Itv = Arthur Daley

[Johnny Rico]

ITV really has scraped the Barrel with "The Mint". They have stopped pretending they are a Broadcaster and are now nothing more than a Trickster with a Card Table on Oxford Street.



You can write them off after midnight. These 0901 manage to combine sleazy tactics with unwatchabilty.



What worries me is that i have channel hopped after 12 and I think another station is having one. It's like watching TV die in front of your eyes - Freeview is one thing , Terrestrial is another matter.



One Day we will wake up and the only paper available will be The Sun and the only thing on TV will be The Mint. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]



OK possibly a little Rant but anyone else feel this way?

[Fran]

(Johnny Rico @ May 16 2006, 01:00 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

ITV really has scraped the Barrel with "The Mint". They have stopped pretending they are a Broadcaster and are now nothing more than a Trickster with a Card Table on Oxford Street.



You can write them off after midnight. These 0901 manage to combine sleazy tactics with unwatchabilty.



What worries me is that i have channel hopped after 12 and I think another station is having one. It's like watching TV die in front of your eyes - Freeview is one thing , Terrestrial is another matter.



One Day we will wake up and the only paper available will be The Sun and the only thing on TV will be The Mint. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]



OK possibly a little Rant but anyone else feel this way?

[/b]

I gave up on terrestrial a while ago, and Freeview promises much and delivers so very little. I was encouraged when ITV launched their new Play channel but I'd wrongly assumed that it was going to be dedicated to drama, but no, just another con trick to encourage people to waste money on telephone calls! Live entertainment is an expensive but necessary alternative to keep sane, and the cinema just isn't worth bothering with. A hundred and fifty years ago the Music Hall was state of the art entertainment and I'd rather we went back to that era than sit at home with all this expensive technologically like marvellous wide screen TVs which sit redundant in the corner of the living room hoping that one day you'll find something worth watching and actually switch the bloody thing on! Despite this television void filled with dross it doesn't prevent TV execs making obscene amounts of money. I've nothing against that but it would be nice if they discovered their self-respect and started earning it for a change!

[Steve Crook]

(Fran @ May 16 2006, 05:43 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

Despite this television void filled with dross it doesn't prevent TV execs making obscene amounts of money. I've nothing against that but it would be nice if they discovered their self-respect and started earning it for a change!

[/b]

You're making an incorrect assumption, thinking that the job of TV execs is to make TV programmes. They leave that to the minions and to external companies. The only job of TV execs is to sell advertising and to make money for their shareholders. They're very good at that so they get paid appropriately.



Steve

[Fran]

(Steve Crook @ May 16 2006, 06:12 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

You're making an incorrect assumption, thinking that the job of TV execs is to make TV programmes. They leave that to the minions and to external companies. The only job of TV execs is to sell advertising and to make money for their shareholders. They're very good at that so they get paid appropriately.



Steve

[/b]

I see, so commercial TV channel program makers get to make what they want, spend what they want and systematically destroy the industry while their bosses are just on the phone all day touting broadcasting space to advertisers! The BBC operate in the same way but their execs just keep out of the way of advertising and go and play golf and let their program makers do as they please and systematically destroy the Corporation with a continuous supply of lowest common denominator drivel but not for commercial reasons, but just to keep on the same gutter level as ITV! I understand now it's so simple! By the way does anyone want to buy a TV, almost like new, hardly used and it's unlikely that it ever will be, Freeview box thrown in so you can rack up your phone bills to an unacceptable level by ringing up quiz programs and ordering tatt from TV shopping channels! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]

[DB7]

As ITV have a number of channels I don't know why they are not restricted to only turning 1 station over to Quizania/The Mint rather than the entire network. Paul O'Grady has had the hump this week about the licencing debacle at the BBC (his show is shot in their studios) and was particularly scathing that he couldn't tinkle on a piano for a show contest whilst a Big Brother contestant fronting a phone quiz passed as 'entertainment.'



Apparently they wont be reduced as Gordon Brown is going to hit them with a new tax. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]