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This is interesting as my understanding was LNN were ready to go 16:9 as far back as 2001. I read some time ago at TV Forum that ITV/ITN put them off doing so. I don't know why. Perhaps ITN thought it would make opting between 4:3 national news and 16:9 London news awkward? Though LNN were allowed to produce the weather in widescreen.
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(20-08-2023, 03:02 PM)nwtv2003 Wrote: I think it was 2004 when GMTV started broadcasting its main programme in 16:9, but I’m sure they shared their main studio with ITV Sport (at least for football) and their coverage was 16:9 from quite early on, but only digital viewers saw it in that format. Same also went with the BBC for a good number of years of course.
GMTV got a 'good' rate for their facilities , but as part of that they were reminded that outside their broadcast hours TLS could market their studio facilities to other 3rd parties.
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(18-08-2023, 10:46 PM)XIII Wrote: I suspect it being 15 years old and 2 hours long makes it unlikely it'll be shown.
Apparently not because it’s on right now on ITV1! I was not expecting that.
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(22-12-2023, 10:33 PM)VMPhil Wrote: Apparently not because it’s on right now on ITV1! I was not expecting that.
I wasn’t expecting a 2 hour programme from 2007 to be aired in primetime and delay the news by almost a hour! That’s rather refreshing from ITV1. Almost like something you’d see on a FAST channel.
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It's easier for ITV to fit this kind of thing around Christmas and I dare say it has rated better than some new show.
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A number of episodes of Parkinson are now on ITVX:
www.itv.com
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(23-12-2023, 04:14 PM)Omnipresent Wrote: A number of episodes of Parkinson are now on ITVX:
www.itv.com
ITV doesn't have the best selection as Parky was only at ITV from 2004 until 2007, whereas the BBC have a vast archive of truly classic Parkinson shows from 1971 to 1982 and 1998 to 2003 to pick from.