Enough is Enough ITV

Prove it.

There's absolutely no evidence to suggest that has happened, or is likely to, putting aside apocryphal bullitin board stories.

Gavin, It's nice to be having a civilised discussion with you. I'm still worried about 6 times a week though. 2 on Monday is bad enough without 2 on Friday as well. I remember when ITV said it would be just for 4 weeks in September 2002 (I got back from a weekend in Manchester just in time for the first one) and that Em wasn't going 6 times a week permanantly last year and the opposite has happened in both cases. They have highs and lows. I enjoyed some of last night's and Bruno for a change was marvellous. But I'm getting fed up again like last year. My mum wasn't even going to watch the 10pm one until she found out it was where Fred found out about Stacy/Orchid. Perhaps if they replaced the mystery it would be better. Like if we didn't know Fred was being conned until he saw her at the market. Then when she dropped into her own accent people would have been going, "Hey, what's going on here?" But the mags are full of what's coming so is there any point watching? I don't care these days enough to complain. But if people want to that's fine. I hate the way ITV's gone. All the accountants running it. There's a marvellous book by the producer of Granada's Sherlock Holmes series where he writes about the way it all went. He was sacked from his job then hired as a freelance. And before that they had to pay to use their own set. This is as bad as the BBC having to ask itself permission to use Dr Who in The Generation Game a few years ago (Colin Baker said that). He also writes how the quality of the Sherlock Holmes series went right downhill after the accountants took over. It's a very interesting critique of the state of ITV since much still applies today.

Incidentally, I did love the joke on Dead Ringers last night about Channel 4 closing now Friends had finished. Perhaps the same could be said of ITV if Corrie and Emmerdale did or five with no war documentaries. LOL!

Looks like the same is going down next week as well- TripleCorrie on Monday, Double Corrie on Friday and 60 min Emmerdale on Tuesday. It's going a bit too far now. It might be OK for one off occasions, but it's going to get to the point where viewers are simply not going to be able to keep up with soaps and the storylines are already getting thinner than quantum physics will allow. Please- no 60 min episodes, ditch the Sunday Emmerdale and the Double Bill Corrie on Mondays. In fact, find another ep during the week you can chop as well. 3 Was perfectly fine. It was easy to keep up and storylines didn'tdrag likethey do now

The following week Corrie is on twice on Monday (edit: yep just realised Jez posted that earlier) and Emmerdale for 30 minutes on Tuesday (I think that's back to how it was before). I'm glad I don't watch either of them because trying to keep up with them over these two weeks would be too much and I wouldn't have time to watch much else!

I love watching Coronation Street and occasionally Emmmerdale. The problem is the more they are on the more you are likely to miss them and then lose interest. They are certainly into overrkill.

Have the people at ITV lost all thoughts of originality ?

Well according to the new issue of Soaplife there will only be 2 episodes of Corrie week commencing Sunday 13th June – these will be shown on Monday and Wednesday (just like old times). There appears to only be 4 episodes of Emmerdale scheduled too on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This is not confirmed yet though as Soaplife would have gone to print long before schedules for that week were confirmed.

The drop in episodes is obviously down to the Euro 2004 coverage.

That's interesting, and if its right, although as you say it may not be. I predict Corrie would surface around about 10pm on the Monday and Wednesday. Emmerdale would probably be on around 8pm on Tue and Thur and 7pm on Wed and Fri.

Well according to the schedules for Sunday 13th June there are no soaps on ITV1 as they have coverage of the F1 Grand Prix from 5pm followed by Euro 2004 at 7.15pm until 10pm.

If I bet a £1 for every person who they complains about ITV1 being taken over by sport on that Sunday and then pushing the soaps out of the way, I could probably get quite a few quid!

Stu

I wont be complaining, it will be nice to have a break from us being force feed soaps.

I aggree. I like soaps, but there's far too many of them.