ITV Whats Gone Worng

I watch more ITV than any other channel as well - I only watch Prison Break and Home and Away on Five, and Hotel Babylon on the BBC. I also watch Hollyoaks and Desperate Housewives on Channel 4.

So you're not planning to watch much television in your lifetime huh? Or is that in a typical week? Or a month? Explain man! And if one of your favourite shows is Doctor Who, then how did you or how do you plan to watch it considering you haven't allowed any allowance for BBC1 up there? My Family as well - that's on BBC1 also but according to that, you never watch BBC1!?!?

Forgot to say I watch Doctor Who as well on BBC1.

Well back on topic! Apart form the lack of any game shows and the switch in the schedule to more reality shows and moving the Saturday night programmers to more of a young viewer! Losing out on the more older viewer WHO are more likely to be in on a Saturday night. While destroying the regional TV concept, plus having more soaps then ever. Then there the loss of any good comedy’s!, and GOOD current affair programmers like " world in action"

That this week
other channels this week

SKY one 33 hours
living tv 17 hours
comdey 1 14 hours
FX 5 hours
Sci-Fi 7 hours

I SKY + all my TV viewing so it be less without ads.

SKY NEWS 30 hours only live tv I watch.

Forgive me if my arithmetic is a little out of whack - I'm doing this off the top of my head in the early hours of the morning - but by my reckoning:

3 hrs - C4
4 hrs - five
5 hrs - FX
7 hrs - SciFi Channel
17 hrs - Paramount Comedy 1
33 hrs - Sky One
30 hrs - Sky News
40 mins - BBC ONE
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99h 40m

So that's practically 100 hours of television watching out of 168 hours in a week. At an average of 8 hours per night of sleep, that takes up 56 hours of your week, more or less.

So you spend 156 hours - or over 90% - of your week watching TV and sleeping? That leaves you with 12 hours a week to engage in other activities, which is less than 2 hours a day, a chunk of which would likely be taken up by personal grooming tasks - if indeed such things matter to you.

I guess what I'm really getting at here is [ how do I put this nicely...? ] oh yes: have you ever considered getting some friends (real friends, not ones that live on the other side of the country and who you only chat to on Yahoo Messenger, leaving the house and exploring the world beyond the living room door?

Another easy dig at ITV!

Yes, they do have their problems.

They are too quick to use a rip-off reality show to boost their ratings, there are some holes in their schedules and they are too reliant on their soaps.

However, they do put more drama on TV than any other channel. It's rare to find a repeat in the ITV1 peak-time schedule, and their soaps are popular and provide a regular fix for millions of viewers. And while they've had their fair number of flops, they do have a pretty solid Saturday night schedule most of the year.

I have noticed BBC1 have pulled back alot in the drama stakes this year. Last winter while ITV1 had a new drama on air four or five nights a week, the BBC had just one regular series. This year though they've got five!


And finally, after defending ITV a report which says what we knew all along - ITV rely too much on their soaps.

Coronation Street accounts for 9.8% of the channels ratings, with Emmerdale accounting for 8.8%.

On BBC1, EastEnders accounts for 7.8%, while CSI accounts for 9.4% of five's ratings.

Big Brother accounts for a surprisingly low 5.7% of C4's ratings.

Ha ha ha!!!!! Classic comments!!!

My channel tastes vary. I probably watch BBC1 the least, just EastEnders really, and the odd drama here and there. I watch ITV1 more than I'd like to admit. The soaps of course, and the dramas are brilliant, as well as the reality television shows which I admit I cannot resist. I never watch BBC2, apart from Catherine Tate and Extras when that was on. I watch Channel 4 quite a lot, I watched Celebrity Big Brother and I also watched Lost and I love Desperate Housewives. The only shows I watch on Five are CSI, House and Prison Break. The channel also really doesn't do anything for me, and they're just very lucky with their imports.

On the subject of ITV and what went wrong, what happened to ITV on Friday nights ?

It seems they've just given up with Fridays, every year we get repeats of Frost / Morse / Midsomer filling the 2 hour slot from 8.30pm, the kind of thing going out regularly on ITV3 already.

They get too much compettition from Channel 4 on Friday nights especially when Big Brother is on

Back in 1992, they were filling Friday nights with gameshows and sitcoms, then a quality serial drama at 9 leading up to the News.