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GR
gregmc
Andrew posted:
Brekkie posted:
Whataday posted:
lol Graham Norton on I'd Do Anything just now...

"Please don't call until the end of the show. Your vote will not be registered, but you still may be charged and we'll never hear the end of it..."


We should probably all change our answerphone messages too to warn callers "we may not be in, but you're call will still be charged".

Obviously some things needed to be clarified, but the disclaimers now are ridiculously lengthy and so wordy, viewers would miss the key points of them anyhow. Cost of calls and when lines close are all that's required really - and a couple of lines clearly announcing that is far better than having it hidden in eight lines of unreadable mumbo-jumbo.

Have you heard Radio 1 this week (or presumably other BBC Radio stations). The DJ now needs to read out that the competition was run in accordance with the BBC's guidelines for competitions blah blah...


Indeed and many of the DJ's are quite fired up about it. AFAIK there have been numerous heated debates in the background over this between the main bods and the DJ's.
PH
Phil
With Peter Fincham newly installed at ITV this week, where do people think his first priorities should lie in reinvigorating the programming? Should he try to replicate what he did for BBC1, or try something completely different?
FA
fanoftv
Phil posted:
With Peter Fincham newly installed at ITV this week, where do people think his first priorities should lie in reinvigorating the programming? Should he try to replicate what he did for BBC1, or try something completely different?


How does a programming chief role work at ITV. I presume that at the BBC each channel chief is given a lot of control over what's commissioned, but with ITV being a commercial network, are programming chiefs (or whatever fancy name they have) given the same freedom, or will it be the big bosses that make the decisions for what main programmes stay and go?
BR
Brekkie
I suspect the big bosses make the decisions, then the programming chief gets the sack when it all goes wrong. Laughing
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
The live Britains Got Talent shows start on Monday 26th March (Bank Holiday) 9pm - 10.30pm.

The rest of the week (apart from final night on the Friday) the show runs from 8.30pm - 10pm.

Changes that week to accommodate see an hour long Corrie (7.30 - 8.30) on the Weds (even they won't lose any episodes), and The Bill moving to 7.30pm on the Thursday.
CO
Connews
Good episodes in Corrie, marred by the inconsistency in the scheduling, it seems.
PA
pad
Corrie has 7 episodes that week...

Sunday 19:45
Monday 19:30 / 20:30
Weds 19:30 (1 hour episode)
Friday 19:30 / 20:30

Probably due to football losses.
CO
Connews
Haha, an insight on Corrie in a few years if the amount of episodes per week continues at the current rate. Laughing
JE
Jez Founding member
The Sunday 1945 Corrie is probabaly because they dont have an episode next Wednesday.
FA
fanoftv
Brekkie posted:
I suspect the big bosses make the decisions, then the programming chief gets the sack when it all goes wrong. Laughing


I'm hoping that they will give him enough freedom. At the moment there isn't a lot hanging around ITV that I think he would want to get rid of. The programming at the moment boils down to the stalwarts of ITV (Corrie, The Bill, Emmerdale, This Morning and Ant & Dec), new shows that haven't worked, a couple that are working, and only a few that will be returning, so he's got a good area to play.

I wonder if the big bosses are the ones who say what sort of programming they want on.

In his new role, will he have say on ITV's presentation, or won't he be allowed a say, and just focus on the programming?
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
fanoftv posted:

I wonder if the big bosses are the ones who say what sort of programming they want on.


The big bosses ? Peter Fincham isn't making the tea, he's the Director of Television.

I don't believe that Michael Grade is having that much of an influence on the day to day schedule, he's outlined a content strategy, but it's down to Fincham to commission.
FA
fanoftv
Square Eyes posted:
fanoftv posted:

I wonder if the big bosses are the ones who say what sort of programming they want on.


The big bosses ? Peter Fincham isn't making the tea, he's the Director of Television.

I don't believe that Michael Grade is having that much of an influence on the day to day schedule, he's outlined a content strategy, but it's down to Fincham to commission.


I was thinking about Michael Grade and other company board members and directors, etc. (sorry for lack of knowledge).

So as Director of Television, will he be incharge of purely content, or channel/network pres on top of that. And is there an actual exectutive of ITV1, I know 2, 3, 4 & CITV, etc. have them, but does ITV1, or is Mr Fincham basically head of ITV1?

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