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[Closed] ITV - why...?

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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.


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 1:55 pm
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How old are you lot?

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


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 2:04 pm
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Posted : 08/12/2010 2:05 pm
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Doc Martin. Foyle's War. That's it.


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 2:14 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 2:19 pm
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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?


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 2:20 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 2:30 pm
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[i]so can 20-25% of the population be wrong?[/i]

change the wr for a m


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 2:31 pm
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The only good thing to come out of ITV was the Muppets

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


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 3:05 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 3:07 pm
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You're right, I did misread that about NTNOCN. 😳


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 3:13 pm
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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 🙄


 
Posted : 08/12/2010 3:33 pm
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