TV arts presenter and novelist Melvyn Bragg is to examine the highs and lows of half a century of ITV in a new series.
The series, with the working title A Very British Invention, has been written and presented by The South Bank Show presenter and will be screened late next year as a prelude to the station's 50th anniversary in 2005.
Bragg - who is arts controller at Granada - came up with the idea as a follow up to his successful landmark series the Adventure Of English.
Sounds like a rather intresting programme in the making doesn't it? Well I think most people would expect a celebration programme from ITV for their big 5-0 in 2005. But one thing I didn't know was that Melyvn Bragg being head of Granada's Arts department, frankly I didn't know that Granada had an Art's Department! I wonder what Lows of ITV it will mention? (Hmmm....Let's think......Love Thy Neighbour? Mind Your Language? Carlton TV? That's My Dog?)
£10 says that he mentions The South Bank Show, being a good point.
"ITV's early strengths were down to it's regionality focusing on multiple regions to give television in that area some character...
ITV's current strengths are down to keeping the money firmly kept in shareholders pockets and maybe letting some out into programmes providing they are poorly financed but look exceptable to the viewer"
Oh, by 2005 to celebrate the 50th anniversary, ITV will be Coronation Street 24/7 as ITV finds it easier to put another episode into schedule to save more money on not finding new money on new dramas and You've Been Framed episodes.
So a documentary about ITV hosted by Mr Bragg will no doubt be broadcasted around midnight on a Sunday night where next to no-one (apart from us!) will be watching it.
"ITV's early strengths were down to it's regionality focusing on multiple regions to give television in that area some character...
ITV's current strengths are down to keeping the money firmly kept in shareholders pockets and maybe letting some out into programmes providing they are poorly financed but look exceptable to the viewer"
Oh, by 2005 to celebrate the 50th anniversary, ITV will be Coronation Street 24/7 as ITV finds it easier to put another episode into schedule to save more money on not finding new money on new dramas and You've Been Framed episodes.
So a documentary about ITV hosted by Mr Bragg will no doubt be broadcasted around midnight on a Sunday night where next to no-one (apart from us!) will be watching it.
My Sentiments exactly, all I see is an advert for how great ITV has become now that it has destroyed itself.
I did have another point to make but i have forgotten it
