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(February 2007)

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PT
Put The Telly On
I'd agree with that.

Why does it have to be that when a "celebrity" is not doing much or feels their exposure on TV is not great enough their agent feels the need to throw them into reality TV rubbish like this!

It reminds me actually, about a year or two ago they showed a programme late night on ITV (probably because it was just awful!) hosted by chef Kevin Woodford which involved the likes of Martin Platt from Corrie trying to cook for a restaurant full of people. Can't remember the name of it now but it involved other kitchen staff deliberately trying to make his job hell.
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A former member
a C list and Lower celebrity Cheap to Pay than Noramal people?
JO
Johnny83
nok32uk posted:
I'd agree with that.

Why does it have to be that when a "celebrity" is not doing much or feels their exposure on TV is not great enough their agent feels the need to throw them into reality TV rubbish like this!



Laughing Harry Hill said this about Celebrity Safari School, or Celebrity Wild at Heart as he called which he saidwas a programme to give something for celebrities to do in between jobs Laughing
BI
Bigal87
God damn it!Will they stop these stupid ideas.Each one is getting less original then the last.Cant they realise that people h8 these shows/
JE
Jez Founding member
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And although ear marked for a 5pm slot, "late-Spring" suggests to me it's once again ITV attempting to steal Big Brother's thunder by screening an inferior rip-off reality format alongside the first couple of weeks.


This programme will be airing in late March/Early April apparently so will be over weeks before Big Brother starts. Anyway wont it be in a totally different slot. Big Brother is usually 9pm or 10pm.
JO
Joe
Bigal87 posted:
God damn it!Will they stop these stupid ideas.Each one is getting less original then the last.Cant they realise that people h8 these shows/


A lot of people say they hate these programmes, but they are very popular, and as a business desicion, its a good one. However, they are afraid to try something new, resorting to the same old formats each time.
CF
C4Fan
Brekkie Boy posted:
C4Fan posted:
These celebrity formats obviously worked so the ITV bashers who say "they have too many celebrity shows" can't really argue with ratings? The shows are liked no matter what they think.



Celebrity Wrestling and Celebrity Love Island were oh so popular, weren't they!


I'd say over the last few years only a few celeb shows have really worked for ITV - Dancing on Ice and I'm a Celeb and possibly Soapstar Superstar.


Celebrity X Factor, All Star Family Fortunes, Gameshow Marathon should I continue? More celebrity formats have worked for ITV than failed.
BO
Bongo
Oh drat no, cooking, singing, dancing, all that it seems many soapstars cant do is act!
SP
Spencer
C4Fan posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
C4Fan posted:
These celebrity formats obviously worked so the ITV bashers who say "they have too many celebrity shows" can't really argue with ratings? The shows are liked no matter what they think.



Celebrity Wrestling and Celebrity Love Island were oh so popular, weren't they!


I'd say over the last few years only a few celeb shows have really worked for ITV - Dancing on Ice and I'm a Celeb and possibly Soapstar Superstar.


Celebrity X Factor, All Star Family Fortunes, Gameshow Marathon should I continue? More celebrity formats have worked for ITV than failed.


That's no excuse for showing so many of them. It's what really annoys me about TV these days - they find a format that delivers more than average viewers, and then flog it to death. A little more variety and innovation wouldn't go amiss.
BR
Brekkie
C4Fan posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
C4Fan posted:
These celebrity formats obviously worked so the ITV bashers who say "they have too many celebrity shows" can't really argue with ratings? The shows are liked no matter what they think.



Celebrity Wrestling and Celebrity Love Island were oh so popular, weren't they!


I'd say over the last few years only a few celeb shows have really worked for ITV - Dancing on Ice and I'm a Celeb and possibly Soapstar Superstar.


Celebrity X Factor, All Star Family Fortunes, Gameshow Marathon should I continue? More celebrity formats have worked for ITV than failed.



I'd say only Gameshow Marathon worked out of that - and I doubt it'll work as well this time around without Ant and Dec.

Celeb X Factor got very poor ratings in comparison to the main series, while All Star Family Fortunes has hardly been anything other than a cult hit - and that's being favourable!


http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2017173,00.html

ITV also digging up Hell's Kitchen again this year, according to Media Guardian - going back to celebs and with Marco Pierre White in the Gordon Ramsey role.

It's the classic example IMO of where ITV goes wrong - the Fox US version is a far superior format with genuine contestants judged on their food, not their popularity.
JE
Jez Founding member
All Star Family Fortunes was great but I agree with you about Celebrity X Factor - that was not needed.

Another series of Hell's Kitchen - Yawn!
PT
Put The Telly On
Hell's Kitchen with celebrities again....NOOOO!!!! Stop it now! Stop it ITV!

I mean what "celebrities" are they going to dig up this time - I see Linda Lusadi seems back in the frame at the moment thats one. Rolling Eyes

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