Mondays would have been better - after Corrie and then perhaps scheduling The Contender on ITV4 at 10pm. Also, BB is now on at 10pm on Mondays.
ITV seem to have wasted the Sunday and Monday 9pm slots over the summer with repeats of Afterlife and the Driving Mum Mad thing. These are normally two of the stronger slots of the week and really should have got more high profile programming.
I've said it before & I'll say it again, I just can't see ITV existing in about 8-10 years time, well the name at least. Coronation Street & Emmerdale will still probably be on but that depends on how they end up within the next five years.
What was good in the old days when you had Thames, Central, TVS, Yorkshire, Granada, LWT, Etc. is that they all spent money & took time on the majority of their programmes & it showed when they were just as equal or doing better than BBC 1 in the ratings about 15-10 years ago.
Sadly the merger has resulted in more & more cutbacks & what you're left with is a channel that doesn't give a horses arse & is just waiting for someone to take it over for a stupendous amount of money.
The funny thing is how "ITV Productions" seem to be having much more success outside of ITV1 with programming for other channels. Only this week it's been announced that ITV will make the BBC's flagship Christmas drama, Dracula.
So how many of these axed programmes have been made by "ITV Productions" - was It's Now or Never?
I wonder also what the issue is regarding fees to independent producers if a programme is axed mid-series. Do indies bare any of the risk?
The other point to note is that ITV simply can't complain about lacking money to invest in quality programming until they get their house in order.
It's rather like water companies imposing restrictions on customers when they lose billions of litres of water in leaks.
We've seen from contributors to this thread that there are numerous programmes that have been commissioned, filmed and then shelved without going out on air. Why commission these programmes to be never shown (presumably because the final result is really, really bad?)
Secondly, this series of "Love Island" has cost £20m. To put that in context, you could have had an entire run of Planet Earth (about £8m) and Doctor Who (about £13m) for that money.
That's about 20 hours of absolute quality television, versus hundreds of hours including streaming etc. of absolute pap.
I know which one I'd choose.
As long as ITV continue to commission such tat, they deserve no sympathy at all.
The funny thing is how "ITV Productions" seem to be having much more success outside of ITV1 with programming for other channels. Only this week it's been announced that ITV will make the BBC's flagship Christmas drama, Dracula.
So how many of these axed programmes have been made by "ITV Productions" - was It's Now or Never?
I wonder also what the issue is regarding fees to independent producers if a programme is axed mid-series. Do indies bare any of the risk?
It was made by September Films, so had nothing to do with ITV Productions at all
The other point to note is that ITV simply can't complain about lacking money to invest in quality programming until they get their house in order.
It's rather like water companies imposing restrictions on customers when they lose billions of litres of water in leaks.
We've seen from contributors to this thread that there are numerous programmes that have been commissioned, filmed and then shelved without going out on air. Why commission these programmes to be never shown (presumably because the final result is really, really bad?)
Secondly, this series of "Love Island" has cost £20m. To put that in context, you could have had an entire run of Planet Earth (about £8m) and Doctor Who (about £13m) for that money.
That's about 20 hours of absolute quality television, versus hundreds of hours including streaming etc. of absolute pap.
I know which one I'd choose.
As long as ITV continue to commission such tat, they deserve no sympathy at all.
Agreed, they need to invest more in quality programmes instead of a Big Brother clone set on an Island.
Look through ITV's back catalogue & see how many programmes that were well made, with a high budget & were successful. They need to aim back to this era not try & be a copy of channel 4, five or BBC depending on what month of the year it is
I was reading an article in one of the newspapers the other day (The Scotsman I think) about Channel 4 taking over ITV1 in terms of young audiences. Funnily enough, I tend to watch Channel 4 and it's channels much more often than ITV1 and I'm sure I'm not alone.
ITV1 really need to get back to what it was 10-20 years ago. Love Island is a blatent copy of Big Brother (but not as good) and looking at the number of programmes axed over the past few years it seems it's not a one off. The fact that ITV1 showed just repeats on a Saturday night is bad. They need Saturday Night Takeaway back on and maybe Poker Face (yes, I realise both are fronted by Ant and Dec).
Prehistoric Park wasn't a repeat. Neither is Love Island
Anyway it is the middle of Summer, there's nothing wrong with repeating a good drama that has never been repeated before. That edition of Alright on the Night has never been repeated before either
I'm sure if you go back to this Saturday 10 years ago the schedules won't have looked any better
I'm sure if you go back to this Saturday 10 years ago the schedules won't have looked any better
Ten years ago most ITV regions still had seperate management, and were free to opt out of anything they considered to be an embarrassment to the station. As demonstrated by Bruce Gyngell, who refused to show Hollywood Lovers on Yorkshire and Tyne Tees.