red button and select the (iS) logo and a box with a signer will appear for the deaf or hard of hearing. Service avalible from 6.30pm - 11pm, not during local programmes.

Passions would need longer than a 30min slot. I download episodes ad free and they last on average 37mins. I doubt it would work on ITV1 anyway - they axed Night And Day because people didnt get it so why anyone would think a soap that has a 300yr old witch, an orangutang nurse and storylines that drag on for months at a time would be suitable for an ITV1 audience is beyond me.

This schedule is very similar to the current except shorten the Lunchtime News to 30 minutes, and install a 15 minute News update at 3.00pm. Short News updates would air just after Corrie/Emmerdale at 8pm and also at 9pm. The soaps would convert to US style hour-episodes starting at 7 o'clock Sunday-Friday.

06.00 GMTV
09.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show
10.30 This Morning
12.15 Regional News
12.30 ITV Lunchtime News
13.00 Loose Women / Today with Des & Mel
14.00 Mums on Strike
14.30 Perseverance
15.00 ITV News Update
15.15 CITV
17.00 Family Fortunes / The 5 O'Clock Show
18.00 Regional News
18.30 ITV Evening News
19.00 Emmerdale (Sun/Tue/Thu), Coronation Street (Mon/Wed/Fri)
20.00 Tonight with Trevor McDonald (Monday), The Bill (Tue/Thu), Fit Club or similar (Wed), Film (Fri)
21.00 Dramas / Documentaries / Films. The 90 minutes can be split in any way ie 1 x 60 followed by 1 x 30 or just one 90 minute show.
22.30 ITV Nightly News
23.05 etc...

That's all really. Of course it would look slightly different on the weekends.

The only thing I would change is put the late news on at 22:00, I just think 23:00 is a bit too late even for 'late news'.

If you were the boss of ITV what would you do about its pensions shortfall? What would be your position on dividends, i.e. would you be looking to pay a dividend to shareholders or would you put it all back into programmes? No doubt you've thought about these things if you've wondered about being the boss of ITV.

06.00 - GMTV
09.25 - Jeremy Kyle
10.30 - This Morning
12.00 - 12 O'Clock Live (News, Regional News and magazine show).
13.00 - Des & Mel
14.00 - Daytime Drama
15.00 - The People Versus
15.30 - Children's ITV
17.10 - Price is Right
17.40 - News at 5.40
18.00 - North East at Six (Regional News/Magazine).
19.00 - Comedy [Tue] / Quiz [Fri] / Emmerdale [Mon + Wed]
19.30 - Coronation Street [Tue+Thurs] / Regional [Mon, Wed, Fri]
20.00 - Documentary
20.30 - Soap/Serial/Mini-drama
21.00 - Drama/Entertainment
22.00 - News at 10
22.30 - North East Late
22.45 - Late Film
00.00 - Nightscreen
00.00 - Signed and Subtitled
00.00 - Jobfinder
05.30 - ITN World News