ITV Discussion Thread

I'm only suggesting they'd add a couple just to boost the launch of the schedule. To be fair they haven't done it this year - but they did it alot the year before so it's not beyond question they'll do it again.


Overnights seem to be "Nightwatch" with Steve Scott

DOCUMENTARY: Nightwatch: Crime
On: ITV1 Granada (3)
Date: Tuesday 8th January 2008 (starting in 21 days)
Time: 01:05 to 02:50 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)

Steve Scott presents a show that goes on patrol and on the hunt with police forces across the UK in the never-ending battle against criminals and law breakers. Nightwatch gets closer than ever before to the hard side of life on the front line with Britain's law enforcers.
(Stereo, Followed By ITV News Headlines)
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DOCUMENTARY: Nightwatch: Emergency
On: ITV1 Granada (3)
Date: Friday 11th January 2008 (starting in 24 days)
Time: 01:20 to 03:00 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)

Steve Scott goes on board and on the scene with fire crews, paramedics, ambulance teams and doctors and nurses as they make split-second, live-or-die decisions and fight to save lives.
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They won't add more soap - I feel they're more likely to cut down than increase episodes under Grade.

I really hope his new primetime schedules are all they're cracked up to be. I think I've sussed out how they'll go from Sunday 13th January:

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Friday nights look good though with (presumably) Corrie at 8.30, Moving Wallpaper at 9, Echo Beach at 9.30 and Al Murrary at 10, with the News at 11.

Yes. It was me who posted that on this forum last week, I cant remember which thread now, Corrie probabaly. My point is they shouldnt use extra episodes of Corrie to boost other programmes. They did this with Love Island ISTR.

And if some people think Corrie is below standard at the moment (im not one of them) then extra episodes arent going to do anything to improve it

It's not us you need to be telling that - it's those in charge at ITV.


Some people though are going to be very disappointed when the new schedule is released.

Yes, they'll be a slate of new programming at 9pm, but that happens most years anyway.

Yes, they'll be something new at 8pm - well, on Tuesdays at least until the football returns.

Apart from that though any major changes are going to come outside of peak time - most notably after 10pm, which is where it's required really.

And then once the initial run of new programming comes to an end, by April they'll be back to the usual fodder.

You ought to stop speaking like your word is gospel Brekkie

It's YOUR opinion that post-10pm is of highest importance. Some disagree.

It's YOUR opinion that News at Ten shouldn't return. Some disagree.

It's YOUR opinion the peaktime schedule won't change one iota apart from new commissions. Some disagree.

etc.

Well, one of us is going to be saying "I told you so..." - and I'm rapidly conceding it must be me as the only logical explanation I can come up for about the faith you're showing in Michael Grade is that you indeed must be Michael Grade!


BTW, what's the deadline for them declaring the schedules for the first week of January - is it tomorrow?


I assume for 12th-18th Jan the deadline will fall sometime over Christmas and New Year.

Michael Grade is incredibly experienced and took the moves necessary when he first joined BBC One to turn it around, notably by significantly shaking up the schedule.

I'm confident he knows exactly what he's doing and these changes have been planned for over a year. To be honest Brekkie I can't see how you can say there will be no changes other than News at Ten and 9pm commissions, when he has actually said "You don't move one piece without everything falling apart. This is part of a huge strategic rethink to streamline the ITV schedule. It is part of a much bigger move."

AND when he has said the schedules are being kept a commercial secret, yet he's spoken openly about News at Ten and the new 9pm dramas - so something else is going to happen. Can you still not see it?

Why is Michael Grade so adamant to keep the whole schedule changes under wraps and "top-secret". What would be the reasons for doing so - to avoid early criticism, to dupe rivals - or is it all to build up publicity and media attention?

He's said it's a "sensitive commercial secret" so he probably doesn't want to give the BBC any time to respond to anything he may do.

Isn't that short sighted though? If anything the BBC will respond eventually to the changes. Any ratings gain will only be a short-term result and the schedule change maybe looked upon as another way that ITV has tricked viewers by forcing them to choose between shows.

I just hope that the changes that are being built up are seriously going to improve ITV1's current state, and not just a trick to appeal a few more viewers for a couple of months. Could we be building up to an almighty anti-climax?

What on earth is a 'sensitive commercial secret'? not another sponsorship deal, NEWS AT TEN sponsored by Pepsi!
Dancing on Ice should return on January 12 as BBC One debut their new reality show 'The One and Only' that night

His sensitive commercial secret is - hype it up by pretending you have a big commercial secret.