If YOU were the boss of ITV...?

My schedule would be

Weekdays

6.00 GMTV
9.25 Quiz Show
9.55 The Jeremy Kyle Show
10.55 ITV News Summary followed by regional news
11.00 This Morning
12.30 ITV Lunchtime News
13.15 Regional News
13.30 Imported Soap
14.00 Today with Des and Mel
15.00 I Want That House/Wish you were here/ etc
15.30 CITV
17.00 Imported soap (repeat from 1.30pm)
17.30 Regional Programmes
18.00 Regional News
1830 ITV Evening News
19.00 Emmerdale (Mon/Tues/Thurs) Quiz (Wed/Fri)
19.30 Coronation Street (Mon/Wed/Fri) Regional Progs (Tues/Thurs)
20.00 Tonight (Mon/Fri) The Bill (Tues/Wed/Thurs)
20.30 comedy/documentaries/factual
21.00 One off Drama's/Drama Series/imported American dramas/Films
22.00 comedy/documentaries/factual (depending if the 9pm show is 1 hour or 90 mins long)
22.30 ITV Nightly News including Regional News
23.00 Regional Programmes/Police Camera Action/Films/imported programmes etc
00.00 ITV Nighttime
5.30 ITV Morning News

Saturdays

6.00am GMTV
9.25 CITV
12.30 ITV News
12.40 Regional News
12.45 Sport
3.00 Film
5.00 Regional News
5.15 ITV News
5.30 You've Been Framed/Harry Hill's TV Burp
6.00 Entertainment series (X Factor/Stars in their Eyes)
7.00 Entertainment series (Takeaway, Gameshow Marathon etc)
8.00 Quiz (not WWTBAM)
9.00 An audience With
10.00 Parkinson
10.40 ITV News
11.00 Film
1.00 ITV Nighttime
5.30 ITV Morning News

Sunday

6.00 GMTV
9.25 CITV
11.00 Religion programmes
12.00 Regional political series
12.30 Regional Soccer highlights series
1.00 ITV News
1.10 Jonathan Dimbleby
1.55 Regional News
2.00 Sport
4.00 Film
6.00 Regional Programme
6.30 Regional News
6.40 ITV News
7.00 Quiz
7.30 Entertainment Series
8.30 Heartbeat/The Royal
9.30 Drama
11.00 ITV News
11.10 The South Bank Show
12.00 Film
1.30 ITV Nighttime
5.30 ITV Morning News

Just a rough schedule. Ive put in Sport/Drama's etc in some places but obviously the schedule would need to be changed depending on what sport ITV got the rights to and when it was being show e.g. Tuesday night the schedule would often change for Football, and Sunday for F1. Ive mentioned before I think it would be a good idea for ITV to get the rights to some American drama and show them in peak time. I also think a twice daily overseas soap would be good as it always worked well with Home and Away.

Surely you are not suggesting a 7.30pm and 8.30pm showing of Corrie EVERY night



I think an american soap could work on ITV. They need a soap for daytime, however american soaps never seem to last long in the uk.

ITV is alreadly for of CRAP it does not need "American drama " to make it even more full of crap!

us soap with the draw out plots would itv dire!

also if itv did by out gmtv ( not 100% sure) there would stil have to run to that contrack (till 0925 ) as itv Noraml show can't get shown until that time so if there did by it out there woudl HAVe to shwo pa Breakfast time show till 09.25

That post reminds me of some posters they have up at the local railway station. It may just be a northern thing.

This thread really is the height of quality isn't it

American drama's on C4 are anything but crap IMO.

Agreed.

If I were the boss of ITV I'd have a bigger bank balance...

Didn't Carlton and Granada agree not to take over the other channel three regions' contractors, as part of the merging deal?

SORRY!

