ITV Crisis... MSN says

Of course, we all know that ITV is in the same state as what Michael Jackson was in after that bloody Bashir interview. Everyone knows how our over 50 year old station has turned out crap after all these year, but I never knew MSN realised...



I know people DO think ITV is becoming a rubbish station, but is there a chance of them finally listening if something like MSN starts to discuss it? I bloody hope they listen...

Here's my opinions:

Celebrity Wresting - FLOP
Fat Families - FLOP
Love Island: Series 1 - SUCCESS
Love Island: Series 2 - FLOP
Prehistoric Park - DON'T KNOW
The Golden Hour - SUCCESS
Love On A Saturday Night - FLOP
Simply The Best - SUCCESS
Footballers' Wives - SUCCESS
Hit Me Baby One More Time - DON'T KNOW

It's between Celebrity Wrestling and Celebrity Love Island for the biggest flop. I reckon Love Island takes it by a whisker; I really see no point in it; could well be the lowest of the lowbrow.

For me Celebrity Wrestling, tacky with a capital T and the epitaph of Charles Allen's reign at ITV.

It's a shame I can't choose multiple!

you don't remember Golden Hour!!!! How can anyone forget that disaster of a drama. Set around a group of paramedics who use a helicopter ambulance rather than a normal ambulance!!!

I am suprise they haven't put Steel River Blues (or something like that) in the list - about a bunch of geordie firefighters (effectively it was London's Burning in the North East except the scripts/acting was very very poor - just like LB was in the last couple of series')

Oh yes, where they had an hour to let them die or something!

Would hardly say Footballers Wives was a major flop, it had 5 series and it was only the last one that didnt pull in enough viewers. The Golden Hour was a very good series but didnt pull in the viewers.

Surely the biggest flop has to be Love Island 2!

I have to say that ITV has some type of a flop curse because even it's Rebrand was awful for ITV1, I think it resulted out best for ITV2

I'd choose them all and include many other such as.....

- The Vault
- New Crossroads (Mark3 - Mark 2 was just as good, if not better, than the original when they pulled it!)
- NIght and Day
- Shafted
- Celebrity Russian Roulette (although the idea would be great if they used normal "everday" people)
- Emmerdale - 7 epirsodes a week - gone down hill very fast recently. Should have kept it at most to 4 days a week
- Coronation Street - 5 episides a week - should have kept it at most to 4 episodes a week and DROP the Sunday episode
- Axing of decent primetime game/quiz shows
- Axing of Wish You Were Here?
- Celebrity

Successful programmes (or programmes that either needed slightly tweaking or was in the wrong time-slot) but never did anything with the and just quietly disappeared......

- I Want That House
- Shane
- All Star Comedy Show/Monkey Trousers
- Real Life
- The naval drama starring Lee Boardman (ex Jez from Coronation Street)
- Crossroads (Mk 2)
and quite a few others somewher in my memory but just can't quite remember the title of the programme at this moment in time.

Bringing back Crossroads was stupid. It was dead, it may of had a good story line etc but shouldn't of been under the name of 'Crossroads' something like 'The Bitching Hotel' or that.

To be honest I agree with you that they should have used a different name, such as Kings Oak - the village in which it is/was set, but still prominently feature the hotel but they then could have expanded the idea slowly to encompass the village. But Crossroads Mk2 was as good as the original when they axed it but Crossroads Mk3 - b****y hell what did they do it - they really spoilt the brand in a way only ITV could do. (admittedly it was a programme that was made and finished just before the merger of Granada plc and Carlton plc to make ITV but the same spoil procedures are still in place today!!!)