TV Home Forum

ITV1 ECP's...

(January 2002)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
MB
Mark B
Programmes that are known to be required outside of the ITV Network ARE made with standard credits aswell as ECPs.

Only programmes that have no use outside ITV are made with ECPs 'burned-in', such as Millionaire, etc.
JO
johnny
'Next on ITV1, Night and Day', and a UTV announcer will have to say 'Well actually, next on UTV is Insight'.)
[/quote]

Night & Day not shown on UTV then.
RD
rdd Founding member
No, it is (albiet at 11pm now, I don't know whether the network still airs it at 10:20pm, this is the 'uncut' Thursday version I am talking about). I was just using an example to demonstrate what often happens - I couldn't think of what programme the network is currently airing in the Tuesday 10:20pm slot, which is when Insight airs. (Insight is a local documentary programme, sort of like the old World in Action or BBC's Panorama). It just goes to show what the problem with these ECPs in a regionalised network is : if a region is not showing a particular programme, then the ECP is irrelevant and misleading. At least UTV can change trailers (as a matter of course, it revoices every single NPU trailer to say 'On UTV' instead of 'On ITV1', and replaces the endboard), its more difficult to change ECPs, or Trevor McDonald saying whats next, if you aren't warned beforehand.

Having said that UTV were known to play with Crossroads' ECPs, showing one for Kelly in the Friday slot. (This involved recording the credits of a previous episode without an ECP, then showing those credits in place of what should have went out). And incidently, Crossroads is not shown by UTV at teatime anymore...
CR
The Crowdman
Quote:
rdd on 1:29 pm on Jan. 10, 2002
Coronation St and Eastenders on TV3 both use the ITV generic credits. (Then again, TV3 is part of the ITV 'extended family' by vitue of being 45% owned by Granada).

Just being pedantic here, but ITV generics on EastEnders? Isn't EE a BBC show? Or have ITV started adding ECPs to other channels' programmes?
RD
rdd Founding member
EMMERDALE! Can one not make a slight mistake round here without it being picked apart...

Anyway, EE is on RTE1 not TV3, it got swapped for Coronation St when that went on TV3.

And when Coronation St was on RTE, for a brief time it had ITV generic credits.

Newer posts