I thourgh us drama was us soaps! like sunset beach !

simple but effective for all tastes

Monday to Friday
0600 Good Morning Television
0600 GMTV - Newshour
0700 GMTV - Good Morning Britain
0830 GMTV - Monday : Entertainment Today; Tuesday to Thursday : LK Today; Friday : The Week In View
0930 Talk Shows e.g. Jeremy Kyle, Jerry Springer & The People's Court
1030 This Morning
1215 Regional News; Regional Weather
1230 ITV Lunchtime News; ITV Weather
1300 New British Daytime Soap
1330 Chat Shows e.g. Des and Mel; Richard Hammond; Loose Women
1430 Gameshows
1500 Factual Series'
1530 Factual Series'
1600 The Children's Club (simulcast with CiTV Channel)
1600 TCC - Pre-school series (different programme each day) f/b Birthday Greetings
1615 TCC - Pre-school series (different programme each day) e.g. Rainbow, Lets Pretend etc...
1635 TCC - Animation (different cartoon each day)
1700 TCC - Monday & Friday - Factual series; Tuesday & Thursday - Gameshows; Wednesday - British Comedies
1730 TCC - Monday & Friday - British Drama Series; Tuesday & Thursday - Magazine series e.g. Splash, Magpie, Freetime; Wednesday - Factual Series' e.g. Reality Series; Current Affairs; Fly-on-the-wall etc..
1800 Regional News; Regional Weather
1830 ITV Evening News; ITV Weather
1900 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday - Emmerdale; Wednesday - Fly-on-the-wall e.g. Airline, Jimmy's
1930 Monday, Wednesday and Friday - Coronation Street; Tuesday and Thursday - Regional Programmes
2000 Monday - 2000 World In Action 2030 Gameshows; Tuesday - Entertainment Series' e.g. Find A Fortune, Surprise! Surprise!; Wednesday - The Bill; Thursday 2000 Factual Series' 2030 Factual Series'; Friday - 2000 The Big Story, Other Current Affairs Series' 2030 Gameshows
2100 Monday - 2100 Drama 2200 Factual Series'; Tuesday - 2100 Documentaries 2200 Comedies; Wednesday - Feature-length Drama's; Thursday - 2100 Drama 2200 Comedies; Friday - 2100 Drama 2200 Fly-on-the-wall Series'
2230 ITV Late News; ITV Weather
2300 Regional News; Regional Weather
2315 Monday - The South Bank Show/Crime Monthly/Most Wanted/ Real Life/ Real Crime/Other Factual/Arts Series'; Tuesday - Sport Series'; Wednesday - Film; Thursday - 2315 Regional Programmes 2345 Regional Programmes; Friday - Foreign Drama
0015 Monday - Music Series'; Tuesday - Entertainment Series' e.g The Little Picture Show; Wednesday - Film; Thursday - Gameshows e.g. Gods Gift, Quiz Night; Friday - The James Whale Show
0115 Various British Series (a different one each day)
0145 Quizmania
0355 New British Daytime Soap (shown at 1330 - rpt, signed)
0420 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday - Emmerdale (rpt,signed); Wednesday - Factual Series' (rpt, signed)
0450 Monday, Wednesday, Friday - Coronation Street (rpt, signed); Tuesday, Thursday - Factual Series (rpt, signed)
0515 ITV Morning News; ITV Weather
0545 Regional News; Regional Weather

Saturday
0600 Good Morning Television
0600 GMTV - Newshour
0700 GMTV - The Disney Club
0930 The Children's Club (simulcast with CiTV)
0930 TCC - Saturday Showdown (Autumn to Early Spring); Ghost Train (Early Spring to Autumn)
1230 ITV News Update; ITV Weather
1245 Film Double Bill
f/b Cartoon Time
1645 Foreign Comedies
1715 Regional News; Regional Weather
1745 ITV News Update; ITV Weather
1800 You've Been Framed, The Brits Are Coming, Other British Entertainment Series'
1830 Entertainment Series' e.g. The X-Factor, Takeaway, Stars In Their Eyes, Dancing On Ice, etc...
1930 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Russian Roulette, You Bet!, Other British Gameshow Series'
2030 The X-Factor Results, Stars In Their Eyes Results, Dancing on Ice Results, other various British Entertainment Series'
2100 Holiday Showdown, Bad Lads Army, ...From Hell, other British Reality Series'
2200 Parkinson, The Frank Skinner Show, Other British Chat Show Series
2300 ITV Weekend News; ITV Weather
2330 Film
f/b Quizmania
0300 Shown on ITV1 Monday at 2315 (rpt - signed)
0355 World In Action (rpt - signed)
0420 The Bill (rpt - signed)
0515 ITV Morning News; ITV Weather
0545 Regional News; Regional Weather

