27 June 2007
PETER MISSES!
From Broadcast: "ITV1's struggling business-reality show Tycoon has been pulled from its 9pm slot on a Tuesday night. It will return on Monday 9 July at 10pm as a 30-minute format. Tough Gig has also been pulled."
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Well, no surprise here given it was being beaten by all four other channels. It's testament to what Ally Ross said earlier this year with regards to Fortune and You Don't Know You're Born - if you copy BBC2 concepts, you should expect BBC2 audiences. The actual Apprentice probably wouldn't have appealed to the core ITV audience, so there's no chance of a rip-off of it.
For all they try to jazz it up, I reckon ITV1 is still the channel for your gran and so stuff like this is doomed to failure. That's why I'm so pleased to see 24 Hours With being dropped - this is surely an ITV2 programme, if it deserves to be on any channel at all.
You know, it's been three and a half years since ITV1 made that 10pm slot available, and in all that time I don't think they've found one hit show to go there.
I'm baffled by tonight's schedule, though, where Holiday Showdown - which is being axed anyway - and Hollywood Lives have both been replaced, one week into their runs, by a repeat of Sharpe. That's hardly going to help build an audience, is it?
If ITV want to get a bit of swagger back they should put big dramas at 9pm at least nine times out of ten, because that's always been its strength. Sadly, nobody seems to be able to stop the obvious link between 'audiences falling' and 'spending next to no money on programmes'.
For all they try to jazz it up, I reckon ITV1 is still the channel for your gran and so stuff like this is doomed to failure. That's why I'm so pleased to see 24 Hours With being dropped - this is surely an ITV2 programme, if it deserves to be on any channel at all.
You know, it's been three and a half years since ITV1 made that 10pm slot available, and in all that time I don't think they've found one hit show to go there.
I'm baffled by tonight's schedule, though, where Holiday Showdown - which is being axed anyway - and Hollywood Lives have both been replaced, one week into their runs, by a repeat of Sharpe. That's hardly going to help build an audience, is it?
If ITV want to get a bit of swagger back they should put big dramas at 9pm at least nine times out of ten, because that's always been its strength. Sadly, nobody seems to be able to stop the obvious link between 'audiences falling' and 'spending next to no money on programmes'.
Its all too true - I can't think of a single ITV programme I watch now.
Absolutely nothing .
Even ITV2/3/4 the only thing I've even stopped flicking passed has been Lovejoy - first shown on BBC (and will always be a BBC progrmme in my head).
OK to be honest I did watch Die Hard* for the umpteenth time the other night but that hardly counts - It was 'just' on ITV and I found it by chance . It could have been on any channel and judging how these things work it will be on Living or something next week.
But there is nothing to entice me to watch
- Bored with Millionaire in 2000 , stopped watching I'm a celeb after Jordan and Peter (even then it was only for Ant and Dec) .
Can't stand X Idol or whatever its called ( can anyone really claim to own a format so generic ... boggles the mind) .
I'm starting to wonder why they don't flog Corrie to the BBC and just show Simon Cowell on Glitterball 24/7 and have done with it . Or show the sodding testcard - it would keep the MHP crowd happy and I don't think anyone else would care .
* And they cocked up the title slide : Action Hero's : Die Hard , FFS !
Doesn't anyone even care anymore ?
Absolutely nothing .
Even ITV2/3/4 the only thing I've even stopped flicking passed has been Lovejoy - first shown on BBC (and will always be a BBC progrmme in my head).
OK to be honest I did watch Die Hard* for the umpteenth time the other night but that hardly counts - It was 'just' on ITV and I found it by chance . It could have been on any channel and judging how these things work it will be on Living or something next week.
But there is nothing to entice me to watch
- Bored with Millionaire in 2000 , stopped watching I'm a celeb after Jordan and Peter (even then it was only for Ant and Dec) .
Can't stand X Idol or whatever its called ( can anyone really claim to own a format so generic ... boggles the mind) .
I'm starting to wonder why they don't flog Corrie to the BBC and just show Simon Cowell on Glitterball 24/7 and have done with it . Or show the sodding testcard - it would keep the MHP crowd happy and I don't think anyone else would care .
* And they cocked up the title slide : Action Hero's : Die Hard , FFS !
Doesn't anyone even care anymore ?
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: 4:55 PM
: 4:55 PM
well they can't even get that right with the US series being shown in Scifi that should have given them a clue - but no ....
As for drama , well I'm not so sure - there doesn't seem to be a desire to do the classic ensemble contemporary drama or a comedy drama like minder anymore.
They nick the soap stars off 'Enders on big money and seem to sit on them , or give them utter tosh like Ultimate Force.
Its the paucity of ideas thats so disappointing , all they seem to be able to do is copy everyone else , badly .
They really need a company like Thames to give them something, anything to work with .
But then again , unless it gives them big ratings immediately, it will get dropped. So nothing has time to find its feet , find an audience.
With the digital switchover coming soon is this going to be the effective end of ITV as a programme maker?
It might well be , there's barely anything worth watching now, when analogue goes whats to stop them selling Corrie to another channel and just become another UKGold , or just stopping altogether and sit on the money and make programmes for other channels ? Granada make unichallenge and Top Gear for the Beeb (and probably others) so why not just become another hat trick .
As for drama , well I'm not so sure - there doesn't seem to be a desire to do the classic ensemble contemporary drama or a comedy drama like minder anymore.
They nick the soap stars off 'Enders on big money and seem to sit on them , or give them utter tosh like Ultimate Force.
Its the paucity of ideas thats so disappointing , all they seem to be able to do is copy everyone else , badly .
They really need a company like Thames to give them something, anything to work with .
But then again , unless it gives them big ratings immediately, it will get dropped. So nothing has time to find its feet , find an audience.
With the digital switchover coming soon is this going to be the effective end of ITV as a programme maker?
It might well be , there's barely anything worth watching now, when analogue goes whats to stop them selling Corrie to another channel and just become another UKGold , or just stopping altogether and sit on the money and make programmes for other channels ? Granada make unichallenge and Top Gear for the Beeb (and probably others) so why not just become another hat trick .
# posted by : 7:45 PM
: 7:45 PM
I could be wrong - but I'm pretty sure that theres a 'Granada Production for the BBC' at the end of the show . If I am , replace Top Gear with 'What the Papers Say' ...
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