Premium rate phone-in saga: ITV Play Channel Axed

Brainteaser though had increasingly turned into a blatent premium rate revenue generator, the programme spattered with paid opportunities to call in.
If the programme was less centred around paid viewer involvement they may have been more inclined to be honest and simply admit there was a technical problem. ie as it was, it probably appeared poor business sense to admit to the viewers that there may sometimes be any problem involved with phoning in.

However, it is of course this attitude in any paid service which bites you in the bum and then some if later unearthed.
Never try to pull the wool over the eyes of someone who's paid you for a service, unless you know you can bury the evidence really effectively.

Even back in the days of Quizmania when everyone was raving about it and Greg Scott and going on about how ITV were stupid for NOT showing it on ITV1, the questions were always like this

Remember those Quiz Show/Game Show hosts towers where even Greg hadn't heard of the top few answers

I tell you what Andrew, why don't you completely edit your post next time.

Birdie 100 seems to verify what Peter Bazelgette said about Brainteaser in yesterday's Independent,that staff have posed as winning members of the public more than once.So far the story has been it only happened on one occasion.
The original justification was that the shortlisted entrants (10, I believe) had not known the correct answer.Given the facile nature of the questions is this credible?
So now we are asked to believe that an employee would act as a medium and channel the spirit of the winner to Alex,their mobile being in commune with the real world not Lovelland.
I have asked 5 and Cheetah for a complete list of viewer winners either on paper or posted on their website.Winners agree to their names being made public.So far 5 have declined to do this.All the winners being bona fide I cannot understand this reluctance.

What's that got to do with my post?

On Endemol's website they have announced a "new" comedy panel game that BBC1 has commisioned from them the title-"Would I Lie To You", make up your own punchline.

Seems like there were some problems with the phonelines on Saturday chefs earlier!

Anthony Worrel-Thompson said that," they were experiencing problems with the phone-lines and the only way to enter was via text!"

In the past they probably wouldn't have mentioned that and still let the public phone in regardless! At least everything is a bit more transparent now!

Absolutely nothing. It doesn't have to, solong as Andrew can defend his precious network to the highhills. I really do think we are in the presence of somehow high up the ITV ladder here.

It was still a valid point to add to the discussion regardless of whether or not I quoted the wrong post

lol, a valid point for ITV maybe. It's ok for them to have Neighbours from the BBC after 20 years but Channel 4 dare touch Paul O'Grady - let's face it, the show's success was down to Paul, Robert Gray and the production team not ITV - and it's carnage.

ITV have got a new caption on the Millionaire competition now saying lines closed and may be charged if entering after the lines have closed

In today Daily Express it lorain kelly say GMTV already know about the phone scams and there was some other stuff..