Sunday
0600 Good Morning Television
0600 GMTV Newshour
0700 GMTV Thoughts on Sunday
0715 GMTV The Sunday Programme
0830 GMTV Various British Pre-school Series'
0930 The Children's Club
0930 TCC - Sooty, Bernard's Watch, Zzzap!, Other Young Children's Series'
0955 TCC - Warner Brothers Cartoon Time
1005 TCC - Classic British Animation e.g. Count Duckula, Dangermouse, Victor And Hugo, Phantomcat, The Hurricanes, The Dreamstone (and it's sequel), Rupert, Watership Down, etc...
1030 TCC - Movies, Games and Videos, Stars In Their Eyes - Kids
1100 TCC - Bad Influence, Mad For It, The Top Ten Of.., Stars In Their Eyes - Kids, Other British Entertainment Series'
1130 TCC - Classic British Drama Series' e.g. Follyfoot, Worzel Gummidge, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Dick Turpin, The Campbells, Catweazel, Press Gang, Murphy's Mob, etc...
1200 TCC - Foreign Comedies, Stars In Their Eyes - Kids: Results
1230 ITV News Update; ITV Weather
1245 Film
1445 The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
1515 The Championship, Sportsweek, Sport In Question, Talking Balls
1615 Jonathan Dimbleby, Weekend World
1715 Regional News; Regional Weather
1745 ITV News Update; ITV Weather
1800 CD:UK
1900 Gameshows
1930 I Want That House!, Wish You Were here?, Package Holiday, Holiday's From Hell
2000 Heartbeat, The Royal, Wild At Heart, Where The Heart Is
2100 Feature-length British Drama's
2300 ITV Weekend News; ITV Weather
2330 ITV Religion
0100 That's Esther, Link, This Is Your Right, Other British Community Series'
0130 Quizmania
0300 Parkinson, The Frank Skinner Show, Other British Chat Show (rpt - signed)
0355 The Big Story, Other British Current Affairs Series' (rpt - signed)
0420 Jonathan Dimbleby, Weekend World (rpt - signed)
0515 ITV Morning News; ITV Weather
0545 Regional News; Regional Weather

In case you missed this in another thread 623058, here it is again:

623058, I appreciate the fact you say in your signature you put most of your text through a spell checker, however I feel I need to offer you the following advice, you should put all of your posts through a spell checker, or at least press the preview button and read through what you have typed.

I say this not because I want to cause an argument, its just plain good manners to think about what you have typed and make sure what you are typing is spelt correctly and makes sense. There are several posts from you in the last 24 hours that are littered with spelling mistakes or do not make sense. It makes it difficult for other forum users to read what you are saying when greeted with text that makes no sense and is spelt wrong.

I also consider the fact that the forum accepts people with different abilities and that we must be patient (or at least I seem to remember reading it on here somewhere) but there has to be a certain level of understanding that this works both ways and the posts should be up to standard and legible.

I do agree! At least you have done this in Productive manner

Weekdays:

6.00-9.25 GMTV
9.25 Regional News and Weather
9.30 Schools (term time); Films and seasonal specials (holidays)
12.00 CITV (pre-school slot)
12.30 ITV Lunchtime News
13.15 Regional News
13.30 The Jeremy Kyle Show
14:30 Regional variations
15.00 ITV News
15:15 Regional News
15.30 CITV (pre-school 15:30-16:00, tweens 16:00-16:40, older 16:40-17:10)
17:08 Regional slot (birthdays, Crimestoppers, What's On etc)
17:10 Live magazine
18.00 Regional News
18.30 ITV Evening News
19.00 Emmerdale (Mon/Tue/Fri) Quiz/docu/other (Wed/Fri)
19.30 Coronation Street (Mon/Wed/Fri) Regional Progs (Tues/Thurs)
20.00 Tonight (Mon/Fri) The Bill (Tues/Wed/Thurs)
20.30 Drama/Feature Films
22.30 ITV Nightly News; Regional News
23.00 Regional Variations
00.00 Signed Programmes or late film
followed by ITV News Summary; Weather
02.00 (approx)-06.00 ITV Nightscreen