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(June 2005)

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tvmercia Founding member
Isonstine posted:
Jez posted:
Jack Carkdale posted:
A few weeks back, the end of Countdown was changed to just a "Granada" accreditation, rather than "Granada Yorkshire", yet things like "Granada Yorkshire", "Granada Manchester" etc still survive on some of their ITV1 programmes.

The ex-Carlton regions never had, say, "Granada Central" or whatever, but just the 'vanilla' version ("Granada" ). Only the ex-GMG regions got any kind of suffix on the new endcaps.

I notice that the "London"-suffix one (e.g. on This Morning and The Paul O'Grady Show) was short-lived, and has now been replaced by the 'vanilla' one.

I wonder if the remaining "Granada" encap suffixes ( even "...Manchester" ) are for the chop on ITV1, just like on Countdown.

It's a shame that the "...Yorkshire" suffix has only quite recently been dropped from Countdown's endcap, given what's now happened re: Mr Whiteley.

It would have been nice to see the Y-word reinstated for these final five episodes this week, for old times sake, given Mr Whiteley's "Mr Yorkshire TV" kind of status.


This Morning never had a Granada London endcap though. The programme is a Granada Television Production (originally from Liverpool) and only LWT productions get Granada London endcaps I think.

Also the former Carlton owned regions dont make any network programs anyway.


Today with Des and Mel?

whatever happened to the replacement for peak practice? was it scrapped or now produced elsewhere?
NW
nwtv2003
tvmercia posted:
whatever happened to the replacement for peak practice? was it scrapped or now produced elsewhere?


After about 3 episodes being shown at 9.00pm on a Thursday, the rest got shown at 11.20pm on a Sunday, so the show got axed very quickly. ISTR this was the same time when 'Fourtysomething' and The Sketch Show got binned off.
NT
nottsbloke
Such a great shame that Central don't make programmes any more, especially considering they were once one of the "The Big Five".
NW
nwtv2003
nottsbloke posted:
Such a great shame that Central don't make programmes any more, especially considering they were once one of the "The Big Five".


I can't remember who it was on the Forum who said this, but one of the reasons why Central started to fall was the fact that many of their shows had ended, but nothing ever replaced them. Such as Bullseye (1994), The Upper Hand (1995), Blockbusters (1993), Inspector Morse (2000), Peak Practice (2002), Family Fortunes (2003), Crossroads (2003), but saying that Crossroads was Carlton Central's lifeline to Network production, if that was axed (which it was) then that would be the end of Network production from Central at Nottingham.
JE
Jez Founding member
Isonstine posted:
Jez posted:
Jack Carkdale posted:
A few weeks back, the end of Countdown was changed to just a "Granada" accreditation, rather than "Granada Yorkshire", yet things like "Granada Yorkshire", "Granada Manchester" etc still survive on some of their ITV1 programmes.

The ex-Carlton regions never had, say, "Granada Central" or whatever, but just the 'vanilla' version ("Granada" ). Only the ex-GMG regions got any kind of suffix on the new endcaps.

I notice that the "London"-suffix one (e.g. on This Morning and The Paul O'Grady Show) was short-lived, and has now been replaced by the 'vanilla' one.

I wonder if the remaining "Granada" encap suffixes ( even "...Manchester" ) are for the chop on ITV1, just like on Countdown.

It's a shame that the "...Yorkshire" suffix has only quite recently been dropped from Countdown's endcap, given what's now happened re: Mr Whiteley.

It would have been nice to see the Y-word reinstated for these final five episodes this week, for old times sake, given Mr Whiteley's "Mr Yorkshire TV" kind of status.


This Morning never had a Granada London endcap though. The programme is a Granada Television Production (originally from Liverpool) and only LWT productions get Granada London endcaps I think.

Also the former Carlton owned regions dont make any network programs anyway.


Today with Des and Mel?


Thats Carlton London I think but has a Granada endcap. I think apart from that there are no other Carlton productions.

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whatever happened to the replacement for peak practice? was it scrapped or now produced elsewhere?


Sweet Medicine was axed I think. Compaired to Peak Practice it was quite poor IMO.
LO
Londoner
Tonight's London Debate had an ITV London endcap.
PC
Paul Clark
I caught the ITV1 Meridian ident into Kings, yet the same can't be said for Central - last time I checked, heading into Central Extra, it was just plain old ITV1.
AL
Allan100
here in the midlands we do get "this is ITV1 central" somtimes, but its not the norm. And we havn't had an ident into the news at least since the move to from Nottingham, just a local trail usally.
JE
Jez Founding member
Allan100 posted:
here in the midlands we do get "this is ITV1 central" somtimes, but its not the norm. And we havn't had an ident into the news at least since the move to from Nottingham, just a local trail usally.


I dont think any ITV region gets an ident into the regional news, we dont on ITV Wales, it just goes straight into it.
HU
huddy
nwtv2003 posted:
nottsbloke posted:
Such a great shame that Central don't make programmes any more, especially considering they were once one of the "The Big Five".


I can't remember who it was on the Forum who said this, but one of the reasons why Central started to fall was the fact that many of their shows had ended, but nothing ever replaced them. Such as Bullseye (1994), The Upper Hand (1995), Blockbusters (1993), Inspector Morse (2000), Peak Practice (2002), Family Fortunes (2003), Crossroads (2003), but saying that Crossroads was Carlton Central's lifeline to Network production, if that was axed (which it was) then that would be the end of Network production from Central at Nottingham.


Sadly it was me that pointed this out. But if you look at the dates carefully provided by our correspondent, you can see a pattern.

By then Central was firmly in the grip of Carlton, and Michael Green was never very interested in the programmes now, was he.

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