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JE
Jez Founding member
Grease is the Word was the main show on Saturday nights during April and May, along with Gameshow Marathon series 2 with Vernon Kaye (is that back this year?)
BR
Brekkie
Not heard anything, though there is "Beat the Star", in which gang of thugs get to beat up Vernon Kay or something. That should guarantee 15m every week then!


I wonder if Millionaire will return to Saturdays for the summer.
JE
Jez Founding member
Britain's Got Talent will be on over the Spring/early Summer on Saturdays I guess.
PR
Primetime
Andrew posted:
Primetime posted:
I see M/W, Echo Beach and Al Murray finish next Friday, what will replace them Pushing Daisies? I wonder if the news will be moved to 10pm..

No they don't, there's another 2 episodes of all these programmes


My TV magazine must have got it wrong then..

I noticed a trailor for 'He Kills Coppers' last night, it is a three part series.
FA
fanoftv
I suppose the biggest thing will be what will replace Dancing on Ice on Sundays?
JE
Jez Founding member
fanoftv posted:
I suppose the biggest thing will be what will replace Dancing on Ice on Sundays?


Britains Got Talent auditions? I could see them on both Saturday and Sunday nights.
:-(
A former member
Nice to see there trying to make money, this would be a good place to repart EB./ MW !

Quote:
ITV2 has agreed a deal with social networking site Bebo which will allow some of the channel's shows to be broadcast online for free.

The first series to be shown on the website will be US show Gossip Girl.

Each programme will have a member profile, which users can become "fans" of, so they will be notified when new content is uploaded.

BBC, Channel 4, BSkyB and MTV are among broadcasters enabling Bebo users to view free footage.

ITV2's controller Zai Bennett said the partnership was "quite simply a great fit".

Other clips on the site include ITN sport and entertainment bulletins, music videos from MTV and footage from smaller TV producers such as Sumo.TV and Kontraband

Bebo has 40 million members worldwide, many of whom are within the 13 to 24-year-old age range attractive to advertisers.

The site, founded in 2005, is currently the UK's second most popular social networking site after Facebook, although it has had less success overseas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7287619.stm
JO
Jonny
Perhaps people are correct in saying changing ITV1's presentation should not be top priority but IMHO it is certainly something that they need to be looking at changing in the near future if they are serious about a 'recovery'.

Take for example this evening's lead into The Fixer, a dark drama series introduced by gold fountains accompanied by a soundtrack which is depressingly drab. I couldn't help but think how much better BBC2's Mirror, BBC1's Helicopter or Channel 4's Dubai would have linked into this programme.

At least they are starting to make an effort with special endboards on the new programme trails but they have a long way to go to even get close to the standards set by the BBC and the even higher standards set by C4.
JO
Joe
Oh I agree - just looking at the ident remixes you made the other week, it's amazing how different they can be with a different soundtrack - still not amazing with the visuals, but such a difference. People say that branding is for geeks; it's really not.
BR
Brekkie
Don't speak too soon, but shock horror, ITV might have a hit with The Fixer, which got 6.2m last night.
SP
Spencer
Jugalug posted:
Oh I agree - just looking at the ident remixes you made the other week, it's amazing how different they can be with a different soundtrack - still not amazing with the visuals, but such a difference.


Very true. I've no doubt the popularity of Carlton's Heart idents, for example, had a huge amount to do with the music. The visuals were good, but hardly breathtaking. Certainly for me, what really made them outstanding was the wonderfully rich, bassy, dramatic music.

If you don't believe me, imagine them with the plinky-plonky GMG regions Hearts idents' music instead.
JE
Jez Founding member
Brekkie posted:
Don't speak too soon, but shock horror, ITV might have a hit with The Fixer, which got 6.2m last night.

Im not surprised - it was excellent. Im glad this was a hit and rubbish like Rock Rivals got over 2 million less.

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