Premium rate phone-in saga: ITV Play Channel Axed

I'm far more annoyed but the stupid answers that they come up with for quizzes. For example what would you find in a woman's handbag? They had rawlplugs! Excuse me. And I saw another one where they were looking for films beginning with B and came up with obscure things like Belle Epoque. How many ITV viewers at that time of the morning would come up with all of these obscure foreign films beginning with B?

What is?

Yes, but as a reporter or stand in presenter. it wasn't until Martin joined that she became the anchor in the late 90's, and when people actually liked her. People are just fed up of her now and can't wait for her to go.

ther still not as good as the Dead ringer take

Name thing you found in the unaversia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60eGi_ZCo70

a walnut, goria honeyford

Ive got a headache after watching that for 30 minutes.

Who's bright idea was it to have that camera moving around like it was on an elastic band?

So what did we really learn from that Panorama? It dragged up everything we already know about the Blue Peter scandal, the Richard and Judy fiasco and the ridiculous questions on Quiz TV stations. Hmmmm.

OK It did unearth the new revelation that the GMTV provider Opera were selecting the potential winners upto 90 minutes early possibly making 13.2million pounds in the process.

The chappie from Ofcom didn't really seem to add anything and just kept mentioning,"self-regulation!"

Also the Blue Peter scandal was more acceptable as it only affected 13,000 kids, the BBC didnt profit from it and the "junior staff member was commended for their actions."

Then briefly whizzing past Saturday Chefs on BBC1 where the public were totally conned by making out a pre-recorded programme was infact live and the result of the phone-in already pre-determined! But once again the BBC didnt profit from this so it was all much more acceptable!

And my last gripe(!) Wouldn't it be really ironic if some of these agrieved quiz tv callers and members of the public that were voicing their opinions on the subject were infact actors themselves? Im sure I could see some of their eyes moving from left to right as if reading an autoqueue.

These twerps who think everything needs a "shaky camera" feel.

It was also quite lazy the way when mentioning Quiz TV they did the usual suspects, ITV Play, The Mint etc. Meanwhile those ones you get late night on various Sky channels including the music channels etc are still getting away with it and are probably much more dodgy

The people saying that they couldn't believe how the calls added up on their phonebill were just idiots though, nobody is forcing them to enter 100 times a night!

because the ITV gameshows are more high-profile as they are from the country's leading commercial broadcaster, and not some obscure satellite company - ergo more shocking.

Actually, it wasn't pre-determined. They recorded both endings (James Martin making both the "Heaven" and "Hell" dishes) and played out the one that won the phone vote.

Ooooh... not all media graduates think that though

That's ok then! What's the problem with that then? Or was there something else that happened?

Going to watch it shortly, but when they first cropped up here asking for input it was obvious they weren't going to unearth anything of real value.

Yes, there was the GMTV thing - but as I've said all along, if they'd wanted to move the story on they needed to be unearthing stuff outside TV as a whole (i.e. screwing over the Daily Mail!)