Should ITV up its political coverage?

I wasn't aware ITV did any political coverage outside its news bulletins (perhaps that's your point). They used tio have a Sunday morning programme but that was axed a while ago. And GMTV (don't laugh) did quite a good programme earlier on Sunday mornings with Steve RicharRAB.I suspect ITV now leave it to the BBC which has a surfeit of political programmes (two on Sundays, Andrew Marr and the Politics Show which seem to cover the same ground) and QT is usually followed by This Week which again tenRAB to cover the same issues.And I suspect viewers in Scotland, Wales and Northern ireland get even more politics with local programmes. By comparison ITV is a politics-free zone:D
 
Yes, I believe they are preparing a an incisive political discussion show. And the BBC are going to produce a 12-parter on Quantum Chromodynamics to show just after EE.
 
Nah sick of hearing about politics ressession, boring boring. Whats the point of discussions anyway. Nothing is achieved by them.
 
I don't think ITV and its core audience would be that interested and there are other alternatives like the BBC, Sky and Channel 4 news for this kind of thing. After the doom and gloom of yesterday, and today's Daily Mirror reading like an obituary, surely people want an alternative.
 
ITV used to run the Jonathan Dimbleby debate programme on a Sunday lunchtime, but the ratings showed that there was no market for it.

People with an interest in politics will watch Andrew Marr and The Politics Show, who would want to watch a third programme?
 
What a strange thing to say on a discussion forum ... :rolleyes:




Was the Dimble Debate on at the same time as Marr and BBC Politics Show (SUnday lunchtime)? That might explain why the ratings were poor. Scheduling two identical programmes against each other seems a bit of a deliberate suicide mission to me.
 
Marr was the successor to David Frost
Before Dimbleby ITV had a programme called Weekend World which was presented by the former MP Brian Walden and produced by a man called John Birt.It was possibly the most un-visual programme in the history of television and consisted of Walden reading the autocue for about 30 minutes then interviewing someone.Birt believed that any visuals would get in the way of what Walden was saying:eek:
 
ITV have lost all credibility when it comes to political coverage and political comment.

The people that matter "on the ground" so to speak are Nick Robinson (BBC's political editor) and Adam Boulton (Sky News politcal editor) that's it.........you then have presenters that are typical heavyweight presenters (Paxman, Dimbleby etc etc) but Nick and Adam (and their corresepondents) are all that matter and ITV are nowhere !!!!!!
 
ITV has little or no credibility in terms of news presentation and journalism. They used to make a bit of an effort on Sundays but the Beeb pretty much have that market covered, along with Sky News.

ITV looks to populist programming and quick-fix ratings grabbers, which will not be delivered by political debate shows.
 
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