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Is ITV really in financial crisis?

Call me naive... (February 2009)

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Brekkie posted:
623058 posted:
Britain's Got Talent? how can simon have this format? I believe this was orignaly going to be called Paul's got talent with paul o Grady but he had a fight and jumped ship.

Simon (well, one of his staff probably) "created" it though.

Interesting looking at the prizes tonight on Ant and Dec and really noticeable how they're of lower value - £500 cash was one of the top five prizes tonight, while in previous years that would have been in the second tear of good, but not great, prizes - and would probably have been a grand too.

Actually - they said the ads were taken from Piers Morgan new show, but did that have any ads?
Matt posted:
Why, when ITV are p***ing and moaning about not having any money and that the advertising isn't generating any revenue, do they go and show programmes in primetime without ANY commercials?

I've just been watching Piers Morgan's Life Stories, and there were breaks, but with only network promotion. I've seen this happen many times before - but why, when they're trying to make so many cutbacks, are they deliberatly not using lucrative advertising space?

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&p=606649


During programmes where there are only networked trailers, would that be the same in all regions, or would some regions opt for adverts?
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A former member
I don;t think there could as there would go over the limited allowed.

So Has ITV lied? and if so does it really matter? as there still some good prizes there!
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Inspector Sands
623058 posted:
Britain's Got Talent? how can simon have this format?


It's essentially X Factor/Idol but not music based? If he hadn't come up with the format he'd be taking the programme to court.... in fact just like Simon Fuller did to him over X Factor
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How much has simon made from the ****** got talent format?

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