[Closed] ITV - why...?

Still time to edit it.

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Harry Hill is just phoning it in now tho.

Anyways. ITV cannot be all bad given they are airing the new [url= http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/new-pilger-film-the-war-you-don-t-see-opens-in-cinemas-and-on-itv-in-december ]Pilger doc on the 14th Dec.[/url]

Edit: Banhammer time!

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Loddrik ,here is a nice Christmas present for you.

...the clock is ticking.

The other guy blinked.....

(wipes brow...)

As I call it [b]ITV[/b] - [b]I[/b]diots [b]T[/b]elevision [b]V[/b]ision - television for idiots. Looking at last Saturday night's schedule:

Britons do the funniest things
All New Whose Been Framed
Harry Hill
X Factor
I'm a Celebrity

Well I rest my case - the only show ITV missed out on was Big Brother.

Loddrik, this is nothing new, when I was a kid ITV was not allowed at all in our house. My parents thought it was "what you said" and hated adverts, so we just were not permitted to watch it. I cannot say I can think of a single program 70's/80's that I missed. There was a period when we had no TV at all and I never saw Not the nine oclock news, which everyone talked about in the playground next day..

As I call it ITV - Idiots Television Vision - television for idiots.

With zingers like that you should write for ITV.

TDF and Cricket....that is all

Magpie or Blue Peter then? In our house it was Blue Peter as it was educational.

Oops, wrong thread, sorry

I think matthew_h is lost 😉

ITV was always the idiots' channel in our house too.

Even the controller said it's lowest common denominator television. They are struggling for advertising revenue as the put out rubbish all the time, so people don't watch, so they have to run more rubbish with phone-ins to make the revenues up. Then they pull out gems like only putting ITV4 HD on Sky when they were supposed to be supporting Freesat. I hope they disappear down the pit of mediocrity they have created.

Looks like matthew_h's brain is addled from too much ITV.

Downton Abbey was good telly. Spoilt by far too many commercial breaks tho'. Can't just think of anything else of note....

TDF and Cricket....that is all

Someone's got to say it, what exactly is wrong with lowest common denominator tv ?
If you want something more intellectual, watch BBC4. I'm sure ITV viewers would find that equally uninspiring.

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Cheer up - Dancing on Ice will be back on soon.

Torvil & Dean - how the mighty fall - from Olympic Champions to being reduced to appearing on this.

Awful dumbed down programmes that all seem to revolve around becoming a "celebrity".

Someone's got to say it, what exactly is wrong with lowest common denominator tv ?
If you want something more intellectual, watch BBC4. I'm sure ITV viewers would find that equally uninspiring.

If we relied on the lowest common denominator we'd still be stratching around in the forest leaf litter

Not The Nine O'Clock News was on BBC2 IIRC

anyway, probably showing my age, but didn't the following come from ITV?
The Sweeney
The Professionals
The New Avengers
Inspector Morse

ok nothing recent, I grant you...
Still, it could be worse. It could be Channel 5 😯

If we relied on the lowest common denominator ............

You haven't got to rely on it. There's this thing called the remote control. Maybe it's dropped down amongst the leaf litter, have a rummage around.

I luv x factor.

And Corrie ( how exciting was last night!!!)

Don't watch anything else on it though.

I didn't see any telly last night. was the tram crash as spectacular as the Emmerdale Jumbo Jet crash? "Archie, Archie, where are you Archie?"

Looking at last Saturday night's schedule:

Britons do the funniest things
All New Whose Been Framed
Harry Hill
X Factor
I'm a Celebrity

Well I rest my case

What is your case ? That those are all programmes that no one wants to watch ? Or programmes which are highly popular ?

The OP asked for a justification for ITV, you appear to have listed a variety of programmes which I suspect have fairly high viewing figures. So has ITV justified itself or not ?

toys19 - Member

Loddrik, this is nothing new, when I was a kid ITV was not allowed at all in our house. My parents thought it was "what you said" and hated adverts, so we just were not permitted to watch it. I cannot say I can think of a single program 70's/80's that I missed.

What is your case ? That those are all programmes that no one wants to watch ? Or programmes which are highly popular ?

The OP asked for a justification for ITV, you appear to have listed a variety of programmes which I suspect have fairly high viewing figures. So has ITV justified itself or not ?

I think you've just proved you're an idiot

I don't like ITV but its popular. Alot of people at work talk about X factor and I'm a celebrity. They must be doing something right

i think all the tv channels are rubbish to be honest..........even all the sky ones.
just varying degrees of rubbishness seperate them.

radio 2 is awesome tho.

I think you've just proved you're an idiot

Well me being an idiot was never in question.

So let's stick to the [i]actual[/i] question.

What was your point in listing some ITV programmes which probably have fairly high viewing figures ?

Are you saying that ITV is doing what it's suppose to be doing, ie, broadcasting programmes which people want to watch ?

