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Quote:Actor and comedian John Bird has died aged 86, his representatives have confirmed.

He was well known for his work in satirical TV shows, particularly his many appearances opposite John Fortune.

Bird was part of the satire boom of the 1960s, appearing in programmes such as That Was The Week That Was.

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Next Tuesday (3rd January), will be the 40th anniversary of CITV. As of now, there are no official plans for any celebrations by the channel itself. However, Neil Buchanan has said he would be willing to revive Art Attack for a one-off anniversary special, according to an interview published in October this year. 
https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/24/neil-buchanan-is-up-for-art-attack-return-for-citvs-40th-anniversary-17623709/

As is tradition: www.tvliveforum.com 

Quote:I'm a Celebrity returns to the jungle
ITV/BBC choose to release shows on demand on a full time basis after trialling it during in 2021 (Channel 4 did choose to launch Hollyoaks on All 4 first full time, however)
Channel 5 repackage another show under a new name
New BBC One idents launch in the summer (June or July)

[list]
[*]Channel 5 repackage yet another show under a new name, probably about supermarkets, Yorkshire, the royals or a combination of the three
[*]Good Morning Britain carries on with their rotation of guest presenters, not choosing a full time replacement for PM
[*]ITV launch a new brand package across all channels, replacing the Multiverse set
[*]AJ Odudu hosts Big Brother on ITV2 with Rylan hosting a side-show
[/list]

A great station. I have been listening since February 2021 when it launched. Christmas programmes have been brilliant.  With the likes of Roger Day, David Hamilton. Soon to come DLT and Johnnie Walker.

Since there's no thread about it, Sky Showcase had unexpectedly shown the Sky One Christmas 2006 Ident before the first Hogfather this morning.

www.youtube.com 

On a Wednesday rather than a Sunday this year, for obvious reasons.

For the third straight year, it's coming from Dock10 - the first time it has been held in the same location three years running since it left Television Centre. (Will it start touring the UK again at some point, or will it continue in Salford for the foreseeable future?)

Also for the third straight year Gary, Clare, Gabby and Alex are the hosts - Gary extending his records as the longest-serving and oldest host, doing it for the 23rd straight year (not counting his sideline role at Sports Personality of the Century in 1999) and at 62.

The six candidates for the main award have already been revealed, and it's probably fair to say that if Beth Mead didn't win it would go down as one of the all-time SPOTY surprises (she's as little as 1/10 with Paddy Power, with Ben Stokes 5/1 and the rest no lower than 66/1). Last year Emma Raducanu became the first female winner for 15 years; should Beth indeed win we'll have back-to-back female winners for the first time in half a century (since Princess Anne in 1971 and Mary Peters in 1972).

As of 2023, it will be 30 years since the last ITV franchise changeover occurred, and the 1990 Broadcasting Act began to take effect, turning ITV into the single company we all know and love. The general consensus of people online, when they discuss these changes, are negative. They are focused on the loss of franchises, and the eventual loss of regional independence as the companies bought each other out. With this anniversary, I want to consider whether these changes were good for ITV in the long term. 

As of 2022/23, ITV is still a British, self owned media company. It continues to produce popular drama and entertainment programming, as well as great documentaries. And with ITVX, the company is looking toward the future away from linear television. Would this have necessarily been possible with the companies all being independent with their own self interests? I don't think so. 

I also don't think ITV has really gone downhill quality wise, I just think that with the programmes being made by the same studio, its easier to point out the bad programming. Your Yorkshire Televisions, or your Granada's may have made dud programming in their time, but you could say 'That was a bad programme by this company'. Nowadays, you associate the bad with one company. And as one company, you can afford to make stuff of higher quality, while also making shows that are guaranteed to get a good viewer share. 

In short, I think the negativity of the changes to ITV in 1993 are overplayed, and that there were a lot of good things that would come out of it. Look at LWT and Carlton starting LNN, which it never would have done with Thames. Scottish Television gaining more of a foothold in the network from recomissioning former TVS shows. It wasn't all bad!

I noticed this appearing as a channel variant on the BBC schedule page.

www.bbc.co.uk 

It's listed as starting on the 23rd of January.

I am new to the forums. I have always been interested in television history and I have recently read a book from 1980 called Who's Who on Television that was published by TV Times. As well as including actors, comedians, national newsreaders and reporters, sports commentators and presenters of the day, the book also had a lot of ITV and BBC regional newsreaders and reporters and I found their entries interesting.

I have been reading online about what happened to many of these regional newsreaders and reporters in more recent years.  One was Michael Gray who was a reporter and interviewer on Southern TV's Day by Day. Unlike many of the other presenters from across regional ITV and BBC, he seems to have disappeared since Southern lost its franchise.  Can any members from the Southern/TVS/Meridian region remember him?

No doubt many of the regional people's names meant nothing to many readers, unless they were in the broadcasting industry.

rxtvinfo.com 

NOW ROCKS launching on 27th December 2022 replacing NOW XMAS (which is NOW 90s)

So with that said, what is going to happen to NOW 90s then?

Also it mentions Channel 4 are preparing changes to their music channels in 2023 so i wonder what they are up to?