I’d say it was a combination of lazy programming and an over reliance on advertising and viewer interaction devices such as phone polls that has made ITV into what it is today.
I don`t even bother checking ITV`s schedule anymore. There`s nothing I like on there.
My lack of ITV viewing goes way back even before Cilla, Brucie and Bob left.
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Originally posted by Wobbletastic: I’d say it was a combination of lazy programming and an over reliance on advertising and viewer interaction devices such as phone polls that has made ITV into what it is today.
Have to agree there...the only thing I like on ITV nowadays is Harry Hill and Tonight With Trevor MacDonald...when its about the property market. Its also lazy market research too...they broadcast what they *think* the viewing public want to watch.
And when was the last time they showed genuinely funny comedy shows? 2DTV was very good but short lived and underplugged. Hale and Pace was quite funny and contoversial (I know I'm going to get caned here!) and Spitting Image too!
It`s probably not ITV`s fault that advert time has increased.
It`s just that it has so many american shows in it`s schedule.
You take the adverts out of a Brit made show, and the programme is approx 49/51 mins long, so there`s only an average of 10 mins of advs/trailers per hour.
You take the adverts out of an American made show and you`ll notice that that the show is only about 40/42 mins long. Meaning that ITV have to show twice as many ads/trailers per hour.
I do get very angry at all the channels who insist on condensing down the end credits so that they can talk about what is coming on the channel next. They have the OTHER 20 mins to do this plugging for the following show, why do they have to show it in the credits. This is especially annoying when I`ve spotted someone that I can`t place, so I wait for the end crdits, only see them vanish so that the channel can show what`s on next.
It used to be one channel every so often. Now it`s all channels all the time.
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Yeah I hate it when they squeeze the credits at the ends of films, or fade out the theme tune and talk over it. Sometimes they even have continuity messages about other programmes flashing up onscreen when the film you are watching still has 5 minutes to run. ITV don't even have enough good material to fill one channel so it's beyond me how they can justify having four simultaneous channels. I think the worst instance of programme plugging during a film was on More 4 or perhaps Film 4 about a year ago… there was about half an hour of the film to run and the main character was just making a phone call which was a pivotal part of the story; however someone saw fit to fade the sound out at that very point and tell us about what was coming up next after the film had finished. Not only was it completely unnecessary but also it had the effect of totally ruining the film, as you had missed out on a chunk of the plot.
Soaps and reality shows - the inventers of such rubbish should be shot on sight.
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I almost feel sorry for the people who waste their time watching such rubbish. I think that people see the constant over reaction and argumentative nature of Soap characters and copy their behaviour in real life as they see it as normal way to act.
I am going to dissagree I quite like Itv or Utv as its called here
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There is also the fact that all the TV companies now have multiple channels when they don’t have enough good ideas and material to fill one channel each. The BBC for example have the same budget as when they only had two channels but now they have countless channels broadcasting constantly and most of them show complete rubbish all the time. Watch News 24 if you can bear it and count the ways they time waste… there’s constant recaps, really long continuity animations and people giving their opinion; it’s supposed to be news not a vaguely topical schedule filler.
and your chat shows: sorry,that`s not right.. ...oh,yes..Oprahs
An opera is a musical.
Not a programme designed to sell soap powder, which is what the Soaps were designed to do.
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Doctor: You`re an echo. That`s all. A TimeLord is so much more. A sum of knowledge; a code. A shared history. A shared suffering. Only it`s gone now, all of it. Gone forever.
Originally posted by Pots & Pans: I try to be just like Deirdre from Corrie. I think she is a wonderful role model for young people.
How many tiemes has she been married?
How many husbands has she cheated on?
How many times has she been jailed?
yep, she`s a WONDERFUL role model.
and yes, dagnabbit. I WILL roll my eyes at your comment.
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Doctor: You`re an echo. That`s all. A TimeLord is so much more. A sum of knowledge; a code. A shared history. A shared suffering. Only it`s gone now, all of it. Gone forever.
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