It has not been an easy path. The relationship with ITV went badly wrong for a while. Woodward gambled on refusing to take expensive ITV drama, and had to admit defeat.
That was a gamble there was a whole court case over this and the end result ended up with a new agreement, Because there had to pay a one off agreement, well duh, STV weren't expect to get stuff for free, but there weren't happy about that agreement.
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The demise of police drama Taggart as a money-earner has yet to be replaced. The drive towards becoming an independent producer for other channels has been bumpy and fallen short of expectations.
This is the one problem for STV, it needs to find a new hit drama series, or either that a hit Gameshow.
Starting with a report from ITV straight away on STV News Tonight, and then a pre-recorded hit from Robert Peston - using 'ITV News' on the sign off on tonight's report is interesting. When they did STV News at 10 ahead of the referendum I'm sure the ITV reports had special STV sign-offs.
One thing I've noticed again tonight is that when they do actual Live links to reporters, the reporters don't really acknowledge the presenter and just launch into whatever they have to say. I get that on the STV News at 6 they have to do it this way as often two or three programmes are asking the same question at the same time and showing the same reporter, but would be nice for them to a be a bit less robotic when they have the room!
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Do you get the feeling this my be a back door pilot for Scottish six? If it get the go ahead then maybe ITN would be happy to STV news sign offs,.
Whoops, did mean to put this in the other thread. Yes, it certainly feels like a pilot that could be switched to STV if successful. Then again, surely they'd go the whole hour if this was the case, as to keep the network schedule they'd need the news to be an hour.
It has not been an easy path. The relationship with ITV went badly wrong for a while. Woodward gambled on refusing to take expensive ITV drama, and had to admit defeat.
That was a gamble there was a whole court case over this and the end result ended up with a new agreement, Because there had to pay a one off agreement, well duh, STV weren't expect to get stuff for free, but there weren't happy about that agreement.
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The demise of police drama Taggart as a money-earner has yet to be replaced. The drive towards becoming an independent producer for other channels has been bumpy and fallen short of expectations.
This is the one problem for STV, it needs to find a new hit drama series, or either that a hit Gameshow.
Well, Babushka, which fills in the break period for The Chase, is an STV programme, maybe this will lead to something. Not sure, though.
Slot 'warmers' for The Chase haven't been that sucessful. Either they've died after one series (even if ITV promote it as a 10/20 episode pilot try-out) or come back as Tipping Point's slot warmer whilst that is on a break.
From what I've seen from the format distributers 'showreel' for this, it's another variant of 'pick something in front of you at random and see what it contains which is then removed from available prizes in the game' - so, think of this as Deal Or No Deal with Russian dolls rather than red boxes from Rymans.
Unless this has been put through the format development team at STV who have ironed out the flaws, then the format is ropey, as it hardly demands risk taking by the contestants. On current 5pm non-chasing form, this is going to be it's only series on screen.
Deal or No Deal with dolls is exactly how they've sold it. Agree slot warmers haven't been too successful but ITV keep trying rather than taking the easy option Pointless does and sticking with repeats. Presumably as this is airing in May rather than summer, and for 20 episodes rather than 10, they've something else lied up for later in the year.