ITV abandons the South Bank

That was under the previous CEO so it might be back on the table from the new CEO

That won't be the main reason. It was probably a factor but it's a much bigger decision than just whether a few shows work in their new location.


The future of the South Bank site has been in question for years and the work on the (now aborted) plans for it will have been a big expensive project. This is multi million pound property development and the relocation of hundreds of staff, its not a decision based on how happy Philip Schofield is with his dressing room.

And of course the new arrangements seem to be working out well on screen... but we've no idea how much better or worse they are in terms of logistics and production they are, or how the staff feel about it. I imagine the geographic split between offices and studio won't work that well in winter


No the main reason they aren't going back is because the new boss realises the value of the site and thinks that ITV are better off selling it than occupying it

I'm not sure your point about the split between offices and studio? I think it just means you turn left or you turn right out of White City tube when you arrive at work (or your early morning cab takes a different route)?

I don't think there are caravans of people walking up and down the road each day? ITV Daytime will no doubt have operational production offices at Television Centre near their studios, just as the studios had in the BBC TV Centre days (and like programmes like Newsnight had separate to their offices in the news centre) I'd expect the on-the-day live teams to be based at TV Centre in these areas, rather than whizzing up and down Wood Lane. The planning teams and 'next day' production teams will prep at BBC White City?

Sure you might have to walk back from TVC to White City once you're off-air if you need to continue working (and can't stay in the studio production office) - but that's hardly a major issue unless Hammersmith and Fulham have forgotten to grit the pavements between the two building (and from memory the BBC - or its workplace partners - used to do this if they didn't)

Let's keep the Trumpisms out of here please.

ITV's move from the South Bank has gone tremendously smoothly really and if they hadn't made such a fuss about it viewers wouldn't really know. Obviously it's a different scenario but it's been far less disruptive on screen than the BBC's move out of TV Centre.

It was unwitting - he didn't invent the phrase

He thinks he wrote the bloody dictionary.

No, but rather like MicroSoft have with Ctl-Alt-Del, he's made it really popular

CTRL-Alt-Delete wasn't an MS initiative. It was actually part of the original IBM PC specification dating back to 1981 and outside of an operating system the BIOS responds to it (for a reboot). The only reason it became 'popular' at all was because it appeared prior to login on Windows machines; Bill Gates said years later it was a mistake, he wanted a key that was never added to the standard IBM PC keyboard.

Indeed, from the horses mouth.

Presumably that was the whole point.

Which was the point that Markymark was making, wasn't it?