Tonight's is the one that people on here will no doubt like, and at the same time dislike the most. It's about the business side of things. So expect lots of appearances by TV Forum's 2nd biggest hate figure and lots of ranting come 11.45pm tonight!
On the trailer there's a glimpse of the black and white LWT spinning disc ident! I hope they include the regions.The regions that are left are the ones i have to jump over the sea for!
Well they've just summed up what's wrong with ITV today. The network used to be enriched by programmes and people coming from throughout the regions. Nowadays that competition does not exist.
ITV has been awful for about 8 years now, unless they go back to their old style shows it may as well shut down.
ITV has been poor since 1993 IMHO, when the then new franchises came in, that was the beginning or a new generation of crapness on ITV, it was the year a lot of shows ended too which had been on for many years previously.
2. It's not a single ITV - can someone at Cowcaddens please point out they still exist? SMG, Channel and UTV are still separate from ITV PLC.
I was thinking that myself. Infact with the exception of STV, the independent regions weren't even mentioned at all. As I said above, when the strike happened, CTV kept running.
1. Ouch - Carlton just got a (deserved) kicking. You wonder if that would have been broadcast before the merger.
I have to say the last five or ten minutes of the programme was quite brutal really, but Paul Fox was right, what memorable programmes have Carlton made? And Greg Dyke admitting that losing Thames was a mistake. And the bids for TVS and TSW too raised points that I wouldn't have thought about.
Overall a very interesting programme tonight, also very honest about the Licences too.
