Scottish pres discussion Thread

there been play break bumpers with south park kids all weekend and I have now looked and it seem there broadcasting it on Monday at 10.35pm!

ITV are not. so the Question is why?

All part of STV's plans to ditch network ITV content in favour of local programming!

Its South park! that must be costing some money!

and it seem that there: Also: at least 27 other Episodes, and 6 repeats.

STV have the rights to the last full season aired (12) of South Park, I think I read somewhere they have scored a deal with Comedy Central to air other shows.

If that is true well done STV! now if there could just get Dexter series 2 it would help.

It is true, it was reported on Digitalspy earlier in the week. STV are doing what they should have been doing all along - acting like an independent broadcaster.

It does take time to make deals! and of course if there getting in more targeted viewers then in turn there could get more ad money

I'm well pleased that STV have got South Park, although as someone pointed out above in the thread it's hardly a commitment to local programming.

What I'm not pleased about though is that after one episode of Moving Wallpaper, I've yet to see the rest. I've np with STV heading down the local / national programme route, as long as they don't " do " a BBC Scotland and start messing about with programmes here, there and everywhere.

Just as an aside, if STV are committed to truly Scottish programme, it would be good to see them get away from a Glasgow-centric stance. It would be great to have some decent Scottish comedy that wasn't produced by the Partick Rep Company that BBC Scotland seem to use.

And as a (north)east coaster, a move slightly east for some of their programming would be good.

Taggart is obviously a strong programme, although not to my taste, but if STV ( or BBC Scotland if you're reading this! ) have any sense, they should try to get the rites to Stuart MacBride's fantastic crime novels set in Aberdeen. ( And this is coming from someone who's not really into crime! )

Now if only all the other ITV regions could do the same

Finally, broadcasting with passion. I really wish STV well in the future. They are trying. they seem to me to be broadcasting with the flair that a channel three broadcaster should be. They're new refresh, persisting with their regional identity, now spicing up the mix with a comedy. It was the Simpsons that drew me to channel four (i never watched it before then), so perhaps South Park will act like a gateway for STV viewers in Scotland. I hope STV succeed and demonstrate to OFCOM that an ITV contractor can survive if it is kept the old way, and that the "old" regional franchises are still relevant and have a place in the modern broadcasting industry, infact still a better place.

So true Rob, it's what ITV was built on and it worked! It's no shock that 6 years after the regions in England were given a single brand, it's slowly declined.

With so many channels out there now that broadcast to the whole of the UK, ITV would have stood out as being different as it would be able to identify with people locally as well as nationally, but for some reason ITV have the opposite view, that being like every other channel will make them more appealing to the viewing public Except for STV and UTV of course

You mean Channel, Ulster and ITV plc (the only 3 other regions left!)