Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“Well, I've written Andy's post for him:
"All this ITV bashing today has been very unfair. Samuel as usual has gone overboard with all his artificial analysis and fabricated sources. In reality The X-Factor is doing brilliantly. You have to remember it's been going since 2004 and has undergone several changes over the past few years. It's like everyone is gloating about a dance show that did no better than it did this time last year yet no one is focused on that are they? No. But don't worry, IAC will be back soon and with a combination of XF and IAC, BBC may aswell close down for a fortnight."”
Very poor attempt at one of my posts there, that is more like a Samuel post with the channels swapped round. Now if you think that's how I post, I suggest you click on the 'more posts by Andy23' button and have a look.
Originally Posted by Glenn A:
“Ho ho, also snobs like Glenn A and BBC fanboys like Samuel continue to attack the excellent programmes that ITV turn out and refer to their viewers as Sun readers in Salford. I think the whole ratings slump at ITV has been invented by Samuel and Glenn A and the BBC will wilt when ITV launch its new schedule. Also Red Or Black was an excellent show that the BBC fanboys helped to destroy and I also think Love Island was a quality entertainment show.”
Bit ironic Glenn of all people jumping on this bandwagon, when you consider he just has about 6 posts that he posts every day, regardless of the matter in hand. Something about being in trouble if The Sun stops being interested, something about diehard Big Brother viewers, disliking entertainment as programmes are not repeatable, hating football, Love Island, etc.
Originally Posted by
guestofseth:
“You know the ratings are bad when Samuel is practically gifting them stuff to jump on, like the Strictly running time posts, and they still don't turn up. He's doing their work for them. Lends weight to a certain theory people have. 
Seriously though both Samuel and Andy have the same twisted view of what the BBC actually does, just one spins it as a positive and the other as a negative, it's nonsense either way.”
I'm not anti-BBC, I am pro-ITV which is why I seem to stand out here considering the vast majority seem to be anti-ITV.
One thing we learnt today was that the 'triple crown' for ITV is apparantly TXF, Corrie and Downton, which presumably means that if IAC doesn't do as well, it won't be that important!
By the way, TXF was down because it's an 11 year old show and as people have got bored. As it was such a big show, it will only lose viewers, it won't gain new ones, as who would start watching at this point if they didn't watch in its heyday. No more analysis really required.
Originally Posted by C14E:
“Stupid question alert... is ITV continuity different in different regions?
Or will all ITV regions have been given the wrong start time?”
Continuity is the same in all regions except Scotland and Northern Ireland which have their own. I doubt anyone will remember what they said 6 days later though. They seem to be just employed as a voice thesedays, rather than being across the whole transmission. They seem to just treat it as another voice over gig among others they may have.
