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I must thank itv, I have just had a family day at Chessington World of Adventures, free of charge, courtesy of itv. Fabulous day, as I have a friend of a friend that works at itv and was given five free tickets for this corporate day.

Looks like they look after their staff more than there viewers, but I'm not complaining!

Wow wee.I've got no time for corparates.Corparates are part of the cancer of what this country has become.

Have'nt you heard of paying for your day's out?

I bet you vote Tory?Shopgirl wrote:

> I must thank itv, I have just had a family day at Chessington
> World of Adventures, free of charge, courtesy of itv. Fabulous
> day, as I have a friend of a friend that works at itv and was
> given five free tickets for this corporate day.
>
> Looks like they look after their staff more than there viewers,
> but I'm not complaining!
>
>

Agreed and no quality dramas either like plays eg Armchair Theatre etcMike_CFC wrote:

> ITV died the day it got rid of it's franchises such as
> ATV,Granada,Yorkshire,Thames etc.
>
> ITV used to broadcast quality TV like The Sweeney,On The
> Buses,Minder and too many other programmes to mention.
>
> All you get now on ITV is programmes with sponsors,cunts who
> think they can sing and muggy commentators like Clive Tyldsley
> who think they're funny.
>
> Now we have ITV2 which shows repeat after repeat of ITV1
> programmes or programmes showing Z-list trash like Jordan and
> Wayneyetta Rooney.
>
> There's me thinking Television was meant to be educational and
> entertaining !whistle!
>
>

World in Action was another prog i liked.Real,proper current affairs that took no prisoners.The London Programme and Police 5 were also ok,but i doubt most of you's would'nt of seen them as they were London based programmes.

No shit Sherlock !laugh!

A suggestion for ITV is that when the analogue signal is finally switch off and all television broadcasts on digital, then ITV, and the BBC, should become a subscription service. So if you want to view hours and hours of Z level shite on ITV you pay for it via a monthly subscription.

Trumpton.You're in the wrong job mate !thumbsup!

Sadly that would only work in an ideal world.Trumpton wrote:

> A suggestion for ITV is that when the analogue signal is
> finally switch off and all television broadcasts on digital,
> then ITV, and the BBC, should become a subscription service.
> So if you want to view hours and hours of Z level shite on ITV
> you pay for it via a monthly subscription.

Both ATV and Central had Police 5- with Shaw Taylor as well!

In some years it sat as a portion of the local news one weekday night; in others it filled 5 minutes on Sunday lunchtime or teatime.

It used to annoy me that the London press used to assume that it was London only- they never bothered to check. In the same way it annoyed me that Gloria Hunniford was billed as a 'chat-show host' because of Sunday Sunday; it was never shown outside London!

There are many millions of people who are not adverse to forking out ?50 plus per month to subscribe to Sky. And what do these subscribers actually get to watch for this huge monthly amount?

Looking through this week's Radio Times there are only two programmes on ITV that I intend watching... I recorded Lewis last night for future viewing and will be watching The Fixer (1st episode in a new drama that gets a good write up from the critics) tonight. So that's 3 hours out of 168 hours transmitted!

Add in the Champions League when Chelsea happen to be playing on a Tuesday (and even then it might be on ITV 2/3/4) and F1 motor racing and that's pretty much it for ITV as far as I'm concerned... oh, I almost forgot... Foyle's War is great winter Sunday night viewing when its on.

Think of all the best ITV shows... Minder, Spitting Image, Thunderbirds, Cold Feet, Cracker, Inspector Morse, The Avengers, The Prisoner, World in Action, World at War, etc., etc... What do they have in common? They don't make them anymore, and, on the whole, have nothing similar in quality to replace them with.

ITV was at its best before the early/mid nineties when it started wriggling out of its public service broadcasting remit. Will ITV ever again commission something like Jewel in the Crown or Brideshead Revisited? Not when, for a hundredth of the price, they can give us Dancing on Ice... or other celebrity based drivel.

Time to change the name from ITV to TatTV

And, I believe, because Thatch allowed the concept of franchises to be abolished.

The myriad of companies provided internal competition for good TV. Other reasons for ITV's downfall are more channels, the fact that ITV is no longer new so all the 'ideas' have already been 'done' and the fact that TV used to be 4pm - 12.15 am.

ITV used to be so simple. After News At Ten was an hour of sport or documentary; then a half-hour regional programme; then the epilogue. Sundays from 6.30 to 7.30 was 'light' religion, followed by a game show to leaven the load, and then a comedy and the News and 'heavy' religion [remember 'Credo'?] and then Melvyn Bragg for an hour and then the epilogue.

Even 6-10 was easy. 6 was regional news; 630 Crossroads.

7- 10 on Mondays and Wednesdays were 'Thames/Granada' nights- with them making all the programming. Just one half hour of soap. A sitcom. A current affairs show.

On Tuesdays/Thursdays was 'ATV'- later 'ATV/Yorkshire' programmes- a big ITC big star drama. Maybe a film. Emmerdale.

Fridays was ATV/LWT; Saturdays ATV; Sundays LWT/Yorkshire- and for some reason the only night that Anglia were allowed to network.

It worked! So why was it broken?