first episode of "Emu" tx Saturday 13th October, 9.40am,
another New Kids show for citv
I assume you're being ironic.
I caught about five minutes of this today - absolutely awful. Completely unfunny and unoriginal with a bloke who can't act and didn't come across as someone you'd want your kids to spend time with.
The concept is they live in a flat where they're not allowed pets so have to keep Emu a secret - a concept done much better on numerous other kids TV shows in the past.
I caught about five minutes of this today - absolutely awful. Completely unfunny and unoriginal with a bloke who can't act and didn't come across as someone you'd want your kids to spend time with.
The concept is they live in a flat where they're not allowed pets so have to keep Emu a secret - a concept done much better on numerous other kids TV shows in the past.
But then the young target audience wouldn't of known that unless its somebody in their 20s or whatever watching kiddies shows still!
But then the young target audience wouldn't of known that unless its somebody in their 20s or whatever watching kiddies shows still!
It was by complete accident I was watching of course!
And the kids would know - it's not funny - simple! If it can't even raise a smile in five minutes with a 20something bloke who shouldn't be watching, what chance has it got with kids?
Bear Behaving Badly on CBBC seemed far superior when I caught that by accident too!
Nice to see ITV pres inaccurate. Nobody bothered updating the next/late slide with the new times tonight - even the anno fumbled over saying "midnight 15" as she was probably looking at the screen at the time.
I'd be interested to know exactly how these slides come about - does someone make them during the day for playout later? Is there no software or resource available to edit them on the fly?
:-(
A former member
ITV phone-in probe set to report, at long last
Quote:
Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield of This Morning
This Morning was one of the programmes which was investigated
A review of ITV's premium rate interactive services will be published on Thursday.
The review by auditor Deloitte followed allegations of viewers being misled, including X Factor viewers being overcharged £200,000.
The audit of ITV's output has been examining all programmes which invited the public to participate during the past two years.
This included premium rate landline, mobile and "red button" activity.
ITV suspended all premium-rate phone-ins, interactive competitions and votes in March while the auditors conducted their six-month review.
Revenue source
Quiz channel ITV Play went off air with a message telling viewers "we hope to be back very soon".
A separate investigation was held into ITV1's Saturday Night Takeaway.
Premium rate competitions on programmes were reintroduced on an individual basis as they were cleared of breaking rules.
Last month ITV said it will not screen this year's British Comedy Awards after reportedly finding irregularities with phone voting.
Telephone competitions are a substantial source of revenue for commercial TV channels. According to ITV's latest interim report, it expected ITV Play to make a £20m profit.
The broadcaster was reported to have been facing losses of £1.5m a week because of its decision to suspend premium interactive services.
It's worth reading the report itself over at MediaGuardian rather than just the articles - it's only a few pages long.
Main points:
Soapstar Superstar
- on the first show the people in 7th & 8th were revealed to be in the bottom two, when there were 10 contestants. (an 11th had been eliminated)
Also, on 8 out of 44 occassions producers over-rode the song choice voted for by viewers so the shows had a better musical balance.
Ant and Dec
On Saturday Night Takeaway, geographic location was taken into consideration, while the Jiggy Bank location was pre-determined each week and only entrants in the local area were considered.
On Gameshow Marathon researchers listened to the phone calls to identify potential winners who might have the best reaction - and then sent researchers around to judge them (undercover) before deciding who should win.
X Factor
No results were affected, but a proportion of votes received by SMS and red button voting were received too late to be counted.
Now, with Soapstar Superstar there is no excuse, while with Ant and Dec they're not so much criticised for what they did - but the fact the terms and conditions imply it is totally random.
For the X Factor though I think the mobile companies have to take some responsibility for the text votes. If something got lost in the post, you blame the Royal Mail, not the recipient - so it's the mobile companies who aren't providing the service there IMO.
