Peter Fincham needs to go
The Wizard
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ITV's head of programming needs to go. ITV has never been in such a mess with flop after flop of one dire load of mind numbing, dumbed down drivel after another. The guy couldn't organise a pi**up in a brewery. What has this channel been lowered to? Viewing figures falling through the floor for practically every programme. One bad decision after another.
Breakfast tv in a mess. Saturday night tv hits rock bottom. Sunday night more dumbed down zelebrity tripe and now Mel & Sue cocking up due to a totally ill thought out format which has afternoon viewers praying for the return of Alan Titmarsh.
How low much of the preverbial barrel have ITV got to scrape before they sack this absolute incompetent idiot?
Breakfast tv in a mess. Saturday night tv hits rock bottom. Sunday night more dumbed down zelebrity tripe and now Mel & Sue cocking up due to a totally ill thought out format which has afternoon viewers praying for the return of Alan Titmarsh.
How low much of the preverbial barrel have ITV got to scrape before they sack this absolute incompetent idiot?
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I don't see why the great anger though, unless the OP is a shareholder.
The entire show looks strained.
Why do these shows always end up with someone having to cook? I'm fed up with it.
My anger is the constant dumbing down of tv shows and this never ending conveyor belt of the same z list celebs doing the rounds from one reality tv show to another all star celebrity show. Just the same has-beens and general nobody's and media whoares going round and round and round whilst ITV does their best to spoon feed us their very best in chavy low brow entertainment featuring idiots the likes of Keith Lemon and Joey Essex or some brainless bimbo or Essex based thickie. Just absolute puerile trash tv for people with only one braincell and never ending repeats of the same movies week after week. Back to back Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, James Bond and Back To The Future on a constant loop.
This channel really has hit rock bottom. Good Morning Britain is a shambles. Gossip magazine trash. Presenters who treat their viewers like children and general dumbed down, red top tabloid style journalism. Weekend schedules in tatters with viewing figures falling through the floor with wall to wall puerile z list tripe and shows that treat the viewers like they're idiots.
Fincham needs to go. He's an ex BBC failure who's now managing to make a complete cock up of ITV with the commissioning of one failed tv show after another desperately clutching at straws. The first cock up he made right after being appointed was to axe The Bill. ITV's longest running police serial drama that was still drawing in respectful viewing figures. To this day nobody knows why but despite negative backlash the guy refuses to listen to the public. You only have to look at the latest remake of Stars in Their Eyes and look at the amount of backlash it's received and how poor the viewing figures are as a perfect example but despite nationwide protests over the show and ratings hitting rock bottom they still prefer to keep flogging the dead hourse than listen to public reaction. The guy clearly hasn't a clue and wouldn't know a "winning format" if it jumped up and whacked him in the face.
I tend to agree with the OP on this and if Peter Fincham is at fault perhaps he should go.
Mr Selfridge isnt pulling in big ratings either
If they go, do they think they could get someone that doesnt worship at the throne of Simon Cowell.
I blame him for these constant brain head programmes. Back in the 80's, ITV had a few of these programmes, but it was also a beacon of great dramas ie Brideshead, Jewel in the Crown. Even on Sat night they had some good quiz shows that seem to have regular public people ie 321. It would seem that these days you either have to have z Listers or those members of the public who would sell their granny for fame.
Who is decided to commission that "Stars in their Eyes", the Sunday night programme with Stephen Mulheard and there was that awful dance competition that ITV thought would go against Strictly, should never be allowed to work in TV again.
jude007: there's your answer. Only three other terrestrial tv channels, no satellite and maybe a film from the local video library competing for peaktime eyeballs.
Guess your right. I suppose back in those days, ITV was fighting to get the big viewers and that was why it actually managed to produce some good stuff. You just need to look at Corrie back then and look at it now to see how much things have deteriorated.
But even if you have unlimited budgets that doesn't mean the "creative juices" will flow. Look at how the most recent Simpsons compare with the early seasons; the decline in quality is an inevitable part of the creative cycle.