Or have you just got yourself in a bit of a muddle ....... and now no longer sure [i]what[/i] meant ?

Ton said all tv is rubbish. I'm currently watching [i]The Joy Of Statistics[/i] on BBC4. There's some good programmes on Friday and Saturday on BBC4 about folk music and dance. Not to everyone's [i]taste[/i], but certainly not rubbish. ITV has Poirot and Lewis, two programmes that are beautifully filmed and acted with excellent production values. I have a fairly well developed dreck filter and am perfectly capable of finding plenty to watch on tv that quite clearly isn't dumbed-down, lowest common denominator programming, but equally clearly doesn't appeal to the average tv viewer. My folks, who are in their 80's, watch a fair number of quiz shows, police and airport reality shows, sport, and a few other odds and ends, but no soaps or 'reality' shows like [i]I'm A Celebrity...[/i]. Does that mean they watch rubbish? According to ton, yes, but they just want to be entertained, so it's not rubbish to them. It's all relative.

for northerners innit.

I only watch ITV inbetween reading the daily mail.

its for old people

john_drummer - Member

Not The Nine O'Clock News was on BBC2 IIRC

Ahhh John, if you had read my post correctly at no time did I associate NTNON with ITV, methinks scan reading is your hobby.

Have to agree that ITV is mostly mindless drivvel, but another couple of good oldies spring to mind as well as the fantastic 'Morse' :

Sherlock Holmes
Brideshead Revisited
Prime Suspect

Erm.......Corrie - it's the best, X-factor is good also but the rest is rubbish

Gladiators was mint.

Why? - For Cheryl Cole

The thing about ITV is that it has to raise advertising revenue and therefore needs to produce programmes that attract large viewing figures. It would however appear that a number of the programmes that attract large viewing figures also attract derision from high-brow viewers.

My observation is that a lot of STW forum dwellers seem to know an awful lot about such programmes whilst at the same time professing not to watch them... 🙄 😆

The OP asked for a justification for ITV, you appear to have listed a variety of programmes which I suspect have fairly high viewing figures. So has ITV justified itself or not ?

You're missing the point. The OP doesn't like ITV programming, so the whole channel should be switched off. End of. It's got nothing to do with how many people watch the programmes and all to do with self-appointed arbiters of Good Taste. We should be watching all that educational highbrow stuff on the BBC, like Eastenders and Celebrity Come Dancing
Although you'd think that someone who knows so much about TV would be able to operate the remote

Still, it could be worse. It could be Channel 5

I beg to differ there shed loads more on 5 than ITV, at least 5 seem to have some pretty up to date films being aired at the moment.

Corra's the only thing watched on 3 in our house.

How old are you lot?

The only good thing to come out of ITV was the Muppets. 6:30pm on Sunday IIRC!

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Doc Martin. Foyle's War. That's it.

Are you lot really saying you don't watch You've Been Framed?
"Sorry Mum, it was an accident" was the highlight of my year's viewing.

I rarely look at itv schedules these days as nothing I am interested on it. Agree with Psling though, it is a commercial channel and if people were not watching it then they would show something else.

Just looked at tv ratings for last few days and 'I'm a celebrity' got 12.4m viewers and x-factor 15m. Coronation Street gets massive numbers so can 20-25% of the population be wrong?

The only good thing to come out of ITV was the Muppets

Daft statement. The muppets had no idea what they were doing, bunch of mup...

oh, hold on.

[i]so can 20-25% of the population be wrong?[/i]

change the wr for a m

The only good thing to come out of ITV was the Muppets

BMW and taxi drivers come out of ITV? Well I never.

Though I have little time for the vast amount of ITV's output, there have been some good progs on the network - e.g The South Bank Show, far better than BBC's Imagine (though I like Yentob). It was the longest running arts programme on British TV (1978-2009).

Even the usually execrable Sky and its bullish, brash advertising and willingness to broadcast some awful drivel, manages to have two arts channels, often far better than BBC4 and its eternal repetition of limited content.

I mean, even Channel 5 (pre Desmond), a channel born out of a manifesto of "Three Fs: football, films and fornication", managed to have a series presented by Brian Sewell on religuious pilgrimage (The Naked Pilgrim).

So, to say that ITV is worthless, valueless and pointless misses some of the good it has achieved. TV should be educational AND entertaining. If the masses are happy to be entertained with the visual equivalent of soma from (what Michael Franti called) the cathode ray nipple, let them. The rest of us can do as we used to be instructed by Why Don't You.

You're right, I did misread that about NTNOCN. 😳

I rely on ITV for news.

As otherwise I'd never find out what Jordan or Kerry Katonna were up to. If the tabloids didn't ignore the subject, or maybe even if there were a magazine dedicated soley to their exploits, then I could happily read about them instead and get back to watching Newsnight 🙄