ITV Day

This may have been covered, but will we be seeing a UTV Day too?

I like the ITV Day promo advert, it has all the daytime presenters like Nicholas Owen, Katie Derham, Andrew Castle, Ben Shephard, Melanie Sykes, Fern Britton, Philip Schofield etc etc.

I *think* ITV Day is going to be used in the UTV and Scottish regions as well. SMG seem to be promoting the strand on their sales site

It will be called ITV DAY across all the nations and regions except UTV.

I suppose UTV wont be getting The Paul O'Grady Show at all now- well except the late night repeats. Its probably the best show in the line-up as well. UTV Live @ 5.30 must do really well, or is it more a case of meeting the news quota?

It does really well. Last figure quoted on here by someone whom I cannot remember put UTV Live as having 200,000 viewers versus BBC Newsline having 150,000 viewers.

I caught that before the Lunchtime News, it was a rather well made Promo, then the announcer told us that the Lunchtime News would be an hour from next week too.

I also noticed that This Morning has decamped to the old London Tonight/Loose Women studio, if anything it looks better, even though it's temporary.

The promos background music was awful though, too low and bad quality

I think they need to make it a quieter launch if they want it to work though.

The promo was just used on UTV there after the 3pm news. At the end of the promo, a large over-sized UTV logo was ontop of the "Day" Logo.. and the announcer said, " UTV DAY BEGINS MONDAY "

I do see what you mean about the This Morning quick set up in Studio 7. The only problem is that they only have enough room for one sofa set up, and then another area for a kitchen or something.

I think that the view is better though, and it's a shame that somebody else doesn't use that view on a permanent basis. I still can't understand why GMTV don't use it. The set would even fit perfectly round the windows.
I presume the only reason that Loose Women aired from their was because there was no other studio available, and to use the studio for something.

Though Loose Women did come from another studio last year towards the end of the series and used a backdrop to match the view. I presume this was when they were recording shows, though I'm not sure.

Going back to This Morning. What I meant about the set changes was major set changes, of course they paint it every so often, we all remember the horrible bright blue and yellow John Leslie, Colleen Nolan and Twiggy set with the blue and red chairs, in the era of no proper titles.

I meant structural. Though with the windows being where they air, I suppose there's not really much that they can change.

Does anyone know how major or minor it's going to be?

As for ITV Day. The promo is nice, though when I saw Andrew Castle, Ben Shepard and Lorraine Kelly I thought that it was for GMTV.

I wonder why they haven't included any of their female faces (bar Katie Derham).

Well they did not show us anything today but Fern said she hate's the new colour.