Drama on ITV is usually very good - even more so over the last couple of years; what has been your favourite ITV drama(s)? My personal favourites have been Head of the Class because of its 'realisticness', Afterlife, though I did find some scenes slightly tiring and Secret Smile - David Tennant was really quite convincing in that, though Kate Ashfield seemed slightly damp at times. And that's not meant to sound how it does.
I've always liked Goodnight Mister Tom, starring the late John Thaw and it originally debuted in 2000. It now turns up at least twice a year, usually Xmas and Easter. I missed it this year as it was scheduled in some obscure timeslot.
ITV might get knocked for some of its behaviours but it can produce some really good programming when it tries. I do agree, drama and some of those half-hour mini-drama programmes (things such as My Uncle Silas for example) are some of ITV's strongholds.
I was one of the few people who watched The Booze Cruise 2 this Christmas and found it enjoyable, and one ITV should definally repeat around June/July.
I find ITV dramas to be vacuous vehicles for BBC castoffs (see below) which keep middle-aged women entertained while they're ironing but do little else. They have unoriginal storylines and always rely on cliched cliffhangers or plot twists. For us entertainment fans they represent a huge gap in the schedules which are to be avoided at all costs.
BBC stars who've jumped ship for money and drama vehicles:
Ross Kemp
Tamzin Outhwaite
Martin Clunes
Michelle Collins
Mark Benton
Todd Carty (I know it's the Bill but he did have a major storyline)
Any others?
I find ITV dramas to be vacuous vehicles for BBC castoffs (think Ross Kemp, Tamzin Outhwaite, Michelle Collins, Martin Clunes) which keep middle-aged women entertained while they're ironing but do little else. They have unoriginal storylines and always rely on cliched cliffhangers or plot twists. For us entertainment fans they represent a huge gap in the schedules which are to be avoided at all costs.
I find ITV dramas to be vacuous vehicles for BBC castoffs (think Ross Kemp, Tamzin Outhwaite, Michelle Collins, Martin Clunes) which keep middle-aged women entertained while they're ironing but do little else. They have unoriginal storylines and always rely on cliched cliffhangers or plot twists. For us entertainment fans they represent a huge gap in the schedules which are to be avoided at all costs.
There's always one to spoil it isn't there!
Can't say I agree with Alexia, it's rare that I've enjoyed any BBC drama, but on ITV the dramas are the only decent thing about the channel. If only they had made ITV4 a drama re-run channel .
I find ITV dramas to be vacuous vehicles for BBC castoffs (think Ross Kemp, Tamzin Outhwaite, Michelle Collins, Martin Clunes) which keep middle-aged women entertained while they're ironing but do little else. They have unoriginal storylines and always rely on cliched cliffhangers or plot twists. For us entertainment fans they represent a huge gap in the schedules which are to be avoided at all costs.
There's always one to spoil it isn't there!
Can't say I agree with Alexia, it's rare that I've enjoyed any BBC drama, but on ITV the dramas are the only decent thing about the channel. If only they had made ITV4 a drama re-run channel .
ITV.... Sence... noooooo you have to be wrong.. ITV are not clever enough to do stuff like that. unfortunetly. Love to see some of the dramas again.
I knew it!!! TVForum is populated by middle aged women who do their ironing on a Monday night!!
And I dont much care for BBC drama either. No matter how much the BBC try to dress them up, Spooks, Judge John Deed, Waking the Dead and Silent Witness are all pisspoor crime-related efforts, whilst the less said about Casualty/Holby the better.
In fact, stuff it, I hate drama altogether. I prefer something with an edge like Jonathan Creek, docu-dramas like Derailed and The Day The World Stood Still and pure comedy like Phoenix Nights, Max and Paddy, Early Doors, QI or Have I Got News For You. Call me old fasioned but I like to be entertained, not dragged through 90 minutes of death and adultery and a old-yet-sexy detective and his useless sidekick. Or even Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston.
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unfortunetly. Love to see some of the dramas again.