[James2001]

I think the reason we ended up with a couple of years of really cheap ITV saturday morning shows was down to ITV paying a fortune for F1 rights, and they cut the Saturday morning budget to help pay for it. So Wow ended after only 4 months despite decent ratings, and we had 2 years of Scratchy & Co, Tricky and Mashed. It took until SM:TV for a bigger scale show to come back (and even then, most of the budget and focus was on CD:UK at first).

The shortened shows due to F1 really were a curse on ITV Saturday mornings in general! I particularly dislike the shortened Chart Shows that were missing the Dance/Indie/Rock charts and were rushed.