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ITV2 turns 20

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fanoftv
Spencer For Hire posted:
FanOfTV99 posted:
I'm shocked ITV2 are not doing anything special. Mind you some of the show on ITV2 are not like the show back in 1998.


I’m not sure that the public really cares as much about TV channels’ birthdays as we here might like to think.

fanoftv posted:
FanOfTV99 posted:
I'm shocked ITV2 are not doing anything special. Mind you some of the show on ITV2 are not like the show back in 1998.


It sounds right up Celebrity Juice’s nostalgia path that it sometimes takes.


Hasn’t CJ’s latest series finished, possibly with a Christmas special to come? And I’d imagine Christmas would be the theme for that. Wink


It has indeed, I’m not saying it’s a possibility, just that a 90s special would be the sort of thing they could have done to celebrate.

The Christmas special airs next Thursday.
NW
nwtv2003
FanOfTV99 posted:
I'm shocked ITV2 are not doing anything special. Mind you some of the show on ITV2 are not like the show back in 1998.


I’m not sure why they would. ITV2 today is not like ITV2 of 1998. If anything the original ITV2 was a bit of a mix of what we now call 3, 4 and Be if anything.
ED
ExDSStar
I always think that because ITV2 is higher up the EPG, That it would be better off being a BBC Two type channel to ITV. Such a shame its not.
VM
VMPhil
ExDSStar posted:
I always think that because ITV2 is higher up the EPG, That it would be better off being a BBC Two type channel to ITV. Such a shame its not.

Well, historically speaking, that was what Channel 4 was set up to do.
RD
roger delacroix
Happy 20th Birthday ITV2
BR
Brekkie
ITV2 seems to have been successful but without a huge amount of landmark shows - indeed other than the reality shows I"m struggling to think of any from the first decade. Even in the last 10 years only Celeb Juice, Love Island and Plebs really stand out.
DE
DE88
It shouldn't be forgotten that 7 December 1998 also saw the end of a 35-year-old ITV and current affairs institution, less than two hours after ITV2's launch.

The final edition isn't on YouTube, AFAIK - so, instead, here's one from earlier in the year.

Richard, Stuart and Revolution gave kudos
RD
roger delacroix
oh I forgot about World In Action
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Whataday Founding member
Spencer For Hire posted:
I’m not sure that the public really cares as much about TV channels’ birthdays as we here might like to think.


Graham Norton hit the nail on the head when asked about his show's 20th birthday by Phil & Holly on This Morning: "The only people that actually care about that sort of thing are me, and the people at my office... audiences don't care, they just want to turn on and see the best show they can see."

Bit awks considering This Morning have a commemorative programme every time either of them has a bowel movement.
MA
mannewskev
Whataday posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
I’m not sure that the public really cares as much about TV channels’ birthdays as we here might like to think.


Graham Norton hit the nail on the head when asked about his show's 20th birthday by Phil & Holly on This Morning: "The only people that actually care about that sort of thing are me, and the people at my office... audiences don't care, they just want to turn on and see the best show they can see."

Bit awks considering This Morning have a commemorative programme every time either of them has a bowel movement.


I don't think that's fair at all. They've marked 18, 20, 21, 25 and 30 - all the milestones everyone celebrates.
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DE88
mannewskev posted:
Whataday posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
I’m not sure that the public really cares as much about TV channels’ birthdays as we here might like to think.


Graham Norton hit the nail on the head when asked about his show's 20th birthday by Phil & Holly on This Morning: "The only people that actually care about that sort of thing are me, and the people at my office... audiences don't care, they just want to turn on and see the best show they can see."

Bit awks considering This Morning have a commemorative programme every time either of them has a bowel movement.


I don't think that's fair at all. They've marked 18, 20, 21, 25 and 30 - all the milestones everyone celebrates.


It was pointed out on the Irish TV thread when RTÉ2 didn't celebrate its 40th anniversary earlier this autumn - just as it hadn't celebrated any of its previous milestone anniversaries - that too much navel-gazing can be off-putting for the general public... Embarassed Wink
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mannewskev
DE88 posted:
mannewskev posted:
Whataday posted:

Graham Norton hit the nail on the head when asked about his show's 20th birthday by Phil & Holly on This Morning: "The only people that actually care about that sort of thing are me, and the people at my office... audiences don't care, they just want to turn on and see the best show they can see."

Bit awks considering This Morning have a commemorative programme every time either of them has a bowel movement.


I don't think that's fair at all. They've marked 18, 20, 21, 25 and 30 - all the milestones everyone celebrates.


It was pointed out on the Irish TV thread when RTÉ2 didn't celebrate its 40th anniversary earlier this autumn - just as it hadn't celebrated any of its previous milestone anniversaries - that too much navel-gazing can be off-putting for the general public... Embarassed Wink


Define "too much".

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